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Gonski ingredients need a recipe
A little more money, yes, but don't expect schools to improve. That's a much harder problem.
Jack Waterford is the former Editor-at-large at The Canberra Times and writes a regular column
A little more money, yes, but don't expect schools to improve. That's a much harder problem.
The welfare agency's leaders still insist that its 'clients' are to blame for 'misunderstanding' its letters.
The public has seen little of the Prime Minister they wanted and expected.
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
The federal and ACT public services say they have no serious integrity problems. But who's actually looking?
The Prime Minister has crossed his Rubicon, without Caesar's armies but equally desperate.
Department of Human Services secretary Kathryn Campbell may deserve a medal of some sort.
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.
The Church needs bishops who are accountable to their flock, not mere papal ciphers.
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