This isn’t a funding question. It’s a status question. The answer is always social. Comprehensive education…

This isn’t a funding question. It’s a status question. The answer is always social. Comprehensive education was dismantled in Australia by turning education into a status rivalry. People will bankrupt themselves to try to climb this status ladder. /1 https://t.co/3QStneRMwV https://t.co/Q4W4rSo0Zv

The same mechanism with cars. Petrol and diesel are hugely more expensive than at any other time in Australian history. But Australians are shifting to gas-guzzling utes and SUVs because those are the current status vehicles. Dutton knows it. Societies run on social status. 2/2 https://t.co/MIcOEf9N8c