The labor government in its final days and drowning in debt made ridiculously unattainable (and unfunded) social promises. It dared the then Opposition to match those unaffordable dream schemes.
Unfortunately it did match them... Abbott felt the risk of Australia facing another term of Labor was far too great.
The most outrageous of Gillard’s schemes was her NDIS, a cruel hoax, and next in line to be back-burned by Abbott.
The NBN is already being wound back, as far as it can be, but water-filled holes worth $90 billion are hard to fill in without making a mess.
Labor did everything possible to Abbott-proof its sinister agenda.
Gillard brewed her alchemic witchcrafted potions according to the McTernan black-magic handbook: If Labor won, it would brazenly borrow up to one trillion. If Abbott won, Labor would not allow its unrepresentative Senate to fund Gillard’s own sorcery.
Gillard’s Gonski scheme is nothing more than an unfunded attempt to centralise control of the education curricula in Canberra... a frightfully extreme proposition that would have, via their proposed plebiscite to empower councils, eventually denuded the States of their sovereignty and imposed Labor’s pièce de résistance: The eventual abolition of all private school funding.
Labor has always coveted total control of education and the shaping of little kids’ minds... it’s how they see their socialist Shangri La of the future.
Whitlam tried it with his “Schools’ Commission” in the 70s, replacing the essential three Rs with eco studies, phonetic spelling and green fairytales.
Those children of Whitlam are now our illiterate teachers and Gonski’s billions cannot assist illiterate teachers to educate children in literacy.
Chucking billions at the current education problem will have much the same effect as chucking billions at the Aboriginal problem.
Contrary to Labor’s belief, money is neither the problem nor the answer! The answer is in what we teach our children... and that doesn’t cost one extra cent.
It is appalling that Australian children were predictably beaten by students from 26 countries in year four reading in the 2011 International Reading and Literacy Study.
Asian neighbour countries blitzed us in science and maths, with Singaporean and South Korean kids ahead of us in every single category except Marxist philosophy and global warming.
The only thing upwardly trending in the Australian education system is teachers' salaries which are way above the OECD average and have risen 13 per cent since 2000 at all levels.
Imagine the Gonski treasure trove that was set to be looted by teachers’ unions.
If past Labor policies are responsible for the current education malaise (and they are) why in hell should it be given another go at it via an outrageous Gonski scam?
O’Farrell and Napthine may well cry, “foul!”
Wasn’t it Keating who said: “Never stand between a Premier and a bucket of money”?
Our kids do ....and so does our current Government if they know what's good for them 
ACT anger over Gonski 'back flip'
The ACT government and education groups are up in arms over federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s “complete back flip” regarding the federal government’s commitment to the Gonski system of school funding.
Under the Better Schools reform, the ACT was set to receive an additional $190 million over the next six years to be directed toward the children with the highest needs.
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That is $100 million into government schools, $60 million into Catholic schools and $30 million into non-government schools and the last time I spoke to the Catholic and independent school sectors we were of one that this funding agreement should be honoured,” ACT Minister for Education and Training Joy Burch said.
Mr Pyne’s announcement that funding will only be guaranteed for 2014, with a further review to come, has left a level of uncertainty for schools, but the exact implications in the ACT are still unknown, with the federal minister yet to brief or consult his State and Territory counterparts.
“Given that this policy change has been announced by media and seems to change every time Mr Pyne sits in front of a camera, we are not really clear [what will it mean for ACT schools],” Ms Burch said.
“I will be waiting with interest … to hear first hand from the federal minister about what this actually means and remind him that here in the ACT we have a signed an agreement with the Commonwealth and to me it matters not which government signed the deal, it is a deal that needs to be honoured.”
The ACT branch of the Australian Education Union believes the announcement will “come back to bite” the government, with the funding reform heavily supported in the ACT.
“It is clearly a broken promise; education was a core issue at the election, and today’s events are extraordinary,” branch secretary Glenn Fowler said.
“[The coalition] jumped on this so called unity ticket in the days leading up to the election because their own polling told them that
Australians are sold on the Gonski reforms – 90 per cent of Australians believe that these reforms are needed.
“David Gonski made it very clear that this is an urgent reform, and to be dillydallying and engaging in mischief-making is absolutely not in the national interest and all Australians should hold them accountable for this sleight of hand,” Mr Fowler said.
The ACT Council of Parents & Citizens Associations said the announcement has left parents feeling very disappointed after getting bipartisan support for the Gonski reforms toward the end of the election campaign.
"That original Gonski committee … had people of all political persuasions," president Vivienne Pearce said. “[The review] took years with lots of experts … and lots of people like us putting submissions in, and now we’re going to be coming up with something different at the end of next year – where’s the expert input?”
