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Apology accepted ... how was the Missus dress btw?
Watching the start of question time, I'm now wondering if there was indeed method in the madness. Bill Shorten's first to questions to the PM were on education funding. It seems he didn't have a question time plan B.
Surprised at how the education thing evolved.
Abbott / Pyne took a heap of damage to arrive at the point they promised before the election.
I wonder if Pyne will be let off the hook again.
Chaos government run by opinion polls at this stage is surprising.
Chaos government run by opinion polls at this stage is surprising.
Ditto ... now just change the names to Gillard/Shorten and wind the clock back and does it look familiar?
The latest change has rewarded the Queensland, WA and NT governments for holding out on the Gonski deal - they will now receive extra funding without any conditions. As part of the "no strings" deal, Queensland will escape Labor's original demands that it pledge not to cut its own school budget and match half of the federal boost.
But but but ... there are no strings attached to the funding. They can distribute the money how they like among their schools.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...s-gonski-reforms/story-fnihsrf2-1226773762581
THE train wreck over Gonski school funding is a template for the diabolical fiscal dilemma facing the Abbott government -- this was a case of cabinet's Expenditure Review Committee pushing for more savings but falling foul of the Coalition's election pledges. Christopher Pyne was personally given a letter by Tony Abbott that embodied the ERC's deliberations. He was given a tough job but he mishandled it, causing deep agitation within the PM's office. The ERC decided to commit to promised Gonski school funding for one year for the non-signatory states. Pyne's brief was to run a public operation and private negotiation to try to get savings from the total pool of Gonski money given that NSW and Victoria had been generously treated.
Christopher Pyne was personally given a letter by Tony Abbott that embodied the ERC’s deliberations. He was given a tough job but he mishandled it, causing deep agitation within the PM’s office. The ERC decided to commit to promised Gonski school funding for one year for the non-signatory states. Pyne’s brief was to run a public operation and private negotiation to try to get savings from the total pool of Gonski money given that NSW and Victoria had been generously treated…
It was never going to be realised because it ran into the brick wall of the election campaign pledges made by Abbott.
When the Prime Minister briefed Pyne, his Education Minister was scarcely happy. It was agreed he would begin by making a political issue of Labor’s removal of $1.2 billion from the pre-election estimates as the prelude to getting a better overall deal for the national government…
In the end [the Government] was battered into political submission.
Last Sunday night at a meeting involving Abbott, Julie Bishop, Joe Hockey, Pyne and Peta Credlin the decision was taken to cut their losses.
I don't get it that they are handing over money that the states can just suck into general revenue, there is no agreements on how its spent.
Hockey must be exasperated at having been rolled by the Nats and now Pyne has thrown an extra $bil around.
Strange days.
"I suspect that New South Wales and Victoria will be happy to lose the Canberra command and control elements of those deals but certainly the financial arrangements for the next four years will be absolutely adhered to," he said.
The Coalition Government wants to "dismantle" the regulations and red tape associated with Labor's deal, saying it does not want to "run public schools out of Canberra".
This is like being attacked by a pot plant.
Christopher Pyne in Parliament today in response to a question from Kate Ellis,
It seems crazy, that everyone is upset the government has dumped the Labor parties Gonski school reforms.
The Labor Party were thrown out because of failed initiatives, why the hell would Gonski be any different.
Australia's spending on education has increased consistently over the last decade and the learning outcomes have consistently fallen.
Maybe it is time to stop throwing good money after bad, and look at the curriculum and testing learning outcomes.
Instead of paying more for the same dismal outcome.IMO
Abbott really needs to think about setting things up for a double dissolution asap.
It seems crazy...
The only way that can happen, and it would be a 10 year plus program, is to make people see teaching as a career.
Why would anyone want to be a teacher when teh students disrespect you, lazy parents blame teachers and schools for failing their children when they show little interest in educational outcomes.
Factor in so many public school teachers are not able to get full time work, which makes getting a housing loan difficult.
Directing more money to the private sector isn't going to make things better.
Unless we make teaching a rewarding and viable career for future generations we will keep on falling further and further down the ladder as those countries hungrier than us eat our lunch. I don't expect either side of politics to present the hard truth to us, but Abbott is the one who supposedly has that responsibility now but is, to use the Howard term, not showing much ticker at this point in time.
Jeez Sid!Pyne is probably the only person in parliament who would know, since the potted plant on his desk has been providing him with policy advise.
Jeez Sid!
That's a nasty accusation.
I doubt very much that he's ever had Kate Ellis on his desk.
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