Gonski ingredients need a recipe
A little more money, yes, but don't expect schools to improve. That's a much harder problem.
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Jack Waterford
Jack Waterford is the former Editor-at-large at The Canberra Times and writes a regular column
It seems we imagined the robo-debt fiasco
The welfare agency's leaders still insist that its 'clients' are to blame for 'misunderstanding' its letters.
PM's crisis of legitimacy
The public has seen little of the Prime Minister they wanted and expected.
Incompetence a cup with no bottom
The parallels go right down to misleading threats and ultimatums issued to "clients", bad algorithms and drawing misleading conclusions from matching incompatible data.
Bliss to be alive, but to be young not very heaven
Bliss to be alive, but to be young not very heaven
Nothing to see here, move on
The federal and ACT public services say they have no serious integrity problems. But who's actually looking?
Turnbull prepares his final throw of the dice
The Prime Minister has crossed his Rubicon, without Caesar's armies but equally desperate.
Centrelink's doomed brigadier stares down the hordes
Department of Human Services secretary Kathryn Campbell may deserve a medal of some sort.
Only pests will benefit from pesticide agency move
Whether Barnaby Joyce or Pauline Hanson is the wiser statesman, the better politician or the more intelligent citizen is a moot question upon which few could hold a certain opinion, for now at least.
We need a Catholic Yom Kippur
The Church needs bishops who are accountable to their flock, not mere papal ciphers.
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