Frances Abbott seems pretty academically void of merit to me

To add fuel to an already crackling fire, I've dug up a little indicator that Tony Abbott's middle daughter Frances Abbott is clearly not the brightest of the Abbott sisters, and was thus obviously offered a secret scholarship by Whitehouse Institute because her ATAR wouldn't have gotten her anywhere special based on her actual academic merits. (Find me anyone else in the state who has managed a $60,000+ scholarship from nothing more than a Band 6 in Art as a display of 'merit'.)

LOUISE ABBOTT (Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College)
2006 HSC Band 6 results:
- Ancient History
- English Advanced
- Studies of Religion

BRIDGET ABBOTT (Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College)
2010 HSC Band 6 results:
- Ancient History
- English Advanced
- Studies of Religion

FRANCES ABBOTT (Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College)
2009 HSC Band 6 results:
- Visual Arts

It has been suggested that Frances was planning on undertaking a Bachelor of Design at a competing design school, Billy Blue. The academic requirements of this course are an ATAR of 64.
I'm really struggling here to fathom how a private school girl who attended Mont Sant' Angelo Mercy College (which has an ICSEA rating of 1176 and an average $20,500 annual fee) whose father was the established opposition leader at the time on a salary of about $200,000 (later boosted up to $360,000) and who only managed one Band 6 result in her HSC would be considered in need of, or deserving of, over $60,000 in scholarship.

The Whitehouse Institute website proclaims that they do not "... currently offer scholarships to get into the Bachelor of Design" and will only offer scholarships for study "...during the academic year to students who have formally commenced their studies and show exceptional ability and dedication."
However, the fact that Les Taylor, Chairman of the Board at the Whitehouse Institute and frequent financial supporter of the Liberal Party in the tens of thousands of dollars, approached Frances Abbott with the offer of a scholarship at the institute, and they then went out of their way to phone Ms Abbott four times in December 2010 to arrange a meeting for February 2011 to offer her a scholarship then and there, stinks terribly of a 'gift' to me.

The Abbott government's recent Budget has been lambasted for lowering the income threshold for HECS repayments by 10%, increasing interest rates on loans, and removing the cap on university fees which opens them up to exorbitant costs.

It is all well and good to make young Australians pay through the nose for their education when your own daughter is having her future spoonfed into her mouth with fine silverware.

Christopher Pyne's C-bomb CENSORED out of Australian Parliament Hansard transcript

A Hansard is a verbatim transcript of parliamentary debates, used in many Commonwealth nations to officially record the words and actions of its politicians. By having these available on public record, governments are held accountable for what they say and do whilst engaged in parliamentary discussions.
Society has moved forward from the elitist British government system of secrecy within the House that was in place up until the late 1700s, and we now keep the parliamentary actions of our elected officials transparent and hold them accountable for their behaviour.
A Hansard thus acts as an objective, official means of keeping record of what is said, when, and by whom.
Or does it?

There was recent hubbub today surrounding Education Minister Christopher Pyne for referring to an Opposition member as something-other-than-his-official-title during live debate.

Whilst Christopher Pyne insists that the word he called Opposition Member Tony Burke was ‘grub’, video of this moment portrays a rather clear delivery of certain consonants and vowels arranged into a certain different 4-letter word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TsNL3uBw1g

 

 
Having rewatched the footage several times over, it appears that Christopher Pyne has obviously confused voicing his velar stops, struggled to properly enunciate his alveolar approximants and fumbled the correct formation of a bilabial stop.

Perhaps a visit from Geoffrey Rush would be in order...

And even if our Member for Sturt did call an Opposition Member a ‘grub’ (which he didn't) during a parliamentary debate, this is still very rich coming from someone who had already spoken out in point of order several times during the afternoon's debate for people not using appropriate parliamentary language in the House:

May 14th 2014, 2:02PM
Christopher Pyne makes a point of order when the Opposition call out Joe Hockey for lying.

May 14th 2014, 3:04PM
Christopher Pyne makes a point of order when the Opposition call out Tony Abbott for lying, and tells the Speaker of the House how she should do her job.

 May 14th 2014, 3:14PM
After a prolonged personal rant aimed at Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, our ever-so-professional and elegantly-eloquent Education Minister says (something?) to make Mr Shorten call out “Madame Speaker!” that Mr Pyne then withdraws...

WAIT, WHAT? IT’S BEEN CENSORED OUT.

THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT HANSARD OF THE MAY 14TH 2014 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAS NO RECORD OF CHRISTOPHER PYNE SAYING ‘CUNT’.

Those Mullifucks!

According to the official Parliament House website,
“Hansard is the name given to the edited transcripts of debates in the Senate, House of Representatives, Federation Chamber and parliamentary committees.”
Oh, edited indeed.
So nice of you to censor out the word ‘grub’ for our precious civilian ears.
Wouldn’t want to know about what kind of things our politicians are actually being paid to say as professional representatives of our nation’s interests or anything...

Here’s a quick fixer-upper for you, courtesy of the Fourth Estate (me in my underwear at a laptop), just to keep you bastards honest:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How does Christopher Pyne get out of a sticky cunt situation?
He withdraws.



Official Parliament House Website:
 http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard

 Hansard for May 14th 2014 (pdf file, 150 pages)
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/chamber/hansardr/40c69b08-1375-4362-8f90-6bf646a9cada/toc_pdf/House%20of%20Representatives_2014_05_14_2432.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf


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