The children of Whitlam’s education revolution that is, and those illiterate children are now teaching our illiterate children under the illiterate nonsense that is now Gillard’s ‘Education Revolution’.
This is proving a dark period in Australia’s progress. For the first time we can accurately rate ourselves educationally alongside other first world nations and it begs the question, “... just who are the misguided foreign fools who send their children here to be educated?”
The Labor and Green politburos of insolvent States, South Australia and Tasmania, will blusteringly accept Gillard’s Gonski deal and conservative States rarely act in concert and always succumb to self interest.
What Gillard is attempting to do with Gonski, in this her eight-month election campaign, is split the conservative States by offering odd deals to each.
She has offered WA peanuts only because that State has already been very successful in its own education reform. That needs a Gillard penalty.
What should happen is the three big conservative States agree to join WA, leave the table and tell Gillard to get stuffed, rendering her simplistic ultimatums unworkable.
But they won’t do that, their political interests extend to State level only and they reckon the Feds can go fight their own battles.
She needs two of the three big States to come on board by June 30, most likely NSW and Victoria.
Those two are sufficient for Gillard’s little scheme to work, leaving her with heaps of electoral ammo to blast the Qld and WA dissenters where she is desperate to hold seats.
She is already accusing them of, “not putting their schoolchildren first”... an accusation full of electoral foreboding.
The problem is if the two biggest States capitulate to Gillard it will be difficult for QLD to leave itself out in the cold. It too will have to deal with the devil to have its budget locked in by June 30, and she knows it.
The Gonski deal is basically a budget-neutral con, as it is financed by her reneging on various other education promises and serious cuts to higher education.
Gillard contributes very little yet wants the States arguing over what they commit each, while she claims the reform kudos.
Their Gillard-raped universities rely on overseas students to remain solvent. Now that a university education will be more expensive on the back of a high dollar, overseas student markets are turning elsewhere. Had Gillard considered that? Nope.
It seems that she has settled on an ‘Education Revolution’ as her election battleground of choice. She flirted with other war footings and came away with a bloody nose so she has practised the phrase, “our nation’s kids’ education” and it’s about as close as she can get to warm, fuzzy motherhood appeal.
But Gillard’s cunning little stunt could backfire. June 30 is perilously close to August 12 when Parliament will be prorogued, leaving Gillard spayed.
Now, if the major States had their own little meeting without Gillard and hatched a plan to ignore her and cover those few weeks with rollover loans to secure their budgets then, come September 15, they could have their official COAG meeting with Abbott.
There is nothing but Westminster probity preventing Abbott doing deals as Prime Minister-in-waiting. It would be no more unethical than most Gillard manoeuvres.
She actually believes her endless, unachievable ‘initiatives’ gain credence with grandiose titles like ‘The Education Revolution’, ‘The Asian Century’ and ‘I give a Gonski’ school hats, but the spin has worn thin. We have stopped listening and we now ignore the diversions she creates from boats and budgets.
And just when you thought she couldn’t get any worse, “BINGO!” she does, and her pubescent cunning sinks us deeper in the trough of borrowed money she believes is an elixir for all her ills.
History will condemn her and her economically illiterate mate, Wayne Swan, as two people who never sat down to analyse or discuss any problem, they only ever saw solutions in terms of how many billions they could chuck at it.
Now they are cursed curators of a deep-in-the-red bank account that has provided us with nothing but pain.
Any PM other than Gillard would be long gone by now but factional union backing has kept her there, and way beyond her use-by date.
Her vile history is imbued in union corruption and now it’s time to pay the piper.
She cares not that half the ALP will be wiped out if she stays beyond May... but others who sit behind her do care.
That alone should make for a fascinating budget session... oh, and thank God for our Adam Scott, such an articulate respite from the droning tones of a talentless Prime Minister.
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