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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“It would be incomprehensible for an Oz minister to visit Israel at this time without being absolutely clear about Australia’s major priority, which is our nation’s commitment to the international humanitarian law essential to guarantee peace and human security.” johnmenadue.com/australian-m...
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Australian minister to fly to Israel to mend fractured relationship? - Pearls and Irritations
Surely no self-respecting member of the Albanese Government would exert any diplomatic effort on the Netanyahu regime which ignores international law and is responsible for crimes against humanity and...
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Why are schools charging fees receiving any public funding at all? Especially when they are all allowed to pick & choose (& expel) their students, the communities they will & won’t serve, & the fees & levies they will charge? www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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These Sydney private schools will have funding cuts. They might not be the ones you expect
Some schools will lose more than $2000 in federal funding per student under a formula using their parents’ median incomes. See what will change by 2029.
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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
My New Year’s Resolution. What’s yours?
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
PM Albo needs to get some media training from fmr Vic Premier Dan Andrews or Qld Labor Leader Steven Miles. And he needs to stop pandering to NewsCorp trolls. NewsCorp and the ABC are pro-LNP, anti-Labor. He needs to reconnect with Labor values and find another way to get his message out. #auspol
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Is it time for a national, independent hate crime reporting system to capture the experiences of all targeted communities in Australia. And for the register to report the data annually?
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Additional 10,000 Aussies a month falling into homelessness moves us from crisis towards a country none of us want. More action from all levels of govt is urgent. Important work from Homelessness Aus & Prof Hal Pawson from UNSW City Futures. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Extra 10,000 Australians becoming homeless each month, up 22% in three years, report says
Almost half were couch surfing or living in short-term accommodation, UNSW and Homelessness Australia say
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Andy Mison @andymison.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
At Sydney Uni today with these two legends discussing the insidious commodification of our education system. @msciffer.bsky.social
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Why do these schools ‘need’ public funding at all? Their families already choose to pay multiples of your school’s SRS when their children could attend their local public school. This is how gov funding of wealthy schools increases inequality in our school system. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Twenty private schools with wealthiest parents received $130m total in Australian public funds in 2023
Data comes as education minister remains stalled in negotiations with states and territories over contributions to Schooling Resource Standard
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
They leave our school flying’: how one Sydney school is defying its ‘disadvantage’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘They leave our school flying’: how one Sydney school is defying its ‘disadvantage’
Auburn North public school outperforms others despite English not being the first language for 98% of students
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
You are right Kaz. There is nowhere lower to go.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Today, 29th November 2024, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. End the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. End the genocide in #Gaza. #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We know Australia has a private/public divide. But there’s even more inequality Such a timely piece from #LauraPerry and colleagues. #auspol #schools blog.aare.edu.au/we-know-aust...
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We know Australia has a private/public divide. But there's even more inequality
Inequality: Ultimately students, families and societies lose in a system that divides students, rather than bringing them together.
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A child at 10: · Loses 4 baby teeth a year · Knows the complete date · Can name the months of the yr in order ·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences ·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction ·Has some skills in multiplying & division, And, in Aust, can go to prison #RaiseTheAge
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 26/11/2024
Think our school funding model is broken? You’d be right. More than half of all Australian private schools receive more government funding per student than comparable public schools. Make it make sense.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of an FRS is diminished by sharing it with someone who appears to be modelling himself on a Bond villain, a man with immeasurable wealth and power which he uses to threaten scientists who disagree with him” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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Quentin Dempster @quentindempster.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Australia’s rich future can be built from our renewable energy transformation. Ross Garnaut’s Superpower Institute has identified export industries (iron, aluminium, hydrogen, urea, ammonia) which can exploit an abundance of the world’s cheapest renewables = a demonstrable comparative advantage.
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Denise Ireland @ireland0828.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
At last, a story of hope: Home Shwarma Home. www.afr.com/life-and-lux...
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In ruined Gaza, a restaurant brings relief and hope
The reopening of a much-loved Gaza City restaurant, now relocated, is one of a few glimmers of normalcy for Palestinians trapped there.
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sallylawry @sallylawry.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Just when I thought an old woman couldn’t love Maoris more. Waiting at a bar last pm and ignored by ‘ cool ‘ bar person. Young Maori guy walks up to be served. Barperson to Maori guy : What can I do for you mate? Maori guy : Mate, you could serve the woman who was obviously here before me . ❤️
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Looking at the ongoing abuse of Indigenous peoples in the USA, Canada, Australia and #Aotearoa, it seems even when there are treaties and an acknowledgement of crimes in the recent past, Colonialism cannot stop itself from wanting to complete its work of annihilation of identity and culture. 😠
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It is time for the AG to find a skerrick of common sense for everyone’s sake.
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is why I like pockets.
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A more important question is: does a school give students equal opportunities for education and future life success? And how do we make sure all our schools do this? theconversation.com/when-picking...
