excerpt from article: "...And we will not be spending billions of taxpayer dollars on overpriced school halls that schools don’t want and which do nothing to raise the standard of education.” - Joe Hockey basically having a go at Labor policies of the last few years. "The school halls stimulus was never primarily about improving education standards; it was about keeping construction going. Schools were picked because pretty much every town has one and there would be the additional benefit of providing much needed capital works in many of the schools... And it worked. You only need to look at the growth in public and private construction during the period to see the Building the Education Revolution spend filled a massive gap that stopped construction falling about 10% in 2009" - Greg Jericho (an economic analyst) ex-The Australian, now writing for the Guardian Australia. To me this is but one example of how easy it is for politicians on both sides to use rhetoric to influence voters by simplifying and taking the piss out of complex policy measures that have actually been proven effective. It also highlights the importance of good journalism in picking up these faults, as well as sites like Politifact that aim to correct the bullshit rhetoric getting rammed down our throats.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:22:23 +0000
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