Showing posts with label #MorrisonGovernmentFAIL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #MorrisonGovernmentFAIL. Show all posts
Tuesday 25 September 2018
Let's talk about education funding under a hard-right Morrison Coalition Government
If one attempts to assess access and equity in education across Australian society there is a measurement tool available which gives some indication.
The Index
of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) is a scale that
represents levels of educational advantage based on the relationship between
the educational advantage a student has, as measured by the parents’ occupation
and level of education completed, and their educational achievement.
This measurement as applied to a school is broken down into five factors:
1. Parents’
Occupation
2. Parents’
Education
3. Geographical
Location
4. Percentage
of Aboriginal students
5. Percentage
of disadvantaged LBOTE students.
Therefore
if the majority of a school's population come from families where one or both
parents had a tertiary-level education and the employed parent/s has a profession,
or is self-employed or in a management position and these families live in suburbs where the median household income is above the average for the region and, there are fewer
indigenous and/or disadvantaged students in the school population – then the community socio-educational advantage score will be higher for that school.
According
to http://www.schoolcatchment.com.au
the Top 20 Australian Primary Schools for
2016 were:
PRIMARY SCHOOLS (combined ICSEA score as a percentage of all
Number One schools)
Sydney Grammar School – 100%
Presbyterian Ladies' College – 99.69%
St Aloysius' College – 97.57%
Abbotsleigh – 95.26%
Yarwun State School* – 95.20%
St Andrews Christian College – 94.39%
Northcross Christian School – 94.20%
Huntingtower School – 94.14%
Haileybury College – 93.98%
Meriden School – 93.86%
Matthew Pearce Public School* – 93.81%
John Colet School – 93.79%
Arkana College – 93.61%
Burwood East Primary School* – 93.33%
Artarmon Public School* – 93.28%
Camberwell Girls Grammar School – 93.09%
Woollahra Public School* – 92.96%
Fintona Girls' School – 92.92%
Hornsby North Public School* – 92.68%
Serpell Primary School* – 92.68%.
Only 7
government schools across the country are in the Top 20 Primary Schools.
While 47 of the Top 100 Primary Schools are government schools.
Conversely the
Top 20 Australian Secondary Schools
for 2016 are dominated by government selective schools.
However, 73
of the Top 100 Secondary Schools
are non-government schools.
When it comes
to the total Australian
primary & secondary school student population, Independent schools
enrol 5% of children from below the ICSEA benchmark average, Catholic schools enrol
11% of children below the benchmark average and Government schools which enrol
est. 65% of all children also enrol 52% of children below the benchmark average.
Yet under a Morrison
Coalition Government $4.5 billion in additional funding is to be given to private schools – most of
which do not appear to require this additional funding to produce high
education outcomes.
Apparently Prime Minister & Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison and his hard-right cronies consider only families from the likes of Vaucluse, Point Piper, Toorak, Bulimba, Cottesloe, Mosman Park, Forrest, Red Hill, Rose Park and Sandy Bay are the type of people who "have a go" and therefore deserve to get "a fair go".
Saturday 22 September 2018
Tuesday 18 September 2018
When a prime minster fails to grasp the basics of climate change policy.....
The
Australian Prime Minister for Fossil Fuels and Liberal MP for Cook, Scott Morrison, has been repeatedly insisting
since he came to office on 24 August 2018 that Australia is on target to meet
its Paris Agreement greenhouse gas emissions targets.
Apparently he
is telling journalists that “the
business-as-usual model gets us there in a canter”.
Business-as-usual of course includes those cuts to climate change mitigation programs Morrison made as federal treasurer - including no further funding for the Abbott Government's Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) which has so far failed to purchase enough abatement to outpace Australia's emissions growth.
Those agencies outside of Morrison's ‘magic circle’ are quite frankly contradicting his prediction of success.......
The COAG
Energy Security Council’s Energy Security
Board expects that Morrison’s refusal to revive National Energy Guarantee
legislation will see the electricity sector “fall short of the emissions
reduction target of 26% below 2005 levels”.
According to
Dept. of Environment and Energy total
annual emissions for the year to December 2013 fell by 0.8%.
No report was issued for the year ending December 2014, however annual
emissions rose by 0.4% for the year ending December 2015 and annual
emissions for the year to December 2016 rose by 1.4%.
