Julia

Is Julia Gillard the worst prime minister we have ever had? I think so, at least in my tenure.

Today she unexpectedly lobs in a new policy, via press release, that hundreds of millions of dollars of university funding is going to be diverted to our schools.

‘For the benefit of the kiddies’ she says.

I would really like to see a more factually supported argument as to why, in a relative sense, education funding is skewed unreasonably towards the tertiary level. It is not obvious to me.

And I am very, very unsure about the benefits of the new federal primary school curriculum, with its focus on keeping our national standards up with the tiger mums of Asia.

And why doesn’t this government ever learn that they can’t just announce major policy without months of behind the scenes consensus efforts? By lobbing policy as they do, the losers (and their are always losers to any new policy) simply get angry and vocal. The media has a field day.  And the opposition, shutting their collective mouths, will laugh all the way to the bank.

Although I should note that the opposition did open their mouths last week to announce their ‘NBN-lite’. Sweet be-Jesus, the other side of politics is just as bad…!

I am hoping that when they get in, someone old and wise just says to them ‘no new policies – just say and do nothing and you will get re-elected’. Maybe it will be more fun if they go the ‘Julia’.