Fonnix rools – it is the onilly wae to teech studants to spel!
It’s a vision of the future – grounded in the past. New Education Minister Christopher Pyne invites us to imagine classrooms where teachers return to […]
Rossleigh
Albanese vs Shorten vs Rudd vs the World (Cage Match)
For those of you wondering how it’ll work if the membership vote for one candidate and the Caucus vote for the other, it’s really quite […]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!
“Good morning, today in the studio we have the Minister for Hire Education, Mr Christopher Whyne. Mr Whine in August last year, you said that […]
Just a link to the new Climate Commission. Sorry, Council.
From kayelee1: UPDATE from the Climate Council: “In just 13 hours we’ve had over 5,000 people become founding members of the Climate Council. Together they’ve […]
Just remember – we’re not independent and we’re all idiots
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of taking a class called “Oral English” which was one hour a week and in it Year […]
Being hypocritical is the new black
“Tony Abbott’s election victory give us the chance to push for the repeal of laws stifling our right to free speech, which came under such […]
The Elephant in the Room
Every now and then, I remember the story of the emperor’s new clothes, where it takes a child to point out what everyone should be […]
The Cassandra Effect, Abbott and Boiling a Frog. Dr Who?
I step out of the phone box. I look around. Picking up a paper, I see the date September 16th, 2009. Either the time travel […]
An Abbott and two Bishops walk into a Party
“I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply […]
Why I don’t write Satire
Ok, the other day someone asked me why I don’t seem to write as much satire anymore. There’s too much competition, I explained. But I […]
Australia is Nobody’s Business
From today, I declare that Australia is under new management and that Australia is once again open for new business,” Tony Abbott “All models are wrong; […]
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” – Aldous Huxley
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we […]
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
1993 – Hewson has lost the unlosable election. He had released the most detailed policy, outlining his plans for a GST, welfare reform, cutbacks to […]
Usually, they wait till you’ve signed the contract before revealing the fine print!
Who else received a Contract from Tony Abbott? Just wondering, because I misplaced mine and I’ve been searching for it on the internet, and I […]
Let’s All Buy Fairfax Shares and Stop publishing Amanda Vanstone
I always try to consider the possibility that I may be wrong. In 1975, I was one of the few students to say that Malcolm […]