About a book that empowers students
to profit from their teacher’s prejudices. About
the sad necessity for the book.
Some people are so web-active, merely
contemplating their output is exhausting.
The AFL Grand Final
had the biggest crowd since 1986.
Abortion legalised (in the sense of being taken out of the Crimes Act)
in Victoria. Via
splodgenoodles.
The National Curriculum for English is putting
punctuation, spelling, grammar and literature back into the official English curriculum.
The Rudd Government is
going to change the system of appointments to the Boards of the ABC and SBS based on the British “Nolan” system of appointment of people to public bodies: the one that has worked so well to create an unbiased BBC. Via
p_cat.
The ALP gets a big kick, the Libs a small one and the Greens a strong swing
in the ACT elections.
The ALP gets bigs swings against it in the
Ryde,
Cabramatta and
Lakemba by-elections in NSW. The Nats improve their vote
but Lake Macquarie has elected another Independent member supported by the former Independent member
who is now in Federal Parliament for Mark Vaile’s former seat of
Lyne.