Abbott in new love child row after former PM claims he is not Safe Schools’ papa
Tony Abbott is very happy. The former PM on Twitter, yesterday:
Good that NSW is scrapping so called Safe Schools, a social engineering program dressed up as anti-bullying.
That’s right. Safe Schools scrapped in Sydney schools. AAP, yesterday:
The NSW government has announced a new anti-bullying strategy will replace Safe Schools after the federal government said it would not fund the program beyond midyear.
But who was responsible for this Marxist monstrosity in the first place? Miranda Devine on Rendezview, yesterday:
Three years after it was launched by the Abbott government ...
Tony Abbott on Twitter, yesterday:
This was a Gillard govt program, not — REPEAT NOT — an Abbott govt one.
In other words, Tony? Jamaican singer Shaggy, September 11, 2000:
It wasn’t me.
Actually, Victoria’s long-gone Brumby government was the original mastermind behind Safe Schools. Sunday Age, October 21, 2010:
The Safe Schools Coalition will be unveiled by Ms (Bronwyn) Pike today, less than six weeks before a state election in which the Education Minister ... is facing a threat by the Greens in her inner-city seat of Melbourne.
And Penny Wong did secure the money for a national scheme when she was Gillard and Rudd’s finance minister. The Age, August 30, 2013:
Federal Labor will spend $8 million tackling homophobia in schools if it is re-elected ...
But it was officially launched under Abbott’s watch. Scott Ryan launching Safe Schools nationally in Melbourne, June 13, 2014:
I am pleased to represent the Australian government at the launch of the Safe Schools Coalition Australia ... It is simply the right thing to do.
Christian groups warned Tony that Safe Schools was bad news. TheSydney Morning Herald, December 20, 2014:
A letter addressed to Prime Minister Tony Abbott was also published, in which the (Australian Christian) lobby claims the Safe Schools program ignores the “vast majority of schoolchildren” who are bullied for reasons other than their sexuality.
Tony Abbott was in power in 2014? Yeah? Abbott’s profile on the Liberal Party website:
He served as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015.
Who did sort out Safe Schools? Oh, that’s right ... The Australian online, March 18 last year:
The hotly contested Safe Schools anti-bullying program will be drastically overhauled, after Malcolm Turnbull bowed to pressure from conservative MPs ...
Tony isn’t rewriting history, is he? The Sydney Morning Herald, March 17 last year:
Supporters of Mr Turnbull ... say Mr Abbott did not take action when it was raised at a meeting of Coalition MPs by Senator Barry O’Sullivan 14 months ago (when Abbott was PM), and it has only become controversial now under the new leadership.
Dumping Safe Schools, changing 18C ... Where was this bloke during the Abbott years? Miranda Devine in The Daily Telegraph, January 1:
It’s just a pity the Tony Abbott we actually had as Prime Minister did the opposite.