abbott awakens

According to the report below from Michelle Grattan; Tony Abbott has discovered the worth of promoting study in Australia by students from Asia.

That's great! Abbott is beginning to tune in!

That would endorse what schools & universities have been doing in earnest for over a decade now - making education our third biggest export earner already. Perhaps he's planning to compensate for the wipeout of the mining sector he reckons the Carbon Tax will cause; fair dinkum, where has he been all this time?

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/coalition-wants-new-colombo-plan-20120629-218ab.html

But hey, there's more, from Mia Thomson's report [below] it appears Abbott's also figured out that the NBN is OK after all - apparently he's not going to stop it despite all that ranting & raving. Just ask Mal Turnbull!

Now hold on a minute, wasn't that the main means by which Abbott's $70b black hole was going to be funded? Hmmmm!

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/we-will-not-cancel-the-nbn-turnbull-20120629-217f3.html