by MELANIE SUN – SCIENCE professor Ian Plimer has blasted Australia’s education system for “pounding” children with climate indoctrination and teaching them that they could soon be dead. While well known for rejecting the Left’s consensus on climate change, the professor emeritus…
by PAUL COLLITS – SELDOM has so much been written on a man of such little consequence as former Labor leader Bill Shorten. He has been the story of the week. Alas, I am about to add to it. One who will…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN 1979, I commenced a Masters degree – by thesis, when Masters degrees actually meant something – in the Political Science Department of the Australian National University’s School of General Studies. A once great institution. Here, I had…
A POPULAR Australian preschool animated TV series has introduced its first same-sex couple. Bluey was launched in 2018 and was added to Disney+ in 2019, reaching an international audience. The series features seven-year-old sibling puppies Bluey and Bingo, who focus on life lessons…
by GABRIËL MOENS – THE perennial discussion about the reading ability of Australia’s primary and high school children reached yet another milestone with the publication of a report by the Grattan Institute. The report, The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child…
by SEAN BURKE – AUSTRALIAN organisations who have endlessly lectured fairness and equality have been revealed as being among the most entrenched anti-Israel hate groups. Black Peoples Union, Mums for Palestine and Teachers & School Staff for Palestine are among 30 Australian…
by GRAHAM YOUNG – ONE step forward and two steps back is the best summary of Australia’s results in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The step forward was that we actually moved forward one place in the world—from 11th…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – AUSTRALIA’S dismal 2022 international education comparison proves, once again, how substandard our schooling system has become. Despite additional billions invested and countless government inquiries and reviews over the past 30 years, the latest Programme for International Student Assessment…
by GABRIËL MOENS – QUEENSLAND University of Technology has recently removed the word “merit” from its hiring process. In a radio interview, the University’s Vice-Chancellor Margaret Sheil, communicated her concern that the university’s hiring strategy could be biased. Waging war against excellence…
by GABRIËL MOENS & JOHN McROBERT – CLIMATE activists, teachers and retired academics are encouraging young Australians to ditch their education to protest against so-called climate inaction. Australian high school students walked out of classrooms last Friday after School Strike 4 Climate…
