The prime minister remains wedged between the Abbott-era positions he was compelled to retain and his own policy ideas,which he hasn’t worked out yetMoments in a political week. Snapshots of a dilemma.
Tuesday, question time. Malcolm Turnbull says extra Commonwealth funding will make no real contrast to schools, or in nearly the same words Tony Abbott used to say the same thing; that “teacher quality” and “school autonomy” are more primary than money – as whether these things are either/or propositions. It’s a claim that relies on the electorate forgetting that his friend David Gonski was ever asked to report on the school system,forgetting what the Coalition said during the last election and forgetting all the evidence that deprived schools and students are, indeed, or falling further behind. People don’t easily forget things that bear upon the wellbeing of their children.
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Source: theguardian.com