Penny Underwood
@pennycu.bsky.social
“It would be incomprehensible for an Oz minister to visit Israel at this time without being absolutely clear about Australia’s major priority, which is our nation’s commitment to the international humanitarian law essential to guarantee peace and human security.”
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Australian minister to fly to Israel to mend fractured relationship? - Pearls and Irritations
Surely no self-respecting member of the Albanese Government would exert any diplomatic effort on the Netanyahu regime which ignores international law and is responsible for crimes against humanity and...
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January 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“It would be incomprehensible for an Oz minister to visit Israel at this time without being absolutely clear about Australia’s major priority, which is our nation’s commitment to the international humanitarian law essential to guarantee peace and human security.”
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Why are schools charging fees receiving any public funding at all? Especially when they are all allowed to pick & choose (& expel) their students, the communities they will & won’t serve, & the fees & levies they will charge? www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
These Sydney private schools will have funding cuts. They might not be the ones you expect
Some schools will lose more than $2000 in federal funding per student under a formula using their parents’ median incomes. See what will change by 2029.
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January 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Why are schools charging fees receiving any public funding at all? Especially when they are all allowed to pick & choose (& expel) their students, the communities they will & won’t serve, & the fees & levies they will charge? www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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My New Year’s Resolution.
What’s yours?
What’s yours?
December 23, 2024 at 5:13 AM
My New Year’s Resolution.
What’s yours?
What’s yours?
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PM Albo needs to get some media training from fmr Vic Premier Dan Andrews or Qld Labor Leader Steven Miles. And he needs to stop pandering to NewsCorp trolls. NewsCorp and the ABC are pro-LNP, anti-Labor. He needs to reconnect with Labor values and find another way to get his message out. #auspol
December 10, 2024 at 11:41 PM
PM Albo needs to get some media training from fmr Vic Premier Dan Andrews or Qld Labor Leader Steven Miles. And he needs to stop pandering to NewsCorp trolls. NewsCorp and the ABC are pro-LNP, anti-Labor. He needs to reconnect with Labor values and find another way to get his message out. #auspol
Is it time for a national, independent hate crime reporting system to capture the experiences of all targeted communities in Australia. And for the register to report the data annually?
December 8, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Is it time for a national, independent hate crime reporting system to capture the experiences of all targeted communities in Australia. And for the register to report the data annually?
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Additional 10,000 Aussies a month falling into homelessness moves us from crisis towards a country none of us want.
More action from all levels of govt is urgent.
Important work from Homelessness Aus & Prof Hal Pawson from UNSW City Futures.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
More action from all levels of govt is urgent.
Important work from Homelessness Aus & Prof Hal Pawson from UNSW City Futures.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Extra 10,000 Australians becoming homeless each month, up 22% in three years, report says
Almost half were couch surfing or living in short-term accommodation, UNSW and Homelessness Australia say
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December 8, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Additional 10,000 Aussies a month falling into homelessness moves us from crisis towards a country none of us want.
More action from all levels of govt is urgent.
Important work from Homelessness Aus & Prof Hal Pawson from UNSW City Futures.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
More action from all levels of govt is urgent.
Important work from Homelessness Aus & Prof Hal Pawson from UNSW City Futures.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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At Sydney Uni today with these two legends discussing the insidious commodification of our education system. @msciffer.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 5:05 AM
At Sydney Uni today with these two legends discussing the insidious commodification of our education system. @msciffer.bsky.social
Why do these schools ‘need’ public funding at all? Their families already choose to pay multiples of your school’s SRS when their children could attend their local public school. This is how gov funding of wealthy schools increases inequality in our school system.
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Twenty private schools with wealthiest parents received $130m total in Australian public funds in 2023
Data comes as education minister remains stalled in negotiations with states and territories over contributions to Schooling Resource Standard
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December 4, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Why do these schools ‘need’ public funding at all? Their families already choose to pay multiples of your school’s SRS when their children could attend their local public school. This is how gov funding of wealthy schools increases inequality in our school system.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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They leave our school flying’: how one Sydney school is defying its ‘disadvantage’
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‘They leave our school flying’: how one Sydney school is defying its ‘disadvantage’
Auburn North public school outperforms others despite English not being the first language for 98% of students
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:39 AM
They leave our school flying’: how one Sydney school is defying its ‘disadvantage’
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You are right Kaz. There is nowhere lower to go.
@australianlabor.bsky.social I will vote & campaign against every ALP senator from Victoria if you pass these cruel anti-refugee bills. Depriving a refugee of a mobile phone while you try to deport them? You can’t sink any lower.
November 28, 2024 at 7:36 AM
You are right Kaz. There is nowhere lower to go.
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Today, 29th November 2024, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. End the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. End the genocide in #Gaza. #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
November 28, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Today, 29th November 2024, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. End the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. End the genocide in #Gaza. #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
We know Australia has a private/public divide. But there’s even more inequality
Such a timely piece from #LauraPerry and colleagues.
#auspol #schools
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Such a timely piece from #LauraPerry and colleagues.
#auspol #schools
blog.aare.edu.au/we-know-aust...
