Andrew Dickens: These flip flops from the right and the left need to stop

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 8, 2026 · 2m · transcript

I had to chuckle after yesterday's interview with Mr Abercrombie from the PPTA who grudgingly accepted that improvements to the education sector by the government is a factor in teacher registrations being up 40 per cent this year

Mr Abercrombie, other industry advocates and the Labour led opposition have been dead set against the changes but now they’re slowly admitting that things are better

It makes you wonder why they were so negative from the get-go, and I can only put it down to tribalism

If it’s an idea from the right, it has to be evil and wrong and bad for the kids and the vulnerable…