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The World Today - Educator claims critical thought stifled in our schools: ABC Radio, The World Today, Wed, 9-Feb-2005, Reporter: David Mark In the Spring edition of The Journal of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English Associate Professor Wayne Sawyer, from the University of Western Sydney, asked whether
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I've just come out of hospital where I spent 7 days after major abdominal surgery. The surgeon and the hospital were fantastic! We are very lucky here in Australia with our health system. But it is worth noting that I was an insured patient in a private hospital
ethics
Update 2016: This link is no longer available but you can find a handy how-to guide to setting up a blog here - thanks to Chris for the link. An interesting idea from http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php, reproduced in full as it is good food for thought.
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His Holiness Pope John Paul II and I have disagreed on many issues over many years (e.g. birth control, ordination of women, homosexuality, etc). However, there are many elements of his message for this World Day of Peace with which I do agree. But this message also raises some
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Paranoia - The Conspiracy Reader: "Since 1992 Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader has enlightened readers with alternative views and marginalized theories of the inner workings behind sociopolitical events." This is one of my favourite rainy day with nothing to do sites to visit. Although, if you really are paranoid
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Junkscience.com - this site is fun to peruse from time to time. It takes Junk science, which is defined as "faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special and, often, hidden agendas" and debunks the the theories. Heaven knows we need this sort of help with
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The conservatives fight back against Supersize Me - there is a new web site that dissects & attempts to demolish Spurlock's arguments against McDonald's: The “Food Police” are back, this time in a comedy entitled Super Size Me, produced by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock is a
technology
Not many active organisations for women in I.T. in Australia, the FITT mission is to: * Encourage more women into the ICT industry * Encourage women in the industry to achieve their personal aspirations * Assist women to better understand ICT http://www.fitt.org.au/
cybersecurity
A recent article in CSO Magazine (Vol. 1, No: 2 2004, p. 21 ff.) noted the 6 Secrets of Highly Secure Organizations. These organizations: 1) spend more on security 2) separate information security from IT 3) conduct pen tests 4) create a risk assessment process 5) define an overall security
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Sometimes through life you run into famous people - we call these 'brushes with fame' in my family. Recently I was reminiscing with friends about two brushes with fame that related to well-known international politicians. Many years ago - in the mid 1990's - in Sydney
management & leadership
Recently I posted on bullies @ work & made some fairly harsh comments about a colleague who had been doing this sort of thing often and openly. The other day I actually had some time to talk with this person and discovered that they had been going through a very difficult
ideas
Speaking with friends who are educators of the young one, thing has become apparent. The idea that learning is achieved by building foundations or layers of knowledge is passe. The MTV generation want their learning pre-packaged and easily digested. No more learning the basics and practising them to become expert