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» 1/07/2016 12:44:34 PM As Spencer points out, percentage increases mean nothing without their starting points and.....
» 29/05/2016 1:07:32 PM People believe things because they want to believe them. The idea of the huge state educat.....
» 21/04/2016 12:52:56 PM If I stole from Telstra, I’d be arrested, but Telstra feels free to support the campaign t.....
» 11/04/2016 4:36:44 PM It's "principles", not "principals" - both times. It's "Charlie C.....
» 4/04/2016 8:54:56 AM Our Constitution is not “archaic” but one of the world’s best. The single transferable vo.....
» 30/03/2016 8:46:06 AM This is a moderate and sensible discussion, but it does not solve the problem. It seems to.....
» 24/03/2016 8:06:41 AM mikk, Look up the difference between “literal” and “metaphorical”, or are you suggesting .....
» 23/03/2016 10:13:32 AM Ayame, Rights have nothing to do with it. Cancer patients don’t get special rights. They .....
» 23/03/2016 8:33:23 AM There is no such thing as “same-sex marriage”, just as there is no such thing as “carnivor.....
» 17/03/2016 7:08:11 PM Rhrosty, The Gonski recommendations include keeping the Hoard government’s SES funding mo.....
» 15/03/2016 8:45:16 AM I have nothing against independent schools, but the money spent on them if spent on someth.....
» 15/03/2016 8:38:29 AM I’ve been involved in politics for 48 years and until last month could not work out how th.....
» 5/02/2016 2:21:03 PM Rhrosty, I heard his Mum on radio this morning complaining that he had been deprived of s.....
» 5/02/2016 7:47:45 AM So, I can lock myself in a room for three years and then get the UN to declare someone els.....
» 24/01/2016 11:20:18 AM The language used in this debate is meant to trick voters to favour the creation of “same-.....
» 24/01/2016 11:19:19 AM You might as well say that funerals discriminate against the living because you have to be.....
» 19/01/2016 9:00:12 AM Indigenous people have been counted in every Commonwealth Census, since the first one in 1.....
» 14/01/2016 1:47:59 PM Emperor Julian, The Industrial Groupers did not split the Labor Party, the Split was not .....
» 14/01/2016 8:09:05 AM ‘The Left controls culture (gay marriage and all that trendy stuff), but economics remains.....
» 14/01/2016 8:08:17 AM I did write to Quadrant on the subject of the Left and the Right: ‘The idea that no one re.....
» 10/01/2016 11:27:44 AM Of course there shouldn’t be a “plebiscite” on the creation of “same-sex marriage”. If we .....
» 31/12/2015 2:58:11 PM Eric G, You may have tried but you did not make sense of my comment at all. One of the t.....
» 27/12/2015 8:41:31 AM Peter L, I visited your website. The links in it would not open for me. In any case, I w.....
» 24/12/2015 9:21:39 AM Eric G, There is no “ban on marriage equality”. If everyone wants to make his or her marr.....
» 23/12/2015 1:32:53 PM The complete nonsense that is the “same-sex marriage” debate is evidenced by the following.....
» 19/11/2015 9:14:47 AM The argument in favour of “same-sex marriage” is so illogical – think “carnivorous vegetar.....
» 5/11/2015 8:08:29 AM Yes, “direct action, such as occupations and pickets,” is just what we need – a return to .....
» 2/11/2015 7:47:22 AM imacentristmoderate, Seeking a conservative Christian lawyer is to accept the idea that o.....
» 31/10/2015 1:58:46 PM None of this has anything to do with human rights or equality. Gay people are free to live.....
» 31/10/2015 1:46:30 PM ttbn and Rhian, The High Court did change the Constitution, not by changing a word in it,.....
» 30/10/2015 10:08:02 AM The whole “marriage equality” debate is the silliest thing to be taken seriously in my lif.....
» 5/10/2015 1:01:13 PM I trust that Greg Sheridan’s book will be read as giving a more rounded view of Tony Abbot.....
» 17/09/2015 4:06:09 PM Bugsy, So, the IPA is on the right. Tell me something I don’t know. So, Tony Abbott is o.....
» 17/09/2015 3:00:57 PM Malcolm Turnbull is not on the left at all, or a centrist or a progressive. He is to the r.....
» 17/09/2015 7:57:12 AM Sue, There’s nothing I can do about the footy I’m afraid, but I can promote Victorian edu.....
» 14/09/2015 11:57:17 AM As I said above, anyone interested in educational reform should be paying attention to Vic.....
» 12/09/2015 9:09:43 AM Thank you, Sue. It is a great mystery to me why we keep importing failed ideas from the US.....
» 8/09/2015 8:46:13 AM As I said in an unpublished letter to The Australian: ‘Charter schools seem to be a soluti.....
» 8/09/2015 8:42:18 AM Anyone interested in educational reform should be paying attention to Victoria’s Education.....
» 7/09/2015 8:00:21 AM Stezza, I accept that words change their meanings over time, but I don’t see why “marriag.....
» 4/09/2015 8:51:50 AM Stezza, It’s the inventors of same-sex marriage that want the government “to make laws to.....
» 28/08/2015 4:13:53 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, The High Court has already amended the Constitution, in 2013,.....
» 28/08/2015 3:54:06 PM AJ Phillips, You should be able to distinguish between access to a thing and what a thing.....
» 28/08/2015 3:53:00 PM Susieonline, I readily accept that the same-sex marriage debate is not silly to some peop.....
» 25/08/2015 8:48:47 AM Rhrosty, I am not surprised that you resort to untrue, name-calling, abusive drivel, give.....
» 25/08/2015 8:32:27 AM AJ Philips, If “words don’t have meanings”, then your response, being in words, doesn’t h.....
» 24/08/2015 8:38:27 AM We know that plebiscite on same-sex marriage has no legal force. We know that any question.....
» 24/08/2015 8:25:42 AM The same-sex marriage campaign is like kids who don’t like chocolate but do like jelly bea.....
» 20/08/2015 3:22:52 PM wearestardust, If you want to go down the road of contingent meanings then, let’s call sa.....
» 20/08/2015 3:09:14 PM phanto, I am a vegetarian. I do not claim my human rights are infringed because I am not .....
» 19/08/2015 11:01:33 AM Of course “No one should be denied the ability to marry the person they love simply becaus.....
» 19/08/2015 10:50:05 AM Given the refusal of the site to publish the correction above, the following I did not eve.....
» 19/08/2015 10:49:07 AM “So let’s just look at MattR first. On 3/4/2015, after I had criticised the Greens for the.....
» 19/08/2015 10:48:43 AM phanto, You are right. The Age has refused to publish every letter I have submitted on sa.....
» 18/08/2015 8:37:15 AM Making all marriages equal would be good if they were all equal to the best marriage, but .....
» 3/08/2015 11:54:06 AM Cobber the hound has reminded me of another tactic of the word theft campaign; namely, the.....
» 3/08/2015 9:01:23 AM Saying that the creation of same-sex marriage “passed with a yes vote from only 37% of eli.....
» 21/07/2015 1:18:05 PM Here is the second: ‘RegH, ‘It must have been a very long time since you checked because.....
» 21/07/2015 1:15:58 PM I have previously mentioned how The Drum will not publish posts from me on education. It h.....
» 21/07/2015 1:09:10 PM I have read the latest paper from Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd. I may at last be getti.....
» 7/07/2015 7:44:05 AM Chris Bonnor, I read your submission to the Gonski review. It was a very good one, but, l.....
» 6/07/2015 3:21:27 PM runner, I have already pointed out to you with specific facts and figures that there has .....
» 6/07/2015 8:25:38 AM Rusty Catheter, In my examples “those publicly-subsidised private (mainly health-care) bu.....
» 6/07/2015 8:10:49 AM Well, “The daft and radical idea of charging high-income parents for public schooling” is .....
» 2/07/2015 4:47:28 PM Aussieboy, At least you’re consistent. You are the only person I have ever come across wh.....
» 2/07/2015 8:32:56 AM Those who argue against private school funding have no problem with private doctors, publi.....
» 25/06/2015 9:23:32 AM Yes, “Gonski was an attempt to look at the state of education and channel funding to where.....
» 24/06/2015 10:45:40 AM Here is another: “The Drum 2015 06 22 1 (Fees for state schools: don't jump to conclusions.....
» 24/06/2015 10:40:54 AM Here is one example of what The Drum refused to publish: ‘The Drum 2015 05 01 1 (Picking .....
» 24/06/2015 10:37:37 AM As I have said in response to various articles in The Age this week (e.g., http://www.thea.....
» 7/06/2015 6:31:13 PM The High Court has amended the Constitution to allow parliament to create, not “legalise”,.....
» 7/06/2015 6:30:49 PM The reason that proponents of same-sex marriage resort to calling their opponents bigots i.....
» 4/06/2015 8:54:33 AM Rhrosty, You do not explain why you say, “With one exception, we remain the most over-gov.....
» 3/06/2015 10:36:17 AM The author is right nowadays, but he would not have been right only four years ago because.....
» 29/05/2015 9:51:27 AM I would like to thank the author for this article. The obsession with the inner city is st.....
» 27/05/2015 1:23:03 PM I am not surprised that several posters just don’t get the point. The Ashers were not fine.....
» 20/04/2015 9:03:40 AM “On matters as important as our children’s future we simply must work together.” Indeed! T.....
» 20/04/2015 8:57:00 AM “The real Gonski proposal would” not “have seen funding follow a child”. The SRS was to be.....
» 20/04/2015 8:36:52 AM Stephen Elder’s statement, “And let’s not pretend that either the Gillard or Rudd educatio.....
» 17/04/2015 8:20:29 AM The states did not agree to abolish stamp duty in return for the GST. The states did not k.....
» 6/04/2015 8:06:30 AM Rhrosty, Your system would not give parents choice “regardless of means” as the rich woul.....
» 2/04/2015 7:12:41 AM Cobber the Hound, You have made an assertion. You have provided no facts of reasoning to .....
» 1/04/2015 8:53:21 AM The last sentence of my first post, as posted said, "I have tried to get both unions .....
» 1/04/2015 8:51:12 AM There has been a lot of nonsense written about the 25 per cent rule. It is arbitrary and i.....
» 1/04/2015 8:45:24 AM Stephen, I don’t wish to canvas the arguments regarding support for non-government school.....
» 12/03/2015 2:15:14 PM Other say that education spending has doubled over the last 20 years (“Marking teachers”, .....
» 12/03/2015 2:15:04 PM Runner, It seems you are another victim of the gullible media and its propensity to repea.....
» 12/03/2015 1:28:37 PM James Merlino did not “equivocate on the question of whether Victoria should fully impleme.....
» 6/03/2015 9:10:26 AM Section 25 of the Constitution does not “give… States the right to ban people from voting .....
» 28/02/2015 1:27:40 PM Hasbeen, Accusing a former state vice president of the DLP of having a “communistic strea.....
» 27/02/2015 1:20:33 PM The UK fits 62 million people into an area the size of Victoria with only 13 per cent of i.....
» 19/02/2015 1:01:53 PM Craig, You are right about cut-offs and averages. I am just trying to show the picture is.....
» 19/02/2015 12:52:08 PM Nicholas Gruen, Thank you for responding as author to the comments. I realise that your a.....
» 19/02/2015 8:01:21 AM Craig, I accept that the cut-off for teacher training, but a cut-off is a cut-off, not an.....
» 17/02/2015 12:31:46 PM Craig, There is evidence of some decline in PISA results, but I have never seen any evide.....
