The current approach to education in Australia, as reflected in the New South Wales Bilateral Agreement and national funding models, underscores an increasing reliance on neoliberal principles. These policies prioritise efficiency, accountability, and standardised performance metrics, shaping education into a market-driven enterprise where schools and students are treated as economic units rather than as participants Continue reading »
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Donald Trump’s election to the presidency is a Gift. Notwithstanding that it, and his subsequent behaviour, has induced involuntary bowel movements and Acute Disorientation Syndrome throughout the policy-making establishments of the Western alliance, his advent is not, therefore, without its merits if we are the richer for it. The Gift? Clarity, an indispensable aid to Continue reading »
“Physical violence can’t exist without violence of language.” Omar El Akkad The language of genocidal intent You say Israel/Hamas war. We say genocide. “Those are animals, they have no right to exist … they need to be exterminated.” You say self-defence against terrorists. We say elimination. “Erase them, their families, their mothers, their babies. Continue reading »
I can’t stomach reading the ABC news any longer. Their journalists must be either the most ignorant people on the planet or the most deceitful. The choice is not flattering. Consider this sentence from this morning’s ABC article “What the Trump and Zelensky fallout means for Australian Foreign Policy” where Stephen Dziedzic, the ABC’s “foreign Continue reading »
Allan Patience and Joseph Camilleri discuss global crises — climate change, war, the mental health epidemic, and human rights violations — highlighting the lack of leadership across politics, business, media, education, and religion. The discussion encourages us to ask not only why we’re in this state, but how we can create a better future and Continue reading »
You have to admire Australian media. While the rest of us are busy paying $8 for a flat white and wondering how to stretch a pack of IndoMie for a week, our intrepid journalists are fearlessly focused on the real threats – like Chinese naval ships operating in full compliance with international law. 1. China’s Continue reading »
Ukraine will have to cede more territory than it would have in April 2022 — when the US and UK talked it out of a peace deal — but it will gain sovereignty and international security arrangements. There should be little doubt about how a lasting peace can be established in Ukraine. In April 2022, Continue reading »
By abandoning trans rights and praising Reagan, Democrats embrace a fangless politics with a track record of electoral failure.
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The list of invitees at the White House crypto summit illustrates the tight link between Trump and new cohort of political donors.
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Instead of outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.
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