Comments on: Morgan 56.5-43.5 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/ Reflections on the Miracle of Democracy at Work in the Greatest Nation on Earth Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:05:40 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: William Bowe http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-9/#comment-210944 William Bowe Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:02:19 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210944 <a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/11/03/essential-research-61-39/" rel="nofollow">New thread</a>. New thread.

]]> By: Generic Person http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-9/#comment-210922 Generic Person Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:08:28 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210922 No 398 Of course it is necessary. :D No 398

Of course it is necessary. :D

]]> By: ltep http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-8/#comment-210918 ltep Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:03:46 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210918 Well GP is well known for being provocative. Bird of Paradox, the Education Minister is none other than Julia Gillard. Well GP is well known for being provocative.

Bird of Paradox, the Education Minister is none other than Julia Gillard.

]]> By: PAAPTSEF http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-8/#comment-210917 PAAPTSEF Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:02:18 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210917 "It’s not a surprise really that criticism of government policy will get you named ‘reds under the beds brigade’." Only if that criticism moves miles away from the policy to "compulsury communism" :-) “It’s not a surprise really that criticism of government policy will get you named ‘reds under the beds brigade’.”

Only if that criticism moves miles away from the policy to “compulsury communism” :-)

]]> By: Bird of paradox http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-8/#comment-210916 Bird of paradox Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:01:30 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210916 The last couple of hundred posts have been pretty dull, but I can't let GP's outburst at 314 go unreported: [ Garrett’s murder of the Music Academy. ] I know you're highly strung, but is something this hysterically shrill really necessary? It's hilarious, though. ;) By the way: the only thing I was wondering about The Great VSU Debate is... why did Kate Ellis make this announcement? She's youth minister. I thought the education minister would've made it... now that I think of it, I don't know who that is. The last couple of hundred posts have been pretty dull, but I can’t let GP’s outburst at 314 go unreported:

Garrett’s murder of the Music Academy.

I know you’re highly strung, but is something this hysterically shrill really necessary? It’s hilarious, though. ;)

By the way: the only thing I was wondering about The Great VSU Debate is… why did Kate Ellis make this announcement? She’s youth minister. I thought the education minister would’ve made it… now that I think of it, I don’t know who that is.

]]> By: ltep http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-8/#comment-210914 ltep Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:59:17 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210914 PAAPTSEF we don't know exactly how the scheme will work yet. It depends on the details whether it is essentially a return to CSU under a different name. For instance, does 'control by the university' allow the universities to decide to give all the money to the student union and allow them to decide how its used? It's not a surprise really that criticism of government policy will get you named 'reds under the beds brigade'. PAAPTSEF we don’t know exactly how the scheme will work yet. It depends on the details whether it is essentially a return to CSU under a different name. For instance, does ‘control by the university’ allow the universities to decide to give all the money to the student union and allow them to decide how its used?

It’s not a surprise really that criticism of government policy will get you named ‘reds under the beds brigade’.

]]> By: Generic Person http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-8/#comment-210912 Generic Person Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:51:43 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210912 No 393 If the services are absolutely essential, either the university will assume funding responsibility or students will willingly and voluntarily pay for them. No 393

If the services are absolutely essential, either the university will assume funding responsibility or students will willingly and voluntarily pay for them.

]]> By: PAAPTSEF http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-8/#comment-210911 PAAPTSEF Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:51:40 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210911 Oh is that all. I got the impression from the first 3 posts on the topic that there was some other concern. [quote]Generic Person Posted Monday, November 3, 2008 at 1:14 am Kate Ellis reinstates compulsory communism at universities: Mary Hannah Wade Posted Monday, November 3, 2008 at 2:20 am For one i agree with my collegue across the aisle - this will just restore the 'good old days' of student unions being able to run far left wing campagins supporting Hamas and the PLO (among others) and day trips to dention centres ltep Posted Monday, November 3, 2008 at 5:23 am GP I agree with you on VSU/CSU. /... [/quote] Oh is that all. I got the impression from the first 3 posts on the topic that there was some other concern.

[quote]Generic Person
Posted Monday, November 3, 2008 at 1:14 am

Kate Ellis reinstates compulsory communism at universities:

Mary Hannah Wade
Posted Monday, November 3, 2008 at 2:20 am

For one i agree with my collegue across the aisle – this will just restore the ‘good old days’ of student unions being able to run far left wing campagins supporting Hamas and the PLO (among others) and day trips to dention centres

ltep
Posted Monday, November 3, 2008 at 5:23 am

GP I agree with you on VSU/CSU. /… [/quote]

]]> By: Muskiemp http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-8/#comment-210910 Muskiemp Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:50:11 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210910 This is soooo booooring. This is soooo booooring.

]]> By: ltep http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2008/10/31/morgan-565-435-3/comment-page-8/#comment-210907 ltep Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:33:18 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=1793#comment-210907 The compulsory levying of fees from students for dubious 'essential services'. The compulsory levying of fees from students for dubious ‘essential services’.

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