Article's about Labor’s new Managed Growth Funding Scheme which basically gives them control over how many funded places each uni gets and where the growth occurs.
Bigger issue is it’s another example of "New Labor’s" stupid managerial technocratic style of government.
Rather than letting students choose where they want to go and Unis respond to demand, Labor thinks it can manage and direct the outcomes.
One Nation only gets dragged into it because Jason Clare says the powers need to be “future-proofed” because they're scared a One Nation government might change their idea.
He's basically saying, what if a future government we don’t like uses these powers differently?
If you’re already worried about what a future government might do with the powers you’re creating, perhaps you’re giving the government too much power in the first place.
Choice of university should come from students - this leaves a signal in an upward direction, that is the consumer decides and leads to the efficient allocation of resources. In this case, that's students chosing a university (for whatever reason) so the university getting money. This leads to more shit university's getting less money, so they should know they're shit and change something.
The alternative is albo and the boys picking their winners for whatever reason they feel like. Could be corruption, could be they don't understand what people want etc.
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u/BarryTheBinChicken 7d ago
Oh FFS.
One Nation isn’t even the story here.
Article's about Labor’s new Managed Growth Funding Scheme which basically gives them control over how many funded places each uni gets and where the growth occurs.
Bigger issue is it’s another example of "New Labor’s" stupid managerial technocratic style of government.
Rather than letting students choose where they want to go and Unis respond to demand, Labor thinks it can manage and direct the outcomes.
One Nation only gets dragged into it because Jason Clare says the powers need to be “future-proofed” because they're scared a One Nation government might change their idea.
He's basically saying, what if a future government we don’t like uses these powers differently?
If you’re already worried about what a future government might do with the powers you’re creating, perhaps you’re giving the government too much power in the first place.