Report to white wash Gillard
JULIA Gillard promised today that a report into the Building the Education Revolution program will be released before the election.
The Prime Minister made the commitment during a radio interview, despite the BER taskforce yesterday refusing to confirm that it would hand over its report to the government before August 21.
If she is prepared to make that promise, I’m prepared to believe she already knows it won’t harm her.
It’ll be a white wash.
Odds on!
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Couldn’t agree more with the whitewash theory!
Tonight I’m home after three day’s contract work in South Western schools. Every school I worked in on this trip, and since BAR got underway – from the smallest one-teacher school to the largest multi-campus setup, from the least well-off state school to the well-funded private school, from the most remote to the rural-metropolitan, had builders on site and construction under way.
I haven’t seen this much comprehensive investment in vital educational infrastructure in the bush in 40 years in the game.
The best the critics can come up with is that they’re not getting value for money. Tell that to the bush communities!
As one of the parents said to me yesterday – “The knockers need to get real and come out here and have a look!”
The biggest problem seems to be in NSW. As I’ve said before there is no doubt a lot of schools are happy. There are also a lot of schools that are happy but know that their building costs three times the going rate and there is no point them going on about. There are, however, a lot of schools that have been ripped off, they know it and they now it’s wrong.
You have done this before – traveled and reported on happy schools and that’s fine but if you read the Australian and other media, not ALP aligned, you will be aware that satisfaction is not across the board.
That is the problem. There has been a huge amount of money wasted.
Goodness me, it looks like the “white-wash” has started already!!!!!!
I’m stunned. the people who are not paying for most of the assets that they got, don’t care what it cost the rest of us. who’d have thought?
Now idiot, ask yourself how much investment in vital education infrastructure (in NSW that can be a $1 million shadecloth structure!) the $6 – $8 billion dollars Gillard wasted would have bought? or quite simply, how much more in the way of assets the schools could have had for the money, if it had been spent by grown ups.
“the people who are not paying for most of the assets that they got, don’t care what it cost the rest of us”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been paying tax for the last 47 years. Considering residents of remote communities – they pay substantially the same tax as everybody else, yet receive a fraction of the services available to metropolitan Australians. If we had pollies with any guts at all, they’d be instituting a tax reform that provided real taxation concessions for those in the bush. This might also address the alleged overcrowding that the gilded inhabitants of those dung heaps down south are whingeing about. But we couldn’t have that, could we – it would be wicked socialism.
As to wastage – I’ve lived in mining communities in North-Western Queensland, and seen multi-national mining companies waste other people’s money hand over fist through corruption and mismanagement. They wrote the book on it. But that’s OK – they’re entrepreneurs.
But that’s OK – they’re entrepeneurs.
No, that’s OK because they’re not spending public monies.
” I’ve lived in mining communities in North-Western Queensland, and seen multi-national mining companies waste other people’s money hand over fist through corruption and mismanagement.”
What a load of bullshit.
Common 17 bobby red-herring, prove a) that you’ve lived in mining communities and b) prove you have witnessed mining companies wasting other people’s money through corruption.
I lived in Mt Isa from 1992 until 1996, where I saw a whole range of corrupt practices, including MIM employees at all levels of the organisation pilfering fuel (particularly gas cylinders), mine vehicles used for private benefit, and mine equipment and furniture turning up in the most bizarre places. Every racket know to man was apparent and accepted as part of the culture. This was OK – apparently, as the long suffering shareholders were paying for it. These days, of course, Xstrata (who own most of the deposit now) is furiously trying to cover up the ongoing lead poisoning that afflicts many Mt Isa kids. Even sick children aren’t allowed to get in the way of a quick and dirty quid.
Incidentally, from what can be observed at places like Roma, Chinchilla and Surat, not much in the culture of big mining has changed since. You should ask the farmers at Felton and Kingaroy what they think of the practices of the mining companies.
“… including MIM employees at all levels of the organisation pilfering fuel …” Oh my god, CORRUPTION…
Pathetic 17 bobby red-herring, as expected your comment above was one of your usual empty slurs.