Comments on: Did the Government fall last night? http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/11/25/did-the-government-fall-last-night/ It is and we do. Musing, enthusing, libraries, emerging technologies, balancing, being mum. Mon, 21 May 2012 01:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/11/25/did-the-government-fall-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-22059 Kathryn Greenhill Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:50:08 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/11/25/did-the-government-fall-last-night/#comment-22059 Hi Kate, Thanks. I was going to mention the "Education Revolution", then decided I didn't know much about it and it hadn't influenced my vote anyhow - I just had the vague impression that both parties were madly throwing buckets of money at higher ed. Twenty three years ago when I finished high school, I found the same thing, and that was on the cusp of a Liberal / Labor changeover - people were wearing ties to classes and I wondered where the cool academic debate in the coffee shops had gone. Unfortunately the Labor government paved the way for the economic policy of the Libs by axing free education and charging high tertiary fees. It will be interesting to see what happens with Voluntary Student Unionism and whether the Labor govt does anything to prop up the Guilds - traditionally a breeding ground for baby Labor pollies. Agreed about the filtering. If parents aren't behaving like parents and monitoring their kids' cultural consumption, then librarians certainly aren't qualified to pick up the role. Hi Kate, Thanks. I was going to mention the “Education Revolution”, then decided I didn’t know much about it and it hadn’t influenced my vote anyhow – I just had the vague impression that both parties were madly throwing buckets of money at higher ed.

Twenty three years ago when I finished high school, I found the same thing, and that was on the cusp of a Liberal / Labor changeover – people were wearing ties to classes and I wondered where the cool academic debate in the coffee shops had gone. Unfortunately the Labor government paved the way for the economic policy of the Libs by axing free education and charging high tertiary fees. It will be interesting to see what happens with Voluntary Student Unionism and whether the Labor govt does anything to prop up the Guilds – traditionally a breeding ground for baby Labor pollies.

Agreed about the filtering. If parents aren’t behaving like parents and monitoring their kids’ cultural consumption, then librarians certainly aren’t qualified to pick up the role.

]]> By: Kate Quinn http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/11/25/did-the-government-fall-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-22033 Kate Quinn Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:40:35 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/11/25/did-the-government-fall-last-night/#comment-22033 Hi Kathryn, This is a great summary. Your point about Rudd and Howard being similar was greatly parodied by The Chaser's last week in a segment called iDemocracy and based on the Mac vs PC ads. I recommend you hunt it down. Howard has been PM since I finished high school. When I started uni as a Murdoch arts student, there was debate and innovation, new ideas and excitement in academia. Under the Liberals Higher Education reforms, I have seen the universities turn into economically-driven degree factories. I am just hoping that Labor, and funding, can help bring culture and the spirit for knowledge back to the environment. I understand your worry about the ISP filtering - I think the only people who should filter internet content are guardians of the children (I don't have kids yet so that opinion might change). The Australian population need to make it clear that we don't need babysitting like we were under the Howard government. I think that policy was put in place to appease the extreme conservatives and I hope (to God?) that they don't go through with it. Despite Kevin Rudd being the dork, and Labor being the new Liberal :) I still woke up this morning with the feeling that a great weight had lifted off my shoulders, and reading comments on Twitter and online news sites, I realise I'm not the only one. I had planned to immigrate if the Liberals got back in - now I just want out of conservative WA - the West is proudly declaring how we bucked the national trend! Pfft! Kate Hi Kathryn,

This is a great summary. Your point about Rudd and Howard being similar was greatly parodied by The Chaser’s last week in a segment called iDemocracy and based on the Mac vs PC ads. I recommend you hunt it down.

Howard has been PM since I finished high school. When I started uni as a Murdoch arts student, there was debate and innovation, new ideas and excitement in academia. Under the Liberals Higher Education reforms, I have seen the universities turn into economically-driven degree factories. I am just hoping that Labor, and funding, can help bring culture and the spirit for knowledge back to the environment.

I understand your worry about the ISP filtering – I think the only people who should filter internet content are guardians of the children (I don’t have kids yet so that opinion might change). The Australian population need to make it clear that we don’t need babysitting like we were under the Howard government. I think that policy was put in place to appease the extreme conservatives and I hope (to God?) that they don’t go through with it.

Despite Kevin Rudd being the dork, and Labor being the new Liberal :) I still woke up this morning with the feeling that a great weight had lifted off my shoulders, and reading comments on Twitter and online news sites, I realise I’m not the only one. I had planned to immigrate if the Liberals got back in – now I just want out of conservative WA – the West is proudly declaring how we bucked the national trend! Pfft!

Kate

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