Why are people such staunch Labor voters?

[curmu-curmu]

Particularly when every Labor governement in living history has amounted such huge debts whilst in office?

Or is it just that they blindly follow the old mantra, that 'Labor is for the working man?'

Now don't get me wrong - I don't particularly like Abbott, and I sure as h3ll didn't like Rudd or Gillard, but there's so much more to a political party than it's leader.

Feel free to discuss...

[poddster]

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@am*3 wrote:

That article has nothing to do with what you are claiming...

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What do you think i am claiming?

[debra9275]

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@poddster wrote:

I live in Australia on planet Earth

Your statements are unsubstantiated by facts.

Perhaps you can interpret the graph of education under labor

 

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you can't remember what you're claiming???

here is your claim

[debra9275]

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@poddster wrote:

WOW, you got all of that from the graph?

What I got from the graph was that Labor threw over $200,000,000  at the education system and reduced the NAPLAN level by 4% thank the powers that be that it wasn't a billion the NAPLAN level would have gone down by 10%

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and this

[gleee58]

J the text in red is YOUR addition. Naughty you

That was obvious, since it wasn't in bold text.

[j*oono]

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@poddster wrote:

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@j*oono wrote:

Sorry Poddster, had to go out.  That chart shows to me that the NT students are getting lower results than the rest of Australia and I can understand that. 

It says The 2013 Northern Territory NAPLAN (National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy) results show the lowest student performance in Australia in every subject area and year level. This has not changed over the past five years and that tells me that the rest of Australia is doing very well with the extra funding and staff.

The NT has it's own problems.

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J the text in red is YOUR addition. Naughty you 🙂

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What the?  I was replying to you. It is quite obvious that the site that you took that line chart came from is from the Northern Territory and they are doing less well than other states.

Take a look at the link that you yourself put up.  It shows that in the Northern territory  they get much lower naplan results than other states because of their difficulty in getting kids to school on a regular basis. About 20% lower so it's quite ridiculous to post it.

Other states had scores of 94.5% and NT only about 74%.  They have different problems and to try to use their problems to denigrate the help our schools are given is unbecoming of you.