Issue No 40 | 19 November 1999 | |
Deface a Face25,000 Teachers Can’t Be Wrong!
Angry teachers yesterday voted overwhelmingly for Education minister John Aquilina to take the mantle of this week's face to deface.
Thousands of teachers boo-ed the alleged Labor Minister, as he continued to back in bureaucrats appointed by the Greiner Government as they lock horns with the teachers elected representatives. In a first for the Carr Government, Aquilina allowed his bureaucrats to bypass the union to offer a bodgy pay deal direct to teachers - bogging down the Internet and clogging up their mail boxes. His slimy attempts to assume the high moral ground by denigrating the teachers and the public education system will do damage to the profession way beyond the current dispute. And his liberal use of the truth of the content of the pay claim, would surely get him an 'F' for honesty. Worse, he has appeared to co-ordinate his campaign with that friend of the workers the Daily Telegraph - obviously forgetting the age-old truism: if you lie down with dogs, you're sure to get fleas. He's used the Net for his purposes, now it's your turn. See if you can't transform him into the caring, sharing friend of education that we all know lies deep within him.
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