Tim Blair

Hi Tim, thank you for the link.

War on Education by teacher’s union will kill tens of thousands of innocent Australian children and their families. Many more Australians will suffer disease, hunger and homelessness. It has already begun.

I know that I'm preaching to the converted, but doesn't John Howard rock?

Cool! A segue from

"For those about Iraq"

to

"For those about to rock".

they were pretty close with their guesstimate, though, weren't they? but since you're asking for retractions for overstatements, why aren't you insisting on ones from Mr Children Overboard, Mr WMD, Mr 45 Minutes, etc etc etc?

and gee I'm being nice, aren't I, calling "children overboard" an "overstatement". let me just print a retraction here right now - i didn't mean "overstatement", i meant "lie".

ps yeah gaz, John Howard rocks - he rocks leaky boats.

"Pretty close?" I'd sure hate to be the one that has to balance your checkbook, Gianna.

The teachers' unions proclaim the benefits of public education whilst sponsoring overtly left-wing political campaigns on all sorts of trendy social and foreign policy issues - and they wonder why ordinary middle class Australians are working second jobs to pay for their children to to to private schools.

Yet as always, the more they lose the hearts and minds of middle Australian families, the more militant they become.

They speak as if they are the friends of public education - yet when the history of this issue is written, it will be the militant left-wing ideologues in the unions who will be remembered for killing-off the great Australian tradition of public education.

Another sad instance of the gap between what the unions SAY they are doing and what they are ACTUALLY doing.

Ordinary Australians are too intelligent to fall for their crap - they are simply voting with their feet.

Come on the "voucher system" for some accountability in public education !

E

let's see...we didn't kill tens of thousands of children and their families, there is only the usual amount of disease in such a land where they don't have hospitals as well-equipped as ours, we didn't raze the cities so a majority of those who had homes still have homes, and if the children are hungry i'm sure a few g.i.'s will throw them some candy like they've been doing.

Psssh. Warmongering hatemonkeys! Don't you see that eternal containment and weekly bombing plus the continued reign of Saddamn Hussein would have killed LOADS more innocent children and their families? And that's why war is the wrong and inefficient way to kill people! Diplomacy now!!!!!!!!!

Gianna why do people like you keep on going on about children overboard. You just cant accept that the issue will never get any traction.

Did the illegal entrants in the past not throw their children overboard. In the photo in question were they not threatening to throw the child overboard. Is it not the case that boats were deliberatly scuttled, hulls holed and engines sabotaged, the net result of which, children end up overboard.

Anyone who wants to negotiate by holding a gun to our head should never be rewarded with what ever they want.

There'll be no children living in poverty by 1990...