States, schools and teachers had bloody well better shape up, because those who fail will be punished to within an inch of their lives and if necessary beyond, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Education Revolution
A teacher’s letter to the PM
Until you start paying teachers decently as they work their way up the pay scale, you will never keep the good people in the job, writes Joycelyn Brewer
Lowbottom High Diaries: Classrooms without performance indicators
‘I reckon youse is for the big drop, Sir,’ quoth Tarquin this very day. The honorific, it should be said, was delivered in a tone strictly ironic, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Give ‘em a serve Julia … The wise Aristotle … No solos in this government … Eat a whale, save the planet … The Daily Reality Check … The Pick of this Morning’s Political Coverage …
Election promises be damned, Rudd must abandon populism
Kevin Rudd promised that Labor’s decisions on policy would be “evidence based”, but the evidence belies that so far, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Flint: Rudd’s digitally enhanced rhetoric dupes swooning media
Tired by a campaign which he says is “just so damn hard,” Kevin Rudd should be encouraged that there could be a job for him at the ABC if he doesn’t win — as an autocue reader at Media Watch, writes David Flint.
Kevin 07 in chapter and verse
Kevin was rock and roll, Kevin was angry. Even delivering broadband makes Kevin cross. Or is that determined? Jonathan Green ponders the ALP campaign launch.
