November 6, 2007
There has been very little public comment about the Coalition's policy of two of the thirty new technical colleges being designated special Australian Defence Technical Colleges. Details can be found in the Technical Colleges Policy paper.
I am concerned about this further Americanisation of Australia. We have seen in TV progams about high schools in the USA which are in effect run by branches of the military. Indoctrination of young people into a military culture is a further move towards a military oriented society. Perhaps if there were a deliberate move to make sure equal attention were given to international problem solving by diplomatic means and social development we might end up with a more balanced society.
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So, a new "Hitlerjugend" , with lots of isolation from reality and inculcation of beer-drinking songs and the like?
I thought that was what the army and footy clubs were for.
I'd laugh 'cept for the recent and current political climate, which actually makes any thing seem eventually possible.
On a related subject, it was good to see Rudd dishing out a bit of typically mild ridicule towards Howard's TAFE quivalent as ridiculous duplication with an already well set up system( TAFE)already established. I love these quizzical little looks Rudd gets, when he looks into the distance, when he is trying to suggest an irony or discrepancy in something he has been considering. Underplaying is a art very few politicians have the knack of doing well. Dunstan and Whitlam were two who were gifted as to this form.
Gary, what is Howard's actual problem with TAFE?
Hardly a hot bed of leftism one would have thought, and what other reason could he have for trying to trash it?
But then I suppose you ask the same about aboriginal welfare-the hurt done to people; bystanders, is never nearer than hindmost in what passes for thinking with these sorts of people.