If you haven’t read Dickens, you’re not qualified to teach Chemistry!
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Benjamin Franklin. (Often attributed to Albert Einstein who was quoting Franklin) […]
Education
Let’s Save a Bucketload and Just Abolish Secondary Schools!
“We need only to think of many of Australia’s best and brightest, or indeed the great poets, artists, scientists and orators of the 20th […]
Your guide to becoming Andrew Bolt!
First, you need to be very, very sure that you’re right. Not right-wing, mind you. Just right. About everything. You know this because, well, you’re […]
The jails are full and starting a penal colony may not be the answer
“In response to growing demands on the state’s prison system, the Victorian Coalition Government will bring forward the expansion of Victoria’s newest prison, Premier Denis […]
Humpty Dumpty was apparently right!
“We are going to keep the promise that we made, not the promise that some people thought we made or the promise that some people […]
A Liberal Defence
We’re Liberal – With The Truth! Ok, it’s time for some balance on The AIMN. There have been far too many anti-Government posts and I’m […]
It’s the environment, stupid
In the aftermath of the 2013 Australian election, I spoke to a variety of my friends and colleagues about the core issues that motivated my […]
Culture wars, Pyne’s education
Education in Australia, emulating principles established in Mother England has always been class-based, and at times deliberately advanced as a method of social control; to […]
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 […]
Why Labor Lost
Firstly: The truth of the matter is that my Party is at times its own worst enemy. For the six years Labor has been in […]
People told me to read between the lines, but I didn’t see anything written there!
“Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a Coalition policy to pay long-term unemployed young people who find a job up to $15,500 is “a sensible investment”. […]
The government that doesn’t want to govern
On 1 October, the Affordable Health Care Act comes into force in the United States. It has split the US down the middle – by […]
Abbott v Rudd in the Education Debate
TONY ABBOTT: Leigh, I think the education debate, the school education debate shouldn’t be about funding, it should be about quality, and that’s what we’re […]
Comparing Government to a Family Budget
Consider the following scenario: A family of children are turning up to school hungry, and without books or pens. Teachers are concerned. The parents are […]
Mr Abbott Stark Raving Naked in Collins Street!
Peter Costello, May 24th 2013: “Unless Tony Abbot gets caught stark raving naked in Collins Street, I think it’s over and even then he might […]