❓ A WA parliamentary question regarding Dr. Kevin Donnelly's lobbying activities in WA, specifically concerning outcomes-based education and his past work with Philip Morris. The Minister's response is highly critical of Donnelly, questioning his credibility and motives.
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OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION - KEVIN DONNELLY
Mr President - Hon Simon O’Brien : Let’s see if she’s psychic. You sit down without asking it and she can give the answer for you. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Now, peanut! The PRESIDENT : I have given Hon Graham Giffard the call. If Hon Simon O’Brien wants to have a conversation outside, there are certain procedures that can be put in place. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
Mr President - Hon Simon O’Brien : Let’s see if she’s psychic. You sit down without asking it and she can give the answer for you. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Now, peanut! The PRESIDENT : I have given Hon Graham Giffard the call. If Hon Simon O’Brien wants to have a conversation outside, there are certain procedures that can be put in place. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
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I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Hon Simon O’Brien : Let’s see if she’s psychic. You sit down without asking it and she can give the answer for you. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Now, peanut! The PRESIDENT : I have given Hon Graham Giffard the call. If Hon Simon O’Brien wants to have a conversation outside, there are certain procedures that can be put in place. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Now, peanut! The PRESIDENT : I have given Hon Graham Giffard the call. If Hon Simon O’Brien wants to have a conversation outside, there are certain procedures that can be put in place. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
The PRESIDENT : I have given Hon Graham Giffard the call. If Hon Simon O’Brien wants to have a conversation outside, there are certain procedures that can be put in place. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Hon Simon O’Brien : Let’s see if she’s psychic. You sit down without asking it and she can give the answer for you. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Now, peanut! The PRESIDENT : I have given Hon Graham Giffard the call. If Hon Simon O’Brien wants to have a conversation outside, there are certain procedures that can be put in place. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Now, peanut! The PRESIDENT : I have given Hon Graham Giffard the call. If Hon Simon O’Brien wants to have a conversation outside, there are certain procedures that can be put in place. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
The PRESIDENT : I have given Hon Graham Giffard the call. If Hon Simon O’Brien wants to have a conversation outside, there are certain procedures that can be put in place. Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD : Can the minister advise whether Dr Kevin Donnelly, who is currently visiting Western Australia to lobby against outcomes-based education, has previously visited the state to lobby on this or any other matter? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
I assume that the honourable member is referring to the independent education expert, Dr Kevin Donnelly. This is the same independent education expert who has received eight separate contracts to the value of $795 000, a component of which has been acquired from the Howard government and, prior to that, the Kennett government. The interesting thing about the independent education expert providing this advice is that not one of those contracts to the value of nearly $800 000 ever went to tender. The independent education expert also happened to be the former chief of staff to Kevin Andrews. When Dr Donnelly, the independent education expert, visited Western Australia in 2000, he was a great supporter of outcomes-based education. Since then, he has been very much anti-outcomes-based education. When he was in WA in 2000, he was working as the Asia-Pacific consultant for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. He was promoting the I’ve Got the Power program in primary and junior high schools. He met with students while promoting this program in an outcomes-based format. I have that outcomes-based format with the major learning outcomes and the overarching statements. The member may like to look at it. We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
We have gone from 2000 when Dr Kevin Donnelly, the independent education expert, absolutely loved outcomes-based education while working for tobacco giant Philip Morris, to his being a very, very strong critic of outcomes-based education in more recent times. I would love to ask the independent education expert, Dr Donnelly, what has happened in between. In 2000, health experts actually warned the then Minister for Education, Colin Barnett, that the I’ve Got the Power program would encourage children to smoke. Minister Barnett ran him out of town, as did every other state and territory minister around this country. Yet Dr Kevin Donnelly is back in WA. Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
Dr Donnelly has been contracted by the federal government to run down each of the states’ education systems. In WA, for example, he has been a real champion for going back to plain English in education. Big deal! If we want to know how plain English Dr Donnelly himself is, we should look at his 1993 doctorate from La Trobe University. The doctorate was a defence of a liberal humanist view of education against the progressive neo-Marxist and post-modern attacks of the left. The thesis was entitled “The New Orthodoxy in English Teaching: a Critique and Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the New Orthodoxy in the Teaching of English as Exemplified by the Victorian Experiences”. This is the guy who wants us to go back to plain English. Quite frankly, this fellow is an absolute joke. Clearly, he is an absolute hypocrite and he should be called to account over why he has done a 360-degree turn in his position on outcomes-based education.
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