Despite having a three-month head start on Obama in the general election campaign, McCain’s candidacy has been hampered by a collection of policy contradictions, poor communications and minor but embarrassing gaffes.
“There is real concern that McCain hasn’t found his genuine voice,” says Mark Rozell, a political scientist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
- ‘Genuine voice’ eludes McCain, The Edmonton Journal, July 12, 2008.
3. Imagine a race where the runners with the highest level of material, technical, physical, social and emotional advantages were given a huge head start, while those who were struggling with basic survival were placed way behind the starting gate. Welcome to the Australian education system – and COAG’s one serious chance to redress the inequities.
The mountains of evidence amassed by the Gonski review amply demonstrate that gross social and material inequity is a fault line along which Australian education systems have increasingly fractured. On the one side are schools which educate disadvantaged students and have low levels of resourcing, mainly government schools, but also a small number of Catholic and independent schools. On the other, there are super-resourced schools which regularly spend twice as much per student, in addition to benefitting from historically accumulated infrastructure and privilege.
In the face of this evidence, there is both a social and a moral obligation to redress these inequities. The government has undermined its own worthy intentions by promising no school will lose a dollar. Is there not room to consider that the most privileged and endowed schools in the country could do with less?
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