The pre-election innovation announcements by the government were welcome but the election was a huge missed opportunity from all shades of politics to take our collective heads out of the sand and to put innovation at the heart of the public expenditure agenda.
The NSW government has been sucked into the directionless and non-energy producing privatisation vortex.
Leaving aside the claimed hacking of the online census, there were other problems with it that go to the competence of those behind the system design and implementation.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt's stunning about-face to reinstate funding and priority to climate research – just months after staff cutbacks that were internationally criticised as jeopardising Australia's leading role in the field – is welcome but to be viewed with suspicion.
The NAPLAN results are out and again they are incendiary. As a teacher I used to, in jest, refer to them as Napalm, since they were so destructive to student education. Sadly this joke has become a reality.
Liverpool community activist Michael Byrne is wrong about the Moorebank intermodal terminal ("Aurizon exit from Moorebank timely" Letters, A...
I write in response to Carole Peter's letter ("Students need engagement, not dollars", August 3) re Aurukun school.
Matthew Stevens tells only some of the story when he says the Moorebank "freight precinct ... has two unique advantages over ... any other ...
The torture and brutalisation of juveniles that has recently come to light in the Northern Territory, is not, as most Australians think, a l...
According to Jennifer Hewett ("Royal commission is not the answer, August 2) the highly structured method of "Direct Instruction" that origi...
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