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Tony Abbott is out this morning declaring:
The federal Coalition has backed down on its opposition to Labor’s school funding plans in a bid to neutralise education as an election issue.
It has also sought to outmanoeuvre Labor by promising to change the parts of the Better School Act that have been so heavily criticised by Coalition leaders in Liberal-run states.
We’ve already have Labor closing in on the LNP’s fiscal conservatism, it’s inhuman approach to border protection, its lower carbon price, it’s Wallis Inquiry via the bank levy and now we have ‘even Steven’ in education.
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.