Remember when Labor would stop the warming, house the homeless and teach the children? Kevin Rudd declares in 2007: Climate change is the great moral challenge of our generation. Today: Australia has all but dumped $75 million of projects regrowing forests in the developing world and shelved a $100 million forest carbon partnership between Indonesia and Australia... Australia's contribution to global environment programs will plummet from $74.1 million in 2012-13 to just $1.5 million next year, the budget papers reveal. Kevin Rudd promises in 2008: KEVIN RUDD has declared a 10-year effort to tackle homelessness, warning that the problem is getting worse despite the nation's soaring wealth... About 100,000 people a night are homeless... Rudd's target: ...halve overall homelessness by 2020 THE head of one of the nation's largest charities has expressed concern that Labor has abandoned its commitment to halving homelessness by 2020 after the federal budget failed to fund efforts beyond just one year. National chief executive of the St Vincent de Paul Society Dr John Falzon said ... There are 105,000 Australians trapped in the cycle of homelessness... Judge not by seeming but by achieving. It's a critical difference between the Left and conservatives. No different with Julia Gillard, of course, except the dreams collapse much faster. Gillard a month ago: Prime Minister Julia Gillard has unveiled the Government's long-awaited plan to overhaul school funding, promising to contribute 65 per cent of the total cost... It's a lot of money, but I believe it is a wise investment in our children's future and in our nation's future. Julia Gillard's signature school funding reforms would deliver a saving to the budget bottom line in two of the next three years, despite her pledge to provide billions of dollars in spending increases. In these years the extra cash offered under the Gonski reforms is exceeded by the ""redirection"" of money earmarked for national partnership programs.