Blanchett and Whitlam fans are living in a land of make-believe

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“I am a product of the Australia Council,” she gushed.

That may be, but the Australian Council for the Arts, the Australian Film Development Corporation and the National Film and Television Training School were established during Liberal Prime Minister John Gorton’s term, according to the National Archives.


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Blanchett was born in 1969. She studied at Melbourne University from 1987 before dropping out and eventually switching to the National Institute of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1992.

Her first, abandoned stint at uni may indeed have been free, but most of Blanchett’s tertiary education was not.

The Hawke Government realised handing free tertiary education to the middle classes was unaffordable and unfair to the poor. In 1988,Labor reintroduced fees and the legislation makes clear that Blanchett did not qualify for exemption from the fees that applied from 1989.

And how fair would it have been for the taxes of struggling Australians to go to giving free tertiary education for a woman wealthy enough to attend Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies’ College?

Was it fair to hit struggling taxpayers for the funds that allowed young Cate to splash on going to bands?:


http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

 

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Our Andrew, as usual, has his finger on the pulse of Australia!