Curriculum — natural progress or conspiracy?

THE Labor Party, teaching unions, education academics, and P & Cs have all been accused of moving the national curriculum to the left. The curriculum has become too “secular”, “Asia-oriented”, “left”, “progressive”, “new age” and “politically correct”, to use the words of former Liberal staffer and teacher Kevin Donnelly who has been appointed by Education Minister Christopher Pyne to an inquiry to review the curriculum. Continue reading “Curriculum — natural progress or conspiracy?”

Superannuation — saviour of privatisation

“IT DOESN’T matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice,” so said Chairman Mao’s successor Deng Xiaoping. He was applying an old Chinese adage to economic changes in China – moving from a stagnant almost totally state-owned economy to one which permitted more private activity. Continue reading “Superannuation — saviour of privatisation”