Archive for February, 2010

Labor’s Hospital Management System on Life Support

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

If the NSW health system was a patient it would be in intensive care.  Its internal organs i.e. Area Health Service bureaucrats, mostly Labor mates, would be regarded as cancerous cells and be removed. 

Even the Prime Minister reckons there is a lot of krudd in the system and has threatened his NSW Labor counterparts with a Federal takeover of our hospitals if they don’t lift their game. (more…)

Teaching Profession Labours under Labor

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

 The teaching profession, arguably one of the most important of all, is under stress because of the stifling impact of big government, cumbersome bureaucracies and ideological unions.  

The results of Labor’s big government trying to micro-manage service delivery has proved a disaster for the $43 billion National Broadband rollout, the $16 billion Julia Gillard National Memorial Classroom rort, the $2.3 billion pink-batt disaster, and the $1.5 billion cost blowout that has only delivered 150,000 of the 1 million computers promised for students.  (more…)

Teaching profession Labor’s under Kev

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

 The teaching profession, arguably one of the most important of all, is under stress because of the stifling impact of big government, cumbersome bureaucracies and ideological unions.  

The results of Labor’s big government trying to micro-manage service delivery has proved a disaster for the $43 billion National Broadband rollout, the $16 billion Julia Gillard National Memorial Classroom rort, the $2.3 billion pink-batt disaster, and the $1.5 billion cost blowout that has only delivered 150,000 of the 1 million computers promised for students.  (more…)

Tony Abbott’s promotion: Good news for Julia – Bad for Kev

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

The election of Tony Abbott as Leader of the Opposition is great news for Julia Gillard and bad news for Kevin Rudd.  Voters now have a choice between a real bloke and an insipid pretender.  

Australians seem to like Abbott’s knockabout style despite media attempts to focus on swimming togs which happen to be his uniform as a volunteer surf-life saver.  He is also a long term volunteer at his local bushfire brigade.  Since his days at Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, played rugby as a front rower and won the heavyweight boxing championship Tony Abbott has maintained a strong empathy with ordinary Australians. (more…)