» 17/02/2015 8:54:09 AM “We've nearly doubled educational spending per student in the last few decades. That's fun.....
» 1/02/2015 3:00:59 PM Hasbeen, You know nothing of the sort. I was the English Coordinator of Waterdale High S.....
» 29/01/2015 2:48:10 PM There is no doubt that socio-economic disadvantage affects educational achievement. It is .....
» 17/12/2014 10:45:59 AM The CFMEU scare did not work in the election campaign, and it’s not going to work now. The.....
» 1/12/2014 12:59:01 PM Tristan, It doesn’t go into a lot of detail but it does mention the importance of civics .....
» 1/12/2014 9:10:31 AM The Labor government does not have to increase taxes. It just has to stop cutting them. Bo.....
» 5/11/2014 6:56:13 AM After David Leyonhelm had this article published in The Australian Financial Review on 31/.....
» 18/09/2014 3:11:23 PM Bren, I don’t think spending a few minutes every three years is too much to give for the .....
» 18/09/2014 7:53:22 AM The link under “gain” states: ‘As shown in Chart 9.7.6, Australian students’ comparative r.....
» 17/09/2014 2:32:06 PM If every one had to vote below the line and did so in such a way as to replicate the resul.....
» 17/09/2014 2:30:10 PM Rhrosty, How do preferences “skew the results that completely counter the demonstrated wi.....
» 16/09/2014 8:03:13 AM The Coalition polled only 37.7 per cent in the 2013 Senate election. Almost two thirds of .....
» 11/09/2014 8:02:09 AM Government schools in Victoria had the autonomy that matters – curriculum autonomy – 40 ye.....
» 10/09/2014 2:31:08 PM I can’t take seriously an article that says, ‘Even within the unionised common rooms of th.....
» 3/07/2014 7:00:00 PM Hasbeen, I am telling you the complete opposite: the Howard model is deeply flawed, for e.....
» 3/07/2014 3:36:07 PM It seems impossible to get across to commentators that the so-called “needs-based funding .....
» 18/06/2014 2:49:50 PM The Gonski plan is not a “needs-based structure”. It is not “a funding system where studen.....
» 28/05/2014 9:59:08 AM Rhrosty, No one openly argues against needs based funding, but people disagree about how .....
» 23/05/2014 4:07:58 PM Part Two: ‘4. In addition, the relabelling of the SES funding model as “capacity to contri.....
» 23/05/2014 4:05:26 PM Part One: David Gonski may say, “Some may disagree with aspects and conclusions but I'm no.....
» 8/05/2014 9:19:06 AM ‘More than 80 per cent of the recurrent costs of a school are teacher employment, and ther.....
» 8/05/2014 9:18:50 AM The real landmines are the ones the Gonski report left, which I pointed out the day the re.....
» 2/05/2014 5:13:47 PM If you think you have good arguments against carnivorous vegetarianism, then make them. No.....
» 1/05/2014 8:54:20 AM The CIS says real government spending on primary and secondary education more than doubled.....
» 4/03/2014 11:21:26 AM Shadow Minister, My point is about the nature of autonomy. Victorian schools had curricul.....
» 18/02/2014 4:46:43 PM Shadow Minister, Please pardon the delay in my response. Other duties took over. There i.....
» 8/02/2014 12:41:29 PM Shadow Minister, The claim that principals “will invoke the wrath of the unions” if they .....
» 6/02/2014 12:57:36 PM Shadow Minister, The media always writes as if NSW equals Australia. NSW is more centrali.....
» 2/02/2014 4:34:28 PM SteeleRedux, You are right, though I do not jump to the conclusion that the increase in p.....
» 31/01/2014 8:16:56 AM Of course “Independent schools contribute significantly to Australian education”, but to t.....
» 22/01/2014 1:33:21 PM The Senate is actually the more representative house. My posts at http://forum.onlineopini.....
» 10/01/2014 8:17:16 AM Kipp, Exactly! Pots are pots and kettle are kettles, but they are both equally cooking ut.....
» 10/01/2014 8:06:35 AM Shockadelic, Section 7 says that senator must be “directly chosen by the people”. That me.....
» 9/01/2014 2:38:31 PM The UK’s system is so varied that a direct comparison is not possible. Some parts of the c.....
» 9/01/2014 2:37:47 PM The Swedish Riksdag has 349 members. There are also 1662 members of Sweden’s county counci.....
» 8/01/2014 1:41:27 PM Here are another three countries with lower population-to-politician ratios than Australia.....
» 8/01/2014 10:54:21 AM The US House of Representatives has 435 voting members. The Senate has 100 members. There .....
» 8/01/2014 7:38:19 AM Klaas, I’m not accepting a one-word answer on a website as the last word on which country.....
» 8/01/2014 7:25:02 AM Kipp, Very funny! But would we argue that pots should be called kettles on the grounds of.....
» 7/01/2014 7:45:47 AM Suseonline, I am not “threatened by the possibility of gay marriage” because there is no .....
» 7/01/2014 7:30:54 AM Klaas, 22 million divided by 859 is 25,611, not 2563. You have to include all levels of .....
» 6/01/2014 7:16:22 AM When I attempted to post the figures on politician numbers for Australia and the UK at all.....
» 6/01/2014 7:11:04 AM Klaas, It is not “well-known that Australia is over supplied with politicians”. This is .....
» 1/01/2014 11:22:43 AM Jay, Homosexuality and child abuse are not the same thing. My objection is not to same-se.....
» 1/01/2014 8:29:07 AM We have had “marriage equality” for generations. All marriages are equal before the law an.....
» 13/12/2013 7:37:55 AM bennery, The reason commentators focus on funding/equity issues is that they are never re.....
» 13/12/2013 7:24:57 AM Brian, The Gonski plan does not refer to “a different way of funding education from the p.....
» 9/12/2013 12:28:36 PM individual, I won’t dispute your personal experience, but that is hardly a wide sample. .....
» 7/12/2013 2:22:01 PM individual, The performance of our school leavers is not dismal. PISA tests 15-year-olds.....
» 7/12/2013 7:14:01 AM Atman, Finland does not pay teachers “about 30k a year”. Finnish teachers generally spea.....
» 29/11/2013 9:19:20 AM “While the original Gonski report argued that funding must be based on the needs of the ch.....
» 29/11/2013 9:18:18 AM “Critics argue that the then Howard governments' socioeconomic status (SES) model of alloc.....
» 21/11/2013 8:07:44 AM Rhian, People choose to vote above the line and thus to follow the preference allocation .....
» 20/11/2013 8:00:36 AM It is also an infringement of the democratic rights of other voters to have candidates exc.....
» 20/11/2013 8:00:14 AM Rhian, Why shouldn’t 2-5 per cent of the vote be “enough to get a senator elected”? It ha.....
» 20/11/2013 7:51:40 AM I spent almost all my years as a teacher in disadvantaged schools, starting in the Housing.....
» 20/11/2013 7:46:31 AM It was not Joan Kirner who ‘closed the technical schools’. It was the Kennett government. .....
» 19/11/2013 9:52:36 AM The SES model was not “student-focused and based on need”. It ignored school fees. It igno.....
» 19/11/2013 9:42:21 AM I’ll let the new DLP, the one with the “u” in “Labour”, speak for itself on religion, but .....
» 14/11/2013 9:55:49 AM An insightful summary of the issues, Des, but we will have to wait some years before educa.....
» 6/11/2013 9:06:34 AM At last a logical comment from a gay-marriage advocate: “By advocating for states legislat.....
» 3/11/2013 11:01:29 AM Dan, It is a source of great frustration to me that people who don’t know what they are t.....
» 30/10/2013 1:26:34 PM Rhrosty, The voting system does “represent the majority of voters' views”. What people se.....
» 30/10/2013 8:27:23 AM There is very little wrong with the Senate voting system at all. There has been a kneejerk.....
» 25/10/2013 7:11:06 AM Ponder and Qurhops, Not the “split infinitives” rule again! The idea that one may not spl.....
» 22/10/2013 7:56:20 AM ‘18/102013 ‘David Robertson’s suggestions (“A few ways Pyne can fix up the Gonksi mess”, .....
» 3/10/2013 9:14:33 AM The author has no understanding of the principles of the single transferable vote or of th.....
» 29/09/2013 12:03:15 PM Susie, One could describe a saucepan as a vehicle for driving to the airport if one wante.....
» 21/09/2013 10:18:00 AM Zoe Brain, Your mind-reading capability is not working. If society had created an institu.....
» 19/09/2013 2:46:51 PM The ACT and some of the states are indulging in a bit of grandstanding. Section 51 of the .....
» 18/09/2013 8:29:50 AM The significant consequences of the former government’s decision to make people keep recor.....
» 3/09/2013 8:27:50 AM Many Australians might “be happy with one vote, one value to the party of their choice”. H.....
» 22/08/2013 9:49:08 AM Kevin Rudd did not “rebadge Gonski to assume a more politically neutral epithet – Better S.....
» 7/08/2013 8:38:03 AM 2. Whenever the government grants tax cuts, higher income earners get larger amounts and p.....
» 6/08/2013 2:38:35 PM In response to yesterday’s posts: 1. The Gonski recommendations are the existing Victorian.....
» 6/08/2013 2:38:00 PM I agree that money can be well spent or badly spent. What I object to is the dodgy reasoni.....
» 6/08/2013 2:37:04 PM Phaedrus, I am not going to be able to comment on every point you make for reasons of tim.....
» 5/08/2013 8:23:50 PM Phaedrus, I take your point re transparency. I guess it depends on what the author meant .....
» 3/08/2013 5:50:40 PM Phaedrus, Thank you for your detailed reply. I need some time to consider it and will do .....
» 1/08/2013 10:46:52 AM The agreement of the non-government sector is an issue. The fact that the Australian Educa.....
» 10/07/2013 9:22:54 AM Tombee, You are right. Not all money is wisely spent, but I am sick to death of the mantr.....
» 9/07/2013 9:16:01 AM The Gonski report itself recommended “a flexible arrangement with states and systems for a.....
» 9/07/2013 9:15:31 AM “The argument that the existing school funding model is too complicated and lacks transpar.....
» 9/07/2013 9:13:25 AM Of course the label, “Gonski”, has stuck. It’s short. The official name has always been th.....
» 6/07/2013 9:47:35 AM Phaedrus, I am sceptical of long-term projections of future funding for individual school.....
» 5/07/2013 12:48:44 PM Yes, “the new funding model is flawed”. It is flawed because it keeps the Howard governmen.....
» 4/07/2013 4:09:40 PM Phaedrus, Well, that is quite weird. After all, the Gonksi model is a based on the Victor.....
» 4/07/2013 9:13:31 AM “By delaying the Bill's consequences will this assure that its legislative implications wi.....
» 3/07/2013 3:26:14 PM 99.995 per cent of the population does not understand the current funding system or the Go.....
» 3/07/2013 3:13:53 PM Phaedrus, The funding model does work. It is the system Victoria has used for its governm.....
» 28/06/2013 8:42:18 AM “How far back would an Abbott government push the campaigns for … marriage equality?” I d.....
» 27/06/2013 9:05:06 AM The press coverage of the Gonksi report has been abysmal. In February 2012,the Gonksi rep.....
» 18/06/2013 11:15:22 AM The low-fee private schools were conned by thee Howard government. By agreeing to the SES .....
» 18/06/2013 11:15:02 AM Social segregation will get worse now that the Labor is gradually moving schools off its o.....
