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• Government – what a difference an election makes

  By rossleighbrisbane on September 28, 2013 • ( 18 )

  

  THEN TONY Abbott has kicked off the Coalition campaign by pledging anew that his first order of business would be to scrap carbon pricing should he win the September 7 election. The Coalition Leader revealed he had written to secretary… Read More ›

• Fonnix rools – it is the onilly wae to teech studants to spel!

  By rossleighbrisbane on September 28, 2013 • ( 26 )

  

  It’s a vision of the future – grounded in the past. New Education Minister Christopher Pyne invites us to imagine classrooms where teachers return to old-school instruction – becoming more a deliverer of facts, less a convener of activity-based learning…. Read More ›

• What Are We Doing to Our Democracy?

  By johnlord2013 on September 28, 2013 • ( 46 )

  

  Since the election I have been perturbed by the many ‘’just get over it’’ comments that my writing has evoked. In the aftermath of any election there is a period of analysis when the media, the winner, the loser and… Read More ›

• Albanese vs Shorten vs Rudd vs the World (Cage Match)

  By rossleighbrisbane on September 27, 2013 • ( 62 )

  

  For those of you wondering how it’ll work if the membership vote for one candidate and the Caucus vote for the other, it’s really quite simple. The votes will be weighted. For example, if there were 5,000 members and 50… Read More ›

• Murdoch: he just couldn’t wait

  By Michael Taylor on September 26, 2013 • ( 17 )

  

  The Murdoch conspiracy gained a lot of traction in the months leading up to the election with even the unpopular Paul Sheehan in The Age with Murdoch’s vicious attacks on Rudd: it’s business echoing the claim that: News Corp hates… Read More ›

• Afterthoughts of an Abbott Victory

  By johnlord2013 on September 26, 2013 • ( 49 )

  

  Many issues arise from the aftermath of the recent election. None more important than the political apathy that grips the electorate. There is something fundamentally wrong when, despite a huge recruitment drive by the Australian Electoral Commission, 1.22 million citizens… Read More ›

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