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This wasn't http://www.news.com.au/national/advisors-tell-gillard-to-sack-rudd-next-week/story-e6frfkw9-1226278130375

Probably not but would want to read more on the cases for and against before I made a call on that.

Private tuition? Piano lessons? A school trip to the museum? Fine but formalized school fees will just lead us back to where we are now and the idea of parents paying a little bit extra, eg donating to the school, I don't see how that stops becoming an informal pre-requisite for the kids to get...

Again that is not what I said. Primary and secondary education should be funded entirely and with a few exceptions (eg a blind student) equally. It shouldn't be a bare bones school for the kids whose parents can't or wont pay and a chateau de chenonceau for those kids whose parents can or will...

Oh fuck off that's not what I said. I'm talking first and foremost about resource allocation and you bloody well knew that. I as public schooled from kindergarten to year nine and private schooled thereafter. At the public school if our teacher was unwell or on an excursion etc we would...

The idea of a socialized education system is significantly different to socialized healthcare, roads, housing etc in that it is specifically exclusively talking about children who have little if any control over it. As I said its not about giving them an equal lifestyle but about giving them an...

To my astonishment Bill Shorten actually seems to be behaving himself pretty well through all this. Crean, Roxon, Ripoll, Gibbons, Cheeseman and Emerson however just need to shut up.

Every child deserves an equal opportunity and an equal opportunity starts with an fair and equitable education system. Ergo private schooling is the work of the devil.

Depends how Rudd went about it. If he went at it himself (which has been his habit in the past) as some bizarre, catch them on the backfoot sort of chess move his backers would probably get pissed with him for making them look stupid and for keeping the government in this state of paralysis. I...

Nice to see Simon Crean believes these things should be dealt with internally and not dragged out into a public mudslinging match.

There hasn't been one, Boffles probably come closest but he was leading in the polls all the way. It's always been the case that once someone throws down the gauntlet, the leadership quagmire stops the government getting any other messages out there and politically paralyses them until finally...

I'm sure you've made a counterpoint in there somewhere, feel free to clarify what it is.

In a world where Mark Latham rules supreme maybe.

What is damaging isn't that Rudd was swearing, but that his unpopularity among some of his colleagues is such that they are prepared to leak private video footage of him, and that that is hardly conducive to functional government. It makes Gillard look bad too mind, Smith and Crean benefit from...

There appears to be 52 names in your list of 46. And 43 in your list of 36. I didn't count them Malcolm Farnsworth wrote it on twitter.

It's one http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/battle-lines-drawn-in-labor-leadership-stoush/story-e6frea6u-1226274666028

Looks like its gone nuclear faster than I expected.

Yeeeees but lets not kid ourselves as to Rudd's awareness of how these smiley visits to QLD marginal seats are going to play out. Edit: I forgot to mention Howes is losing popularity in the AWU too, a return of Rudd would probably be followed by an attempt to move a no confidence motion against...

Of course your mate Bolt probably thinks Tony Burke's going be the next PM.

He criticized Romney for not caring for poor and wanting to cut taxes for the rich. I'm saying that from a socialistic, welfare state sort of angle Romney is leagues ahead of Paul, and yet he endorses Paul.