The Australian 23 February 2012

He’s back, and let me just say that in my estimation he doesn’t seem that different, taking into account multifarious parameters of detailed programmatic specificity.

The Australian 21 February 2012

Yesterday, the government finally released the Gonski review into how education gets paid for, no doubt kicking off a long and painful  series of advertising campaigns by the various interest groups involved, except for the kids of course who will have to suck it up.

There’s always going to be an enormous stink about who gets what in something as fundamental as education funding, but it’s the big stink we have to have. The review’s been in the bottom drawer for a while now, hopefully the PM will “bring it on”, take a risk and make the resulting barney more interesting than the soap opera about the leadership of the Labor Party.