We know Australia has a private/public divide. But there's even more inequality
Inequality: Ultimately students, families and societies lose in a system that divides students, rather than bringing them together.
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November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
We know Australia has a private/public divide. But there’s even more inequality
Such a timely piece from #LauraPerry and colleagues.
#auspol #schools
blog.aare.edu.au/we-know-aust...
Such a timely piece from #LauraPerry and colleagues.
#auspol #schools
blog.aare.edu.au/we-know-aust...
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A child at 10:
· Loses 4 baby teeth a year
· Knows the complete date
· Can name the months of the yr in order
·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences
·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction
·Has some skills in multiplying & division,
And, in Aust, can go to prison
#RaiseTheAge
· Loses 4 baby teeth a year
· Knows the complete date
· Can name the months of the yr in order
·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences
·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction
·Has some skills in multiplying & division,
And, in Aust, can go to prison
#RaiseTheAge
November 26, 2024 at 10:06 AM
A child at 10:
· Loses 4 baby teeth a year
· Knows the complete date
· Can name the months of the yr in order
·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences
·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction
·Has some skills in multiplying & division,
And, in Aust, can go to prison
#RaiseTheAge
· Loses 4 baby teeth a year
· Knows the complete date
· Can name the months of the yr in order
·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences
·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction
·Has some skills in multiplying & division,
And, in Aust, can go to prison
#RaiseTheAge
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Think our school funding model is broken? You’d be right. More than half of all Australian private schools receive more government funding per student than comparable public schools.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
November 26, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Think our school funding model is broken? You’d be right. More than half of all Australian private schools receive more government funding per student than comparable public schools.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
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“Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of an FRS is diminished by sharing it with someone who appears to be modelling himself on a Bond villain, a man with immeasurable wealth and power which he uses to threaten scientists who disagree with him”
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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November 26, 2024 at 9:54 AM
“Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of an FRS is diminished by sharing it with someone who appears to be modelling himself on a Bond villain, a man with immeasurable wealth and power which he uses to threaten scientists who disagree with him”
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Australia’s rich future can be built from our renewable energy transformation. Ross Garnaut’s Superpower Institute has identified export industries (iron, aluminium, hydrogen, urea, ammonia) which can exploit an abundance of the world’s cheapest renewables = a demonstrable comparative advantage.
November 24, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Australia’s rich future can be built from our renewable energy transformation. Ross Garnaut’s Superpower Institute has identified export industries (iron, aluminium, hydrogen, urea, ammonia) which can exploit an abundance of the world’s cheapest renewables = a demonstrable comparative advantage.
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Just when I thought an old woman couldn’t love Maoris more.
Waiting at a bar last pm and ignored by ‘ cool ‘ bar person. Young Maori guy walks up to be served.
Barperson to Maori guy : What can I do for you mate?
Maori guy : Mate, you could serve the woman who was obviously here before me .
❤️
Waiting at a bar last pm and ignored by ‘ cool ‘ bar person. Young Maori guy walks up to be served.
Barperson to Maori guy : What can I do for you mate?
Maori guy : Mate, you could serve the woman who was obviously here before me .
❤️
November 21, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Just when I thought an old woman couldn’t love Maoris more.
Waiting at a bar last pm and ignored by ‘ cool ‘ bar person. Young Maori guy walks up to be served.
Barperson to Maori guy : What can I do for you mate?
Maori guy : Mate, you could serve the woman who was obviously here before me .
❤️
Waiting at a bar last pm and ignored by ‘ cool ‘ bar person. Young Maori guy walks up to be served.
Barperson to Maori guy : What can I do for you mate?
Maori guy : Mate, you could serve the woman who was obviously here before me .
❤️
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Looking at the ongoing abuse of Indigenous peoples in the USA, Canada, Australia and #Aotearoa, it seems even when there are treaties and an acknowledgement of crimes in the recent past, Colonialism cannot stop itself from wanting to complete its work of annihilation of identity and culture. 😠
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Looking at the ongoing abuse of Indigenous peoples in the USA, Canada, Australia and #Aotearoa, it seems even when there are treaties and an acknowledgement of crimes in the recent past, Colonialism cannot stop itself from wanting to complete its work of annihilation of identity and culture. 😠
It is time for the AG to find a skerrick of common sense for everyone’s sake.
‘You don’t know if you’ll survive jail’. This is a profound injustice.
November 21, 2024 at 12:44 AM
It is time for the AG to find a skerrick of common sense for everyone’s sake.
This is why I like pockets.
November 20, 2024 at 9:51 PM
This is why I like pockets.
A more important question is: does a school give students equal opportunities for education and future life success? And how do we make sure all our schools do this?
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When picking schools, don’t get stuck on single-sex vs. co-ed. Instead ask – are all students supported and included?
Research on whether single-sex or co-ed schools are better is inconclusive. But we know a schools’ resources and culture matter for students learning and wellbeing.
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November 20, 2024 at 12:24 AM
A more important question is: does a school give students equal opportunities for education and future life success? And how do we make sure all our schools do this?
theconversation.com/when-picking...
theconversation.com/when-picking...