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By Tom Greenwell, published 4/2/2011A fair and intelligent funding system should not reward good luck in the lottery of life but seek to mitigate against bad luck.
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You initially said, based on no evidence whatsoever, that I was opposed to private schools and to funding them. Now that I have supplied specific evidence showing that this is not the case, you say you do not know what my position is. I’ll sum it up this way: You have state aid to private schools because of the efforts of people like me who argued that you should get it. That really should be clear enough.
The only reason I mentioned the DLP was to indicate that obviously I was a supporter of the funding of private schools. In response you have chosen to extend the topics to critical comments regarding that party. I am not seeking to divert this thread even further, but I feel a duty to respond. The DLP was a moderate social democratic party that pioneered opposition to the White Australia Policy, that pioneered votes for 18-year olds, that supported land rights for Aborigines, that pioneered environmental concern, that spoke up for moderate trade unions, that opposed capital punishment, that worked for prison reform. I have made lots of comment on the DLP and you can find links to many of them on the thread:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/06/25/galaxy-52-48-to-labor/comment-page-14/#comments
I’ll leave it at that, except to point out that had parents of children at private schools voted for the DLP 40 years ago, they would have a lot more government assistance now. They chose not.
For you to accuse me of bringing in irrelevancies is hilarious. You are the one that decided to invent a set of beliefs on private schools to ascribe to me. You are the one that decided to go off on a tangent about the DLP, when my reason for mentioning it was completely clear. You are the one who claims not to know my position after I have explained it more than once.
Riddler,
Be as abusive, as nasty, as belittling and as insulting as you like. I won’t be taking instructions from you.