While the Dept.
of Environment and Energy's, Quarterly
Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: December 2017 stated:
Annual emissions for the
year to December 2017 are estimated to be 533.7 Mt CO2 -e. This represents a 1.5% increase
in emissions when compared with the previous year. Over the year to
December 2017, there were increases in emissions from the stationary energy
(excluding electricity), transport, fugitive emissions, industrial processes
and product use, waste and agriculture sectors. These increases were partially
offset by a decline in emissions from the electricity sector. The annual
increases in stationary energy (excluding electricity) and fugitive emissions
were largely driven by an increase in LNG exports. [my
yellow highlighting]
The
independent Climate
Works Australia reported on 6 September 2018:
Australia is not yet on
track to meet its emissions reduction targets under the Paris Agreement but
there are many opportunities to still get there, according to new research
released today.
The ClimateWorks
Australia report, Tracking Progress to net zero emissions, found Australia
needed to double its emissions reduction progress to achieve the federal
government’s target of 26-28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and triple
progress to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
The report found
Australia’s emissions were 11 per cent below 2005 levels in 2017 but have been
steadily increasing since 2013. If Australia sustained the rate of improvement
in emissions intensity it had achieved between 2005 and 2013, it could meet the
government's 2030 target. But progress has stalled in most sectors and reversed
overall. [my yellow highlighting]
Climate Works’
latest report, Tracking
progress to net zero emissions: National progress on reducing emissions across
the Australian economy and outlook to 2030, was released in September
2018 and although cautiously optimistic it doesn’t suggest that a Morrison
Government would be able to just canter towards the commitments given in Paris:
This report uses
findings from the Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project (DDPP) and compares
these with the Australian Government's emissions data and projections to
examine whether Australia is on track for a net zero pathway and for its first
commitments under the Paris Agreement on climate change to reduce emissions by
26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. It assesses recent progress since
2005 and the outlook to 2030.
In common with 179 other
countries who ratified the Paris Agreement, Australia has committed to keeping
global warming well below 2 degrees, aiming to limit warming to 1.5 degrees and
to reach net zero emissions. For developed countries like Australia, a 2 degree
limit is generally accepted to mean reaching net zero emissions by 2050 – the
majority of states and territories have agreed to this goal. Limiting global
warming to well below 2 degrees or 1.5 degrees would require an earlier date.
Australia’s current
emissions reduction target is 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. This
is less ambitious than the Climate Change Authority’s recommended target range
of 45 to 65 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 for Australia’s contribution to
a 2 degree goal (CCA 2015). To make sure the world is on track, all countries
in the Paris Agreement have been asked to consider whether their current target
is ambitious enough.
We already know
Australia can reach net zero emissions by 2050. The Pathways to Deep
Decarbonisation in 2050 (DDPP) report (ClimateWorks et al 2014) identified the
emissions reductions potential to put Australia on a pathway to net zero in 2050
while the economy continues to grow…
In 2017 Australia’s
emissions were around 11 per cent below 2005 levels. This is an increase from
their lowest point in 2013. Overall progress was due to strong reductions in
the land sector, while emissions rose in most other sectors. Although there
were improvements at the whole of economy level and in some sectors,
improvements on average were not equivalent to the pathway to net zero
emissions by 2050.
Emissions are higher in
buildings, industry and transport than they were in 2005. Emissions are lower
in the land sector, with the reduction being larger than increases in other
sectors. Electricity emissions fell slightly…
There were times of
reasonable emissions intensity improvements in industry and buildings but, as
with the electricity sector, these improvements then slowed or reversed. This
occurred alongside the repeal of the carbon price and related policies. Energy
intensity improved in these sectors, suggesting better energy efficiency, but
not at the rate needed for net zero. And in industry, some of this improvement
was driven by declines in energy-intensive manufacturing….
Without further policies, Australia will not be on track
for the net zero pathway or the Government's 2030 target. ClimateWorks’ research previously
identified potential emissions reductions on the net zero pathway and this
report shows where this potential is not yet being unlocked. The national
process of developing Australia’s long term emissions reduction strategy
provides an opportunity to unlock this remaining potential and get on track to
achieving net zero emissions by 2050, as do similar processes in many state and
territory governments. [my yellow highlighting]
Thursday 13 September 2018
Australia has a prime minister who rejects realitiy and embraces idiocy
Scott Morrison with a coal specimen supplied by the Minerals Council of Australia ABC News, 9 February 2018 |
During an interview
with the ABC 7.30 program on 11
September 2018 Prime Minister & Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison declared he is “troubled” by the politics of envy in
Australia and has “a very strong view” on what fairness means.
