Well the Killara High School 39th Presentation day was on Monday this week. It was a ceremony lasting several hours, with much talking and a year 7 choir that was ok but could have done better ( i so reckon that the actual school choir could have out sung them and they were 8 times the size of us). anyway this is not what i wanted to talk about. One of the special guests, who's role was to stand up in their academic robes and hand out awards, was Dr Brendan Nelson himself. Former Federal Education minister and then Former Federal Defence Minister and now the Current Opposition Leader, but I don't think he'll survive there, he's to outrageous for the Australian Liberal Party. Anyway, the esteemed Dr Nelson was responsible, during his time as Education Minister, for the change of the HECS scheme (which is government help for tertiary study) in which the old system prices were (mostly) raised. This legislation directly affected the graduating class of 07 (high school graduates) because our year was the first to be placed onto the entirely new system. So WE end up paying more for our tertiary studies, which could leave us thousands of dollars extra in debt than our predecessors.
So here Dr Nelson was, at the Killara High Presentation Day. He strolled in with the official party and was saying "hello" to all the students he passed as if they loved him (don't worry he didn't get any responses) and was charged with giving awards to US, THE YEAR 12's that he F*@%*ED over with his new legislation.
He was all smiles and congratulations! while everyone in the hall was like
"what the hell are you doing here..."
sigh
oh well that's my rant for now
-Charles
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