Search for it by its official title - Review of Funding for Schooling - and you'll be told your search “returned no results”.

The review was the most comprehensive in 30 years. It took 20 months to complete. It spans 300 pages. It attracted an extraordinary 7000 individual written submissions. Five of the six panel members held the Order of Australia. The government even gave the inquiry and the report their own website: www.schoolfunding.gov.au

But they are not there any more. Visits to www.schoolfunding.gov.au are redirected to the departmental website of minister Christopher Pyne, where there's no mention of the word "Gonski" at all, let alone a copy of the report or its 7000 submissions.

A departmental spokesman has confirmed that the report is missing. He told Fairfax Media all material on the website was removed when the machinery of government changes came into effect. The department was “in the process of updating its website after the machinery of government changes”.

The machinery of government changes took place three months ago. They split the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations into two: Education and Employment.