"Last week was a good one for Coalition backdowns. First there was Malcolm Turnbull, admitting that if he becomes minister not only will what has already been rolled out of the National Broadband Network be preserved in its present form; so will work in progress, and indeed much of what is still in the planning stage. His own proposals for NBN Lite will therefore be relatively minor, as well as strictly temporary. And then there was Scott Morrison promising to keep all of Labor’s PNG solution, even though he insists that the present government can’t implement it – just a week ago Tony Abbott was ready to dismiss the whole idea as a mere thought bubble. But the big one, which got lost in the hysterical arms race over boat people bashing, was from Christopher Pyne, who, it is often forgotten, is not just there to set records for being thrown out of parliament – he is also the shadow education minister. And Pyne now says that a Coalition government would not, as he had previously insisted, dismantle Labor’s Gonski (now rechristened Better Schools) education reforms .
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:40:36 +0000
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