Weakened PM Suffered Stunning Setback On Gonski

[lightningdance]

So they won't sign up because..............5 years in planning and a lack of detail, rushed planning, funding being ripped out of higher education, why doesn't that surprise? another policy, another policy failure from a lame duck PM who nobody trusts.

She'll now try to pit one against the other to get something through, something she desperately needs to have for her so called legacy. It's all about her again, all about her "legacy" all about the politics of division which she is so good at.

Prime Minister's agenda is left high and dry by: Dennis Shanahan From:

JULIA Gillard got nothing from yesterday's meeting with premiers and chief ministers.

Indeed, the Prime Minister has suffered a stunning setback in her keynote campaign to implement the school education reforms and revamp federal-state funding.

The attitudes of the critical states that went into the COAG meeting have hardened and not even the most sympathetic states felt obliged to give Gillard a break.

Gillard has expressed determination to pass the changes before June 30 and hoped to exercise the authority of her office and the persuasion of federal money over the states and territories.

But Gillard's authority is ebbing by the day and the federal money is seen as insufficient, illusory and less important than some of the educational, governmental and equity principles involved.

There are cross-party concerns about the level of federal control that comes with the federal funding in the Gonski reforms, the balance of state funding for government and non-government schools and the maintenance of funding at existing levels to richer private schools because of the federal undertaking that no school would lose funding.

Nobody expected all the states and territories to rush to sign up for Gillard's far-reaching and complex proposal.

But after Gillard had been working on the reform agenda for more than five years it was reasonable to expect federal Labor would be in a position to get some of the Labor states further down the path and not go backwards at a COAG meeting.

Yet a combination of rushed planning, a lack of real discussion and the funding of the school changes coming from higher education has led to a real reluctance to accept Gillard's vision.

Almost conceding there will be no universal acceptance of her plans, Gillard now proposes to deal with the premiers one by one in the hope of picking up support and building momentum.

[newstart2380]

sorry ? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt

 Hey LL sense of humour 7 out of 10 and that's 7 more than I would give to our great debunked leader. Getting more Stalinistic ( if such a word) every day.

[izabsmiling]

Newstart, I think of running a Country and spending tax payers money more like taking care of a family (with a here and now AND a long term focus,legal and moral commitments,responsibilities and needs..not necessarily all financially profitable ) more than I do to it being the same as running a business.

[lightningdance]

"A deadly deal in the dying days of a bad Labor government" This from the  Chief Minister of the NT. summed it all up nicely.

I think all the Premiers & Chief Ministers have her number, know she is a lame duck, gonski after Sept.

Her policy failures are on show every day, they know this is a desperate grab for something..anything...to leave as a legacy rather than the Worst PM in our history presiding over the Worst Labor Govt in history.

She's getting more hard faced, short, testy & downright autocratic & will only answer to her pet journalists & blew off a female journo....sexist much????? she reminded me of Rudd at his worst.

She's using  children as blackmail to get what she wants, this is nothing new from Labor, they have no compunction in using children, be it on TV with the endless schoolroom photo ops (remember Rudd & the 6 months of hospital visits in full scrubs) or Gillard cradling an infant on her web page (which has since been taken down) or on the front lines of a picket, no opportunity to use children is ever missed.

All she can hope for now is a disaster so she can be seen as "caring", if she prayed I'd bet she's said a few prayers for anything, any disaster to use for her own benefit.

A lame duck PM in a failed govt. desperate to cling on at ANY cost.

[izabsmiling]

Our children are being used to score points against her .

[catsnknots]

No Iza.. she is using out children to score points in an election year... she has had the Gonski report for a long time yet only now has put an offer on the table and has said no negotiating... that is not how you work "together" with the States...

JULIA Gillard today urged Labor Party delegates to unite behind the commonwealth's education reforms, signalling she would fight recalcitrant states and use her response to Gonski as the centrepiece of her bid for re-election.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/gillard-steels-victorian-labor-for-election-fight-o...

[newstart2380]

Newstart, I think of running a Country and spending tax payers money more like taking care of a family (with a here and now AND a long term focus,legal and moral commitments,responsibilities and needs..not necessarily all financially profitable ) more than I do to it being the same as running a business.

I see your point and more reason not to spend money "hand over fist" when you don't have any to spend. I am not against spending money on our needs and we need to look to the next and future generations, the tax payers deserve a gov which will spend wisely and be able to balance the books for a sustainable future for our children. 

Australia must remain in surplus or profitable to be able to pay workers (eg you and I) because if the business does not remain profitable workers are dismissed or wagers cut.

This is a simplification of the huge problem our country faces as the deficit increases out of control. More costs, less profit = dismissals = more people out of work = centre link payments = more cost to the government = more taxes we have to pay?

I don't know the answer but I do know we are in terrible trouble.

[lightningdance]

and secondly, I don't buy into the BS that the LNP are wonderful managers of everything while Labor is not capable of managing anything. 
It's just a ludicrous claim.

Analysis of budget documents revealed that, between the 2010 election and federal Treasury's update in October last year, the 2012-13 net debt estimate rose $54 billion to $144 billion.

I wonder how much the debt will be forecast to rise in the May budget?

That aside, investment in the share market here has been very rewarding, my favourite stock Telstra, which I bought a lot of 2 years ago at $2.70 , and the only one I have  ever recommended to friends/CSers is doing well, thanks in no small way to the NBN low speed machinations.

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Monman, how dare you publish proof???? don't you know that proof & truth are anathema to the luvvies.

That's not what they're on here for, the scales have not fallen from their eyes or eye, as you so comically put it.

Yes, I am a Liberal voter & by definition I could hold a bias for the right. I put up what is common knoweledge out in the wider Australia, comment that is published every day, so anyone who can read can be enlightened.  I don't post mendacious or ultra left wing fringe links or the never ending c&p scrollers, nobody wants to read them, Lenin wouldn't want to read them.:^O

[monman12]

LL, you might reflect that the your list of countries  by public debt (try government) shows us on a par with China, when  in fact "China is a net creditor nation and the U.S. is a the world’s largest net debtor nation. The Chinese are the largest holders of U.S. Treasury securities with total holdings exceeding $1.2 Trillion as of January this year. Every year the U.S pays billions of dollars as interest for this debt to China.

China’s financial strength is unparalleled.

[windrake]

[lakeland27]

 pack of dogs is right . lame cartoon. not funny or witty.. epic fail.