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• Education

  Paying teachers for performing what?

  Leonard Colquhoun Local Education Minister D Bartlett’s recent claims to be shoving the bureaucrats out of EdCentral into the empty spaces in...

• Politics

  Lebanon as an orographical expression or perhaps an arboricultural one

  Leonard Colquhoun Let’s morph that into something more down-to-earth: “OK, fellow Tassie Devils, first team meeting, and we want to be all...

• Politics

  The slow train

  Leonard Colquhoun This cow attained mythic status. EVERY now and then, there appears in the media an item —  an article, a piece...

• History

  Noisier worlds

  THE arrival, in March 2006, of boat people / refugees / asylum seekers — nomenclature depending on one’s (geo)political outlook — does...

• Society

  Drive ’em around the twist

  http://www.theage.com.au/letters/index.html The Age, Thurs 6 April 2006 THOSE annoying telephone sales pitches could be eliminated within a few weeks without recourse to...

• Sport

  V/AFL one-club 200-gamers!

  IN Rd 21 this 110th AFL season, barring injury or loss of form, Port Adelaide’s Warren Tredrea was to have completed an...

• Education

  The joy

  A beautiful article from the NY Times about Harper Lee, the writer of that 10,000,000 copies (and still counting) bestseller To Kill...

• History

  A big year

  EDDIE McGuire — the late Mr K F B Packer’s Melbourne journalist-cum-impresario-cum-Top Magpie, single-handedly, if indirectly, responsible for making lots of us...

• Education

  An end to onanism

  AT last !! From within academia has come a very frank admission that what has been passed off as “teacher-training” for far...

• Sport

  Playing with globalised balls

  NOVEMBER 2005: Australia’s recent success at the soccer World Cup qualifier at Sydney’s Homebush stadium, and media reports about the hype thus...