Comments on: Jocks and nerds cheated as Senate defeats student services bill http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/24/jocks-and-nerds-cheated-as-senate-defeats-student-services-bill/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:27:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: douglas kirsner http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/24/jocks-and-nerds-cheated-as-senate-defeats-student-services-bill/#comment-35367 douglas kirsner Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:20:45 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/24/jocks-and-nerds-cheated-as-senate-defeats-student-services-bill/#comment-35367 Has Senator (Helen) Kroger had a sex change? Has Senator (Helen) Kroger had a sex change?

]]> By: meski http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/24/jocks-and-nerds-cheated-as-senate-defeats-student-services-bill/#comment-35284 meski Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:12:25 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/24/jocks-and-nerds-cheated-as-senate-defeats-student-services-bill/#comment-35284 Why tax the students with this? Just go after getting it from general revenue. Making education more expensive for the students is not what we should be doing. Sign me as a taxpayer and non (current) student, by the way. Why tax the students with this? Just go after getting it from general revenue. Making education more expensive for the students is not what we should be doing.

Sign me as a taxpayer and non (current) student, by the way.

]]> By: Jim Reiher http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/24/jocks-and-nerds-cheated-as-senate-defeats-student-services-bill/#comment-35223 Jim Reiher Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:45:16 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/24/jocks-and-nerds-cheated-as-senate-defeats-student-services-bill/#comment-35223 Once again Family First senator Fielding "made a difference" with his vote. And the number of times he has done that in about 5 years, can be counted on one hand. And how has his decisions at these critical moments kept "families first"? That what his party is all about... right? But alas, in all the key moments when his vote was actually the one necessary and critical vote, it has been to push liberal business principles, and has no priority on families - he voted to abolish compulsory student union fees - he voted to allow media giants to control still more media - he voted against the alco-pop tax - and now he is voting to block this student ammenity fee. Families? They don't come into it. His moments of critical difference have very little to do with families and have everything to do with liberal business philosophy. The families of students missing out on better quality servies might think to ask him how they were being served by his recent decision. Once again Family First senator Fielding “made a difference” with his vote. And the number of times he has done that in about 5 years, can be counted on one hand.

And how has his decisions at these critical moments kept “families first”? That what his party is all about… right?

But alas, in all the key moments when his vote was actually the one necessary and critical vote, it has been to push liberal business principles, and has no priority on families
- he voted to abolish compulsory student union fees
- he voted to allow media giants to control still more media
- he voted against the alco-pop tax
- and now he is voting to block this student ammenity fee.

Families? They don’t come into it. His moments of critical difference have very little to do with families and have everything to do with liberal business philosophy.

The families of students missing out on better quality servies might think to ask him how they were being served by his recent decision.

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