Our centres of higher learning can’t stand mainstream Australian values Brianna McKee Features Australia Getty Images Brianna McKee 2 December 2023 9:00 AM The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne identifies its purpose as considering how Australia’s founding as a settler colony informs our capacity to engage with the central challenges of our time.Continue reading “Elite universities loathe us”
Category Archives: Education
From the ski lodge to the sea: our kids will never be free
Kevin Donnelly Flat White Getty Images Kevin Donnelly 22 November 2023 11:50 AM As to why so many students wagged school last week protesting about the supposed man-made climate catastrophe and why so many will protest this week against Israel’s right to defend itself against the evil and barbaric invasion by Hamas … there areContinue reading “From the ski lodge to the sea: our kids will never be free”
Glib advertising will not enable ‘that’ teacher
Colleen Harkin Flat White Getty Images Colleen Harkin 15 November 2023 5:00 AM ‘Be that teacher’ is a new $10 million advertising blitz by federal, state, and territory governments that aims to elevate the status of the teaching profession, to celebrate its impact, and to inspire more individuals to consider teaching as a fulfilling careerContinue reading “Glib advertising will not enable ‘that’ teacher”
Interested in the Oxford Dictionary? Meet the ‘Brissie girl’ who wrote the book on it
Books & Poetry Sarah Ogilvie’s passion for words began when she was a student at UQ and now she has published a surprisingly lively book about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary that has the critics raving. Phil Brown Print article She has the spires of Oxford to inspire her but right now SarahContinue reading “Interested in the Oxford Dictionary? Meet the ‘Brissie girl’ who wrote the book on it”
The Psychology of “Wokeism”
Hate requires the obliteration of context. Posted August 9, 2021 | Reviewed by Devon Frye Wokeness, in my view, is a good thing, as I have often blogged (for example, here). Awareness of unfairness in the treatment of others not only makes the world a better place and us better people, it creates a cultureContinue reading “The Psychology of “Wokeism””
Labor to emasculate young boys at school with ‘healthy masculinities’ presentations
Date: October 28, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 23 Comments Educating children about interaction with the opposite gender traditionally has been the job of parents for eons, but the United Nations has issued a policy directive to PM Albanese to re-educate young boys about ‘toxic masculinity’. It seems the ALP now wants children modeled on the homosexualContinue reading “Labor to emasculate young boys at school with ‘healthy masculinities’ presentations”
Canada and Ukraine killing and harvesting young children’s organs
Date: October 27, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 12 Comments Why is Labor PM Albanese financially supporting the corrupt, inhuman, evil Zelenski regime in Ukraine? Albo has urgent questions to answer https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12242035/Evil-child-trader-caught-trying-child-Ukraine-sell-organ-transplants.html Share this:
The shameful desecration of Israel’s kidnapped children
Brendan O’Neill World Credit: Israeli Embassy London Brendan O’Neill 26 October 2023 3:31 AM We have seen many grim images over the past two weeks. Images of the apocalyptic, Isis-style violence visited upon the people of Israel by Hamas. Images of destruction and grief in Gaza as Israel hammers Hamas for its crimes against theContinue reading “The shameful desecration of Israel’s kidnapped children”
“Schools must equip childrento have sexual partners”- say the UN and WHO
This evidence report reveals how the World Health Organization and United Nations are sexualizing little children in primary education worldwide, for the purpose of normalizing pedophilia. This report consists of nothing but solid evidence, with many official documents, videos, books, archives, etc. All PDF documents may be downloaded from the references section at the endContinue reading ““Schools must equip childrento have sexual partners”- say the UN and WHO”
Sexualizing kids is part of UN Agenda 2030
The logos on the United Nations “International Technical Guidance on Sexual Education” document show that this is part of the UN’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. United Nations Agenda 2030 is a plan to transform every aspect of human existence on the earth by the year 2030. In their own words:3 We have adopted aContinue reading “Sexualizing kids is part of UN Agenda 2030”
Flat White
Free speech on campus, actions are louder than words Brianna McKee Getty Images Brianna McKee 4 September 2023 4:00 AM Last week the University of Sydney announced that it would avoid taking an official position on the Voice to Parliament. But the message was clearly not received by the faculties, which took matters into theirContinue reading “Flat White”
The niche, elitist research of universities: a waste of money
Brianna McKee Flat White (Getty Images) Brianna McKee 3 October 2023 5:00 AM Each year more than $12 billion disappears into the abyss vaguely described as ‘research and development’ in the higher education sector. By way of return on this ‘investment’, there has been a steady flow of research projects demonstrating an unhealthy fixation onContinue reading “The niche, elitist research of universities: a waste of money”
Education
‘Stolen Generations’ and the Holocaust, Same Difference Tony Thomas I’ve long admired the candour of Adelaide’s Woodville High teacher and union delegate Regina Wilson, who posted on her Education Union’s Facebook page three years ago: I am going to try to ensure that the next generation of voters in my classroom don’t vote Liberal, withoutContinue reading “Education”
‘Supportive, safe, empowering’ Qld school hosts drag queen, gang fights and student knife attack
Date: October 6, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 0 Comments By TONY MOBILIFONITIS QUEENSLAND’s education authorities and politicians need to be slapped out of their delusional state and get the education system back to basics. We’re talking about Queensland’s Education Minister Grace Grace, a former union boss, Director General Michael De’Ath, who presides over eight other deputyContinue reading “‘Supportive, safe, empowering’ Qld school hosts drag queen, gang fights and student knife attack”
The Universities
The Machiavellians in Our Universities Gregory Melleuish In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, inaugurated what is best described as Australia’s second “education revolution”. The first, associated in particular with Henry Parkes, had brought compulsory primary education into being for the great mass of the Australian people. The second massivelyContinue reading “The Universities”
Language
The Case for Latin David Daintree Climate change is one thing, but how about a new Renaissance? Is Latin merely an irrelevancy, a pitiful remnant of a once-great civilisation still holding a few of us back from our proper preoccupation with the future? Or is it just lying low, temporarily out of fashion, waiting forContinue reading “Language”
Wokeism complicates the raising of kids
Nick Hossack Flat White Getty Images Nick Hossack 20 September 2023 4:30 AM One of the dilemmas raising children in an era when Wokeism dominates every institution is whether to bluntly express your opinions on various topics or, instead, hedge and sanitise so they don’t regurgitate your views in full and, in doing so, renderContinue reading “Wokeism complicates the raising of kids”
Children need protection from adult madness
Lionel Shriver Columns [Getty Images] Lionel Shriver 9 September 2023 9:00 AM The Texas Supreme Court just upheld a state law banning so-called gender-affirming care for minors, to explosive consternation from predictable quarters. Progressive commentators portray this and similar laws passed by more than a dozen Republican-controlled state legislatures as ‘anti-LGBTQIA+’. In truth, the lawsContinue reading “Children need protection from adult madness”
TikTok is giving our children Tourette’s
The pandemic has hit our children even harder than we thought Max Pemberton Features Max Pemberton 9 September 2023 9:00 AM Shortly after the first Covid lockdown ended, doctors began to notice something so strange that at first they struggled to explain it. There appeared to be a sudden rise in the number of childrenContinue reading “TikTok is giving our children Tourette’s”
Child soldiers in the culture war
Bella d’Abrera Café Culture [Getty Images] Bella d’Abrera 4 September 2023 5:25 PM As we move closer and closer to the referendum, stories are emerging from our schools that should make any parent demand an audience with the principal. A couple of weeks ago it came to light that a class of pre-schoolers, barely outContinue reading “Child soldiers in the culture war”
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