Archive for September, 2011
I’m not convinced by the facts (or lack thereof) of Mr/Mrs “Name and School withheld” argument in “The Case Against a National Curriculum”. It seems rather silly to assume that the National Department of Education would ignore entirely the “differing needs” of Australia’s 3.3 million students. Instead, the article appears to be an obvious attack […]
In the editorial “Turning the muck filter on”, the writer intends to present a “no-nonsense” argument for a new Government policy to police the internet. Yet despite their strong ridiculing bias, their clever distinctions, their efforts at alliteration and their illuminative analogies, I for one do not need a filter to see the gaps in […]
It has often been said of retired politicians that they should stay retired. Having given up (or lost) their mantle, it is not wise or wanted for them to comment on party affairs. Peter Costello though, has published a book of his memoirs, and is currently published by The Age on political matters. In his […]
“We should be more concerned about the damage conflict does to people than the reasons for the conflict.” Quick plan: JP on the gallows – determined and steadfast Symbols: chains = justice sunrise = insight and epiphany Dusk/mist = Abigail and Judge Concepts: martyrs, resistance, cowards and liars vs traitors to the truth SALEM’S VICTORY […]
Conflict brings out the best and worst in humanity February 1942: Take 104 – the noise of the transport ship’s engines formed a noisy barrier to sleep, even as the waves rocked me from port to starboard, port to starboard… Many of my nursing sisters cradled a child (an orphan in the making?) as we […]
