This is the opening paragraph in today's #SatPaper . I rather resonate with the brief description of the Sydney Institute. It is incorrect to think of it as a "Conservative think tank". "…a shrine to hectoring and pedantry, where the world is held in harping stasis by a series of filing cabinets" — seems apt.

"Julia Gillard (Unley High School) was at The Sydney Institute when she said the words that would help destroy the Australian education system: “no school will lose a dollar of funding”. The institute is a confection of Gerard Henderson’s (Xavier College), a shrine to hectoring and pedantry, where the world is held in harping stasis by a series of filing cabinets."

I don't suppose Henderson would read the Saturday Paper. He would regard it as fundamentally wrong headed and a waste of his attention.

But the final paragraph of this weeks editorial poses a solution for the structurally embedded inequity in Australia's education system.

"Gonski laid out a solution more than a decade ago. It was hardly radical. He is a man known for his circumspection. Yet it cannot be implemented while governments pretend they cannot take money back from the richest schools and give just a little more to the poorest."

Couldn't agree more.

#Gonsky #Education #inequality #Fairness

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/editorial/2023/07/22/class-warfare

Better than average #satpaper quiz for me today, ✅✅✅✅❌✅❌❌❌✅
The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 459
I got 6/10

Another dumb #satpaper quiz (No. 458):

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Question 3 was a lucky guess. I probably should have got the country, and arguably the book… but I’m more of a Brontë person. (Sssh, yes, I know I got the last Brontë one wrong too.)

"Mr Dutton spruiked a proposal to allow first home buyers to use their superannuation for a deposit, a policy announced by former prime minister Scott Morrison before the last election."

Better economic managers … #pffft #auspol #satpaper

https://www.aap.com.au/news/liberals-down-but-not-out-as-dutton-rallies-troops/?cid=d8b9218fe4562a50ceb0b1c48f3b6e78

This hardly ever happens. #satpaper #quiz

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 451
I got 9/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2023/05/27?rival=1111110111

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The #SatPaper #Quiz No. 440
@jessecaah and I got 6/10

Yes. Nailed it. Well done @jonkudelka!

#auspol
#SatPaper
#Cartoon

@jessecaah and I got 6/10 in the #SatPaper #Quiz

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Today's editorial in #SatPaper. If you are not a subscriber, here is the first paragraph.

>This is a proposal for a koala strike. For as long as the Albanese government continues to approve fossil fuel projects, there should be a ban on ministers entering zoos and animal parks for photo opportunities. If the government insists on contributing to catastrophic climate change, it should not benefit from the positive feelings people have towards the animals and environments it is destroying.

Unfortunately the article is paywalled. It is worth reading. The Labor party posture on Gas, oil and coal is totally and dangerously contradictory and @tanya_plibersec is gaslighting her constituents. In some ways this is far worse than her LNP IPA colleagues. The ALP is claiming the moral high ground and waging an effective neutralisation campaign on the Greens at the same time as it is setting up Australia and the world to burn.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/editorial/2023/02/25/the-koala-strike

John Kudelka's cartoon in #SatPaper. Gives new meaning to the term "gaslight". Labor better watch out. There are good independents eyeing off Labor seats for the next federal election. And if they lose their majority it will be well deserved.

@jessecaah and I got 6/10 plus the bonus in the #SatPaper #Quiz

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@andrewrock I have a good warm feeling he'll never be PM.
Kudos to the fearless #SatPaper editors 👍
#auspol

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5/10 in the #SatPaper #Quiz with @jessecaah.

Not our finest effort.

#SatPaper #Quiz with @jessecaah

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5/10

#SatPaper #Quiz with @jessecaah

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7/10

#SatPaper #quiz Wind, metal, prison (but not bonus), pants, dogs. If it wasn’t so early in the morning I would probably have also got the cocktail.

#SatPaper #Quiz with @jessecaah: alloy; cocktail; prison term; celebrity; eyesight. 5/10.

#SatPaper #Quiz with @jessecaah: TV year; Book character; car brand; claw; currency; person of the year. 6/10

#SatPaper #Quiz mammal; volume (plus bonus); penalty; engines; maker; fashion designer; unit. 8/11 with @jessecaah

Should have known the dog. I could see it in my minds eye but the name escaped me.

#SatPaper #Quiz university; name; netball (@jessecaah); monarch. 4/6