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What Thinking Australian Are Thinking

What Thinking Australian Are Thinking

by | May 12, 2016 | Blog

What thinking Australian are thinking.. Thursday May 12.   Assistant Treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer’s insistence that the non-concessional cap on superannuation is not retrospective legislation reminds me of Campbell Newman telling tens of thousands of public employees...
Random note #194,526 – Education

Random note #194,526 – Education

by | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Education, Random Notes

Random note   In the 2016 Federal Budget the government announced that it would spend a billion dollars on a back to basics program I editorialised on another thread at the time that this kind of solution is no solution at all.   Why should it cost a billion...
Now they’re Dumbing Down The Colleges

Now they’re Dumbing Down The Colleges

by | May 11, 2016 | Blog, Education

The decline in education is not just an Australian phenomenon. It’s a contagion right throughout  the Western world and it’s deliberate. Education is just another institution to be marched though in the best Gramci tradition This cut and paste from...
Jason Falinski

Jason Falinski

by | May 11, 2016 | Blog, Jason Falinski

It would be easy to suggest that the Liberal Party had no idea what it was doing in preselecting Jason Falinski to take over the blue ribbon Liberal seat of Mackellar from Bronwyn Bishop. Easy but wrong. The factional overlord of the party Michael Photios and his...
What Thinking Australian Are Thinking

What Thinking Australian Are Thinking

by | May 11, 2016 | Blog

What thinking Australians are thinking… There’s not much in it. Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten both underwhelm and neither inspire. They have treated the office of the prime minister as some sort of prize in a game of revolving treachery. And, irrespective of...