Right Pulse

I blogged earlier this week about how the 2020 Summit was really a de facto ALP caucus. So it is of no surprise that delegates felt used when they read the final outcome of the Summit. Ideas straight from the ALP, not from the Summit itself. Just one example among many:

A participant in the productivity stream, Jennifer Buckingham from the Centre for Independent Studies, said what was projected on the screen at the closing ceremony did not reflect discussion among the group.

“There was an executive decision made about what was going to go up representing our group, and it didn’t represent that at all,” she said.

There was never any “explicit endorsement” of Mr Rudd’s idea for one-stop parent and child centres, and she would have voiced reservations about the cost of the scheme if it had come up for discussion.

“It just appeared at the end,” she said. “It was overlaid on top of what we had discussed. I’m sure there were some in our group who liked the model, but we certainly didn’t discuss it.”