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By Brian on June 30, 2010
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Of course, that’s the famous quatrain [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, Politics, Water | Tagged education revolution, emissions trading system, G20, Henry Tax review, homelessness, Kevin Rudd, kyoto protocol, Murray Basin Authority, national curriculum, National Organ Transplant Authority, pacific solution, paid parental leave, regional cancer centres, renewable energy target, school libraries, social housing, stolen generations, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, trade centres, WorkChoices |
By Kim on May 19, 2010
From my point of view, the campaign against the Building the Education Revolution as “wasted spending” by The Australian appears to consist largely of beating up any whinge without any context or fact checking, combined with inappropriate cost comparisons. As [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Politics | Tagged ANAO, Ben Eltham, BER, Coalition, education revolution, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, New Matilda, public spending, The Australian |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2010
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Education, Politics, Sociology | Tagged bernard keane, climate change policy, Culture Wars, education revolution, federalism, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, myschool, Paul Keating, political culture, political sociology, Politics, roof insulation, Rudd government, spin, state labor, stimulus, Tony Abbott |
By Guest Poster on December 4, 2009
Introduction by RM: After this rather brief post touching on the introduction of a national curriculum for Australian schools, Susan Zivcec has kindly contributed a piece on some important aspects of that curriculum. Susan is an environmental health and safety [...]
Posted in Education, Elections, Federal Elections, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Science | Tagged Brian Caldwell, education revolution, national curriculum |
By Mercurius on June 17, 2009
The comedy keeps coming from Christian Kerr: WE not only have the “Education Revolution”. In good Stalinist style, we have the “Building the Education Revolution” plan. We also have a band of doubters and dissidents the authorities have decreed to [...]
Posted in Education, Levity, Media | Tagged Christian Kerr, education revolution, Hillary Bray, Julia Gillard, News Limited, schools policy, spending, stimulus, The Australian |
By Kim on October 5, 2008
A bit of a shoutout to all the teachers out there on the intertubes – we love youse all! Today is World Teachers’ Day. I’m sure there are very few of us who don’t remember teachers who made significant differences [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged ALP, education policy, education revolution, judith brett, Julia Gillard, Labor, performance pay, Rudd government, school education, schools policy, teachers, teachers unions, teaching, World Teachers' Day |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 2, 2008
This time last year, we were all feverishly anticipating the calling of the federal election, which was less than a fortnight away. Now, courtesy of the quarterly Newspoll geographical and demographic analysis we can track where and with whom the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Education, Federal Elections, Policy, Polls, Water | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, bernard keane, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, climate change policy, COAG, coast to coast labor, Colin Barnett, education policy, education revolution, emissions trading, Federal election 2007, judith brett, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, Murray-Darling, Newspoll, pensions, Polls, psephological analysis, quarterly Newspoll, Queensland, Rudd government, schools, South Australia, tax policy, WA election 2008, Wayne Swan, Western Australia |
By Kim on September 3, 2008
Although the AEU has been dismissed as one of the dreaded teachers’ unions by Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, some others have actually been looking at the evidence in the evidence-free policy of the Kevin Rudd “education revolution” narrative. And [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged AEU, ALP, Chris Bonnor, education research, education revolution, evidence based policy, Jim McMorrow, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, league tables, National Press Club address, political narrative, private schools, public schools, Rudd government, school education, school funding, schooling, schools transparency, teacher bashing, teacher quality, teachers unions, transparent school information |
By Paul Norton on August 29, 2008
The MSM is full of reports and commentaries praising Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard for taking on the teacher unions with their proposals for “a new national system of school transparency” based on publication of information and ranking of the [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Education, International | Tagged AEU, ALP, education research, education revolution, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, league tables, National Press Club address, OECD, political narrative, Rudd government, school education, schooling, teacher quality, teachers unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 29, 2008
Club Troppo’s Don Arthur and I started a correspondence by email about some of the issues I raised in my post the other day about neo-liberalism and thinktanks, and the very rapid Blairisation of the Rudd/Gillard agenda (which has certainly [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, History, International, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, battle of ideas, Blair government, Carl Schmitt, classical liberalism, Coalition, education policy, education revolution, governmentality, historical sociology, jacques derrida, John Howard, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Margaret Thatcher, michel foucault, neoliberalism, New Labour, political ideologies, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, school education, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of ideologies, state formation, Tony Blair |
Rudd unwhacked
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2010
Newspoll came in last night with essentially a status quo result, with both parties one point up on primaries (and the 2PP changing one point down each way to 52-48 because of a measured fall in The Greens’ primary.) I [...]
Posted in Elections, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Apology, Aston by-election, Coalition, commentariat, contrition, education revolution, Elections, Federal Election 2010, gordon brown, health policy, hospitals, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Media, national curriculum, Newspoll, Peter Beattie, political communication, polling, Polls, rhetoric, school education, The Greens, Tony Abbott | 61 Responses