Had a meal in a cafe the other day in a big city not a million miles away. Very poor, almost inedible. These days I’m pleased when I find a good meal. Often the meals seem prepared with little care or attention, using frozen or preserved ingredients, precooked and then reheated in microwave, and so [...]
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Factory floored
Posted in Education, Economics, tagged health, education, australia, farms, food on February 5, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Ignorance is strength
Posted in Education, Media, politics, tagged australia, australian election, Climate Change, conservation, creationism, education, elections, george orwell, history, media, public schools, religion, science, television on January 30, 2012 | 21 Comments »
How can every human being on the planet not spend their days being puzzled about pretty much everything? Every day I ask myself questions like: How does that work? Why did that happen? Who was responsible for that? What was the purpose of that? Where did that come from? Constantly, one or more of the [...]
A little learning
Posted in Education, tagged australia, education, federal election, public schools, tony abbott on December 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When I was a young fellow, turned 14, the minimum age at which you could leave school, people demanded of my mother that I leave school, get a job, support the family. Fair enough. No one in the family had ever, for financial reasons, stayed at school past that age. And it was what people [...]
Life in books
Posted in Education, Media, tagged books, ebooks on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[Article first published as Life in Books on Blogcritics.] People always say “Oh I love the smell of a new book when you open it.” I used to go along with this, nod wisely, say “Ah yes, nothing like it” but secretly I didn’t agree. I’m sure when I was young new books didn’t have [...]
Never did me any harm
Posted in Education, Media, tagged australia, education, john howard, political correctness, public schools, television on July 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The other day I heard the usual glib discussion of “discipline in schools” on some tv channel. About how terrible it was that teachers these days were subject to violence (certainly any violence against teachers is terrible, but as an aside I think there is a convenient forgetting about history here, as is so often [...]
The morning after
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Education, Environment, politics, tagged America, australia, Climate Change, economy, education, elections, environment, george bush, iraq, john howard, Paul Keating, Sarah Palin, tony abbott on June 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Paul Keating famously warned that “if you change government you change the country” suggesting that because John Howard had presented a low profile target in the 1996 election people shouldn’t think that changing from Labor to Liberal was going to involve merely a change of personnel at the top. Not right as a general principle, [...]
Apples for the teachers
Posted in Education, politics, tagged education, education vouchers, Finland, julia gillard, kevin rudd, My School, NAPLAN, public schools, school teachers, teaching on June 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Heard both another politician and Rupert Murdoch calling for “educational reform” the other day and shuddered. It will always turn out to be not reform in the sense of making things better for children and teachers, the sort of thing us ordinary mortals mean when we talk about reform. Instead it will turn out to [...]
The ragged trousered philanthropist
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Education, Environment, Media, politics, tagged australia, australian election, Australian Labor Party, Bob Brown, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, economy, education, elections, environment, ets, federal election, Franklin Roosevelt, global warming, Greens, health, infrastructure, julia gillard, kevin rudd, media, public schools, television, tony abbott on May 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Because I am a philanthropist, in words if not finances, can I offer a couple of free suggestions to Julia Gillard and the Labor Party. I mean you are doing about as well as Gordon Brown just before the Cameron landslide, or John Howard before the Kevin Rudd one. Sorry, that was a bit mean-spirited [...]
Hostages to fortune
Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Education, tagged australia, Climate Change, tony abbott on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Was driving behind a car the other day with one of those irritating bumper stickers. You know the kind of thing “Driving around Australia to spend our children’s inheritance”, or some variation of that (and there is a TV advert along similar lines I seem to remember). Doesn’t annoy me quite as much as “I [...]
Time out
Posted in Atheism, Education, tagged Atheism, australia, Easter, education, history, religion, science on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My latest piece on the ABC site The Drum is up now. Please go and visit, and leave a comment (the more comments I get the more likely they are to keep publishing me) if the spirit moves you. I am up against three religious pro-Easter pieces and am feeling outnumbered. Oh and I am [...]
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