TAFE cuts could cause widespread job losses: minister

It’s about time all Government bean counters in this country pulled their fingers out and started doing their job at least to a semblance of properly. To have permitted the revealed outrageous, educational waste and flippant misallocation of resources, endeavour and intellect in allsorts of innocuous, useless training and bureaucratic, unsustainable, feel good ventures. Is atrocious governance and gross travesty of lost opportunity and accountability? Sadly while the productive Industries providing the taxes to fund such arrogant waste and irrelevance are desperately calling for many more skilled workers. Nonsense bureaucrats and unions are effectively ignoring them by diverting resources into petty non productive pansy waffle niches. In addition to the aromatherapy highlighted, I’m surprised they don’t have a supplementary advanced course on toilet therapy; after all they share an affinity for the importance of smell and products best flushed down the gurgler? Rightfully then, students who want to pursue such dubious, feel good luxurious "professions and rort training”, should do so on their own account and not the tax payer’s. I’m surprised any sensible person or politician would have the audacity to continue supporting such blatantly irresponsible, waste of public money. The Senator should contemplate good Government strategies and admirable education objectives for the Australian workforce. Instead of absurdly pandering to groups, who’ve little or no affinity to key industry and employment requirements, self sustainability and responsible funding accountably. Incredibly, rather than question whether “funding cuts breached a COAG agreement to lift the skill level”. He should be responsibly concerned with how COAG could possibly consider such bullshit courses as appropriate training and commendable skills and assets acquisition priority, ahead of the far more demanded productive trades which have been allowed to languish and severely drain. He might even address the relevance, effectiveness and benefit of the “COAG wankfests” altogether and really save the country some money!

The Victorian Government has done the wrong thing in slashing funding for TAFEs. The effect on all trades will be felt for many years for no real reason, because Victoria has the money - in fact we're in great shape financially. Not only are they lying about the actual reasons for this slash & burn, they throw in the usual spin of blaming the previous government. I'm a swinging voter, but this mob are taking the State backwards, just when they should be investing for the future.

When will some people get the fact that most if not all states are broke or well on the way to being so and continuing to spend what we have not yet earned is a recipe for disaster. Yes it is important how we got into this situation and we must learn from it but what is even more important is we spend what we have on priorities and not the feelgood stuff. Also COAG will never be anything because all the states are too self interested to be bothered about the greater good and that goes for receipts as well as expenditure.