Month: February 2016

The ‘All of Us’ Unit Guide

If you haven’t read it yet, here’s a copy of the ‘All of Us’ unit guide:

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LGBTI ‘Safe Schools’ Debate Reduced to Slurs and Smears

The ‘Safe Schools Coalition’ issue highlights the problem we have with political debate in Australia.

Now that Turnbull has called for a review of the $8 million government funded ‘All of Us’ LGBTI school program, the left is showing its true totalitarian colours.

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Editorial – The Senate Has a Bigger Problem Than This

In principle, a reform allowing voters above-the-line preference choices for the Senate makes complete sense. However, the current public debate is missing a much bigger problem.

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Update -‘Safe Schools Coalition’ Program to be Reviewed

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the ‘All of Us’ teaching program created by the ‘Safe Schools Coalition’ – which is being funded by the federal government to the tune of $8 million and rolled out in schools across the country (around 490 of them so far).

At first glance, you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s all about keeping children safe. Not quite. In it’s current form, it’s actually a sickening, agenda-driven LGBTI program which, among other things, involves material such as the following:

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Can Every Cyclone be the ‘Worst Ever’?

Why would large chunks of the media want to recklessly mislead us about Cyclone Winston’s ranking in the pantheon of cyclones?

Worst ever!

It all started when I read the headline ‘worst storm on record’ on news.com.au (at 15:08 on Saturday, 20 February 2016 – before Cyclone Winston had even hit Fiji):

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Housing Affordability ‘Crisis’?

It’s true that the nature of property finance has changed over the years (e.g. average house prices relative to average income):

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Editorial – More Taxes Won’t Fix the Budget

Budget3

It’s an absolute pleasure to have the current political conversation flatulating around the edges of the government’s revenue sources – and the get-rich-quick schemes that could be used to extract more money out of us. Meanwhile, $40 billion annual deficits are still being cranked out (see also above graph) and our $400 billion debt will be added to for years to come.

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I’m an Iraqi, Get Me Outta Here!

One of the points often lost in the ‘refugee’ crisis is the reality that a startling amount of the people marching into Europe simply aren’t refugees.

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Quality Education – Are you a ‘supportive ally’?

At first I thought this was a joke:

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Police and Media Still Eating Doughnuts (UPDATE)

After two weeks, some more details surrounding the Esplanade train station brawl have been drip fed to the public.

It has now been confirmed that:

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