Where The ALP Lost Its Longtime Supporters

[icyfroth]

LAST Saturday, in polling booths inside $14.2 billion worth of new school halls constructed under Labor's Building the Education Revolution program, a bare 33.9 per cent of Australian electors voted for Labor candidates.   

So what went wrong for Labor?

These groups weren't so much voting for the Coalition as against their own party.

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I think that about sums it up in a nut shell.

Not so much that the Liberals under Tony Abbott  are perceived to be significantly more effective at governing, just that they are able to show a unified front and more stabililty and professianalism than the ALP with all it's bickering and backstabbing and infighting.

Look at them still bickering and attacking each other, even in defeat they can't regroup and put forward a leading representative.

[just_me_karen]

That's why the libs don't agree with increasing education finding. It's preferable to keep their masses of supporters in lala economic ignorance land lol

You can see the full effect of falling education standards in the attitudes and voting of western queenslanders. Maybe, to ensure he's not "one term tony", they should shut down all schools for a while.

[izabsmiling]

and will the Libs rewrite our History Curriculum ?

12 September 2013, 6.48am AEST

Culture wars II: why Abbott should leave the history curriculum alone

 The approach by right-wing reformist politicians to history curricula follows a clear pattern. First, they express a need to return to a triumphalist view of the past that uncritically highlights the achievements of a free market economy, Western civilisation and Christianity. Second, we have a highly personalised view about what should be in and what should be out of the ideal history curriculum. Finally, there is a reliance for support on at least one major conservative media outlet or at least one neoconservative think tank to reinforce these ideas

[meh_too]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
That's why the libs don't agree with increasing education finding. It's preferable to keep their masses of supporters in lala economic ignorance land lol

You can see the full effect of falling education standards in the attitudes and voting of western queenslanders. Maybe, to ensure he's not "one term tony", they should shut down all schools for a while.

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You appear to have it in for the Queenslanders.  Aren't there anti-vilification laws where you are?

[izabsmiling]

I forgot the link http://theconversation.com/culture-wars-ii-why-abbott-should-leave-the-history-curriculum-alone-1792...

[*ibis]

the conversation is a bunch of left wing propaganda

im going to start a petition to have it censored

[freakiness]

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@*ibis wrote:

the conversation is a bunch of left wing propaganda

im going to start a petition to have it censored

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Do you know what the conversation is?

[lakeland27]

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@*ibis wrote:

the conversation is a bunch of left wing propaganda

im going to start a petition to have it censored

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 i'll sign.  thinking of jumping ship.

[*ibis]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@*ibis wrote:

the conversation is a bunch of left wing propaganda

im going to start a petition to have it censored

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Do you know what the conversation is?

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yes

[izabsmiling]

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@*ibis wrote:

the conversation is a bunch of left wing propaganda

im going to start a petition to have it censored

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I'd add the article from the Tele ..but it's behind a wall.

there are others 

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/hes-wrong-historians-say-as-tony-abb...

He's wrong, historians say as Tony Abbott reignites history wars

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/coalition-government-to-review-unions-and-alp-...

Coalition government to review unions and ALP presence in history curriculum

new.com suit you Ibis ?