» 15/06/2013 9:26:38 AM Hasbeen, I’m not going to challenge your experience of individual teachers. I worked in e.....
» 14/06/2013 11:02:45 AM This is the letter I wrote the day the Gonksi report was released: ‘21/2/2012 The Gonski.....
» 14/06/2013 8:19:49 AM Hasbeen, My “hairsplitting” is giving specific facts that shows Scott Prasser is wrong on.....
» 14/06/2013 8:12:06 AM Raycom, As I said, “The relevance of this is that the salaries of teachers have to keep u.....
» 13/06/2013 9:54:43 AM The Gonksi review was funding review, not a review of every aspect of education. There a.....
» 13/06/2013 9:50:46 AM It intrigues me that the same old people pushing the same old myths get published again an.....
» 12/06/2013 10:58:22 AM It’s a myth, though a widely believed one, that before the 1967 referendum the Constitutio.....
» 4/06/2013 9:57:57 AM The progressive tax system accounts for the fact that some people earn a lot more than oth.....
» 4/06/2013 9:34:26 AM Hasbeen, Teachers average more than 50 hours a week already. If you make their excessive .....
» 28/05/2013 3:15:06 PM The article says, “For all the hype surrounding debates about school funding, it's also cl.....
» 28/05/2013 3:14:44 PM The article says, ‘Research both here and overseas consistently proves that increased fund.....
» 28/05/2013 3:12:59 PM The article says, “While some critics argue the current socioeconomic status model lacks t.....
» 23/05/2013 8:52:01 PM Kevin Donnelly’s claim that “that non-government schools, even those in disadvantaged area.....
» 12/04/2013 10:00:51 AM The author – like almost every person who has reported or commented on the Gonski review i.....
» 8/04/2013 11:15:40 AM Ian, I accept that you were not making a personal criticism. My experience of flexibilit.....
» 8/04/2013 11:15:03 AM Dean, I accept that there are many things other than class sizes that affect learning. I .....
» 5/04/2013 8:22:25 AM Hasbeen, If “the control of the state schools has been given to the teacher’s(sic) union”.....
» 5/04/2013 8:16:26 AM Tristan, The government is not saying that no schools will be worse off “under Gonski” b.....
» 4/04/2013 10:50:31 AM Tristan, Before you get carried away by Gonksi enthusiasm, I urge you to look more close.....
» 2/04/2013 9:07:16 AM Foyle I agree with most of what you say. Of course students need to evaluate what they fi.....
» 2/04/2013 9:01:15 AM Dean, The “nub” of your article is that teachers’ working lives would be worse if you won.....
» 2/04/2013 8:48:13 AM Kevin Donnelly has omitted to add the Howard government’s SES school funding model to the .....
» 27/03/2013 1:42:03 PM bondi tram, My experience is different from yours. Class size makes a big difference to w.....
» 27/03/2013 9:39:42 AM The reporting on the Gonski report has been truly abysmal. It has taken 13 months for any .....
» 25/03/2013 2:46:40 PM Bronte, The media reporting on the Gonski review has been very poor; e.g., The Age has ne.....
» 15/03/2013 9:27:10 AM 500,000 studies have shown that “the sage on the stage approach to teaching” leads to stud.....
» 13/03/2013 9:21:27 AM The campaign to make teacher’s working lives worse by increasing class sizes needs to be r.....
» 5/02/2013 12:42:48 PM Shadow, My figures are not unsupported. I gave a link to a full account with references a.....
» 5/02/2013 12:42:15 PM The Gonksi report does not fix everything, but the government does not have to implement e.....
» 5/02/2013 12:41:55 PM Shadow, I know it is too much to expect you to keep coming back to see if I have got arou.....
» 29/01/2013 9:36:15 AM The Age claimed that the Australian Constitution includes “a section that effectively perm.....
» 29/01/2013 9:35:57 AM You say, “For an analysis to be even vaguely accurate, you need to use the same time perio.....
» 29/01/2013 9:35:35 AM Shadow, My apologies for not replying sooner. I have been busy and a couple of attempts w.....
» 20/01/2013 1:45:05 PM I did not say that all the increase in spending went into teacher’s salary levels. I point.....
» 20/01/2013 1:44:46 PM The real increase per student from the official figures is 24.7 per cent for 1999-2000 to .....
» 20/01/2013 1:44:19 PM Shadow, None of the articles from which I quoted gave any basis for the claim that educat.....
» 17/01/2013 9:12:11 AM 4. I am not sure what point you are making. The Grattan Institute gives a separate figure .....
» 17/01/2013 9:11:55 AM Shadow, I have not been “cherry picking” statements. I have reproduced every statement th.....
» 13/01/2013 12:27:00 PM Shadow, Your claim that “the statements made all cover the increase in real expenditure, .....
» 12/01/2013 9:27:51 AM Shadow, The Grattan Institute’s 44 per cent is complete nonsense. You need to look at the.....
» 11/01/2013 5:13:26 PM Shadow, I used the same one. I see what you have done. You have used the annual calculato.....
» 11/01/2013 11:31:05 AM Electors are not “allowed to delegate the preference choice” to anyone else. They have the.....
» 10/01/2013 8:00:00 AM Shadow, I used the RBA calculator to convert the 1999-2000 and 2008-09 figures. As they a.....
» 9/01/2013 9:05:18 AM In fact, the National Reports on Schooling in Australia show that government spending per .....
» 9/01/2013 9:04:12 AM Ben Jensen claimed that “between 2000 and 2009, expenditure increased more than 40 per cen.....
» 9/01/2013 8:59:36 AM Shadow Minister, You “doubt” and “suspect”. I “know”. Of course, schools can take teacher.....
» 8/01/2013 8:08:51 AM Shadow Minister, I understand that NSW is now moving down the same path as Victoria took .....
» 7/01/2013 3:20:49 PM Shadow Minister, Your statement that “public school hiring and promotion is based on seni.....
» 7/01/2013 3:06:51 PM Someone else can speak for other states, but the Victorian Labor government did not let in.....
» 4/01/2013 8:32:17 AM Russia, the USA, Canada, China, Brazil and India, all the countries near Australia in area.....
» 3/01/2013 9:18:48 AM Before the usual mantras turn up, I wish to point out that reporting on the Gonski report .....
» 23/12/2012 10:11:35 AM I see this is one of those discussions in which evidence is irrelevant, but to those who s.....
» 23/12/2012 10:03:52 AM Rhrosty, You say, “The states have by and large, failed to fulfil the arrangement/agreeme.....
» 21/12/2012 3:12:14 PM The comment, “staffing schools according to student-staff ratios rather than fixed class s.....
» 21/12/2012 3:11:38 PM The Gonski proposal is not “to fund schools according to their educational task rather tha.....
» 20/12/2012 2:47:56 PM Phillip Howell, You are right in theory, but I am right in practice. If voters in Tasmani.....
» 14/12/2012 11:34:15 AM The pattern is crystal clear. Major parties are over-represented in the House of Represent.....
» 14/12/2012 11:33:26 AM (2) 1983 Senate ALP 45.5 30 47 Democrats 9.6 5 8 Coalition 40.0 28 44 Other 5.0 .....
» 14/12/2012 11:33:06 AM (1) The fact that each state has the same number of senators despite differences in popula.....
» 11/12/2012 9:15:40 AM Party list systems, whether open or closed, are inferior to the single transferable vote s.....
» 10/12/2012 2:14:16 PM The letter in response to David Marr’s article on Tony Abbott that <i>Quarterly Essa.....
» 3/12/2012 8:34:01 AM The presumption behind this discussion is that the House of Representatives represents the.....
» 30/11/2012 9:38:09 AM GlenC, The Gonski recommendations would also keep education funds “flowing to those who l.....
» 30/11/2012 9:32:03 AM Rhrosty, Rants against the bureaucracy have become commonplace. I checked the figures for.....
» 30/11/2012 9:22:17 AM It is not necessarily the reality “that the current socioeconomic status model expires at .....
» 26/11/2012 3:54:26 PM Yuyutsu, Amnesty money did no go into the teaching at the school. The school provided the.....
» 26/11/2012 8:10:10 AM Why on earth should Amnesty be a “pro-choice” organsiation? It was set up to campaign for .....
» 20/11/2012 11:45:31 AM Squeers, The draft bill does not say anything about excluding some parents, no matter how.....
» 19/11/2012 3:03:02 PM Graham, The point you make is a very significant one, and all those foolish people demand.....
» 17/11/2012 9:26:13 AM The article’s reference to “the funding model that will have to replace the existing socio.....
» 13/11/2012 11:38:36 AM Hear, hear, Houellebecq. I demand that evidence have the right to marry accusations, a ri.....
» 13/11/2012 8:58:38 AM A far better article than the teacher-bashing rubbish that Jonathan Ariel has previously w.....
» 12/11/2012 9:58:18 AM Foyle, Robert LePage and HFR, The ideas that Tony Abbott is a DLP type and that the Liber.....
» 7/11/2012 9:02:45 AM Atman, It is true that long ago the Labor Party supported the White Australia Policy. It .....
» 6/11/2012 9:10:24 AM The Claim: “And although some Democrats finally supported the famous Civil Rights Act of 1.....
» 17/10/2012 11:59:10 AM There has been no vote against “marriage equality”. There has been a vote against gay marr.....
» 16/10/2012 4:49:00 PM The final relevant fact is that the list contains lots of government schools, which would .....
» 16/10/2012 4:48:35 PM Let’s be clear why there are more than 3,000 losing school sunder the Gonski proposals. I.....
» 3/10/2012 9:48:09 AM Section 51 of the Constitution says, “The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, .....
» 30/09/2012 3:24:59 PM Julian, The UK replacement body is an appointed quango. Teachers have no say in it, where.....
» 29/09/2012 2:43:28 PM Houellebecq (2.19:44pm, 27/9), Given that “marriage” is a “social construct” and there is.....
» 29/09/2012 2:31:55 PM EJ, So, WA teachers have a professional registration authority, as do teachers in other s.....
» 28/09/2012 3:21:18 PM Those wanting more detailed information about how the current funding system actually work.....
» 27/09/2012 9:55:09 AM The gay marriage campaign is a fascinating illustration of so much that is wrong in our na.....
» 12/09/2012 2:48:30 PM Steven, Maybe I’m a bit grumpy, but it seemed to me that your article was like a film rev.....
» 11/09/2012 4:01:41 PM I would not expect a review of funding to do much more than provide a review of funding, a.....
» 6/09/2012 9:41:12 AM 7) that the main reason the Gonski report produces a list of losers (more than 3,000 schoo.....
» 6/09/2012 9:40:51 AM Kevin Donnelly is right about fads like the open classroom, but supporting the Coalition o.....
» 14/08/2012 12:49:48 PM All very interesting and all very irrelevant. In Australian society marriage has always be.....
» 9/08/2012 9:00:42 AM Russia, the USA, Canada, China, Brazil and India, all the countries near Australia in area.....
» 1/08/2012 2:31:41 PM The gay marriage campaign has relied on dishonesty from the start in claiming that gays ma.....
» 29/07/2012 10:45:33 AM JohnBennetts, We know that ‘postcodes’ is poetic licence, that the comparator for social .....
» 26/07/2012 10:20:39 AM The clamour to implement the Gonski report is fascinating. Do those shouting for this to b.....
» 16/07/2012 3:48:12 PM Just another article containing factless, lazy stereotypes. The DLP is hardly likely to b.....
» 6/07/2012 9:27:38 AM The choice is not between urban sprawl and higher density. It is between growth in the cap.....
