The publication of 'Education 2000' in 1985 was greeted at the time with widespread public debate. There were open meetings which were held in all major centres and the public was invited to make written comment on the proposals outlined. In all, 927 submissions were received which indicates that there was considerable awareness and concern over matters raised in the discussion paper. Nevertheless, at the end of all the discussion and reviews, there seemed to be little to show for it. The submissions were received and the response was silence, broken briefly by the distribution of the Review Committee's report in the following year. It was made clear in the Foreword to the Review Committee's Report, by the then Minister, Mr Lin Powell, that any further action would be an internal matter for the Department of Education and the Queensland Government. Even the reviewing committee, chaired by Emeritus Professor G W Bassett, seemed unsure as to its purpose. The Committee found itself in the position of being both a review committee and, in some respects, a committee of inquiry. The latter role it judged itself to be ill equipped to carry out fully. Yet ' Education 2000' touched on many issues that were, and still are, of definite concern to all those who are associated with the education system in Queensland. It cannot be dismissed as being of no consequence.