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I’m sure you all saw the horrible scenes on the weekend of the #reclaimaustralia rallies that were held around the country on the weekend. I’m sure the fact that they were held on Easter was probably a deliberate ploy by the organisers, but what they felt they had in common with an Arab Jew who…

So I finally got to go along to see the Zac Brown Band at the Hordern Pavilion. I’ve seen more concerts in the last couple of months than I have in the preceding couple of years, and this was one of the best. To be fair, though, they’ve all been pretty good. I was, perhaps…

Are you a visual learner? An auditory one? A kinaesthetic one? What about your strongest intelligence? Are you visual-spatial? Perhaps you are musical? I imagine there are some teachers who already know their learning style or in which of Gardner’s multiple intelligences they are strongest, but I’ve asked the questions above because I think they…

It is unfortunate that Australia continues to see asylum seekers and refugees as crucial to the political and economic life of the country. Since that Tampa incident during the Howard government, the so-called ‘flood’ of people seeking asylum has remained in the national consciousness and has been used as a tool for unscrupulous politicians to…

I read The Colour of Magic when I was pretty young. I remember my older brother bringing it home from the library. I liked the story, I guess, but it didn’t really reach out and grab me – it was too adult, in a way that I wouldn’t understand until I had grown up –…

Teaching is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most important vocation there is in the world today. I know that some people might argue with me about the importance of doctors and engineers – and I really hope that somebody argues with me about poets and musicians – but in the terms of social…

Now that I’m no longer teaching, it’s a good time to reflect upon what I learnt from the last decade or so. I don’t regret any of it, not for a moment, but I do find that I’m enjoying my new role, too – but I’ll save that discussion for another time. Something that I…

Student voice is becoming increasingly important in many schools and educational institutions around the world – and quite rightly, too. I’ve always subscribed to the Freirean idea that student need to be subjects in their own education, not simply objects acted upon by teachers, if they are truly to succeed, and certainly there is a…

Let’s talk about that one little issue that we are all avoiding: tax. Avoiding, you might say? On what planet are we avoiding talking about it? It’s all that those <expletive deleted> politicians are talking about. Well, yes, I guess – in some senses. We’ve all hard about axing the Carbon Tax and the changes…

So what does it mean to be an organiser? I’m probably not the best person to answer this question, as I’ve only been doing the job a couple of weeks, but I think it’s a great chance for me to reflect on what I’ve done so far, and how it has matched my vision of…