Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced 16 million dollars worth of investment for Gipps TAFE in Victoria as part of the Governments 1 billion dollar TAFE modernisation. The investment is said to help fund linesman training for the National Broadband Network (NBN).

In the Prime Ministers new hip way of announcing things, today through micro-blogging service Twitter, the Prime Minister announced funding for NBN linesman training.

Julia & I just announced $16m investment for Gipps TAFE @ Chadstone. Part of nearly $1b TAFE modernisation investment across the country.

Gipps TAFE helps train linesman to help roll out the national broadband network which will take 25,000 jobs for 7 years. Massive!

Queensland’s Premier, Anna Bligh, has been getting a little defensive on Twitter announcing this evening that the Greens are…

“…not an alternate govt.”

This was in response to a Twitter message I Tweeted to Kevin Rudd just moments before, in response to his meeting with Anna Bligh today.

Kevin Rudd said the following on his Twitter account:

“@anna4queensland was great today. Such a strong woman. She stands for jobs.”

“The other bloke says he’ll just sack people. How does that work in a global economic storm that is smashing jobs everywhere.”

So I decided to get a bit cheeky by asking Kevin in the public domain the following:

“@KevinRuddPM What about the Greens what are they? Are they “that other bloke” as well?”

To which I received the response from Anna Bligh stating:

“@bengrubb they’re certainly not an alternate govt.”

You won’t be able to see the message on Anna Bligh’s Twitter profile page any more, because Anna Bligh deleted it!

But say you wanted evidence that this did indeed happen?

Well, Twitter offers a service that allows you to see Tweets regardless of whether they have been deleted, it’s called Twitter search. If you wish to see Anna’s reply head over to this link.

Below is an overview of how the conversation went: