EDUKATION REVIEW

This post’s headline might be a slight exaggeration, especially for someone who hates index fingers being constantly pointed at the big, bad and evil media. But in the case of reporting VSU protests, the media should be (at the very least) a suspect for causing the underlying assumption that student activism is dead.
The SBS […]

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What’s being taught in the classroom is a subject that always makes a striking come-back. This year, media reports covered the hackneyed relationship between religion and science and their respective theories on evolution, also known as the debate over “Intelligent Design”. While the feud between secularism and religion dates back to the 18th century […]

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Brendan might have gained a spot in modern political folklore, but so has Barnaby, the Senate’s rabble-rouser extraordinaire, who claims to have the ‘balance of power’ in the Senate.
He’s been called everything from political neophyte, raving recalcitrant, apprentice parliamentarian to accidental working-class hero, heavy price fighter, piss-and-wind rebel and even a Christmas turkey. Despite […]

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Today VSU was passed. As one Senator put it: “Today is Freaky Friday in the Senate”.
Anyone who read the papers yesterday or this morning was left in no doubt that VSU couldn’t manage a passing mark this year. Fair enough. First, it was too much of a fluke that such a contentious bill could […]

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Nelson’s last chance to secure VSU by this year went down the drain today. The Senate wants to see amendments to its current state and cross-flooring Superman, Barnaby Joyce, remains unsympathetic. But should both continue to block Nelson’s ideological pathway, an alternative vision is already in place: the referendum.
Let’s recap on Australia’s recent history of […]

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