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Random Note — Education — Reports, Reviews, Overhauls and Blueprints. We’ve seen this movie before

The inter-generational March Through the Institutions and ideological guerrilla war undermining education has been raging for 40 or 50 years and is all but over with perhaps a few pockets of resistance. Check this list below of overhauls, reviews and blueprints over the last 20 years and think about all the money thrown at the problem, think about the jargon, the cliches and ministerial and talking head blather and tell me what’s changed other than that Australia has gone even further backwards.

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Even the work experience kid at Liberal Party HQ could make a brilliant (and cheap) election ad out of this

This is confirmation that Labor has gone rogue. Gone right off the reservation and is no longer either the Labor Party or The Labour Party. “..Mentions of “intersex” occur 63 times, ahead of those more esoteric concerns such as “wealth” (61 times) and “inequality” (47). Whatever intersex means — or is — it’s also far more important than “ownership” (12 mentions), “production” (18) and “distribution” (10). That “bisexual” out-mentions “poverty”, 31 to 23, says it all… The light on the hill is now more like a strobe disco ball in a gay nightclub..”

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The Long March Continues — Revisionists see an Australia alien to so many of us, Nick Cater

The disfiguring of Captain James Cook’s statue with painted slogans in Sydney last year was not, after all, a criminal act of historical illiteracy, or so we’re being asked to believe. It was a gesture of resistance intended to re-balance the memorial landscape by challenging the cultural power of white Australia, according to historian Lisa Murray. The real vandals were the cleaners who removed it. “Should the graffiti have been removed?” asked Murray. “Is challenging the dominant historical narrative a legitimate part of the monument’s heritage? I ask again; should the graffiti have been removed?”

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Corporate Virtue Won’t Save The Banks Now — Miranda Devine, Daily Telegraph

They authorised human resources departments to run rampant on “diversity and inclusion”, rather than on fostering prudence and integrity in organisations entrusted with other people’s money. While CEOs were posing as moral arbiters, writing open letters demanding the government legislate same-sex marriage, their companies were ripping people off. Corporate virtue-signalling is what they do best. But the problem is that it’s inherently fraudulent. No one believes in it. It doesn’t make the world a better place. It’s a waste of resources. It empowers busybody radicals, and ultimately it diverts the organisation from doing a good and honourable job of its core business.

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Random Note — The 2018 Yassmin Award

And this years Yassmin award goes to another failed “comedian”, that’s having a problem with relevance deprivation. What a vile, mean spirited and ugly piece of work is Catherine Deveney. What is it about these “comedians” and “writers” seeking the 15 minutes of fame? What is it about the left generally and their dribbling, unhinged mental implosions, hatred and borderline personality disorders.

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Random Note — Electricity Prices

What Labor and the Greens are proposing is a 20th century supply for a 21st century demand. In an auction on lower emissions, it’s a race to the bottom, a race the Liberals simply cannot win on those terms and to carve out a point of policy differentiation, a USP, (unique selling proposition) they have no choice but to be the party of significantly lower electricity prices.

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