ANNA Bligh has promised to use coal-seam gas royalties to give 1000 international scholarships to high-school students, in a further pitch to families.
The Queensland Premier yesterday announced a $7.5 million Asia-Pacific Exchange program offering Year 10 and Year 11 students up to 20 weeks' study at schools in Asia or Latin America.
The move adds to Labor's $2.5 billion "Mines to Minds" re-election centrepiece that puts 50 per cent of the future royalties from the export of coal-seam gas to the liquefied-natural gas industry into a trust.
Half the money would boost education funding while the other half would give every Queensland student a $4000 indexed scholarship for tertiary education and training.
Ms Bligh told the Labor launch it was a nation-leading advantage that would create Australia's first education trust fund.
The Australian
Editor's Note: Ok Anna, we all know that you are trying to socialise CSG by giving it back to the kids. Lets talk facts: The CSG process is controlled by fracking the water by introducing poisonous chemicals into the process thereby poisoning the water aquifiers. That means poisoning the water that our children drink.
The State Government sold it's soul to the Mining Companies years ago, and this is a way to legitimise what they have done. Let's ask the farmer's how they feel about "Mines for Minds".
March 24 - and our memories are LONG!
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