His version
of “fairness” is a redefinition far removed from the contents of any dictionary
wherein it is usually taken to mean impartial and just treatment or behaviour
without favouritism or discrimination.
His expresses
his version of fairness as “those that have a go get a go” or “a fair go for
those that have a go”– phrases that are inherently judgemental.
It seems that in Morrison's world only individuals who are already capable of helping themselves in some fashion will deserve
assistance from others.
Morrison
again refused to say why the parliamentary Liberal Party changed leaders and in the interview sought to divorce himself from both the spill process and outcome, as though he
wasn’t a participant in those rolling leadership ballots.
But what
caught the attention of a numbers of viewers was his response to two questions.
The first response contained Morrison's assertion that he had separated climate/ environment and energy policies and admissions that he was removing climate change targets from future energy policy and was giving no guarantee of future funding for greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
The first response contained Morrison's assertion that he had separated climate/ environment and energy policies and admissions that he was removing climate change targets from future energy policy and was giving no guarantee of future funding for greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
The second involved his belief that there was a need for additional legal protections of religious freedoms when none were being threatened.......The moment @ScottMorrisonMP condemned my great grandchildren to death. @abc730 #auspoll #climatechange pic.twitter.com/eKlhfEY7jc— Fr Rod Bower (@FrBower) September 11, 2018
For Scott Morrison the primary fear of a majority of the Australian population is less important that demonstrating his missionary zeal to institutional Christianity and his unwavering support to the fossil fuel industry.Sales: "Can you give me an example at the moment where people's religious freedoms are being impinged?"— Greg Jericho (@GrogsGamut) September 11, 2018
Morrison: "That's not the point. Australians want to be sure that in the future those things won't be"
oh dear #abc730
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories & Liberal MP for Farrer Sussan Ley shows her true colours
"This is an industry with an operating model built on animal suffering" [Sussan Ley, 21 May 2018]
Recently
welcomed back into the Coalition ministerial fold after being forced to resign
as health minister due to her expense scandal, Assistant Minister for
Regional Development and Territories & Liberal MP for Farrer
Susan Ley, placed her lack of moral
compass on full display this week when she abandoned her commitment to limit the
cruel trade in live sheep.
Compare her present actions with her description three months earlier of the live sheep trade which she then condemned in no uncertain terms.
Compare her present actions with her description three months earlier of the live sheep trade which she then condemned in no uncertain terms.
The
Sydney Morning Herald,
10 September 2018:
They threatened to cross
the floor to stop the trade they felt was so heinous. But when it came to a
vote on Monday, Liberal MPs Sussan Ley and Sarah Henderson staged a change of
heart and used their deciding votes to prevent a debate on a ban on the live
animal export trade.
As backbenchers the pair
led a government backlash against the live export trade after horrific footage
showing the deaths of thousands of sheep en route to the Middle East last year
emerged. They even proposed their own bill to stop the trade.
That was within grasp on
Monday, when a private member's bill sponsored by the Greens and crossbenchers
to stop the trade passed the Senate 31 votes to 28.
Just two votes were
required to approve it in the House of Representatives but Ms Ley and Ms
Henderson, who were recently elevated to the outer ministry in Scott Morrison's
reshuffle, voted against moves to bring it on for debate.
To cross the floor, they
would have needed to quit their ministerial positions.
The pair then also
rejected Labor attempts to bring on a debate in the House on their own bill.
Their two votes made the difference with the bill going down 70-72.
Labor's agriculture
spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon said the pair had put their political interests ahead
of animal welfare.
“Sussan Ley and Sarah
Henderson sponsored a bill to phase-out the live sheep export trade and made
passionate speeches in support of their proposal," Mr Fitzgibbon said.
"But today they put
their own political careers ahead of their policy convictions.
"Given the 72-70
result, their votes were the difference."
Both bills now disappear into history and the issue of cruelty to exported livestock remains unresolved.
Monday 3 September 2018
Are you listening Prime Minister Morrison? This message is for you as well
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