Education
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The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humaneSeptember 16, 2024
13 mins
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We are in the middle of an unprecedented civilisational experiment, and to restore any kind of vigour and optimism to Western civilisation, vigour and optimism must be restored to the family.August 29, 2024
24 mins
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Apparently, what respectable Australian researchers do is assume that there is a link between suspensions and incarceration because American researchers claim to have found one.August 29, 2024
16 mins
The latest
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Altogether, auteur theory sounds fascinating and, no doubt, develops excellent skills of analysis for students of film, as they dissect and discuss this or that auteur director’s body of work. But what is it doing in an English course, in high school, in Year 10?August 29, 2024
15 mins
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If, like me, you detest as patronising and condescending the ritualistic 'acknowledgements of country', you simply cannot get a senior administrative position in an Australian university—though an unwillingness to sing the national anthem or celebrate Australia Day would probably not hurt you one iotaAugust 25, 2024
18 mins
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In March, the Australian Law Reform Commission recommended that faith schools no longer be permitted to preference enrolments and staff according to faith and witness, and that they be required to facilitate “alternate” views on religious and moral matters being taught in their schools.August 25, 2024
27 mins
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George Thomas: My school had quite an influx of young […]August 14, 2024
1 mins
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While wokeness has become more influential and all pervasive since the early 1990s, the resounding No vote rejection of the Voice proved the tide is shifting and sanity and common sense might yet prevail. Nowhere is that transformation more urgently needed than in Australia's classroomsJuly 18, 2024
7 mins
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Not quite so expensive as the NDIS, there is another pillaging of the public purse just as egregious in the extent to which it has been corrupted by rent-seekers and bureaucrats. Unlike the NDIS, this one has been flying just under the radar. I am referring to the child-care industryJuly 16, 2024
9 mins
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Ever wonder how climate activists fill the streets with loud, anxious adolescents demanding 'climate action'? Well a good place to start would be the 'educational' films of Damon Gameau, which are peddling eco hysteria to millions of kids and their teachersMay 30, 2024
20 mins
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Stepping down as the founding CEO of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, Professor Simon Haines shared these welcoming thoughts with the last draft of incoming scholars. 'It’ll be up to you,' he told them, 'to show your generation how to move beyond a trivialising, conformist, divisive and often extremist mindset'May 29, 2024
13 mins
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