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”?
Stop upsetting the conservatives spot, they are already upset that abbott found the money for a scheme they don't believe in.
ha ha ha ha
Labor is very different, their social policies, the pricing of carbon for example they don't appear to be buckling on.
tossing our money around...without conditions which were designed to make the spend worthwhile.
isn't my idea of cutting the waste ...interesting that this particular 'cut the waste' Government feels that to be the case .
Rather have our Country's children fail.....and be able to say " we told you people that they didn't know what they were doing with that Conski thing" .
..they also told us that they were on a unity ticket 
M*M: Do our Governments work on the basis that we will have other Goverments to take over 'the same role for us'
in future ?
