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Breaking News: BER collapse.

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From the ABC.

A building frame for a $1 million outdoor learning centre in southern New South Wales has come tumbling down.

The structure collapsed at Kooringal Public School in Wagga Wagga yesterday.

The building project is funded under the Federal government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) scheme.

Written by Sinclair Davidson

July 28th, 2010 at 10:09 am

Posted in Uncategorized

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  1. Another outstanding Gillard achievement.

    200 incinerated houses, four deaths and now their school buildings are falling down.

    C.L.

    28 Jul 10 at 10:33 am

  2. A $1million outdoor learning centre was probably just a piece of corrugated iron leant against a tree.

    Infidel Tiger

    28 Jul 10 at 10:36 am

  3. More evidence of the Keynesian multiplier.

    dover_beach

    28 Jul 10 at 10:39 am

  4. Good point, Dover. This government has created lots of work with these schemes.

    For paramedics, firemen, insurance investigators, coroners, funeral homes and grave diggers.

    C.L.

    28 Jul 10 at 10:41 am

  5. Do new buildings mean a better educated student? Wouldn’t the hiring of first class teachers do a much better job?

    Sid Vicious

    28 Jul 10 at 10:44 am

  6. Try and move forward, Sid.

    C.L.

    28 Jul 10 at 10:45 am

  7. I’m waiting for a certain marsupial to tell us this is a good thing

    tal

    28 Jul 10 at 10:48 am

  8. No tal, they’ll claim it’s market failure- that the private builders were obviously dodgy. If only the government could control the entire process, this wouldn’t ave happened!

    I don’t think too many people will buy it though. Stories like this, and the continuing leaks against Gillard may just finish ALP off after all.

    Fleeced

    28 Jul 10 at 10:56 am

  9. Was the building insulated?

    tal

    28 Jul 10 at 10:57 am

  10. Fair is fair. At least she can say she hasn’t killed anyone yet and the Keynesian multiplier is toll free at least for the BER.

    JC

    28 Jul 10 at 11:01 am

  11. Touch wood Joe

    tal

    28 Jul 10 at 11:05 am

  12. Inadvisable on a BER site, Tal.

    C.L.

    28 Jul 10 at 11:11 am

  13. LOL Lad

    tal

    28 Jul 10 at 11:16 am

  14. C’mon folks, don’t gloat.

    Ken Nielsen

    28 Jul 10 at 11:54 am

  15. Ha, this is literally 1 block from our house. We drive past it every day and have been interestingly watching the lack of progress. Suddenly it kicked into gear this week. We went past Tuesday morning and the frame was going up. On the way home there were twisted steel girders everywhere.

    Tim Quilty

    28 Jul 10 at 12:54 pm

  16. Is the ALP secretly in the pocket of demolition contractors or what?

    Michael Fisk

    28 Jul 10 at 1:04 pm

  17. Fisk;

    It’s the perpetual stimulus we were talking about recently.

    The ALP funds the building. It comes down and builds it back again. This scheme is going to makes us all billionaires.

    JC

    28 Jul 10 at 1:15 pm

  18. Homer! Stop designing things!

    boy on a bike

    28 Jul 10 at 2:55 pm

  19. JC – do you think the Keynesian multiplier gets an extra little boost when people are killed on a stimulus project? Losing lives must count for something.

    Michael Fisk

    28 Jul 10 at 8:20 pm

  20. “Do new buildings mean a better educated student? Wouldn’t the hiring of first class teachers do a much better job?”

    Schools spent money on sunshades rather than teacher development. The theory was they’ll get sued for skin cancer.

    I don’t think this is credible.

    .

    29 Jul 10 at 12:48 pm

  21. I’m a little surprised this doesn’t seem to have been covered in the news at all – the linked ABC item is the only one I’ve seen.

    TimT

    29 Jul 10 at 5:26 pm

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