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. 
