Screen time for kids – the Silicon Valley rich cannot define what works
There have been a number of articles recently about how Silicon Valley executives limit screen-time for their kids. This needs
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Dear Prime Minister, here’s some emissions maths
Our Prime Minister is fond of declaiming that Australia accounts for just over one percent of global emissions – and by extension, that it’s
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Premier should just make Maths compulsory for the HSC
The Premier is pushing a complex plan to persuade more students to study Maths; she “is leading the push to
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Climate change – we’re lucky we have first-rate intelligences in charge of the country
We truly are the lucky country as our Environment Minister is such an extraordinary individual. Apparently F. Scott Fitzgerald said: “The
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Phones and schools – get some perspective, you can’t hold back the tide
It’s funny how quickly we humans come to accept the current state of things as normal. In 2012 mobile phone
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Our obsession with energy costs is irrational and is going to kill us
Why have we become obsessed with the cost of energy to households? Obsessed to the point that the noise drowns
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Do NAPLAN writing scores simply reflect the real world?
Schools and students are being warned not to rely on the NAPLAN writing scores because the Year 9 students who sat
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