Rupert Murdoch-a land of opportunity

I am realising what a silly old bugger murdoch has become. He chose to leave his citizenship of the great southern land for more money pastures in other lands. I say how dare he speak as if he is an australian. If education is his current hobby horse donate some of the lots of $'s he has to prove his worth. Put your money where your mouth is murdoch. Or RETIRE from the world stage.
This is a land of opportunity, says Rupert Murdoch
Tom Dusevic - From: The Australian
AUSTRALIA is a wonderful land of opportunity as long as it harnesses strong leadership and educates its people, says Rupert Murdoch.
He also urged voters ignore the Greens.
Speaking last night at an event in Sydney as part of the The Australian's Smart Business series, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, publisher of this newspaper, urged governments to invest in nuclear power, teacher quality, research and the education of all Australians.
"Being poor is no excuse for being badly educated," he said. "Having bad teachers is the only excuse for being badly educated."
Mr Murdoch said Australia's economy was in much better shape than the languishing US, and that Western governments had used the excuse of the global financial crisis to "waste tens of billions of dollars".
"This country is sailing forth. It is a wonderful land of opportunity, with the right leadership, the right government, the right bureaucrats and so on."
He warned that the Greens were a threat to prosperity and scarce resources. "Whatever you do, don't let the bloody Greens mess it up," he said, urging Australians to be patient about energy.
"I can assure you that in a very few years it will be possible to have all the energy we want from economic and cheap and small nuclear plants -- which is anathema to a lot of people. But it would be safe. There would not be an energy waste problem. We don't have to rush into a lot of mad schemes, fouling up the country with windmills and other crackpot ideas which are very, very expensive."
The Australian's editor-in-chief, Chris Mitchell, announced a new Australian Leadership Alliance next year to bring together great minds to solve the nation's problems.
Mr Murdoch admitted education in English-speaking countries was his current hobby horse.
"We can congratulate Julia Gillard for what she's done, and is doing, to improve teacher quality," he said. "Universities need money. We're throwing billions around on all sorts of crackpot things when we could actually be spending it on getting some of our universities to be really world-class centers of excellence."
Australia should try to emulate the investment in education incentives of countries such as Singapore, which was attracting the best brains in the world.
"If we are going to use this boom we're getting from mineral resources and make something for the long term . . . it's important that everybody be educated and that innovation is going on and that new industries are being started," Mr Murdoch said.
Glen Boreham, managing director of IBM Australia, which partners The Australian in the Smart Business program, urged Australians not to become complacent "and think we are sitting pretty".
"Technology isn't and never will be a substitution for leadership," he said.

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