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”?
@my*mum wrote:Labor were committed to a 6 year deal when they were unsure if they would even be in power to administer it for that 6 years.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott blames Gonski funding 'confusion'
2nd Dec 2013
Heath Aston
Appearing on Channel Ten's The Bolt Report, Mr Abbott was played a clip in which Education Minister Christopher Pyne said: ''You can vote Liberal or Labor and you will get exactly the same amount of funding for your school.''
''I think Christopher said, 'Schools would get the same amount of money'. And schools, plural, will get the same amount of money. The quantum will be the same,'' Mr Abbott said.
Pressed on the apparent clear-cut promise to individual schools, Mr Abbott suggested there was confusion. ''We are going to keep the promise that we made, not the promise that some people thought we made or the promise that some people might have liked us to make. We are going to keep the promise that we actually made,'' he said.
The bolded words ..look like a siggie 
@izabsmiling wrote:it would be a worry if any Party actually knew for certain how long they would be in office .
I think this one thinks they know. And some here have predicted decades! Heaven help us.