» 5/07/2012 4:25:59 PM runner, Read what I have written. The LT3 salary is for a promotion position, not a class.....
» 5/07/2012 4:16:33 PM The Gonksi report is an excellent and comprehensive study of current funding systems in Au.....
» 5/07/2012 4:05:54 PM I sent a letter to the editor when this article appeared in The Australian. It was not pub.....
» 3/07/2012 10:30:28 AM I used to think that the superannuation industry should win the spin of the century award,.....
» 29/06/2012 9:42:03 AM The article says, “Western Australia's autonomy for principals has contributed to its impr.....
» 26/06/2012 2:57:01 PM Squeers, Given the frequent confusion over what is and is not, I don’t think it is trivia.....
» 25/06/2012 8:24:08 PM Squeers, I expected someone to miss the point of my posting. I did not express an opinion.....
» 25/06/2012 4:21:07 PM I do not wish to comment on the particular case, but I do wish to make a few points releva.....
» 16/06/2012 10:06:20 AM (2) If the word “marriage” is changed to mean the union of any two people, it can be chang.....
» 16/06/2012 10:05:22 AM Alan Austin, (1) I’ve been busy of late and this has delayed my return to this thread. I.....
» 2/06/2012 2:11:11 PM Pericles, Marriage is a contract that some people break. That does not change the meaning.....
» 1/06/2012 9:51:04 AM The issue is not to “legalise gay marriage” as it is not illegal in the first place. It is.....
» 28/05/2012 5:22:28 PM Tristan, Your enthusiasm for the implementation of the Gonski report is understandable, b.....
» 26/05/2012 5:24:44 PM Jon J, Most Catholics were never “purged” from the ALP at all. The majority outside of Vi.....
» 25/05/2012 5:23:37 PM Atman, You are right about Catholics and the Labor Party. A Catholic cardinal, Patrick Mo.....
» 24/05/2012 5:26:00 PM Yabby, OECD Education at a Glance 2011 does not give any information on teacher pay or cl.....
» 23/05/2012 2:08:15 PM Yabby, I wouldn’t take any notice of the salary comparison on the article you linked to. .....
» 23/05/2012 9:57:55 AM The statement that “Freedom to marry regardless of race was near the top of their list of .....
» 23/05/2012 9:45:40 AM Contrary to the writer and the Grattan Institute report, class sizes do make a difference,.....
» 17/05/2012 9:27:57 AM As I indicated above, the “costs have jumped for no good reason” argument is false and the.....
» 17/05/2012 9:24:27 AM As I indicated above, the Gonski report is one reform that will help Labor. My thoughts ar.....
» 13/05/2012 11:00:52 AM Jayb, I can’t see the relevance of surds in a business course either. In fact, while I re.....
» 12/05/2012 10:02:34 AM Poirot, No, it’s not pedantic at all. There is a institution which has a word to describe.....
» 12/05/2012 9:42:17 AM Jayb, If you had a said in the first place that you were talking about business and compu.....
» 10/05/2012 3:48:30 PM Rhrosty, Yes, Victoria does lead. As those of us paying attention predicted more than a y.....
» 10/05/2012 3:37:34 PM Jayb, You agree with me that teachers develop their own lesson plans, but “[I] don’t know.....
» 10/05/2012 3:27:15 PM ybgirp (11.48am, 7/5), No, we don’t have “always” “have those opposed to change arguing f.....
» 8/05/2012 1:47:00 PM Jayb, You have no idea what you are talking about. Teachers do not just teach from the bo.....
» 8/05/2012 1:40:05 PM CARFAX, As I have pointed out to you before (http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp.....
» 8/05/2012 9:20:32 AM The forces of the right have long decried expenditure on government school students but ar.....
» 8/05/2012 8:56:36 AM As far as I know, the state registration bodies are independent statutory authorities and .....
» 6/05/2012 11:38:26 AM WmTrevor, (10.34am, 4/5) Thanks for the icon advice. I have wondered for years why I coul.....
» 4/05/2012 9:37:28 AM Gay marriage is not a religious issue at all. Pretending it is is just a way of deflecting.....
» 3/05/2012 10:56:56 AM The federal AEU has so far apparently said nothing abut the Gonski recommendation to conti.....
» 3/05/2012 10:54:18 AM Gerard Henderson’s point arises from the SES model and the Gonski report’s recommendation .....
» 1/05/2012 9:19:12 AM imajulianutter, I have no idea why Crikey wants to charge you for access. The Poll Bludge.....
» 30/04/2012 1:54:15 PM imajulianutter, You say that I “have had to subscribe to Crikey”. I have not had to subsc.....
» 30/04/2012 12:00:39 AM imajulianutter, I’m not putting any faith in Crikey contributors. I am putting faith in m.....
» 28/04/2012 10:43:19 AM imajulianutter, It is not possible in the word limit to deal with your claim that state L.....
» 26/04/2012 2:49:58 PM (2) While the Gonski report is outstanding in the justice, breadth and rigour that informe.....
» 26/04/2012 2:49:31 PM Tristan, (1) I can understand your enthusiasm for the Gonski report. It would certainly b.....
» 13/04/2012 2:06:27 PM Kipp (6.47pm, 11/4), Not true at all. In the 1973 Victorian state election, I supported .....
» 11/04/2012 5:18:57 PM Pericles (10.24am, 10/4), You’re right in your first two sentences, of course, and your c.....
» 21/03/2012 4:19:40 PM Chris, What those concerned about education ought to consider is why things are as they a.....
» 17/03/2012 2:39:29 PM WmTrevor, I am not “pretending” to be pedantic. I am not even being pedantic. GrahamY an.....
» 16/03/2012 1:55:48 PM The argument for enforced higher urban density has always been nonsense in Australia. We c.....
» 16/03/2012 1:05:42 PM Gay marriage is both an impossibility and an inevitability – an impossibility by definitio.....
» 12/03/2012 4:26:50 PM There is nothing new about vertical grouping, and it is not a panacea. Nothing is. The st.....
» 9/03/2012 2:05:39 PM The statement that the AEU is opposed to merit-based pay is false. The AEU, like all those.....
» 16/02/2012 8:53:49 AM I dealt with the issue of small schools, which are often country schools, in my submission.....
» 15/02/2012 10:40:47 AM CARFAX, Today’s news reports that the Gonski Review has recommended a per capita funding .....
» 12/02/2012 3:31:39 PM TBC, Union members have the right to stand in the first place. If among the 150,000-200,0.....
» 9/02/2012 1:52:23 PM I agree a lot is lost in the “fog of right or left ideology”. That is why I put “the right.....
» 9/02/2012 1:51:55 PM CARFAX, I read the article before I composed my responses. They were not diatribes, thou.....
» 9/02/2012 10:22:40 AM There is a fundamental contradiction in “the right’s” approach to education funding. On th.....
» 9/02/2012 10:22:13 AM Scott Prasser says there is no evidence that there is “a campaign to undermine the public .....
» 8/02/2012 1:38:30 PM ozbib, I’m not arguing a moral case. I am pointing out that the word, “marriage”, has a m.....
» 8/02/2012 1:15:43 PM TBC, I gave a link to the discussion of house fire statistics, so if you don’t want to be.....
» 8/02/2012 12:53:16 PM mike-serve-the-people, The fact that some schools get more than they would be allocated u.....
» 5/02/2012 12:40:56 PM Kipp, I could say, “Can anyone give a reason for gay marriage other than ‘It’s yours and .....
» 5/02/2012 12:27:18 PM TBC, I’m not kidding at all. It is unfair of you to call Peter Garrett a “pet drone” of .....
» 3/02/2012 2:29:26 PM The gay marriage issue is the silliest issue that people have ever got worked up over. Cal.....
» 3/02/2012 2:19:57 PM The Review of Funding for Schooling provided a golden opportunity for a better system. Sad.....
» 13/01/2012 12:28:42 PM Autonomy in the hands of a really good leader is excellent. Autonomy in the hands of a tin.....
» 13/01/2012 9:25:15 AM The trick in this discussion is the use of the abstraction, “autonomy”. The true history .....
» 23/11/2011 9:18:49 AM Another in a long series of articles by the planning industry telling us we have to squash.....
» 17/11/2011 2:12:15 PM The good old IPA never gives up. It caused substantial damage to Victoria in the 1992-99 p.....
» 7/11/2011 3:27:48 PM whistler, The 1967 referendum did not mean that “Aborigines came under the auspices of th.....
» 15/10/2011 4:50:44 PM Formersnag (2.19pm, 10/10), The idea that the far right is anarchy makes no sense at all,.....
» 13/10/2011 10:09:04 AM The marginal recurrent cost per mainstream student of a properly staffed, high quality edu.....
» 13/10/2011 10:08:34 AM I posted several comments on this article when it appeared in The Australian yesterday, bu.....
» 10/10/2011 12:40:34 PM Antiseptic (9.58pm, 6/10), Conservatism is opposed to socialism, though one could be cons.....
» 6/10/2011 8:13:38 AM Rhian, You have put the issue very clearly. Antiseptic, When you start talking about “r.....
» 5/10/2011 8:27:20 AM The Nazis started in coalition with the Nationalists, a definitely right-wing party. They .....
» 5/10/2011 8:25:51 AM The left-wing, socialist Nazi Party of Hitler’s time is a recent invention, which despite .....
» 12/09/2011 1:52:03 PM It is so easy to do that I did it in my own submissions to the Review of Funding for Schoo.....
» 12/09/2011 1:51:32 PM There is no threat to private schools from the Gonski Review. The current funding system .....
» 27/08/2011 3:00:05 PM Philo, Voters do not have to place “1” above the line. They freely choose to do so. They .....
» 26/08/2011 1:42:03 PM The checks and balances in our system are there to protect us from dictatorial government .....
» 23/08/2011 4:29:51 PM I regard both the push for ever-expanding suburbs and the one for urban consolidation as e.....
» 14/04/2011 9:59:21 AM Thus a person in one field seeing other fields provide increased pay will consider moving .....
» 14/04/2011 9:58:57 AM Riddler, No, my last reply was not awesome. Nor was it meant to impress. It was just a re.....
» 31/03/2011 8:09:52 AM Riddler, No, that is not how my post reads. It corrects untrue statements that you made.....
» 27/03/2011 12:10:40 PM I don’t think I ‘remind everyone here of the values, intelligence and cause of the teacher.....
» 27/03/2011 12:10:15 PM Riddler, I have explained to you again and again that I am posting in priority order. I h.....
» 23/03/2011 11:26:27 AM Riddler, ‘If you can restrain yourself from replying with more inaccurate information and.....
» 20/03/2011 11:24:42 AM Riddler, Yes, I have just made ‘another 4 posts, well under the word limit, and STILL hav.....
» 18/03/2011 2:10:51 PM Riddler, You say, that I’ve ‘conceded there has not been a decrease.’ You are really di.....
» 18/03/2011 1:45:09 PM Yet again, you make a ridiculous extreme statement and then back away from it by pretendin.....
» 18/03/2011 1:44:54 PM You say, ‘Your continued quibbling that an impractical choice is still a choice is intenti.....
» 18/03/2011 1:44:31 PM Riddler, You say, ‘if you never thought there had been a salary decrease in real terms th.....
» 15/03/2011 3:11:13 PM I see we have reached the CAPITALISATION stage. You say that I ‘HAVE SINCE SAID [I] DON’T.....
» 15/03/2011 3:09:37 PM According to normal maths, 2011-1975 = 36. According to you, 2011-1975 = 35, which result.....
