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QLD same-sex Civil Unions – rally for the bill
Scenes from this evening’s rally before QLD Parliament House in support of Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser’s private members bill to create same-sex civil unions in Queensland. Hi res: Rally for QLD Civil Unions bill 2011 (M4V Video 25Mb 2min) Low [...]
Is this a political opinion column, or am I just making it up?
Good. Good, I’ve started with a tendentious question that presents both sides of a story that actually has about sixty sides or, in this case, no sides at all. At least there’s not a blank page any more. Should I [...]
The last publicly-educated generation?
If we remain complacent, it is quite likely that children born this year will be the last to enjoy free, secular and universal secondary education in NSW. (OH&S warning: Long and winding post. No overtaking for 2000 words. Snack recommended.) [...]
Queen’s Birthday Honours List delivers The Goodies
It is my humble honour and privilege to inform LP readers that today, at long last, the other two-thirds of The Goodies — Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden — got their OBEs (Bill Oddie got his in 2003).
This is your brain on politics
This post is a follow-up to Political brains under the microscope from Brian. Following months of peer review, a University College London study which identified correlations between certain brain structures and political views in young adults has been published in [...]
Pending a recount, Greens claim Balmain
With counting completed, the NSW Electoral Commission has provisionally declared the NSW State Legislative Assembly seat of Balmain for the Greens. There’s only a couple of hundred hotly-contested preferences in it, so a recount would appear likely. According to the [...]
NBN bills passed: Sky remains in place
ABC Nyooz is reporting that the NBN bills have passed the Senate. Naturally, the first thing Aunty reports on this momentous event is what the Opposition Spokesflunky has to say about it. Later this week, I’m attending a seminar on [...]
All I want for Christmas
Your regretful online conduct in the Great Blog Stoush of 2005, and that purchase on your March 2007 credit card statement, might soon be not-even-a-digital-memory, thanks to new data privacy statues being cooked up by the EU, known as ‘the [...]
Quick Link: update on class-sizes data
Just in time for school holidays! Following on from this recent discussion about effective spending investment in education, the CEO of the Australian College of Educators, Margaret Clark, has published a dissection of recent claims: http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/jensens-class-size-claims-need-be-unpacked Policy boffins, and those [...]
Education cringe — An Australian epidemic
Another week, another think-tank sounds off about education in Australia. On Monday the Grattan Institute came down from the mountain bearing tablets which told us that: Further reductions in class sizes are not likely to improve educational performance from here. [...]
Demolition Man
(Insert cartoon of Malcolm Turnbull, lit match in hand, sitting on a giant stack of dynamite) It’s the Shadow Cabinet appointment that’s drawn the most discussion thus far, so here’s a thread for it. IMHO, Abbott has just handed Turnbull [...]
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