Since Pyne dropped the Gonski bombshell this week...

[i-need-a-martini]

...the issue has barely been raised in that newspaper - The Daily Telegraph. Two short articles have appeared in the paper (well hidden amongst minor news and only readable if you scroll behind the front page). 

And even then, the article was less about the Pyne?Abbott story and more about NSW Premire OFarrells response to it.

And even THEN, they failed to include the the angrier comments made by O'Farrell directed at Pyne. Instead they published innocuous comments made by the NSW Opposition Leader about O'Farrell.

But on the other hand they have devoted page after (front) page for nearly 3 days to a story where Paul Barry teasingly tweets that Andrew Bolt should reveal his salary to the public.

One is newsworthy. One is not. Can you guess which one? 

[topsidesoul]

[acacia_pycnantha]

They're just doing what all Conservative party governments do; cut  funding to essential (public) services like health and education and give more money to the private sector.

This is congruent with Conservative party philosophy of providing more stimulus to the private sector and making it richer in the expectation that some of that wealth will "trickle down" to the less -advantaged in our community.

Of course this never works and will never work as the rich don't get rich by losing their money to leaks and "trickles".

No surprises for me. They're just doing what I always expected them to do.

[spotweldersfriend]

It's usually the opposite-the trickle up effect.The disparity between rich and poor has grown exponentially the last 16 years or so.Expect the divide to increase in the next 3 years.

[izabsmiling]

here is the latest from The Australian

Christopher Pyne's demolition of Gonski immoral, says Coalition minister Adrian Piccoli

• JUSTINE FERRARI
• THE AUSTRALIAN
• NOVEMBER 29, 2013

THE Abbott government faces accusations from a state Coalition colleague of acting "immorally" by recanting on school-funding commitments and effectively punishing millions of school students.

As Education Minister Christopher Pyne prepares to face down his state and territory counterparts over school funding at his first ministerial meeting in Sydney today, its chairman, NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, accused Mr Pyne of playing favourites.

"There's no doubt that what seems to be happening is that states that signed up (to the Gonski model) are being punished and the states that didn't sign up are being rewarded," Mr Piccoli told The Australian yesterday.

"They can punish me personally as much as they like but I'm not the one being punished. It's the million students in NSW, and I find that difficult as a human being. It's immoral."

Mr Pyne announced on Wednesday an extra $230 million next year for the three hold-out jurisdictions of Queensland, Western Australian and the Northern Territory, which lost their additional funding after refusing to sign up to Labor's Gonski reforms.

While Mr Pyne said the level of funding matched the amounts offered by Labor, funding information released by the previous government shows the three jurisdictions are receiving more from the Abbott government.

A funding table provided to The Australian in August by the then federal Labor government shows Queensland was due to receive $122m next year but will receive $131m from Mr Pyne; Western Australia was to receive $26.5m but will now get $31m; and the Northern Territory was due to receive $11.5m and will instead get $68m.

Mr Pyne refused again yesterday to reveal where the extra money had come from, saying it would be detailed in the mid-year budget update next month, but he did say there were no cuts to the education sector to find the money, and he categorically ruled out the suggestion the extra $230m had come from reward payments owed to the states under National Partnership agreements.

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See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/christopher-pynes-demolition-of-gonski-immor...

[izabsmiling]

Martini, Reflecting on your OP perhaps Ministers who need to get permission to speak to the media (24hrs or so before doing so) aren't always given permission to speak? 

[lakeland27]

at least the schools affiliated with churches are going to be OK. is this a form of religious bias ? preference for faith -based over secular schools has to be, imagine if the public system was bolstered and the private ignored   would parents like that i wonder.  

[spotweldersfriend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leU1kbtIZUI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[izabsmiling]

I remember reading a while back that there was a reluctance to support a funding model which may see private school fees raised .

Christopher Pyne has previously referred to their education policy as student first policy.

However over the past couple of days I have heard him say 

"we are treating every student as a First Class student"

Either a Freudian slip or he really doesn't have a clue or doesn't want people to have much of a clue

..what the whole purpose of Gonski is .

First Class students ?

pfft

[lakeland27]

its become apparent who those first class students are . it must have been something divine (or devine) that had me enroll them at a pell school for next year

[izabsmiling]

Pyne Denies the facts on Inequity in Education

Low income, Indigenous and remote area students can expect little support from a Coalition Government. According to the Coalition’s spokesman on education, Christopher Pyne, Australia does not have an equity problem regarding school outcomes despite overwhelming evidence that it is the major challenge facing Australian education.

Pyne went to extraordinary lengths on Lateline last week to deny that equity is an issue in Australian schools. He blatantly denied the facts and resorted to a level of dissembling that was surprising even for a politician. In an amazing contortion of language, he said that the lower school results for the bottom 10 per cent of students and the larger achievement gap in Australia than in many other countries is not an “equity problem” but a “student outcomes problem”.

The transcript of the interview reveals the extent of the dissembling and denial of the obvious:

 http://www.sstuwa.org.au/news-main/sstuwa-articles/317-education-funding/8904-pyne-denies-the-facts-...