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ttbn,

Thank You for putting me "on a par" with Belly.

That's lovely.

Imagine if you would have put me on a par with
yourself? :-(

OK, Philip S,

You seem to be under the impression that I always go back to a thread after I have posted. Sorry. I do not. I almost never go back to the contributions at the main area. The authors rarely respond to posts - probably, most of them don't even read our comments. It is different from the Forum.

Had I for some reason gone back to the article where you claim to have posted: “ ttbn - You are going to be very popular now with this statement Quote "All universities and other publicly owned educational institutions should be sold off”, please advise me how I could have responded to that - a plain statement by you.

Then there is this from you: “Firstly most Primary and secondary schools are publicly owned, I will forgive your ignorance there. What do you recommend we do with all the children?”

Yes, Philip, I know that and they should be sold off too. I did say universities and OTHER publicly owned institutions, did I not?

What would I recommend be done with the children? Well, the same thing that would happen to the university students: they would be taken over by the private educators, in the same way that privately owned colleges do now. This would take some time for people to realise that everything has a price. But, the universities should be the immediate subject of change.

If you share the crude view that education is an industry, well, most industries are privately owned, and they also bring billions into the country.

As to your last sentence, anyone turning out students unprepared for the workforce and society are overpaid. No matter how much they are paid.

For future reference, please be aware that there are only a handful of posters here whose views and opinions I respect. I generally read them and scan the rest. Feel free to say whatever you like about my views, but don't think that I am gagging to read what you think, or that I will respond to your demands for a response to you.

Dear Houellebecq,

Definitely cringeworthy but I'm not sure it was a sackable offence. What I thought was sackable was her not kicking up against the chair's demands that certain staff be sacked. But I have since learned Guthrie took the email to other members of the board yet was not supported so I will give her a pass. There may well have been grounds to remove her on performance but the whole saga is so deeply tainted by thoroughly inappropriate behaviour from the chairman that it will take a proper inquiry to sort it out.

The whole board need to be replaced with people who take the charter on not permitting political interference to dictate policy or personnel seriously.

SteeleRedux says.

*...The whole board need to be replaced with people who take the charter on not permitting political interference to dictate policy or personnel seriously...*

Dumb idea. The coalition is already outgunned on the issue of an enquiry.

Let's imagine for a minute though, Labor have their way with an enquiry. The enquiry will no doubt identify political interference; so then, we the public will respond with lack of surprise, and that will be followed by a Labor stacked board when next elected.

The ABC board is not on the same level of importance as a judicial appointment to the high court, but even on that level, political appointments become obvious. An enquiry is a waste of money and time. It should be assumed the ABC board is stacked; always.

But even so, the output at the factory end is lopsided and still stinks of ideological bias to the left. Reason for that is, I suspect, due to the pool of talent being drawn from the arts primarily. That is another debate.

ttbn reply I doubt your words a little especially regards to primary and secondary schools, but so be it.

I find the sacking of any women as unsurprising.
As this is an opinion forum, I have made my opinions on women in the workplace, especially high level managerial positions, very clear in the past.
This opinion was formed over many years of observations into women getting top level jobs such as the ABC.
Time and again we see this quota mantra rearing it's ugly head.
'We need more women in top jobs'.
NO WE DON'T!
We need the RIGHT person for the job, in every case.
I don't care what qualifications, where they studied or where they came in their class.
I want to see, in the case of a leader, well, A LEADER.
As much as neuters and feminists want to project women as equals and up to the task, (in place of men) they are not.
There will always be those of us espousing common sense and reason, but if it does not suite those who believe otherwise, then so be it.
Call me anything you want but, there is no way a woman projects the same confidence and discipline to inspire and imbue their charges as men do.
I cannot put my finger on why, but she is just another woman I don't like.
I'm sure many people, from time to time, have suffered the same dilemma.
I know many of you get that same feeling about me.
Fair enough.
But seriously, notwithstanding all the worthy submissions and reasoning given on this topic, I just don't like her.
Oddly enough, Alber; is another one of many in the same boat.
If she also left, it would not make any difference to anything, especially to the ABC.
Nothing would change, for the worst, if another woman got the flick, apart from the ABC not wasting nearly a million dollars a year for nothing.