To be a right winger these days, you have to be good at playing the victim. Victim-playing defines the behaviour of right wingers from the Prime Minister and his in-fighting colleagues, throughout the right-wing business world, all the way down… Read More ›
Originally posted on Rossleigh's Education Blog :
“Worse, in the twenty-first century the massive technological changes that have vastly changed our society have had little effect on our schools; in too many places, the technology is merely being used as…
Originally posted on Rossleigh's Education Blog :
Choice Architecture or Nudging Your Students Toward Success “You want to nudge people into socially desirable behaviour, do not, by any means, let them know that their current actions are better than the…
Originally posted on Rossleigh's Education Blog :
“This theory-induced blindness now strikes nearly everyone who receives a PhD in economics. The economics training the students receive provides enormous insights into the behaviour of Econs, but at the expense of losing…
Originally posted on Rossleigh's Education Blog :
The manager and leader differ in the way they use technology. The manager is primarily concerned with using technology to improve the current outcomes. The leader, on the other hand, is interested in…
Originally posted on The Sniper:
The Liberal Party of Australia believes in more freedom. Sounds good. Beats slavery — for the slaves. But what does it mean? What does it lead to? These questions are not answered by the Liberals.…
Originally posted on The Sniper:
There is a question Tony Abbott has never answered. Perhaps he has never been asked. I cannot find any record of an answer. It goes back to the aftermath of the 2010 election. You might…
“It is an absolute principle of democracy that governments should not and must not say one thing before an election and do the opposite afterwards. Nothing could be more calculated to bring our democracy into disrepute and alienate the… Read More ›
Originally posted on The Red Window:
I was in the audience at ABC’s Q & A (Monday 06/10/2014) and I listened to the question from Ms. Stevens to Bob Katter about denying /homosexuality and the links to stigma and mental…
Originally posted on TruthInNewsMedia:
By Barry Tucker 29 August, 2014 The News media should be all over Tony Abbott’s latest expenses rort. The implications of this moral failure are more serious…
The 2014 budget omitted the table of adjusted family outcomes that had been in every previous budget since 2005. The analysis was done by treasury and available for inclusion but that it was not there indicates it was deliberately omitted…. Read More ›
If there was ever any doubt, it has now been undeniably shown. The ultimate aim of conservative government is to acquire ultimate power unrestricted by considerations of proof or evidence. The Daily Telegraph reports today that Attorney-General Senator George Brandis… Read More ›
We the voters are regularly left to decide who is and who is not telling the truth. Or who is telling more or less of it. In the past few years the most perplexing aspect of political lying has been… Read More ›
After much thought I decided that rating any of these works in some order of how they personally influenced me utterly futile. Therefore I have selected 20 works from my library that have shaped my spiritual thoughts (or absence of… Read More ›
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