» 15/03/2011 3:09:08 PM Of course, there is no CPI increase for 2011 included. There does not have to be. The CPI .....
» 15/03/2011 3:08:47 PM Riddler, You say, ‘When picking a different month in 1975 instead of the year as a whole .....
» 13/03/2011 4:52:20 PM You say that I “find time to ignore questions” (3.10:39pm, 12/3). It is not necessary to “.....
» 13/03/2011 4:51:48 PM You say, “So if you’ve conceded there was no actual drop, you’ve conceded the whole argume.....
» 13/03/2011 4:51:23 PM You act as though I have suddenly discovered that there has not been a decrease in salarie.....
» 13/03/2011 4:51:03 PM Riddler, You say ‘MAWOTE is not a useful stat…’ (4.56:25pm, 8/3). So you keep saying, jus.....
» 12/03/2011 2:31:12 PM You say ‘You continue to defy the inflation calculator in a way that is frankly bizarre’ (.....
» 12/03/2011 2:30:45 PM You do the same things when you talk about grammar (4.54:59pm, 8/3). The untrue thing you .....
» 12/03/2011 2:30:16 PM You say that I ‘hint’ that I ‘oppose school autonomy’. To save you the bother of making up.....
» 12/03/2011 2:29:56 PM Riddler, You say ‘I'm sorry you can't read, but my meaning was plain, both in the post yo.....
» 10/03/2011 12:29:18 PM You say, ‘You just used all 4 posts and 1400 words to say "waaa, you're mean and I ha.....
» 10/03/2011 12:26:45 PM I did not reply that I could pick ‘any year at all’. I said, ‘I could have started with 19.....
» 10/03/2011 12:25:42 PM It is untrue of you to say that the typo “will doubtless confuse” me (2.17:52pm, 4/3). I s.....
» 10/03/2011 12:25:07 PM You say, “If it really is so high that there was a $7000 difference in a single year, then.....
» 8/03/2011 2:38:32 PM Anyone can go to the RBA Calculator at http://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualDecimal.html.....
» 8/03/2011 2:37:50 PM You say ‘So now I’m told Grammar and Classics have “declined” but not “dropped generally”......
» 8/03/2011 2:36:59 PM Riddler, I have not “avoided [your] question” (1.55:48pm, 4/2). As I explained earlier, I.....
» 8/03/2011 9:15:14 AM weareunique, Thank you. The whole debate is full of misinformation and slogans, which is .....
» 7/03/2011 7:55:54 AM In Queensland, there is zoning, but it not the end of the story: “Enrolment Management Pl.....
» 7/03/2011 7:55:35 AM In SA, there is zoning, but it not the end of the story: “School Zoning “The Minister fo.....
» 7/03/2011 7:55:15 AM There may be some statements, even in recent years, from the AEU or its constituent branch.....
» 7/03/2011 7:54:54 AM Riddler, In accordance with the priorities I have set myself, I will now respond to the u.....
» 5/03/2011 2:56:40 PM Worse than the general false claims is that you hide behind your anonymous screen name to .....
» 5/03/2011 2:54:22 PM You have made a number of false claims about me: “you don't understand causation or logic”.....
» 5/03/2011 2:53:31 PM Your comments suggest that you believe that petty put-downs and name-calling will help you.....
» 5/03/2011 2:52:09 PM Riddler, I see that, having finally got a start on my second priority, “to deal with your.....
» 4/03/2011 9:35:15 AM You have challenged me on a number of choices I have made with my comparisons on pay. 197.....
» 4/03/2011 9:34:45 AM Primary and secondary teachers in Victoria are on the same pay scale. Public money pays fo.....
» 4/03/2011 9:34:02 AM You say, “I don’t care what you interpreted my words to mean, I know what I meant by them......
» 4/03/2011 9:33:05 AM Riddler, “Sure, let's play big boy.” (9.44:33am, 2/3) This is a pathetic debating style.....
» 3/03/2011 9:29:36 AM Your claim that Catholic schools have more revenue than government schools, which you now .....
» 3/03/2011 9:28:14 AM It looks like you want me to stay with my first priority (8.03:14am, 2/3). When you say t.....
» 3/03/2011 9:25:31 AM Riddler, You say “You’re(sic) claim that “A system which pays some teachers more than oth.....
» 3/03/2011 9:24:55 AM You say, “$11,400 in 1983 on the RBA inflation calculator comes up with a value of $25,470.....
» 2/03/2011 8:07:13 AM You say, “It’s also unclear to me why we should hire more teachers for schools that are in.....
» 2/03/2011 8:06:05 AM You say that “you don’t need an educational degree to work in a private school, so your cl.....
» 2/03/2011 8:04:49 AM Catholic schools do not have “more revenue to pay teachers with” (4.17:29pm, 25/2) Accord.....
» 2/03/2011 8:03:14 AM Riddler, Your underlings may have to put up with your putting words in their mouths, pret.....
» 27/02/2011 3:29:38 PM You say, “I can only assume you type a reply, find it's too long, and then slowly and agon.....
» 27/02/2011 3:28:36 PM It is not true that “the choice of where to send students is made by the Dept of Education.....
» 27/02/2011 3:28:10 PM It is untrue of you to say that, “the evidence for this claim, of standards radically drop.....
» 27/02/2011 3:27:24 PM Riddler, Your definition of “real terms” is correct (6.04:06pm, 21/2). It is exactly the .....
» 26/02/2011 2:28:22 PM You say, “the AEU is totally opposed to performance based measures”. It was the pre-cursor.....
» 26/02/2011 2:27:57 PM You accuse me of being opposed to “making public schools work to improve” (5.03:27pm, 20/2.....
» 26/02/2011 2:27:30 PM It’s not only parliamentary inquiries that say there has been a decline in entrance standa.....
» 26/02/2011 2:26:39 PM Riddler, The 1983 to 2003 timeframe on the fall in the average ability of those entering .....
» 25/02/2011 1:33:04 PM Riddler, I am so relieved to know my posts are “just coherent enough to merit a proper r.....
» 25/02/2011 1:32:43 PM A principal at the bottom of the top range is paid slightly more in real salary terms than.....
» 25/02/2011 1:32:24 PM We can sum up the situation thus: A beginning teacher today is paid slightly more in real .....
» 25/02/2011 1:32:05 PM Now that the ABS has released average earnings figures for November last year, we can upda.....
» 24/02/2011 12:41:11 PM The top principal salary was $17,300 in 1975 ($114,023 in today’s dollars). However, we ca.....
» 24/02/2011 12:39:46 PM A sub-division 14 teacher (the top unpromoted sub-division, automatically reached after se.....
» 24/02/2011 12:39:26 PM Riddler, If you go to the RBA calculator and put $11,400 (the subdivision 14 salary, not .....
» 23/02/2011 11:41:06 AM Vanna, So, you know of a primary school where, “While the students are being taught by th.....
» 23/02/2011 11:40:44 AM Longweekend, You say the only reason you have not “returned to debunk [my] rather bad mat.....
» 23/02/2011 11:40:24 AM Riddler, You say, “We don't care about your grievances with your old school”. Given that .....
» 22/02/2011 4:01:19 PM Riddler, You say, “That the funding isn't the problem, it's the way the funding is alloca.....
» 21/02/2011 5:10:55 PM Riddler, You say (4.32:37pm, 15/2) that I “falsely” assert that [teachers] were paid over.....
» 20/02/2011 3:12:38 PM However, the figures do not tell the whole story because today’s PTR contains teachers per.....
» 20/02/2011 3:12:11 PM Pay is not the only factor. One other is workload, with objective and subjective measureme.....
» 20/02/2011 3:11:47 PM As the average percentile rank of those entering teacher education fell from 74 to 61 betw.....
» 20/02/2011 3:11:17 PM Riddler, You say that I have bad maths, yet fail to point out a single mathematical error.....
» 19/02/2011 2:51:15 PM The top principal salary was $17,300 in 1975 ($110,409 in today’s dollars). However, we ca.....
» 19/02/2011 2:50:45 PM A sub-division 14 teacher (the top unpromoted sub-division, automatically reached after se.....
» 19/02/2011 2:50:23 PM I earlier used a shortcut to calculate the percentage increase in the CPI since 1975 as ap.....
» 19/02/2011 2:49:58 PM Riddler, Longweekend58 is not “torching [me] with a vengeance on the stats”. He has the c.....
» 15/02/2011 3:49:37 PM vanna, Productivity isn’t everything for the obvious reason that the value of money falls.....
» 15/02/2011 3:49:15 PM Longweekend58, I take it that you accept the percentage increases in the CPI that I give .....
» 15/02/2011 3:48:55 PM Longweekend58, You say I find it difficult to stick to the topic at hand. My initial post.....
» 15/02/2011 3:48:32 PM longweekend58, I made a comparison of the pay of a teacher at the top of the unpromoted s.....
» 13/02/2011 5:14:22 PM longweekend58, If you were correct in saying that the CPI had increased by 741 per cent, .....
» 13/02/2011 5:13:43 PM longweekend58, You initially said, based on no evidence whatsoever, that I was opposed to.....
» 12/02/2011 5:32:46 PM longweekend58, Male average weekly ordinary time earnings were $132.50 in December, 1974......
» 12/02/2011 3:43:57 PM longweekend58, The relevance of my being a DLP candidate is that your accusation was that.....
» 12/02/2011 9:35:36 AM longweekend58, If you claim that my figures on teacher salaries are wrong, you ought to p.....
» 12/02/2011 9:35:13 AM longweekend58, If you are going to make stuff up about people, you ought to do a little b.....
» 11/02/2011 4:56:34 PM longweekend58, I asked you to provide the figures to show that my figures were wrong. You.....
» 11/02/2011 2:05:34 PM Riddler, The website opens for me, so if it does not for you, I suggest you go to the Mar.....
» 11/02/2011 9:17:09 AM Petal, I try, but there are too many people who just pass on what someone has told them. .....
» 10/02/2011 12:14:42 PM Riddler, I have answered your points twice now. You just don’t accept the answer. The ev.....
» 9/02/2011 2:26:41 PM crabsy, John Hattie has done extensive research on the factors that improve learning. He .....
» 8/02/2011 1:28:34 PM Vanna, I repeat: the research evidence is that smaller classes improve student learning. .....
» 6/02/2011 5:15:55 PM We have the usual unsupported and inaccurate claims about education and teachers: e.g., th.....
» 16/01/2011 4:45:24 PM Shadow Minister, Thank you for the link. I have now looked through it. I am not sure wha.....
» 13/01/2011 8:11:07 AM Shadow Minister, Can you refer me to these Australian studies please? The union-negotiat.....
» 11/01/2011 9:26:24 AM Shadow Minister, If you cared to consult the evidence, you would realise that the differe.....
» 2/01/2011 3:06:16 PM Has been, Perhaps vanna is a North Queenslander or, from what Perkinsy says, a New South .....
» 1/01/2011 3:21:14 PM vanna, Why are you still saying “report cards”? Did the teachers you lived with them call.....
» 28/12/2010 8:09:31 AM vanna, As I have already said, I never heard the term “report cards” used by anyone in my.....
» 27/12/2010 12:21:48 PM we are unique, It is important that a teacher mark his or her students’ own work because .....
» 26/12/2010 2:05:15 PM The critics of modern education claim that there has been a major decline in standards ove.....
» 26/12/2010 1:59:13 PM vanna, Of course, different teachers use the same comments on students’ reports (not “rep.....
