Education Minister Christopher Pyne has blamed journalists for getting confused about his school funding promises, amid growing anger over the Coalition's reneging on its pre-election commitments.

“It's not my fault if some people in the press gallery don't understand the complicated nature of the school funding model,” Mr Pyne told ABC Radio on Wednesday.

 

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has defended his decision to scrap Gonski and reduce education funding.

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Pyne has lied and will continue to lie like a liar, a fibber, a porkyist, a con artist, invent your own words... It will never be enough to describe the hypocrite catholic bastard...

from politicoz ….

“When you move into government, you’ve got to stop behaving like an opposition,” said NSW premier Barry O'Farrell yesterday, in response to news that the federal government was ditching the Better Schools Plan “Gonski” funding model.

The Abbott government's primary motivation seems to be, as O'Farrell intimated, the destruction of the previous government’s work. This is its right, of course, but on education, it is undoing work that was applauded by the majority of states, the majority of education experts and the majority of people in the community.

On this issue, it's hard to avoid the impression that the Coalition has made a disastrous political miscalculation.

Its new stance on education funding is a broken election promise that will dog it for as long as it takes to reformulate and implement a new funding model – a task as difficult and complex as any facing a federal government.

Signed agreements between elected governments can't be simply ignored, nor can legislation. The government will need to rescind signed contracts with angry state governments in NSW and SA, and 'heads of agreement' deals with Tasmania, Victoria, ACT and the Catholic schools. It will need to do this while simultaneously negotiating new arrangements with all states. The funding model that federal education minister Christopher Pyne claims will be his 'starting point' is the very one that most state governments and educators deemed broken and out of date. The Coalition will also need to get new legislation through parliament, without the support of Labor or the Greens.

Pyne last night said he “[doesn’t] believe there is an equity problem” in school funding. The problem in Australian schooling, he said, is the focus on money rather than on what and how we are teaching our children. He didn't explain why it is therefore necessary to drop the new funding model.

We wish him luck convincing states and education groups not to focus on money or equity issues in the forthcoming negotiations.

 

The Abbott government expects to make less money from the NBN because of slower speeds available under the Coalition's copper-based network, a Senate committee has heard.

Facing aggressive questioning from former communications minister Stephen Conroy, government officials admitted that the company building the NBN would have to lower its revenue forecasts, partly because of the cheaper, but inferior, technology preferred by the Coalition.

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Mr Murdoch is rubbing his hands in glee...

 

"The Commonwealth has implied that if there is a reduction in funding for states that have signed up . . . that reduction may only well come out of public schools. That is of enormous concern to all jurisdictions. I sought as Chair some clarification about that but none was forthcoming," Mr Piccoli told reporters in Sydney.

Mr Piccoli described debate in the meeting as "heated".

"You can't get meaningful and long-term change in schools if you only have one year of [funding] certainty," he told reporters in Sydney.Mr Piccoli said his Liberal state government had "every right" to rely on the Coalition's pre-election pledge that it was on a "unity ticket" with Labor when it came to schools funding.

Tasmanian Education Minister Nick McKim slammed Mr Pyne's "complete incapacity" to offer any guarantees to states who had signed on to the Gonski reforms about schools funding.

"You wouldn't have thought it possible, [but] there is now less certainty at lunchtime today than there was when we walked into this meeting this morning," he said.

Mr McKim, who is also leader of the Tasmanian Greens, said that Mr Pyne had implied "strongly" that the federal government was able to renegotiate funding agreements, particularly about the "relativities" between government and non-government schools.

"This is a bombshell revelation that will rock the public education system in Australia to its core," Mr McKim said.  "[Mr Pyne] has lobbed a stick of dynamite into what was a very tranquil pool."

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The Loaded dog...

Three gold miners named Dave Regan, Jim Bently, and Andy Page are sinking a shaft at Stony Creek. The trio own a young retriever dog named Tommy, described as "an overgrown pup... a big foolish, four-footed mate." Andy and Dave, fishing enthusiasts, devise a unique method of catching fish using explosives. The dog picks up an explosive cartridge in its mouth, and runs the fuse through the campfire, prompting the three men to flee. Tommy, thinking it a game, playfully chases down his "two-legged mates," who try everything in their power to escape the cartridge. Jim tries to climb a tree and then drops down a mine shaft, meanwhile Andy has hidden behind a log. When Dave seeks refuge in the local pub, the dog bounds in after him, causing the Bushmen inside to scatter. Tommy comes across a "vicious yellow mongrel cattle-dog sulking and nursing his nastiness under [the kitchen]," who takes the cartridge for himself. A crowd of dogs, curious about this unusual object, gather around the cartridge. The subsequent explosion blows apart the yellow cattle-dog and maims numerous others. For half an hour, the Bushmen who witnessed the spectacle are laughing hysterically. Tommy the retriever trots home after Dave, "smiling his broadest, longest, and reddest smile of amiability, and apparently satisfied for one afternoon with the fun he’d had."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loaded_Dog

WE AREN'T LAUGHING... PYNE IS AN IDIOT...