A – E ranking is a fail

The Australian federal education minister, Brendan Nelson has embarked on an exercise in populist political power by demanding all schools in Australia issue reports ranking students against their class mates. There is no doubt parents find it hard to understand...

Boys, oh Boys will we ever learn?

Tracee Hutchinson writing in The Age last Saturday (Infidelity is just not cricket, Shane) rightly points out that Australian criketer Shane Warne’s off field behaviour has seriously affected many womens’ ability to enjoy the games in which he is involved....

Religious vs State Law

Muslim cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika has stirred up a hornets nest with his reported statements that Islamic law must, for him, take precedence over Ausralian law. Hmm? Surely all major religions take the same view. Indeed you don’t even have to be religious to...

We are all self employed

Some time ago Robert Gottliebson wrote in BRW magazine “Teach your children not to think of themselves as working for employers but as working for clients.” Last week’s BRW feature story was entitled Me Inc. [Subscription Required]. I have a lot of...