» 27/10/2010 7:40:42 PM Hasbeen, Teachers are required to attend their place of employment for 38 hours a week, s.....
» 27/10/2010 3:09:56 PM The AEU argument has been nonsense since the day it was devised. It diverts attention from.....
» 12/10/2010 3:57:49 PM Pericles, I’m happy to oblige. I think the myth that the states did not cut the taxes the.....
» 11/10/2010 5:13:10 PM Pericles, There was never any promise to roll back payroll tax in return for the GST. All.....
» 1/10/2010 3:10:17 PM The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership is completely unelected and ha.....
» 26/09/2010 5:28:36 PM Constance, It is too easy and unfair to dismiss the Labor “elite” with the usual chardonn.....
» 22/09/2010 4:41:11 PM mac, As you can probably see what HFR does not, I have not justified any collaboration by.....
» 21/09/2010 6:02:57 PM HFR, Argumentum ad hominem is the tactic of one who can’t win on logic or fact. I have p.....
» 21/09/2010 3:41:06 PM HFR, I see the mere statement that Hitler was an atheist is enough for you to conclude by.....
» 20/09/2010 5:46:22 PM mac, When HFR implies that Hitler was not an atheist but a Catholic, it is perfectly rele.....
» 20/09/2010 3:56:00 PM HFR, We have been through this before: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?artic.....
» 7/09/2010 9:56:50 AM Victorian schools have had chaplains for over 50 years. My first school had one way back i.....
» 31/08/2010 2:22:47 PM Phooey!! In 1970, 19.6 per cent of the voters voted for a non-major party, 11.1 per cent f.....
» 31/08/2010 2:13:57 PM HFR, The link does not take me where you implied it does, but I found what I take your in.....
» 27/08/2010 4:42:32 PM HFR, “Hitler’s hostility to Christianity reached new heights, or depths, during the war. .....
» 23/08/2010 10:29:13 PM HFR, Hitler was not a Catholic by the time he ruled Germany. He abhorred the Catholic Chu.....
» 22/08/2010 9:10:11 PM Further to my previous post: Tony Abbott has almost won – and may scrape in if the cross-b.....
» 20/08/2010 1:16:39 PM If Tony Abbott wins on Saturday, I hope he thanks the anti-Catholic bigots and trendy left.....
» 18/08/2010 1:46:12 PM Max, You say performance pay “was rejected by teachers who don’t want to have to compete .....
» 6/08/2010 10:04:43 AM Thirty years ago, principals were perfectly capable of leading the teachers in their schoo.....
» 6/08/2010 9:59:03 AM Rhian, It used to be compulsory to fill put al the preferences individually for the Senat.....
» 1/08/2010 3:51:36 PM Rhian, The preferences are always the voters’ preferences. Voting above the line is a dec.....
» 25/06/2010 4:07:28 PM mikk, You are wrong when you say, “He never could countenance negotiating with the greens.....
» 26/05/2010 3:29:04 PM Hilly, I guess the paradise of 25 students in a class must be in Victoria. In my 33 years.....
» 26/05/2010 3:13:29 PM Australia has 2.8 people per square kilometre. If the entire population of Australia were .....
» 21/05/2010 3:40:03 PM Son of a Gun, The comparison with medicine is perfectly valid. A comparison with law woul.....
» 20/05/2010 3:23:47 PM Son of a Gun, Correct. The “TFAus candidates are not qualified teachers”, yet they take c.....
» 19/05/2010 9:54:33 AM Imagine the reaction if an attempt were made to apply the TfA concept to every profession:.....
» 16/05/2010 4:07:27 PM Formersnag, I studied Nazi Germany 40 years ago and have maintained an interest in the pe.....
» 16/04/2010 2:00:54 PM The AITSL is just a rebadging of Teaching Australia. The government had the chance to repl.....
» 28/03/2010 3:54:05 PM Nookn, If we had a 100-year sunset clause on the Constitution, the Australian federation .....
» 23/03/2010 8:57:46 PM E. Sykes, If you lived in the unitary country of France (640,000 square kilometres compar.....
» 7/03/2010 6:54:58 PM Tristan, I tried to post at your site, but it would not let me......
» 26/02/2010 10:34:55 AM I sent a letter to the editor of The Age in response to Dean Mighell’s article: ‘If Dean .....
» 23/02/2010 11:48:51 AM I sent a letter to the editor of The Age in response to Dean Mighell’s article: ‘If Dean .....
» 18/02/2010 12:32:59 PM Huonian, I should have said, “ Since 1955, many people have voted for DLP, Democrat, Gree.....
» 17/02/2010 2:52:46 PM Huonian, There is nothing wrong with the system by which senators are elected. It is not .....
» 16/02/2010 10:34:11 AM Whatever the intentions of the framers of the Constitution, the Senate has become the more.....
» 24/01/2010 8:44:39 AM Antiseptic, I am not trying to convince you of anything in regard to the MPs I did not me.....
» 23/01/2010 3:59:03 PM Antiseptic, I don’t ‘largely agree with [your] list of time-servers’. I just commented on.....
» 20/01/2010 10:12:03 AM The Blue Cross, Lindsay Tanner was not simply an “employee” of the FCU. He did not “apply.....
» 8/01/2010 12:38:04 PM Jardine K. Jardine, The Australian ran a series on the Left last year, which is worth rea.....
» 8/01/2010 12:27:33 PM Grim, I take your point about the difference between empathy and sympathy. Col, I concl.....
» 2/01/2010 1:03:01 PM Jardine K. Jardine, It is only in the last year or so that I have heard anyone attempt to.....
» 1/01/2010 3:06:18 PM Col, Well, this is a first. I agree with the points you make about corporations and count.....
» 1/01/2010 2:59:39 PM Grim, We could do the top 1,000, around 80 per cent of which would have to be corporation.....
» 31/12/2009 9:06:45 AM Grim, Thank you, but the link you gave does not allow me to open the items in it that see.....
» 28/12/2009 10:45:46 AM Grim, You say that “now 51% of the largest financial institutions in the world are corpor.....
» 24/12/2009 10:18:06 AM The following makes sense to me, and I do not see a whiff of fascism in it: ‘The protect.....
» 11/12/2009 11:40:03 AM “Julie Novak of the Institute of Public Affairs uses lots of big figures about the Victori.....
» 11/12/2009 11:39:43 AM The author does not justify cutting public sector expenditure to 90 per cent. Instead we g.....
» 8/12/2009 10:15:27 AM The tax-free threshold should be indexed, not to the CPI, but to movements in the minimum .....
» 27/11/2009 1:28:43 PM The author says “Almost to a person, teachers reject this type of performance pay, trustin.....
» 26/11/2009 10:07:26 AM Of course “proximity is a euphemism for the nasty label of density”. Urban planners and th.....
» 26/11/2009 9:57:41 AM What is the justification for saying that “the family tax benefits…should be repackaged as.....
» 16/11/2009 5:48:48 PM spindoc, I am sorry I have taken so long to get back. I tend to check if there have been .....
» 12/11/2009 1:58:30 PM That the Institute of Public Affairs would argue against public spending is about as obvio.....
» 6/11/2009 1:29:58 PM “This Prime Minister” never “promised” “laptops”. He promised to provide computers, whethe.....
» 1/09/2009 10:14:08 AM The author writes, ‘Leading the charge was the Catholic Church, which, through the Democra.....
» 26/08/2009 5:17:53 PM vanna, Andrew Leigh has done work that shows the substantial decline in relative teacher .....
» 26/08/2009 3:51:32 PM Des, You are right about the importance of early childhood education. I recommend anyone .....
» 18/08/2009 4:52:50 PM It sounds like the urban planner’s sardine fetish is alive and well. We have the same plan.....
» 18/07/2009 12:20:25 AM Victorian teachers at the top of the scale were paid 153 per cent of male average ordinary.....
» 5/05/2009 12:27:06 AM Thanks, slamdave. I will read your link with interest......
» 1/05/2009 3:14:32 PM Fozz, I understand that governments create money out of nothing, but I do not understand .....
» 6/04/2009 6:29:35 PM A DD would probably lead to the Greens holding the balance of power in their own right, an.....
» 6/04/2009 6:28:20 PM This is a confused discussion. The author points out that Steve Fielding was elected with .....
» 1/04/2009 9:14:36 PM Shadow Minister, I stand corrected about the distance of clearing but not about the fact .....
» 30/03/2009 9:35:21 PM Webby, The only person who was reported in the press and on TV as being fined was someone.....
» 9/03/2009 11:15:08 PM I sent a letter to the editor to The Australian in response to Alan Moran’s article when i.....
» 23/01/2009 1:43:13 PM The Rudd Government’s IR laws are less worker-friendly than those of the Menzies, Holt, Mc.....
» 9/12/2008 4:27:33 PM oneundergod, Try 07RN18.PDF via Google......
» 7/12/2008 10:48:15 AM one under god, I’m not exactly sure what you mean by, ‘they plasticised her by lies about.....
» 5/12/2008 4:10:15 PM The claim that ‘From 1958 in Victoria student teachers destined for high school placement .....
» 3/09/2008 11:19:20 AM Despite the narrowly-focused headlines (“State to pay $10m for jaded teachers to leave sch.....
» 19/06/2008 3:59:12 PM AJFA, I checked this thread for comments for a few days after my post of the 21st and the.....
» 27/05/2008 6:07:03 PM The author says: ‘The states have been enjoying record revenues, which they could have use.....
» 27/05/2008 6:06:11 PM As someone who lived through the Kennett Government, I saw nothing but damage in education.....
» 23/05/2008 8:10:59 PM remco, New Zealand has three tiers of government – national parliament, territorial counc.....
» 22/05/2008 9:21:32 AM The more far out elements of the left, with their ‘HoWARd’ posters, their street theatre, .....
» 21/05/2008 6:33:11 PM johncee1945, I think you will find that some teachers are fighting against the AEU-govern.....
» 21/05/2008 12:04:43 PM AJFA, I accept your apology. People tend to get very heated on blogs, and far worse than .....
» 20/05/2008 12:21:12 PM Here I am, Billie. I support most of what you say. I cannot argue with ‘the attraction, .....
» 19/05/2008 11:02:15 PM Correction: ‘intimidate teachers’ Making bets about what I would believe is not an argume.....
» 19/05/2008 10:58:58 PM AJFA, No, I did not say that non-left students should be bullied or discriminated against.....
» 18/05/2008 4:03:56 PM I think the point of the original article is that people of one viewpoint are unhappy that.....
» 15/05/2008 10:19:06 PM Mr Right, The ABS Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey suggests that, contrary to the wi.....
» 13/05/2008 10:33:49 PM AJFA, As the terms “silly”, “left[y]”, “ideological comrades” and “moronic” do not apply .....
» 13/05/2008 11:50:14 AM Young Liberals really do show a strange understanding of the political spectrum. I don’t k.....
» 3/05/2008 8:55:46 PM Ajay, The high rate of unionisation in schools is a result of the poor working conditions.....
» 2/05/2008 4:27:33 PM Ian, Well spoken! The public system needs defenders who keep reality before the public mi.....
» 24/04/2008 7:01:51 PM John, ‘Allotments should fairly distribute workload; i.e., they should be based on a sta.....
» 24/04/2008 5:51:27 PM John, I tried to check out Ontario, but I found the website user-unfriendly, which is wha.....
» 24/04/2008 1:14:48 AM Ho Hum, You say, “And as for the "aborigines"--they weren’t(sic) even considere.....
