Rudd has proclaimed a brains trust to examine pressing issues for the next decade or so. It will be for a time when he is no longer in office, but when Australians will still be paying for his incompetence.
First aspect of the stunt is to collect 1000 of the brightest minds Australia has. Strangely, the most capable ones, Howard, Costello, Abbott, Hockey, Nelson et al will probably not be present. These minds will bend their collective will to stopping the Australian public from seeing the shortcomings of Rudd's administration, or the administration of whomever follows Rudd as leader, after he is carted off for corrupt practise.
Rudd assembles brains trust
ReplyDeletefrom news.com.au
A SUMMIT involving 1000 Australians would be held to tackle 10 key problems facing Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today.
The summit is to be held at Parliament House in late April and is called Australia 2020.
“The summit will bring together some of the best and brightest brains from across the country to tackle the long-term challenges confronting Australia's future,” Mr Rudd said.
Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis is to co-chair the summit along with Mr Rudd.
Professor Davis said the summit was a “chance to have a national conversation”.
The 1000 people chosen to take part in the summit will be broken into 10 groups of 100.
Each of those groups will tackle a specific challenge outlined by the Government.
The challenges are broad and includes areas such as productivity, the digital economy, water, health, indigenous people and services and the arts.
Mr Rudd said the 1000 people would be expected to pay their own way to Canberra and would not be representative of large organisations.
“We want people to be selected on the basis of individual merit,” the Prime Minister said.
The whole summit will be open to the media and Mr Rudd said he plans to invite media industry leaders to participate in the weekend-long summit to be held over April 19 and 20.
“This is not a talkfest for the sake of a talkfest,” Mr Rudd said.
He said the ideas created at the summit would not immediately become government policy and he also promised that already announced Labor policy was sacrosanct.
“Our policy direction is clear cut.”
“What we want is for this gathering of the nation's brightest and best to put forward options for the nation's future (and) to produce summary documents which we will then consider in the second half of the year.” Mr Rudd said. “We will then provide a considered response to those options papers by the year's end.
“Those that we accept will form part of the Government's long-term planning for 2009 and beyond and those that we reject, we will make plain our reasons why that's occurred as well.”
What happened to the Rudd policy when he campaigned to be elected? Are they worthless as his weasel words now?
ReplyDeleteRudd will have a thousand bootlickers, people who most accept his dogma and ALP policy, to comment on the future. But the future he offers looks so sad.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Fermi had the brilliant idea that five people might know, between each other, the answer to almost any question. This project lampoons the observation. It is very similar to the way that the Chinese government arranges their policy fests. But they are Communist, right?