The Gonski report is back on a government website, after an intervention by Fairfax Media.

All traces of the 286-page school funding report and its associated submissions vanished from departmental websites shortly after the Abbott government took office.

A search for the phrase 'Gonski Report' on the education department's website returned the query: "Did you mean 'lenskyi support'?"

The new education minister Christopher Pyne said he wanted to go "back to the drawing board" on school funding and charged his department with developing "a new model that is national, that is fair to everyone and that is needs-based".