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When picking schools, don’t get stuck on single-sex vs. co-ed. Instead ask – are all students supported and included?
Research on whether single-sex or co-ed schools are better is inconclusive. But we know a schools’ resources and culture matter for students learning and wellbeing.
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Michael Sciffer @msciffer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Australia's segregated schooling system harms the learning of students theconversation.com/the-type-of-...
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The type of school does matter when it comes to a child’s academic performance
The way Australia’s school system is structured is especially unfair on students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 20/11/2024
Time for a school funding maths class. 👩‍🏫 What is $419m divided between 3 super rich (and govt-funded) private schools? If you said $139.7m, well done! And did you know that $419m is almost twice as much as Labor's discontinued "upgrade fund" for all 6700 Australian public schools?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A pretty shameful oversight that at last night’s Walkley Awards there was no mention of the record numbers of journalists who have been murdered by the IDF over the past year.
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How important is educating our kids? @andy_mison says it is all down to priorities. www.aspa.asn.au/post/what-is...
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Parliamentary Priorities: How Important is Educating our Kids?
As federal parliament enters its final fortnight for 2024, the headlines are dominated by censure motions against badly behaving senators, d
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Andy Mison @andymison.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Read my latest, slightly cranky blog on where education sits in the national debate. We need to build something better, team. #edusky www.aspa.asn.au/post/what-is...
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Parliamentary Priorities: How Important is Educating our Kids?
As federal parliament enters its final fortnight for 2024, the headlines are dominated by censure motions against badly behaving senators, d
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Michael Sciffer @msciffer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The learning of children comes second to the power fantasies of adults www.aspa.asn.au/post/parliam...
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Parliamentary Priorities: How Important is Educating our Kids?
As federal parliament enters its final fortnight for 2024, the headlines are dominated by censure motions against badly behaving senators, d
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just a reminder: under our justice system Alan Jones is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is excellent. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate
Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package
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Andy Mison @andymison.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The ACT has signed on to the Better Fairer School Funding agreement.
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 18/11/2024
The National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and Sweltering Cities are campaigning to end unsafe conditions in prisons. Please sign and share their petition to the NT government: actionnetwork.org/petitions/da...
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NT Government must act: Women transferred to Darwin Prison facing dangerous heat and overcrowding
In Darwin, every day of the last two weeks has reached temperatures over 34°. Those temperatures could make anyone unwell, but imagine if you were in overcrowded accommodation, or even stuck outside w...
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Kristin Bruning MD🪷 @klbmd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Michael Sciffer @msciffer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
International differences in the proportion of private schools, and tracking, explain differences in the strength of socioeconomic school compositional effects between countries blog.eera-ecer.de/socioeconomi...
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Socioeconomic School Segregation: Differences Between Countries
How socioeconomic school segregation can lead to provision of different learning opportunities to students and hinder their individual development
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Government could pass legislation for Environment Protection Australia today if it agrees to close a loophole that would prevent the EPA looking at native forest logging. Let's do it. amp.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Greens drop climate trigger demand in attempt to restart Nature Positive talks with Labor | Australian politics | The Guardian
Minor party’s offer, which includes ban on native-forest logging, represents its second concession on stalled legislation in less than a week
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I saw this on Insta. If you voted Yes to the Voice, please consider staying informed on the Uluru Dialogues with their newsletter. #UluruStatementFromTheHeart ulurustatement.org/newsletter-s...
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Lucas Sanders 🗳️💙💪🏾🟧♻️♀️🌊🌊🌊🌊 @yfcg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Release the Gaetz report. Pass it on.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
That’s brilliant. My lasting memory of a recent hip operation wasn’t the pain from the operation but the endless question - have your bowels moved yet?
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Andy Mison @andymison.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
More and more kids are attending schools where the majority of their peers are socio-economically disadvantaged. Meanwhile, most of our federal politicians were privately educated, and many own multiple properties. This can't be good for our democracy. #democracy #inequality #segregation #education
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A real treat to be at the #Naarm launch of Words to Sing The World Alive. Language. This treasure filled anthology brings together 40 First Nation writers and thinkers, journalists and lawyers, artists and astronomers to reveal their favourite and significant words.
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A bastion of good old common sense.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"Dutton is gaining momentum precisely because he is operating without detail. He is not bogged down actually debating policy." In an age of impressionist politics and complicit media, he gets away with it. It's the vibe, says @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
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The rise of impressionist politics
We remain at it, expending hectares of newsprint, years of broadcasting, an untold number of electrons, reporting, analysing and commenting on political policy in detail or detailing the lack of detai...
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Terri Bateman @terribateman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Struggling to Express how very disappointed I am with NACC, the level of dysfunction and corruption is staggering.
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Penny Underwood @pennycu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Literally just had this discussion with my GP and got boosted. And updated tetanus and polio. Thank goodness for vaccines.
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Mike Carlton @mikecarlton01.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Worth a read.
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