» 23/04/2008 6:27:40 PM John Daicopoulos , There are schools that have teachers teach subjects that are one perio.....
» 22/04/2008 4:35:13 PM I was a timetabler in three schools, the last of which had the best teaching conditions in.....
» 23/03/2008 5:55:28 PM individual, The statistics do not agree with your claim that 95 percent of teachers are L.....
» 7/03/2008 1:44:26 PM I continued to teach grammar and punctuation until I resigned from teaching in 2007. The t.....
» 21/02/2008 4:02:12 PM TurnRightthen Left, I cannot abide The Australian’s politics, but I agree that it is the .....
» 20/02/2008 7:12:57 PM Perpetua, A school administrator is a teacher, but the debate has been presented as one o.....
» 20/02/2008 11:08:28 AM In “Last hurrah for the old industrial relations club” (29/6/2006), P. P. McGuinness claim.....
» 20/02/2008 11:07:33 AM The Australian pushes a particular ideological line. It has been going on about supposedly.....
» 19/02/2008 3:11:44 PM The Victorian Institute of Teaching system that you refer to is not the same as the certif.....
» 9/02/2008 7:58:39 PM Ian, Hello again. My earlier responses may have sounded perfunctory, for which I apologis.....
» 8/02/2008 5:45:37 PM Keith, There aren’t that many bureaucrats (c2,000 centrally employed in Victoria, compare.....
» 8/02/2008 2:52:05 PM The use of the phrase, “in hock to the teacher unions” places the author firmly in the cam.....
» 7/02/2008 5:57:40 PM Ian, There is nothing wrong with the fact that “after just ten years working as teachers .....
» 6/02/2008 4:04:45 PM The Right has been pushing two contradictory lines on education for a generation. On the o.....
» 6/02/2008 3:46:57 PM There is no justification for paying one teacher more than another based on the subjects e.....
» 4/02/2008 8:01:55 PM Australia consistently performs in the top ten countries in the world in reading, mathemat.....
» 2/02/2008 4:44:27 PM Keith, Your definition seems pretty right to me. I’d say that of socialism means governme.....
» 1/02/2008 8:24:59 PM HRS, I'm not sure if there is a website that tells you what is going on "nationally&.....
» 31/01/2008 8:44:16 PM Keith, I think our disagreement must be because we must have different definitions of soc.....
» 30/01/2008 4:23:21 PM Keith, In its socialist phase, the British Labour Party nationalised steel, coal and othe.....
» 30/01/2008 2:54:12 PM Peter Ridd, Maths and science are not the only subjects in which teachers should have ter.....
» 29/01/2008 10:09:04 PM Candide, Teachers’ pay has certainly declined relative to average earnings over the last .....
» 29/01/2008 9:55:58 PM Keith, I do not dispute the evil of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Deng, but what makes you call.....
» 17/01/2008 9:06:29 AM What were the last 500 years of struggle for liberty and democracy all about then? If you .....
» 8/01/2008 2:04:03 PM SAINTS, Kevin Rudd was never a minister in the Beattie Government. He was never a ministe.....
» 4/01/2008 7:40:48 PM Belly, Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not throw themselves off cliffs in mass su.....
» 3/01/2008 3:40:29 PM Col, You cared enough to respond to my first comment on lemmings. You used a common metap.....
» 2/01/2008 9:38:29 AM Col, You used the imagery of lemmings jumping off cliffs as a metaphor for mass suicide, .....
» 1/01/2008 9:54:14 PM Col Rouge, Lemmings do not jump off cliffs. The movie that showed them doing so was faked.....
» 1/01/2008 9:48:16 PM Webby, The industrial groups were not Catholic, but anti-communist Labor groups which wel.....
» 28/12/2007 8:56:46 PM Themistocles, I do not think the teachers union is a defender of the status quo at all. I.....
» 24/12/2007 5:47:11 PM One of the best reforms Queensland could make is to join the rest of the states and have a.....
» 23/12/2007 7:34:56 PM Themistocles, I do not see evidence that the teacher unions have had the power to ‘keep i.....
» 23/12/2007 8:36:55 AM johncee1945, Themistocles said that Kevin Rudd would have to overthrow the teacher unions.....
» 22/12/2007 1:21:20 PM Themistocles, The claim that teacher unions need to be overthrown implies that they have .....
» 21/12/2007 4:00:16 PM I am no fan of the Democrats, but they did go into the 1998 election promising to support .....
» 21/12/2007 10:11:29 AM What John Ridd calls setting and what in Victoria is called block timetabling is not in th.....
» 17/12/2007 7:31:51 PM Once I read the sentence, “Howard's now-infamous WorkChoices laws were in fact extremely r.....
» 10/12/2007 5:40:02 PM Yindin, The attitude you express is just one more reason I am pleased to no longer be a t.....
» 7/12/2007 10:47:39 PM Duncan 73, You claim that schools ‘have never been better resourced than they are today’......
» 28/11/2007 7:01:42 PM billie, In your first post you stated that you expected that the ‘GST funds that the Howa.....
» 27/11/2007 4:33:12 PM I agree that ‘natural’ is not quite the right word, but, in the absence of another more pr.....
» 2/11/2007 5:42:38 PM Bronwyn and Frank, I agree that the current definition of one hour a week is inadequate. .....
» 2/11/2007 9:39:18 AM Bronwyn, The definition of unemployment as being less than one hour’s work a week has not.....
» 25/09/2007 10:00:41 PM Communicat, I got “the idea that there was a Ministerial ban on debating educational issu.....
» 25/09/2007 5:29:15 PM daggett (James Sinnamon), My examples were to show that Labor does care in answer to comm.....
» 24/09/2007 6:58:14 PM Communicat, The evidence that Labor does care about people lies in the following achievem.....
» 24/09/2007 11:11:18 AM It is not true of Victoria to say that, “Our Departments of Education allow their concern .....
» 20/09/2007 8:26:05 PM Quick response, See my posts on the following for some reasoning as to why Australia shou.....
» 16/09/2007 11:12:18 PM Frank Gol, Facts can be such a nuisance. I post them so often in so many places. They nor.....
» 16/09/2007 10:36:07 PM Jonathan Ariel, Following the 1999 Victorian election, the press was full of letters from.....
» 13/09/2007 5:51:25 PM Lincoln’s only policies are to wind back slavery (a step backwards), to push Union troops .....
» 12/09/2007 3:10:42 PM I’ m confused. Apparently our choice is between the Grand Old Party, which seems to be the.....
» 9/09/2007 1:05:39 PM Fencepost, It is not correct to say that the system “is a bit unfair if [you] get [your] .....
» 9/09/2007 12:48:52 PM There are 80 countries in the world with more than ten million people. Every one of these .....
» 7/09/2007 4:02:04 PM Lay off Julie Vickers. Can’t you see that she is sending up Felicity McMahon and the Liber.....
» 6/09/2007 5:43:20 PM Victoria has 12 senators, 37 federal MPs, 88 state MLAs, 40 state MLCs and about 600 local.....
» 6/09/2007 1:38:23 PM We are not “one of the most over-governed nations on Earth”. The comparison with the Unite.....
» 6/09/2007 12:28:40 PM Australia’s GDP is about $US674 billion using purchasing price parity. Every country on th.....
» 5/09/2007 11:11:56 AM Belly, Julie Vickers is being ironical. Felicity McMahon, I am afraid, is not. But that's .....
» 5/09/2007 10:23:05 AM Australia has a population of 21 million. There are 52 countries in the world which have p.....
» 4/09/2007 8:56:21 PM Every country of our size has at least three tiers of government – for an obvious reason. .....
» 3/09/2007 8:34:17 PM Russia is a federation of separate republics, which provide an intermediate tier of govern.....
» 3/09/2007 8:20:38 PM Earthrise, In October, Newspoll produces a state-by-state summary of opinion poll results.....
» 3/09/2007 6:41:53 PM For a realistic discussion of what the ALP’s few actual changes to WorknotcalledChoicesany.....
» 31/08/2007 8:09:20 PM Earthrise, An equal vote in the Senate means the proposal is defeated. (The presiding off.....
» 30/08/2007 8:46:06 PM Earthrise, Thanks for the article reference. My prediction is still looking pretty good. .....
» 30/08/2007 11:58:17 AM haygirl , If you claim that “religion has caused more wars than anything else”, you reall.....
» 30/08/2007 11:46:35 AM Jonathon Ariel may not know what Kevin Rudd stands for, but I and most Australians do. He .....
» 29/08/2007 9:48:51 PM haygirl , If “religion has caused more wars than anything else”, would you list all the w.....
» 29/08/2007 4:47:25 PM Earthrise, I am quite capable of distinguishing between what I would like to happen and w.....
» 26/08/2007 4:57:52 PM Communicat, There are some matters peculiar to each state that such a state might reasona.....
» 25/08/2007 9:17:19 PM The Greens are not going to end up with the balance of power in the Senate. The territory.....
» 21/08/2007 5:32:43 PM Communicat, If you have some evidence for your claim that “[t]eachers' unions have been o.....
» 21/08/2007 5:03:32 PM Q&A, I have been interested in politics for amore than 40 years. I agree with you that ha.....
» 20/08/2007 5:19:14 PM It is extremely unlikely that the Greens will end up with the balance of power in the Sena.....
» 17/08/2007 9:18:01 AM A “socialist” Labor Party “dominated by a fear of progress”? I can’t see that, even with a.....
» 16/08/2007 5:48:00 PM While I support the idea that all parties should be put under scrutiny, the Greens will no.....
» 5/08/2007 3:48:54 PM real (Friday, 3 August 2007 12:11:28 AM), Left wing teachers and their unions do not have.....
» 4/08/2007 3:41:54 PM HRS, Your old school sounds particularly fortunate. Perhaps it has the ability to raise a.....
» 1/08/2007 9:05:07 PM Arjay, I don’t think I was unusually conscientious, but I regularly worked 50 hours plus .....
» 1/08/2007 10:36:49 AM When people choose to spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a service that they can in.....
» 1/08/2007 10:18:25 AM I have no idea of the most effective size for municipalities in Queensland, though the fig.....
» 31/07/2007 8:59:09 PM johncee1945 (Tuesday, 31 July 2007 8:35:06 AM), I understand your hostility to Joseph Ly.....
» 30/07/2007 9:36:54 PM real (aka truth of sydney), Your comments about education – “What makes this work like a .....
» 27/07/2007 3:14:13 PM It may not be read, but it can exist for future reference, as can the following year 8 his.....
» 26/07/2007 9:32:28 PM Dresdener, The quotation from Kevin Donnelly is not an accurate account of how history is.....
» 26/07/2007 1:34:44 PM I bought a block of land in 1980 for $16,700 and had a house built on it in 1983 for c$57,.....
» 17/07/2007 11:22:43 AM My experience is similar to, but not as bad as, Dealing with the Mob’s. I have given the d.....
» 16/07/2007 8:35:07 PM PortoSalvo, I am sorry that the parents and students were treated so badly at Golden Squa.....
» 15/07/2007 11:49:29 AM PortoSalvo, Parents are not totally disenfranchised in their children’s education. They f.....
» 7/07/2007 3:14:45 PM Arjay, Schools have not given up teaching the basics. Even during the thankfully now gone.....
» 4/07/2007 4:05:50 PM Jeff Schubert may have had to learn about English kings in history, but I’ve never taught .....
» 2/07/2007 11:58:32 AM What a non-issue! The whole political system is based on threats to MPs. If they defy the .....
