Kelly: Building the foundation of a viable nationInfrastructure shouldn’t be a vote grabbing propaganda exercise, particularly since tough decisions need to be made to balance population growth. Rudd needs to recognised that infrastructure is more about economic reform than nation building, writes Paul Kelly.
School stimulus fund
Gillard spared bad day at the office
Joe Hockey gave Education Minister Julia Gillard a short reprieve yesterday from the relentless barrage of Opposition MPs “joyously relating tales of schools caught in Kafkaesque circumstances created by bureaucracies”, says Tony Wright,
Finger pointing on education blowout not working
The one pupil school at the centre of the Coalition’s attack of the education spending blow out hasn’t actually received any funding. Is the Coalition’s attempt to find waste and mismanagement of funds fruitless?
Two wrongs don’t make a right, Julia
Education Minister Julia Gillard was under fire for overspending A$1.5 billion in the school buildings project and she came out guns blazing in parliament. For once, the voice of reason was Wilson Tuckey.
School signs, spin and other half-smart Ruddy capers
The Government’s proclivity for spin and half-smart political strategy is re-emerging, with its signs-in-front-of-schools plan and attempts to sell award modernisation.
Gillard finally hits a bump in the road
The stimulus schools building blow out has taken some of the shine off Julia Gillard’s halo. The pollie being touted as the PM-in-waiting shouldn’t have been put up on a pedestal, writes Laurie Oakes.
Criticism for school signs plan
The government is extracting every political mileage out of their school infrastructure program possible, with schools forced to place government advertising signs outside new buildings until 2011.
