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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 Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2010
Tony Abbott’s performance in question time today, and the timing of his parental leave thought bubble more generally, suggest that his major imperative was to switch the topic of debate from health. That’s despite the Coalition running a very active [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Health, Industrial Relations, Media, Policy, Politics, Polls | Tagged Centre for Policy Development, Coalition, CPD, Fiona Armstrong, funding, health debate, health policy, hospitals, Ian McAuley, inside story, James Gillespie, Jennifer Doggett, john brumby, John Menadue, Kevin Rudd, Kristina Kenneally, Media, national curriculum, National Health and Hospitals Network, Nielsen Poll, parental leave, Politics, Polls, premiers, question time, states, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 3, 2010
A while back, Kevin Rudd proclaimed the history wars over. He may have been right, at least insofar as the combatants left on the field are looking decidely ghostly; witness the non-event of the launch of Keith Windschuttle’s latest tome. [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, History, Howardia, Politics | Tagged Crikey, Culture Wars, education faculties, history teaching, History wars, Howardia, Julia Gillard, keith windschuttle, Kevin Rudd, national curriculum, national history curriculum, P-10, school education, SOSE, Tony Abbott, Tony Taylor |
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 Mark Bahnisch on December 2, 2008
Back when Malcolm Turnbull’s reshuffle was announced, we had a request from Laura for a Chrissy Pyne watch. I can’t find the comment in question readily to link back to, but the LP collective memory is evidently elephantine… So, what’s [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged bills, Christopher Pyne, Education, education policy, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, national curriculum, parliament, private schools funding, Senate, transparency |
By Kim on September 11, 2008
Now that the Howard gubbermint is ancient history – except in the memoirs of the ghost of Peter Costello who wants you to know that Howard LIED six times and failed to hand him the leadership on a platter (ps. [...]
Posted in Education, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anna Clark, Culture Wars, education policy, history curriculum, History wars, howard government, John Howard, Julia Gillard, keith windschuttle, kevin donnelly, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Manning Clark, national curriculum, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, Rudd government, stuart macintyre |
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