All schools are ‘faith-based’ schools
Facts and information can be neutral, but teaching is never neutral. All schools are faith-based schools. Some are more intentional…
The Bill of ‘self’
‘Belief Bashing’… That is what some have nicknamed Greenwich Bill sitting before the NSW Parliament. I would argue it is…
The joy of lament
Why are the people of Israel famously resilient? When you think of the hatred and persecution they have faced over…
Swift justice for the political class
The question I asked after reading a report about Taylor Swift’s biggest-ever concert in Melbourne, which reportedly had over 90,000…
Our children do not belong to the State
The Culture of Schools and the Problem of Change was the first book I read when I was moving professionally…
Steal from the rich. Steal from the poor. Steal from them all!
What does our Prime Minister really think about money? Does he see himself as the ‘Robin Hood’ of Australian democracy?…
Foreign policy gaffes
I might have been wrong… This was the thought that rushed through my mind while listening to Prof. John Mearsheimer. He…
The fog of moral clarity
I am not optimistic about seeing moral clarity from many (or most?) of our current federal government leaders. Their apparent…
Pray for sensible socialists and compassionate capitalists, son
There it was again, in a report about what Minister Bowen is planning next – that dreaded phrase … ‘dramatic…
Is Albanese’s outburst the beginning of the end?
Contrast Anthony Albanese’s response to Peter Dutton, with that of Richard Marles’ the next day. The first was emotional righteous…
Anti-family Albo?
The Prime Minister has shown his true colours, again… As reported in The Australian, Anthony Albanese agrees with an economist…
Immigration and the fires of separatism
We have seen abhorrent scenes in my home state of New South Wales. It has been thoroughly disappointing, but sadly,…
Education vs Wisdom: referendum voting patterns come under fire
Waleed Aly was technically correct, but perhaps discourteous, in the way he expressed the socio-economic difference seen within voting patterns…
Disinformation? Try ‘no’ information
The problem is not disinformation, Mr Ray Martin, it is that we have no information. Let me explain. Over a…
No special schools? Pull the other one…
Some commissioners have suggested removing special schools. They mustn’t have worked in the good ones! At one point in my…
Daniel Andrews was not a political genius
I have heard commentators from all kinds of political positions commenting that the retiring Premier of Victoria was a person…
From hopelessness to heartlessness: the vibe seems so hollow
We are not yet halfway through the run-up to the referendum on the Voice to Parliament, and already many of…
Illiterate, innumerate, and scared: be disappointed, but not surprised
Why would anyone be surprised at the latest NAPLAN results? Yes, they are disappointing, but the amount of hand-wringing expressed…
Socialists have made the left deaf to reason
There may be a reason why Anthony Albanese and his ministers do not answer questions about their signature policies, even…
From unsettled to unhinged
Judith Sloan has decided to name our Minister for Climate Change and Energy, ‘B1’. I prefer to think of Chris…
Albanese’s Voice tears the heart from Australian politics
It was W.B. Yeats, after the first world war, who wrote his poem that contained the phrase, ‘The centre cannot…
Teachers cannot teach what they do not know
Well, here we are with another review of teaching. Australia has itself a bit of déjà vu with a well-meaning…
Twin evils
Divorced from Christianity, our leaders devalue our humanity
Character, not category
We have lost ground on what good character means. It is because it has become harder and harder to know…
Putting the ‘artificial’ in intelligence: the morality of the digital mind
Artificial intelligence is, well, artificial. And the use of ‘intelligence’ in this label is a misnomer. AI machines cannot think.…
