The AustralianAS Kevin Rudd and other Labor MPs seek a boost to the Newstart Allowance, the government appears caught between its desire to lift unemployment benefits and the fiscal realities. It's thought poverty in this country is a need that is well understood but cannot be met in the budget. But... ... (18-Jan)
Australian Financial ReviewThe Prime Minister’s Asian Century White Paper aims for our school system to be in the world’s top five by 2025, but expectations in our curriculum do not support this goal. To reach the top, we should follow the example set by the United Kingdom and deliberately ben... ... (10-Dec)
Australian Financial Review,
Our higher education sector is set for a massive transformation whether we like it or not. Just as the newspaper and retailing industries are facing disruptions due to the internet, so will the education sector. It will be challenging to existing institutions but ... ... (12-Nov)
PUBLISHED ON THE ABC, September 6, 2012.
Julia Gillard has promised that no school will be worse off under proposed education reforms.
But Liberal MP Alan Tudge says that any change to the school funding model will result in winners and losers.
The Prime Minister's response to the Gons... ... (06-Sep)
From the Victorian Liberal Magazine
The biggest threat to our country today comes from what the Gillard Government isn’t doing, writes Alan Tudge – presiding over the ‘terminal decline’ of our defence forces.
Perhaps the finest hour of Australia’s defence forces was their defence of this contine... ... (01-Sep)
PUBLISHED IN 'THE PARTY ROOM' VOL 9, Winter 2012: Despite gaining support in influential circles as a mechanism for capturing today's wealth for future generations, a sovereign wealth fund should be firmly rejected.That such a fund involves government purchasing billions of company shares should, in... ... (19-Jul)
PUBLISHED ON THE DRUM June 15, 2012 (Co-authored with Josh Frydenberg MP, Federal Member for Kooyong) The Prime Minister's emergency forum on childcare affordability last week was a last-minute attempt to get the politics, not the policy, right.
Julia Gillard may be concerned about the 11 per cent ... ... (15-Jun)
Published on the ABC, September 6, 2012: Julia Gillard has promised that no school will be worse off under proposed education reforms.
But Liberal MP Alan Tudge says that any change to the school funding model will result in winners and losers.
The Prime Minister's response to the Gonski r... ... (10-Jun)
PUBLISHED IN THE AUSTRALIAN MAY 26, 2012 When we discuss the merits of Noel Pearson's work in Cape York, as Tony Koch, Chris Sarra and Marcia Langton have done in recent weeks, there is one thing we must not forget: the great innovations in indigenous policy that would not exist if it hadn't be... ... (26-May)
PUBLISHED ON THE DRUM May 7, 2012 The introduction of minimum standards for teacher education courses is urgent.
Entrance scores have collapsed as revealed by a government report on university offers released last week: 6.5 per cent of offers were made to students with an Australian Tertiary A... ... (07-May)