Question Time an embarrassment

Watching Parliamentary Question Time is not likely to promote a feeling that one is watching people who have sat for the Prime Minister’s Naplan tests to promote education standards. When a question is asked, surely a clear and precise answer is expected in return. Should four minutes of waffle produce no resemblance whatsoever to be a failure and his/her school downgraded? Now who is the principal of the House of Representatives? None other than the former Education Minister in the Rudd Government. I believe her often stated fondness for education is indeed genuine, yet hundreds of school children witness Question Time, and I am embarrassed for our country, when the Prime Minister is not inclined to set a better example, or demand one from her ministers. What then of students, witnessing such displays? What then of belief and trust expected of politicians who promised the world to get elected and by horrified TV viewers at home? Back benchers constantly nod their heads behind the front bench in approval, as question after question is avoided by argument. Fortunately my television has an off switch and the two words “Carbon Tax” are no longer waiting to pounce upon my empty viewing chair. Politicians must never watch Question Time, or they would surely be ashamed.
Melba Morris,
Allora