» 30/06/2007 9:51:07 PM I do not support John Hirst’s politics, but the personal attacks on him are extreme and ha.....
» 26/06/2007 8:45:53 PM Of course fields in which there is a large amount of bullying, exploitation and victimisat.....
» 8/06/2007 12:16:09 AM Tristan, You belong to the Left of the ALP. I expect that you think it is progressive. I .....
» 27/05/2007 10:55:21 AM I did not propose that the world parliament of democratic countries dominate the rest at a.....
» 26/05/2007 6:28:37 PM It is time to abandon the UN and set up an alternative elected world parliament of democra.....
» 26/05/2007 5:06:54 PM Mercurius, I am not uncritical of the government school “system”, but I am a defender of .....
» 22/05/2007 9:56:37 PM Deryck, I certainly was aware that the GST contributed to the Victorian Labor Government’.....
» 22/05/2007 9:06:57 PM Ian, It is a fact of life that in a forum such as this discussion will wander from issues.....
» 21/05/2007 11:03:06 PM Arjay (21 May 2007 6:52:10 PM), Unsubstantiated claims are not convincing. Please supply .....
» 21/05/2007 5:39:38 PM HRS, I am unable to access the document you referred to via the web address you gave me. .....
» 20/05/2007 3:35:58 PM HRS, As you now accept the 50-hours average, I will refrain from continuing my account of.....
» 19/05/2007 5:33:27 PM HRS, It is not a matter of teachers’ picking a figure and sticking to it. If some work a .....
» 18/05/2007 10:53:49 PM HRS, The maximum weekly teaching load in a Victorian secondary schools is 20 hours. The h.....
» 18/05/2007 5:18:49 PM HRS, I would often leave school on meeting-free nights before 4.00pm, but equally often I.....
» 29/04/2007 2:59:57 PM Tristan, I don’t have a specific link. I relied on news reports that the conference pass.....
» 29/04/2007 11:53:25 AM Sniggid, When I began teaching in 1974, there was a 14-point scale and four-year trained .....
» 29/04/2007 11:31:17 AM Tristan, News reports tell us that the ALP conference voted unanimously for an IR policy .....
» 25/04/2007 10:58:22 PM Billie, In June 1963, the equivalent salary for a top of the scale teacher was 210.5 per .....
» 23/04/2007 9:55:07 PM Jolanda, Someone who criticises teachers is not necessarily a teacher-basher. Teachers ar.....
» 23/04/2007 8:53:49 PM Ian, The current categories of teachers in Victoria do not mean what you think they mean......
» 23/04/2007 5:10:39 PM The long-term cuts to teacher pay have been huge. Victorian male average weekly ordinary.....
» 23/04/2007 8:28:15 AM Yvonne, Your point about principals is well made. One extraordinary aspect of those who b.....
» 21/04/2007 9:28:17 AM No comments in over a week! This suggests that there is hardly any interest in the state L.....
» 20/04/2007 5:21:23 PM Simon Templar, If you think the “source of our national educational crisis is a massive f.....
» 20/04/2007 5:19:25 AM Pointing out that the NSW premier “has a deputy who was a school teacher” and then adding .....
» 19/04/2007 11:11:06 AM Billie, I don’t know where you get your figures from. There are just over 40,000 teachers.....
» 18/04/2007 9:25:32 PM Let me first deal with the idea that teachers do not work in a place called the “real worl.....
» 18/04/2007 9:48:49 AM Jonathan Ariel’s contempt for teachers is already known. He did write that the NSW premier.....
» 4/04/2007 11:18:08 PM Buffy The Vampire Slayer – what a fantastic show! I was lucky enough to develop and teach .....
» 4/04/2007 10:05:26 AM The “system” needs to change, but not the way Des Treacy suggests. I write as a highly exp.....
» 2/04/2007 10:41:57 PM Shorbe, You do not have to live in a school’s catchment area to go to it. You are free to.....
» 2/04/2007 6:01:01 PM Don’t be disheartened, Captain Oats. I got it – probably because I studied English in its .....
» 27/03/2007 10:29:09 PM Jonathan Ariel writes that the NSW premier “has a deputy who was a school teacher. God hel.....
» 26/03/2007 10:43:41 PM Billie, I agree that it is unlikely that society will improve the teacher pay system. One.....
» 25/03/2007 11:49:25 AM Billie, There are a lot more quotes. There are more on the comments section of the thread.....
» 24/03/2007 3:34:26 PM Two Americans wrote a book about rowing and steering, and before you could blink the conce.....
» 22/03/2007 9:41:23 PM Sniggid, I am not upset because my argument reminds you of the sort of experience you hav.....
» 21/03/2007 9:38:45 PM My own experience, my own observations and the comments of colleagues in several schools c.....
» 20/03/2007 9:12:13 PM Sniggid, Your post actually supports my argument because it shows that you, a former prin.....
» 20/03/2007 9:03:43 PM Sniggid, From your evidence-free assumption about me, it appears that you either think pe.....
» 20/03/2007 7:45:48 PM The comedy festival has come to On Line Opinion. Last week it was “Cuba is a democracy”. N.....
» 19/03/2007 8:59:28 PM I have held senior positions in teaching - senior teacher, advanced skills teacher 3, lead.....
» 19/03/2007 8:57:07 PM As the so-called merit pay bandwagon gains momentum on its downhill trip to the valley of .....
» 17/03/2007 4:37:44 PM Philip Tang, One of the fascinating features of Western democracy is the number of people.....
» 16/03/2007 10:10:38 AM This article has too many clichés. On the one side we have 'the old guard', 'out-moded ass.....
» 14/03/2007 10:01:52 AM SHONGA, I haven't mentioned the AWU. Nor do I think that the ALP is dominated by the AWU......
» 13/03/2007 12:54:50 AM Tao, People are responsible for their own actions. Those who stopped voting ALP did not c.....
» 12/03/2007 11:22:54 AM The current IR laws are a disgrace to Australia. Everyone knows they are about shifting po.....
» 26/02/2007 9:18:17 AM First a historical perspective: 'Your boy has just got his HSC, and yet he has no cultural.....
» 25/02/2007 4:44:53 PM Suebdootwo, I do not clearly understand what you are saying, so you may like to clarify. .....
» 13/02/2007 9:35:43 PM Klaas, I apologise for misspelling your name in my previous post. I do think Australians.....
» 13/02/2007 9:05:16 PM Arjay, Victoria “on the slide”! I live here and it is so much better than when the Libera.....
» 11/02/2007 2:27:13 PM If the ALP promoted the “revolution” advocated in Klass Woldring's article, it would snatc.....
» 7/02/2007 9:53:17 AM billie, You cannot be an emergency teacher and be on a full salary. Emergency teachers us.....
» 6/02/2007 7:34:28 PM billie, The Victorian government did not casualise teachers in 1992. We have always had c.....
» 18/01/2007 11:51:38 AM Maracas, There is not now and never has been such a creature as the NCC/DLP. There was an.....
» 16/01/2007 12:22:32 PM Tapp, I gave you my ideas on education on a previous thread, which you acknowledged. You .....
» 15/01/2007 6:50:18 PM The employee should have the right to refuse any and all overtime. Otherwise, the employee.....
» 11/01/2007 8:46:05 AM Speaking as someone with an English, Irish, Scottish, French, possibly Roman, possibly Vik.....
» 9/01/2007 9:58:18 PM SCOTTY, Schools are open for around 200, 201, 202 days a year. That is why I chose 40 wee.....
» 9/01/2007 4:21:52 PM 'Loads of paid holidays, student free days, public holidays[-] the list goes on. People wh.....
» 4/01/2007 8:24:29 PM None of the arguments presented convinces me that we should do away with state governments.....
» 28/12/2006 2:44:12 PM Fixing the problems in education requires a clear understanding of what they are and what .....
» 27/12/2006 8:01:46 PM I should add two other damaging changes to my list: A ministerial order purporting to ban .....
» 27/12/2006 7:32:09 AM Frank Gol, I am sorry, but I can out-fact Gradgrind. I know facts are troublesome to thos.....
» 26/12/2006 7:25:00 AM It is often claimed that students are not taught facts any more, just PC attitudes. Below .....
» 26/12/2006 7:11:33 AM Kevin Donnelly’s argument is that the Left has wrecked education, so let’s have another “i.....
» 24/12/2006 4:20:56 PM HRS, Re marks: under VELS, C means that the student is at the expected level; B, six mont.....
» 24/12/2006 3:36:48 PM HRS, You persist in claiming that education should be run according to the terminology of.....
» 23/12/2006 11:11:40 AM There is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Democratic Labor Party and of the Australia.....
» 23/12/2006 10:22:53 AM HRS, When you first used terms like “safety” and “risk management”, I thought you were us.....
» 17/12/2006 11:01:44 AM HRS, Schools already have transition programs for students moving from primary to seconda.....
» 14/12/2006 9:20:30 PM HRS, There are many factors in student learning. Parent attitudes play a big role in stud.....
» 13/12/2006 6:40:45 AM Rainier, I don't regard the first two quotes as attacks on teachers. Going through a PC f.....
» 11/12/2006 11:11:19 PM passenger, It is not at all clear that Kevin Rudd has indulged in the highly competitive .....
» 11/12/2006 10:24:22 PM Kevin, Thank you for your response. I accept that you do not attack teachers or individu.....
» 8/12/2006 9:10:47 PM Kevin Donnelly attacks the Left for faults in education that were introduced by the Right......
» 15/11/2006 10:40:32 PM I too think it is hilarious that an argument for change is the fact that the Australian pe.....
» 8/11/2006 9:16:38 PM Sniggid, My central point was that OBE is not essentially a left-wing idea. In Victoria a.....
» 8/11/2006 3:33:25 PM '…cosy deals with teacher unions…wasteful school work practices.…It is understandable that.....
» 7/11/2006 11:47:40 AM The Right had to undermine the teaching profession by labelling their view as self-seeking.....
» 7/11/2006 9:53:46 AM My school has a budget of some $8.4 million. This is about $7,000 per student. This is cal.....
» 5/11/2006 9:23:12 AM In Victoria at least, outcomes based education is not left wing. It was officially introdu.....
» 4/11/2006 7:43:57 PM BOAZ David, You stated: “So this is why we should have a balance between the very valuabl.....
» 22/10/2006 5:49:57 PM I am finding your whole NESB discussion confusing. Education systems throughout the countr.....
» 18/10/2006 9:42:06 PM Sorry, ChrisC. I did not mean to 'steal' your name. I didn't know there was a ChrisC. I'd .....
» 17/10/2006 8:51:28 PM The Democrats did not turn the Senate into a genuine House of Review. The DLP and the ALP .....
» 15/10/2006 9:54:52 PM Outcomes based education has many meanings. In one sense, it is nothing new, as teachers h.....
» 12/10/2006 10:15:47 PM MichaelK, I do not undersatnd your point about the subjects I teach not making technical p.....
» 11/10/2006 9:06:10 PM eet, Opinion pollsters do not normally report on the voting preferences of occupational g.....
» 10/10/2006 11:35:07 PM I teach English, history and geography, three of the subjects referred to in John Ridd's a.....
» 3/10/2006 10:17:49 PM No teacher I have ever spoken to has expressed any desire for the performance-based pay cl.....
» 14/09/2006 6:48:52 PM Pay rates are not the only factor in discouraging people of ability from joining the teach.....
» 13/09/2006 11:54:12 PM Many teachers cannot spell, communicate clearly or think for themselves. They conform to t.....
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