Your bias just oozes out. I thought it must have been a blinding light on the road to Canberra that got some commonsense into your writing. However, back to normal. Saw the telecast of the press conference yesterday and was impressed with his performance, for the first time in ages. There was actually an element of vision in his on-line university proposal.
Labor needs to go out on a limb and come up with more visionary, innovative policy ideas.
Howard's destruction of Australian universities leaves Labor a perfect opportunity to come up with some positive remedial policies. I've seen many friends give up their childhood dreams of working as academics in areas they are passionate about and brilliant students because Howard has killed the universities. I've also seen bright people unable to study because they can't afford the HECS debt or can't do the post-grad course they want to do because it doesn't have a HECS option. I went to premiere screening of Cunnamulla. A full house.