Iron said:
Gee, I didnt realise he spoke out against the Islamic school
That just aint right
Well really, an Islamic school in the middle of nowhere where there's unlikely to be 1200 students as it was planned to hold that are Islamic - a public school would do better there. If you look at the demographics of Camden for example, there's only 3000 people there and most of them are Australian born with only 10% from non English speaking countries. Building a school for maybe 500 Islamic people (with, what, 100 of them school age) does not make sense. However, I do agree it may have been questionable in the other cases, especially considering
his religion. (note I do not know the exact amounts of Islamic people and these are just estimates, someone may wish to correct me here)
In response to previous comments - the State Liberals aren't much better, but if you vote them in at least State Labor might get its act together and offer something worth voting them back in for. At the moment they have no reason to do any work - if they're going to get voted in anyway, why bother?
Those that poo-poo the Greens, Labor, Liberal, any party - try to have an open mind before instantly ignoring what someone else says. Sure, you can argue against it, but at least consider the reason it is right or wrong before simply stating it.
Enteebee said:
They've been in government for a year now. What other than workchoices and symbolic gestures do you think they've done that's good?
Currently in the works is the creation of a national education system. It can't be done instantly or rushed, but it is well in the works, as you may
see here.
This includes broadband for all high schools, computers for all students from 9-12, solid plans to bridge the gap of education between Aboriginal people and more - just scan through the document to see.
That's just one of the many things that your tax money is going to rather than making the rich people richer when they don't need the help. From what I can see, it's more than John Howard was doing for education at least. Just look at other budget documents to see what the Rudd Government's doing better than the Howard Government did.
