Craig Kelly
intellectual, academic, visionary, statesman
oh, wait. THAT Craig Kelly
boofhead, prize pillock, dopey, goof
Craig mentions Albo - wow, it's all Albo's fault eh? - not like education has been smashed since the Howard era - and oh boy, didn't Howard's disciples do a good job on it - come on down Tone - Tone, the Catholic man ----------- ripped education like tearing up a bit of A4 paper with some kind of nude pic on it that Tone found on his door - pinned there by some of his goofy weird Liberal staffers - the one's that do all those kinky things - when Tone employed them - he kinda missed that the were 'bent'
The Tony Abbott-led Coalition government made significant cuts to education funding in Australia during its term from 2013 to 2015.
## Higher Education Cuts
- The 2014-15 Budget introduced a 20% average cut to the Commonwealth Grant Scheme (CGS) funding for universities, which provided direct government grants.[1]
- The budget also proposed deregulating university fees, allowing them to charge higher fees to make up for the CGS funding cuts. This would have driven up costs for students.[1]
- There were reductions in assistance for disadvantaged university students and increases to indexation rates for student HELP loans, making repayments more expensive.[1]
## School Funding Cuts
- While the government maintained the first 4 years of the previous Labor government's Gonski school funding model, from 2018 onwards school funding would only be indexed to inflation (CPI) rather than appropriate funding levels.[1]
- This was projected to result in a $30 billion cut to school funding over 10 years compared to the original Gonski model.[1][2]
- The government's own figures showed around $6 billion less funding for schools in 2024-25 due to the changed indexation arrangements.[1]
- State premiers accused the federal government of cutting $80 billion from projected hospital and school grants over the long-term, forcing states to raise taxes or increase the GST to cover the shortfall.[3]
So in summary, while maintaining some earlier funding commitments, the Abbott government made substantial cuts to projected future funding for universities and schools over the medium to long-term through budget measures and changed indexation arrangements.[1][2][3]
Citations:
[1] https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar.../budgetcuts_ctte/First_Interim_Report/c04.pdf
[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-02/kate-ellis-using-rubbery-school-funding-figures/5543330
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-fury-of-premiers-over-cuts-to-states-funding
[4] disallowed/politics/federal/tony-abbotts-school-reform-paper-proposes-cutting-federal-funding-20150621-ghtkkz.html
[5] http://gupsa.org.au/tony-abbott-must-explain-where-student-money-will-go-says-capa/
So, Einstein Kelly needs to look a bit further back than 'it's all Albo's fault'
