Andrew Dickens: The great polytech flip-flop we’re all paying for

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 14, 2025 · 2m · transcript

Here we go again.

The polytechs that were centralised by the last government are going to be de-centralised by the current mob.

It's not quite back to the future because it won't be the same as we had before the politicians started tinkering.

There will now be ten polytechs run locally, six others will have to prove their financial viability, but it still feels like we're going back to where we started from.

And this ideological flip flop isn't free.

The Labour Government allocated hundreds of millions of dollars over several years to support the merger and transformation of the vocational…