Australian PM blasts Obama...

Jeanie

Scubascott wrote:

Because having that host of clubs and services available makes university life far more interesting and fun. University education should be a life experience, not just a means of getting a piece of paper that you can hang on your wall.

Anyway, whether or not you agree with that sentiment is beside the point. Howard doesn't give a shit about student's right to choose. If he did he would have let us choose by voting on whether or not VSU should be introduced. I'm sure that his real motive was to cripple the student unions (mission accomplished) so that there would less resistance when he slashed tertiary education funding.

Exactly!

Jeanie

Hinny wrote:

As someone who works with a fair few people with severely crippling injuries from motor vehicle accidents, I cannot express how much I support the idea of compulsory third party insurance.

Hinny, I don't argue that people who sustain crippling injuries from motor vehicle accidents should absolutely be provided with whatever care and services they require. But I'm not sure that I agree that compulsory third party insurance is the way to go. NOT that I would ever not pay it or advocate that it be abolished. All I'm saying is that VICROADS makes an offensive amount of money through fines, the government makes obscene amounts of money through petrol taxes and other road taxes. This money is not then returned to road users. TAC being a prime example of where this revenue should be going. And not that I would want anyone to suffer unecissarily but I do have to wonder about compensation. And the amounts of money paid to people who are injured on the road. Those are just my concerns.