Heavy on rhetoric and short on substance, try again Ms Gillard

By Jewel Topsfield
Updated September 21 2012 - 4:09pm, first published September 4 2012 - 3:00am
Aiming to be in the top five countries in the world by 2025 … Julia Gillard meets school students before addressing the National Press Club.
Aiming to be in the top five countries in the world by 2025 … Julia Gillard meets school students before addressing the National Press Club.

THE Prime Minister has laid down the gauntlet to the states in a speech on school funding heavy on rhetoric - Australians are supposed to join a ''national crusade'' to eradicate the ''moral wrong'' of a denied education - and low on substance.

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