Stephen Fyson

Dear LNP, think of Haidt!

6 May 2025 9:31 pm

The number of different post-mortems for the failure of the federal LNP may well soon outnumber the sands on Nine…

Penny Wong is wrong

1 May 2025 12:30 pm

The Foreign Minister let slip that an Indigenous Voice-type structure might eventuate in Australia under a re-elected Labor government, just…

Do not believe the polls

26 April 2025 10:51 pm

Why have we not learnt this lesson? Has everyone forgotten the 2019 election? Or the Trump election? Or the Voice…

The Left’s eternal war against private schools

14 April 2025 12:28 pm

Here we go again… The socialist deconstructionists are flagging one of their favourite ideas, at least, that is the impression…

Lost brains

4 April 2025 2:02 am

And why the Education Minister is hopeless

Making billions worthless

18 March 2025 11:14 am

I keep losing track of how many billions of dollars have been promised during this unofficial stage of our Federal…

Albo’s education funding: a predictable failure in schooling

9 March 2025 8:36 pm

I shuddered when I read this closing sentence in The Australian: NSW Teachers Federation President Henry Rajendra said the agreement…

How ‘free’ is free speech?

26 February 2025 12:57 pm

Two of my summer reading books had me thinking afresh about free speech. The first one was The Happiest Man…

The era of Truthophobia

5 December 2024 6:23 am

Have you noticed how our language has shifted to ‘untruths’, ‘misinformation’, or the more nefarious accusation of ‘disinformation’? Apparently, misinformation…

Teachers as tradies

4 November 2024 2:47 pm

‘What is the difference between an hourly rate and a salary Dad?’ asked the inquisitive teenager. His quiet and thoughtful…

A wonky prime minister and straw man treasurer

26 October 2024 12:03 am

We don’t have a Willy Wonka and a Candy Man. We have a wonky Prime Minister and a straw man…

The rise of the expertocrats

29 September 2024 3:57 pm

‘You are in danger!’ This is how the rhetoric starts. ‘But there is no need to not worry, we will…

Leaders cannot legislate away social media anxiety

16 September 2024 7:00 am

Concern about social media-based anxiety is popping up everywhere. Leaders of many kinds are talking about it, decrying it, and…

The IQ question in education

1 September 2024 6:49 pm

Does IQ matter? In 1974, the answer was a resounding ‘No!’ Fifty years later, I still remember first-year psychology lecturers…

Albanese’s game of Cabinet charades

29 July 2024 10:32 am

The colour of authoritarianism is grey. I learned this the first time I sat in a wonderful old town square…

Of course there is violence

16 July 2024 2:35 am

The attempted and actual murder of anyone is horrific. What I find perplexing is the tone of disbelief that accompanies…

The fight for nuclear is going to be rough

24 June 2024 2:00 am

No debate. Just rhetorical fortressing. That seems to be the mode of responding to the nuclear debate from those on…

Same values, different beliefs?

16 May 2024 2:52 am

Values and beliefs are not the same. People can support each other’s values while holding different beliefs. But if we…

Mental health and restraint: the unsolved conundrum

21 April 2024 9:25 am

When is it appropriate to schedule someone into compulsory care when he or she is out of touch with reality?…

All schools are ‘faith-based’ schools

31 March 2024 12:21 am

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’

22 March 2024 2:30 am

‘Belief Bashing’… That is what some have nicknamed Greenwich Bill sitting before the NSW Parliament. I would argue it is…

The joy of lament

8 March 2024 2:00 am

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

22 February 2024 2:00 am

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

14 February 2024 2:00 am

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!

1 February 2024 2:40 am

What does our Prime Minister really think about money? Does he see himself as the ‘Robin Hood’ of Australian democracy?…