The laptop for every student will be very interesting, particularly now that Julia Gillard has announced after the election that the whole deal with be on a ‘rebate’ basis. This means that the schools or parents will have to put up the money and buy the things, then wait on the Government and red-taped bureaucrats to be recompensed.

Then there is the unmentioned matter of who will supply, and pay for, the necessary IT back-up staff. Anyone familiar with schools and computers will tell you that this is already a massive problem in the existing situation with computers used by staff and students

Interesting. But really, aren't the Democrats irrelevant in the current Australian political landscape

Until the June next year there'll still be Democrats in the Senate. They have as much right to speak & influence policy there as anyone else.

Despite their annihilation at the ballot box, that doesn't mean their point of view should be ignored. Their championing of human rights, transparency in government, justice in our judicial system etc - these shouldn't be considered irrelevant despite their lack of political power.

Personally I hope that someone else takes up these issues and runs with them in the Parliament, and that the Dems get their act together and become electable once more.

Promise everything - do nothing!

More liars in the lair!

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/wa/content/2006/s2118261.htm

Perhaps Lynn could donate her taxpayer-funded lifetime pension to help poor countries deal with climate change. I mean, she doesn't really need it. You are going to get a real job now aren't you Lynn?

God forbid we have to put up with the likes of Lynn and Andrew Bartlett sitting in their pyjamas in front of the computer, spraying over the online opinion pages for the next 20 years, funded by the dole for purged pollies.

So...how are those sour grapes tasting?