Gillard praises Abbott In US

[icyfroth]

Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has praised the Abbott government for maintaining funding for a program designed to educate children in the world's poorest countries.

Gillard, speaking in Washington DC on Monday at the Brookings Institution, said she was pleased the change of government in Australia did not lead to a cut in the financial support for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).

Gillard will take up the role of chair of the GPE's board next month.

"I am pleased that the allocations we made in government have been sustained by the current government even though they have made changes to aid arrangements in the aid budget overall," Gillard told an audience at a Brookings event titled New Ideas to Scale Up and Finance Global Education.

"So, it's good to see the GPE seems to have persuaded both sides of politics that it is a really important investment."

Gillard, as chair of GPE, will be responsible for leading fundraising efforts to provide education to 57 million out-of-school children worldwide.

The GPE, based in Washington DC, is the only multilateral partnership devoted to getting all children in the world's poorest countries into school for a quality education.

Established in 2002, the GPE is comprised of close to 60 developing countries, donor governments, international organisations, the private sector, teachers and civil society/non-governmental organisations.

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That's nice

[cherry*135]

"It's all very well to throw money overseas to make yourself look benevolent, but you should look to your own country's needs first. Wer'e gettting to the point where students in the countries where our grants are going are outstripping our own in the education stakes".

You didn't answer that. Countries where our grants are going.? Are?

[lakeland27]

that is 100% correct. by providing educational support the idea is that education in some countries will be less religious in its base, such  as the madrassar schools that tend to radicalise young people in places like Indonesia and Pakistan. educating people in a proper secular fashion blunts the clout of religious fundamentalists. something we need to be mindful of here.

[cherry*135]

Deakin Uni

Some Indonesian kids might know they are receiving a largely secular education because of Australian funding, but most that do, probably would not realise. But they will know they are in a school and not a madrasa, or Islamic boarding school.

Some madrasas are very good, but most are mediocre, and then there is the handful that preach blind hatred and extreme violence to impressionable young minds. Do we want to be stuck with people like that as neighbours forever? No, me neither. So helping fund education in what is still a developing country, with more than a few continuing problems, is actually a pretty good idea.

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:
"It's all very well to throw money overseas to make yourself look benevolent, but you should look to your own country's needs first. Wer'e gettting to the point where students in the countries where our grants are going are outstripping our own in the education stakes".

You didn't answer that. Countries where our grants are going.? Are?

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I don't find it pivotal to this discussion, Am, and if it's so important to you, why don't you do your own research?

[freakiness]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
"It's all very well to throw money overseas to make yourself look benevolent, but you should look to your own country's needs first. Wer'e gettting to the point where students in the countries where our grants are going are outstripping our own in the education stakes".

You didn't answer that. Countries where our grants are going.? Are?

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I don't find it pivotal to this discussion, Am, and if it's so important to you, why don't you do your own research?

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Of course it's "pivotal" to the discussion, after a statement that the money should not be used for educating these young people.

[icyfroth]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
"It's all very well to throw money overseas to make yourself look benevolent, but you should look to your own country's needs first. Wer'e gettting to the point where students in the countries where our grants are going are outstripping our own in the education stakes".

You didn't answer that. Countries where our grants are going.? Are?

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I don't find it pivotal to this discussion, Am, and if it's so important to you, why don't you do your own research?

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Of course it's "pivotal" to the discussion,

Not to me.

after a statement that the money should not be used for educating these young people.

No such statement was made.

If you read back to my post which you have so kindly quoted above you will see the words:

"It's all very well to throw money overseas to make yourself look benevolent"

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[the_great_she_elephant]

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@silverfaun wrote:

Sometimes I wonder about Abbott. He should have scrapped this $300 million borrowed money largesse from Gillard.

We will pay for this come budget time then all the entitlements mindset will go into overdrive whinging about their right to government handouts.

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"No man is an island" (John Donne) and, metaphorically, no country is either - even Australia. We live in a global economy and you can be sure that any overseas 'largesse' handed out by any Australian government is given in a spirit o fself interest and  economic pragmatism rather than unselfish altruism.

[cherry*135]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
"It's all very well to throw money overseas to make yourself look benevolent, but you should look to your own country's needs first. Wer'e gettting to the point where students in the countries where our grants are going are outstripping our own in the education stakes".

You didn't answer that. Countries where our grants are going.? Are?

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I don't find it pivotal to this discussion, Am, and if it's so important to you, why don't you do your own research?

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OK, but it was your comment, and as it is written it isn't accurate in anyway...misleading. It follows directly on from your comment  about throwing money overseas to look benevolent (which isn't true either, since when has spending money educating children, in any country, come under throwing money to look benevolent?)

I shouldn't need to research something someone else has posted as fact.

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
"It's all very well to throw money overseas to make yourself look benevolent, but you should look to your own country's needs first. Wer'e gettting to the point where students in the countries where our grants are going are outstripping our own in the education stakes".

You didn't answer that. Countries where our grants are going.? Are?

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I don't find it pivotal to this discussion, Am, and if it's so important to you, why don't you do your own research?

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OK, but it was your comment, and as it is written it isn't accurate in anyway...misleading in fact. I shouldn't need to research something someone else has posted as fact.

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I wasn't aware I was under oath.

[cherry*135]

 Wer'e gettting to the point where students in the countries where our grants are going are outstripping our own in the education stake.

No, we (Australia) are not, getting to that point and not likely to either.