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Things weren’t better in your day

Things weren’t better in your day

By Robert Merkel on February 21, 2011

An interesting counterpoint to the educational traditionalists – some data which suggests that the relative educational performance of Australian school students is going up:

Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged Brookings Institute, Education, OECD, PISA | 79 Responses

Guest post by Mr Denmore: The debt delusion

By Guest Poster on July 27, 2010

One of life’s great mysteries is the established wisdom, reflected in opinion polls and the media, that the Coalition is superior to Labor in “economic management”. Leaving aside the fact that Treasury and the RBA largely manage the macro-economy, it’s [...]

Posted in Economics, federal election 2010, International, Media | Tagged banks, bond markets, Coalition, debt delusion, deficit, economic management, Federal Election 2010, GFC, gross debt, interest rates, Joe Hockey, mr denmore, national debt, net debt, OECD, private debt, Tony Abbott | 9 Responses

Fair go?

By Guest Poster on October 1, 2009

From The Australia Institute’s ‘Between the Lines’: The Australia Institute has recommended that the unemployment benefit be increased in line with community standards, which basically means providing for the unemployed as we do our pensioners and disabled. Another way of [...]

Posted in International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged benefits, dole, newstart, OECD, replacement rate, social welfare, The Australia Institute, unemployment | 39 Responses

OECD in league with communist teacher unions

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 | 64 Responses

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