February 17, 2012
Australian, Page: 1
By Justine Ferrari
Friday, 17 February 2012
AUSTRALIA is focusing on education reforms that have limited value, such as school funding, teacher pay and principal autonomy, while successful Asian countries are forging further ahead with their singular focus on improving how students learn.
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February 15, 2012
So the Independents have sided with the Labor government to dismantle the private health levy, established by the Howard government.
Think of the private health contribution as a pool. The member puts in 70% and the government contributes 30%. So the government removes their 30 cents in the dollar from members whose income is above a target figur... ...
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February 15, 2012
Chris was interviewed on Radio National by Waleed Aly on February 13th, on the issue of the decline in agriculture education in australia, and the significance of this decline.
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February 6, 2012
David Penberthy Punch Online 6th February 2012
A mate of mine went on a family holiday to China in January. He relayed an interesting item from a local English language newspaper about a new pay deal which had been struck for manufacturing workers in Macau. Under the deal, the workers will be paid AUD $239. Not $239 a day. Not $239 a wee... ...
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February 3, 2012
Ben Hooper, 2010 Nuffield Scholar Profile
Bees in refrigerators might seem like a strange idea, but a similar concept may hold the key to protecting the future of the beekeeping industry.
2010 Nuffield Scholar Ben Hooper, from Tintanara in South Australia, has spent the last year looking at pest and disease management in the apiary industry as ... ...
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February 3, 2012
Farmers are under increasing pressure to lower prices in the face of supermarket discount wars.
Farmers often receive indirect pressure from the retailers via the processors. So do growers who are in farmer owned cooperatives fare better?
Two successful farmer co-ops in Victoria and Western Australia think so and say this business model could s... ...
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February 3, 2012
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February 1, 2012
West Australian, Page: 22
By Paul Murray
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
One of the nagging problems many if not most Australians have with the $1 billion-a-year asylum seeker racket based on clandestine boat trips from Indonesia is knowing the people who arrive are not the world’s most needy refugees.
They are just the wealthiest. T... ...
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February 1, 2012
Weekend West, Page: 29
By Paul Murray
Saturday, 28 January 2012
nfortunately for everyone involved, the debate over asylum seekers in Australia doesn’t show any signs of getting more sensible. The political parties all have entrenched positions: Labor won’t budge from its unprincipled Malaysia Solution, the coalition can&rsquo... ...
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January 30, 2012
Australian, Page: 1
By Paul Maley
Monday, 30 January 2012
EXCLUSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT ASYLUM-SEEKERS are discarding their passports at soaring rates, sparking renewed calls for boatpeople to be penalised for destroying their identity documents in a bid to help their refugee claims.
Of the 3237 asylum-seekers who admitted... ...
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