Tomorrow (Wednesday) the Education and Science Select Committee was meant to be hearing my submission on the 51,000+ signature petitions opposing the cuts to Adult and Community Education (ACE). But the government decided to go into urgency to pass wretched Nick Smith’s wretched ACC legislation – you know the one, where we pay more and get less in the way of supportive entitlements to get us working and playing again after an injury. More on that in another post.
You might have seen this already elsewhere, but it deserves to go up here as well, as a great characterisation of what Anne Tolley has done to ACE in our local communities. It’s PPTA’s clever cartoon:
It’s an amusing antidote to being depressed by the systematic destruction of our ACC system causing heated debate in the House. But whatever it was going to be tomorrow – ACE or ACC – we are all losing. It’s either our easy to access, community-based, second chance education, or our world-class compensation scheme. And people said they wanted a change. 
LOL
What is so urgent about ACC?
Very good cartoon! Will browse the site in a sec. Agreed Spud,
ACC important changes needed = Nick Smiths pathetic ideas
” … wretched Nick Smith’s wretched ACC legislation … ”
Way to go Maryan, keep bringing the personal insults into the game and you are sure to win next time.
You keep forgetting that a HUGE amount of people are offended by the amount of tax payers money spent on cooking and belly dancing classes.
Do a petition on that and you will get more than the signatures you got.
Have linked in other post about local schools this blog has used as examples – from memory 70 % of the classes were dancing or cooking related.
Im glad that they are being closed down. Its a waste of tax payers money and should not be subsidized.
Good on the Nats for fixing something that was broken for years.
People offended by ACE should look at the economic gains from all of those classes ($7 for $1 spent, if I recollect correctly). Dancing = less tax dollars on obesity related disorders. Cooking = less tax dollars on nutrition/food safety related health problems. That’s without adding the social benefits of like-minded people in a community getting together.
OK, just watched the clip. Even more economic and social benefit that I thought! Very funny
I would have thought the cooking would cancel out the dancing.