A lesson for all of us
November 27th 2006 06:40
Just when you think the politics in NSW couldn't take another beating, it happens again. Can you imagine that a politician is asked why we celebrate Australia Day and she says it's when the Australian states came together under federation. Maybe my memory is slipping because I'd swear that wasn't what I was taught in high school. Maybe it's a bit of revisionist history that all politicians sometimes tend to pull on the those who don't know any better. It's that or she's making it up as she goes along. It might not be so bad if it weren't the Minister of Education because you would expect the person holding this portfolio to at least have general knowledge of Australian history. There is the saying that the fish stinks from the head and in this case it seems quite approriate to use.
It didn't happen to her alone mind you. The Premier and the opposition spokesman both failed their pop quiz as well. They were both asked the same question (The first Premier of NSW), both had different answers and both were wrong. I'd have thought the Premier was a little closer to being right (he said Parkes) than the opposition spokesman was (Sir Edmund Barton who just happened to be the first Australian PM). How could he get it so wrong? I'm sorry if you don't know the answer, you just don't know so don't guess because it only makes you look even worse. Doesn't just make you swell with pride that these people who are paid so much to look after our childrens futures know even less than the students who graduate?
It didn't happen to her alone mind you. The Premier and the opposition spokesman both failed their pop quiz as well. They were both asked the same question (The first Premier of NSW), both had different answers and both were wrong. I'd have thought the Premier was a little closer to being right (he said Parkes) than the opposition spokesman was (Sir Edmund Barton who just happened to be the first Australian PM). How could he get it so wrong? I'm sorry if you don't know the answer, you just don't know so don't guess because it only makes you look even worse. Doesn't just make you swell with pride that these people who are paid so much to look after our childrens futures know even less than the students who graduate?
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