Holiday Blues

It's just so frustrating when different levels of government are unable or unwilling to work together for the good of us poor people living on the bottom of the food chain.
So when the Education Queensland decided that the autumn school holidays would this year be moved from Easter it would be too much to expect that those setting tertiary holidays would follow suit.
Education Minister Rod Welford described this year's Easter on March 23 as a "very rare and unusual occurrence" which would not occur again until 2160.
“As part of the State Government’s undertaking to set school terms of similar length, this year the first term holidays will commence two weeks after the long weekend,” he explained.
Fair enough, if only the universities followed suit.
QUT and UQ, despite being only four weeks into first semester, are taking their mid semester break this week and it is even worse at Griffith which after only three weeks four days in a 13-week semester is taking a break.
So? So, the juggle for all those families where a parent works or studies at a tertiary institution and there are school-aged children got that bit harder.
We get a break now and in two weeks we have to find some other care arrangements for our kids.
It could all have been so easily avoided if only different levels of government would work together.
Is that really too much to ask?