Vicki Dunne email interview

you cant get an action bus because terry snow and the act gummint have been butting heads for years. anything that makes it easier for peopel to get to the airport the gummint will block.

bonfire, there IS a service, no denying that. But its EXPENSIVE. Even if you work at brindabella, you still pay soemthing lik 3.50 a trip.
Why shouldn’t i be able to get out here on an Action bus in civic(going down consitution av, through russell then straight down morsehead drive, not goin through anywhere stupid like fyshwick.

Bonfire, you had a whole week to see what questions other people wanted asked and, if you thought it appropriate, to compose your own question on public transport for consideration with all the others. You didn’t ask about public transport, so it wasn’t included.

5 is easy – there already is a bus to the airport. snow has a contract with deanes to run a mon-fri business hours service.

should there not perhaps be a question on public transport in general. your questions skirt it – parking in civic, buses to airport etc.

On a side related issue, did anybody else receive a missal from Vicki Dunne last night ?

I was most amused at the topic; What I thought about the Ginninderra High School closure and the consultation process, and the effect of the closure on my family.

Too little, too late, sprang to mind. Well that alongside ineffectual crap in my letterbox…

Very dissappointed that “shit from clay” didn’t get a guernsey!

Here are the questions chosen:

1. Do you think you have irreparably damaged Richard Mulcahy’s leadership ambitions by alienating the one member of the Smyth faction who might have changed sides, Steve Pratt? Some may ask whether you are really a Smyth mole, sent into the Mulcahy to ensure he is unable to gain sufficient numbers to take the leadership?
2. How do you feel about the Federal Government overruling ACT decisions? While the entire country clearly has a legitimate interest in the decisions affecting the parliamentary triangle area, should residents of, say, Sydney have any more influence on planning decisions in Gungahlin or Tuggeranong than we do on Parramatta?
3. If you were planning an ACT Liberal Party fund raiser and needed a community leader from Canberra to speak, who would you ask?
4. I would be interested to hear how you propose the ACT deal with the unacceptably high level of teenage school drop outs as a result from the proposed ‘curriculum renewal’? What do you propose as an alternative?
5. What do you think about putting a bus line through to – I like this one – Canberra International Airport?
6. What are your thoughts on actually being able to park your car in Civic?
7. As a politician, how do you approach difficult issues/decisions such as the proposed Majura Valley Dragway, where both sides of the argument are very passionate and have valid points? How do you personally arrive at a position on this type of issue?
8. The big question is what have you got against Staffies?

Do you still feel that they should be a restricted/banned dog in the ACT and why? Going by dog attack stats you’d be far better restricting heelers or shepherds.
A Staffordshire bull terrier is a wonderful dog that is gentle and loving. You’d be better for having one Vicki.
9. Vicki, as ex-Education minister perhaps you could shed some light on why, both the ACT Department of Education and CEO have failed to “come to the party” re: Enterprise Bargaining Agreements which become redundant this year.

The CEO EBA is completed at the end of March and despite the CEO having an offer on the table for 5 months, they have done nothing.

The ACT Department of Education has also had an offer on the table.

Do you believe they are effectively “holding out” so that the new IR laws can come into effect and basically have teachers arrested if they choose to strike?
10. Vicki, you’re on the public record as saying Katy Gallagher, courtesy of being born in the 1970s, is ‘imbued with all the pedagogical nonsense that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that thwarted educational reform in western schooling’. The new shadow education spokesperson, Zed Seselja, is also a child of the 70s and is therefore also likely to be imbued with similar ‘pedagogical nonsense’. Do you think he will be able to overcome such genetic inhibitions?

Vicki, you’re on the public record as saying Katy Gallagher, courtesy of being born in the 1970s, is ‘imbued with all the pedagogical nonsense that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that thwarted educational reform in western schooling’. The new shadow education spokesperson, Zed Seselja, is also a child of the 70s and is therefore also likely to be imbued with similar ‘pedagogical nonsense’. Do you think he will be able to overcome such genetic inhibitions?

Do you think you have irreparably damaged Richard Mulcahy’s leadership ambitions by alienating the one member of the Smyth faction who might have changed sides, Steve Pratt? Some may ask whether you are really a Smyth mole, sent into the Mulcahy to ensure he is unable to gain sufficient numbers to take the leadership?

Vicki, as ex-Education minister perhaps you could shed some light on why, both the ACT Department of Education and CEO have failed to “come to the party” re: EBAs which become redundant this year.

The CEO EBA is completed at the end of March and despite the CEO having an offer on the table for 5 months, they have done nothing.

The ACT Department of Education has also had an offer on the table.

Do you believe they are effectively “holding out” so that the new IR laws can come into effect and basically have teachers arrested if they choose to strike?

Thanks.