I quoted Monbiot back on Christmas Day as saying: “We will know that our approach is working only when it is violently opposed.”
Now I’m not saying that any one person is responsible for the plight of Australia’s Indigenous people, it is largely a systemic issue. But the current Riots in Sydney say to me [...]

Further my earlier comments on Teaching methods, the Victorian State Government is now sacking teachers and principles for underperformance.
The details are unclear at the moment. If these people are being sacked because they are incompetent then that is fine.
However I think it puts an over emphasis on measurement. This can have two negative [...]

As I’ve said before, and no doubt will have occasion to say again, Industrial Relations is a particularly significant issue and the battle that is ensue will be a particularly hard fought one. One of my reasons for continually harping on about it that I don’t think enough people are angry enough about it.
So [...]

Discussions about teaching and teaching methods has always seemed a little ’something’ to me. There are many contradictory reports, all with a different way of measuring the success of our teachers.
I can’t really qualify my thoughts, but I get the feeling it is a sort of ‘hippy bashing’ exercise (and yes I know how [...]

…on Monbiot’s Age of Consent
I’ve been wanting to make a few points about Monbiot’s Age of Consent for a little while now as I think it is a really significant book. I’ve just been too lazy to pick it up and reference it. So having given up on that I’ll just make a [...]

A Small Victory

I have argued for a long time that the world is now in a revolutionary period and that we stand on the threshold of a new epoch. There is a growing body of literature that is saying the same or similar things. That liberalism is dead and the powers that be are struggling [...]

The rhetoric of there being no such thing as Class can be quite convenient if you are a conservative, market fundamentalist, politician

The thing about the proposed changes to disability pensions is that generally people with a disability want to be in the work force and the community as a whole.
By insisting on forcing people with a disability into the workforce you are saying: “These people are lazy dole bludgers who have it sweet.”
For a start, this [...]

More on Doyle. I think he is just quite comical to watch.