Ah, the voices of the great unwashed are getting louder, methinks? Yep, Pine is a drip, they say that politics is show business for ugly people, and in Oz at least, we've got a cast of many on both sides of the house.
Of course, you red ragger's have all got short memories. "Gonski" (named after the eminent professor who wrote a white paper on education reforms in Oz) only included 5% of Professor Gonski's recommendations, and he was so disgusted in Labor naming their new (for that week) education reforms after him, he said publicly that he'd considered changing his name.
"Gonski" was only popular in Labor states so to sell it to NSW Juliar and her cast of ugly people offered the NSW premier all sorts of back-handers to get it across the line in a non labor state. Of course, the funding for Gonski was always going to come from additional borrowing, something that the Labor government was very good at, they turned a 70 billion dollar surplus into a 300 billion dollar deficit in only 3 years.
"Typhoon Tony" and his cast of ugly folk is in a bind. Labor raised the debt ceiling from nothing to 300 billion, so the only way he can continue servicing the debt and providing the same level of half-arsedness as his labor predecessors is by raising the debt ceiling further. Of course now, "Electricity Bill" and his ugly people are crying foul, saying "How dare the new government ask for a raise in the debt ceiling, just because we emptied the coffers?"
So we're in a situation where the previous government offered a flawed series of education reforms that will cost a fortune and (according to Professor Gonski) achieve no measurable result, whilst sucking billions of dollars of taxpayers money into an education black hole.
The government can't afford it (or much else for that matter) because they're trying to work out how 8 million tax payers are going to pay back the 300(+) billion dollars that Labor pissed up against the wall, so they're trying to be a bit frugal with what's coming in, and of course Labor and the ugly Labor supporters are saying, "Come on guys, you've been in power 2 whole months now, how long is gonna take to clean up our mess?"
I think you guys should stick to whatever it is that your good at, because politics isn't your forte............