MEDIA RELEASE
HIGHER EDUCATION - WHERE IS LABOR’S ALTERNATIVE?
27 May, 2003 MIN 360/02
Labor’s Education Spokesperson, Jenny Macklin, has told The
Advertiser newspaper;
"Labor would release
its alternative higher education package in coming weeks."
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The
Advertiser, May 21, 2003 |
This is a welcome announcement.
So far Labor has made promises in the Higher Education area
totalling more than $1.2 billion but has given no indication of how
it will pay for them.
In addition Simon Crean has raised expectations that a future
Labor government would seek to return to the Whitlam days of free
eduction for the wealthy, paid for by the taxes of those who never
set foot inside our higher education institutions.
"Opening up our
universities to all Australians – like the Whitlam and Hawke
Governments did – is a big bold reform. And I will do it again."
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Simon
Crean, Budget reply speech, May 15, 2003 |
Kenneth Davidson says Labor’s original Knowledge Nation was a
‘sham’;
"Beazley ensured his
2001 election policy centrepiece - the Knowledge Nation - was a
sham. There was no money to finance the ambitious programme in the
first three years of a Beazley Government…"
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Kenneth
Davidson, The Age, April 28, 2003 |
Labor has said it will use its numbers in the Senate to block the
Government’s Higher Education reform package - which includes $1.5
billion in new funding for the sector over four years.
Obstructionism is no substitute for policy.
Media contact:
Dr Nelson’s Office: Ross Hampton 0419 484 095
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