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EDUCATION

Rhetoric rules in Gillard Gonski announcement
- Chris Middleton
- 12 September 2012
5 Comments
The Prime Minister's credibility in announcing an education policy response before reaching agreement with the states may be questioned. Without the states, the implementation of Gonski is impossible. This was illustrated graphically by the NSW Government's announcement of funding cuts to Catholic and independent schools.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Olympics silver whining
- Various
- 07 August 2012
Our species believes it progresses without limitation. We shout when a swimmer wins silver, 'That's no inspiration'. As humans pound forward, no 'burden of care' limitation ... We deserve only winners, our species the sole inspiration.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Poets in wartime
- Various
- 24 April 2012
2 Comments
O for a day without comrades bloody fallen, lovers in guttural grief, shrieking, sobbing, and mothers in stoic dignity, mantillas drawn tight, our heroic flame, corralled colts brazenly waiting, cruelly snuffed. Have we learned nothing my friend?
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AUSTRALIA

Mainstreaming evil
- Michael Loughnane
- 11 November 2011
20 Comments
Journalist Hannah Arendt noted that Nazi 'desk-murderer' Adolf Eichmann did not lack a moral compass — his conscience simply spoke with the 'respectable voice' of society. The case raises questions about whether we might be 'silent witnesses to evil deeds' in our society today.
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MEDIA

Uprooting fake online activism
- Fatima Measham
- 03 October 2011
7 Comments
Much marketing deceives. The problem with the fake grassroots activism known as astroturfing is that it artificially inflates numbers to provide a semblance of legitimacy. This is why it has become the strategy of choice for propagating fringe views such as climate denialism.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Chance meeting with an inventor
- James Waller
- 20 September 2011
2 Comments
Hans shows me an invention which magnifies letters for his failing eyes, so that still he may read, so that still the winds may turn the bronze art coins of his perception. Cobweb-like sculptures dream upon some shelves, poetry is the wing of his bird-like speech.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The inevitability of tears
- Alison Sampson
- 02 November 2010
10 Comments
When my grandparents died earlier this year, I barely cried at their funerals. While reading aloud at my grandmother's, I glanced out at the congregation and saw my grandfather's face shiny with tears, looking up at me ... My voice cracked, but I'm a good girl so I held it together.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Lost and found
- Paul Scully
- 29 June 2010
2 Comments
He pushed the bulges of his shoulder blades .. into the worn padding and realised how stooped he was — too much sitting, hunching forward in expectation? .. No crane would admit to a neck like that! .. But skin still smooth, like his father's, in his nineties what's more.
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AUSTRALIA

MySchool: helping rich schools get richer
- Tony Kevin
- 03 February 2010
7 Comments
It is disingenuous for Labor education ministers' to say MySchool will create political pressure to boost 'under-performing' schools. Meanwhile parents, voting with their feet, may foster the very outcomes they fear: underprivileged, low-morale schools breeding a generation of alienated, under-achieving kids.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The wet sheep: a football eulogy
- Brian Matthews
- 07 October 2009
1 Comment
The one thing more potent than the anticipation of seeing your team in a grand final is the misery of seeing them defeated. A wet, bedraggled lamb glimpsed en route to Melbourne proved to be an ill omen for one footy fan.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Gliding in contentment
- Ivan Head
- 11 August 2009
On a streaming easy line, kilometers of small creatures' terror terrain beneath the reigning kyrios of ripped earth.
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AUSTRALIA

The false nationalism of Anzac Day and football
- Ruby J. Murray
- 24 April 2009
31 Comments
The hype surrounding the AFL's annual Anzac Day match has reached near-sacred heights. Asking what it means to have football played on Anzac Day is as risky as wondering why the Digger is the most powerful expression of Australian identity.
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