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Council Amalgamations

Council Amalgamations

by | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Council Amalgamations, Random Notes

  Well, it’s official. Mike Baird is a sock puppet. All we have to do now is work out for whom.   If only he had read my blog of last week, perhaps he would have understood my comparative analysis of the mood in 1996 with the mood 20 years later in 2016,...
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...