But when i was younger, my parents honestly thought i WAS going to school. It was just an issue of finding the letters from school before they did.
Now parents will find out by not being able to pay for groceries at the store etc, pretty harsh!

It gets worse. Now Mt Druitt schools and teachers will compete for funding with those in Rose Bay- and it’s hardly a level playing field.

“Six communities in the Northern Territory and one in the Perth suburb of Cannington will be used to trial the program before it is rolled out nationally.”

So the deal is to run trials of this absurd policy in aboriginal communities first. Racist, poverty bashing and Laborlike, most sadly.

What about it is particularly Labor-like, joe? The policy per se seems like it came out of a conservative’s wet dreams.

Question remains: What about the parents who have jobs and have truant children. Or is it about the morality of the unemployed? Rich people are good parents. Poor people are bad parents. Back to the old English class system where the disadvantaged always were linked to poor morals who brought the appalling conditions they lived in on themselves.

Weez, was just thinking, historically, racism has had bi-partisan support in Australia at various stages.

It would have been nice to have seen a few more Labor members shaking the cage on this one. I rang my local Labor members office. Just hope others did as well.

joe2 wrote:

Weez, was just thinking, historically, racism has had bi-partisan support in Australia at various stages.

So why did you say:

Racist, poverty bashing and Laborlike, most sadly.

leomarie said:

Or is it about the morality of the unemployed?

Isn’t it always? Downward envy is the domain of the willfully ignorant.

See your above lead in Weez….
“One MP described the policy as un-Laborlike.”

Not true, this creepy stuff has been going on from most sides for ages.

OK, you’ve clarified, but I was just was wondering why you thought the policy was indeed Labor-like. I’d have thought it quite un-labor-like, myself.

Doctor Weez,
My thinking is that everythink went berko when they lost the “u” in labor.

It may be unlike what most people would believe labor is about, but it’s very much in tune with the recent history of the labor party.