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Greg Hunt is the personification of the effect of the Liberal Party policy on Australia. Dude is "wrecker" incarnate. If he were Treasurer he would sink all of Australia's cash on the pokies.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:16 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 07:49 |
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Mike Baird just resigned.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:17 |
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Mills posted:Mike Baird just resigned. 3 premiers in under 4 years, Liberal chaos. Need the adults back in charge.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:20 |
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Because it's a profession, not a trade so they should shut up and get into line with doctors and set up anti-worker associations instead. Well I think that you could have an instrument which does in fact compare student outcomes, but it might potentially not account for a) demographic/cohort effects and b)might not adequately control for "teaching to the test". The problem I have with standardised testing in schools is this weird cultural aversion to proper interpretation/administration of the tests, as well as acknowledging the (many) limitations of testing. If we want to talk about lovely implementation of tests, in QLD, we have the Queensland Core Skills Exam at the end of Year 12, which is a high-stakes test which basically acts as a comparison between a whole bunch of schools and poo poo, except it can positively/negatively control for cohort. For example, my school basically got no OP 1s for the year I graduated in. A whole bunch of people got really high marks in their regular assessment, but the overall cohort performance dragged everyone's OP score down by 1-2 points (due to the relative performance of the school vs. other schools).
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:22 |
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Either someone has dirt on him or he's going to later move into Fed politics after a break. Surely. Edit: or he's got a cushy position lined up with the Casinos or something.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:23 |
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Should've stuck to your guns on greyhounds, chump
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:26 |
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Amoeba102 posted:Either someone has dirt on him or he's going to later move into Fed politics after a break. Surely. I bet it is the casino
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:27 |
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Wait, NSW ALP has a chance now with loving Foley? Haha you guys are gonna get hosed more than Queensl- *looks at One Nation in the distance* Oh gently caress.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:32 |
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Mike Baird is retiring. Efb
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:33 |
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Rike Maird is betiring
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:36 |
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Queensland is like "living under the jackboot of Ol' Joh wasn't so bad"
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:37 |
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Recoome posted:Queensland is like "living under the jackboot of Ol' Joh wasn't so bad" Also fluoride is poison and gently caress abortion.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:39 |
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I wasn't alive but apparently protesting was illegal at some stage in QLD
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 23:50 |
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Recoome posted:Well I think that you could have an instrument which does in fact compare student outcomes, but it might potentially not account for a) demographic/cohort effects and b)might not adequately control for "teaching to the test". The problem I have with standardised testing in schools is this weird cultural aversion to proper interpretation/administration of the tests, as well as acknowledging the (many) limitations of testing. Standardised tests as a diagnostic tool are great. the PAT, RR etc used systemwide have positive effects, especially for itinerant student populations. using them in aggregate to compare schools is the education equivalent of pushing on a rope. It displays a fundamental lack of understanding about what the gently caress you are doing. The problem with the "school improvement" narrative is it is all coming attached to ideas that have been demonstrated to be false. Paying the top 10% more is punitive on the remaining 90%; setting up incentive schemes makes people care more about the scheme than underlying performance etc. this is all covered in first year business classes. It is all about Accountability and responsibility without giving the practitioners control. It fundamentally can't work.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 00:00 |
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KennyTheFish posted:Standardised tests as a diagnostic tool are great. the PAT, RR etc used systemwide have positive effects, especially for itinerant student populations. using them in aggregate to compare schools is the education equivalent of pushing on a rope. It displays a fundamental lack of understanding about what the gently caress you are doing. Yeah exactly, I think the testing idea is great but I find how the data is used is problematic.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 00:05 |
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Amoeba102 posted:Either someone has dirt on him or he's going to later move into Fed politics after a break. Surely. His parents and his sister are apparently pretty ill. I think he's legitimately stepping down for family reasons.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 00:36 |
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Kegslayer posted:His parents and his sister are apparently pretty ill. I think he's legitimately stepping down for family reasons. His family need that sweet, sweet casino money too. I don't blame them.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 00:46 |
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Recoome posted:I wasn't alive but apparently protesting was illegal at some stage in QLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehx4CZSsojI Also if you had long hair and NSW plates you would get pulled over and beaten. Touring in SE QLD in the Seventies/Eighties was an extreme sport. The song above was written explicitly because the law basically made band practice illegal. quote:1971 state of emergency[edit] quote:Restriction of civil liberties, growth of police power[edit] quote:In 1977, Bjelke-Petersen announced that "the day of street marches is over", warning protesters: "Don't bother applying for a march permit. You won't get one. That's government policy now!"[39] Liberal parliamentarians crossed the floor defending the right of association and assembly.[40] One Liberal MP, Colin Lamont, told a meeting at the University of Queensland that the premier was engineering confrontation for electoral purposes and was confronted two hours later by an angry Bjelke-Petersen who said he was aware of the comments. Lamont later said he learned the Special Branch had been keeping files on Liberal rebels and reporting, not to their Commissioner, but directly to the Premier, commenting: "The police state had arrived."[40] When, after two ugly street battles between police and right-to-march protesters, the Uniting Church Synod called on the government to change the march law, Bjelke-Petersen accused the clergy of "supporting communists". His attack sparked a joint political statement by four other major religious denominations, which was shrugged off by the premier.[33] This is what should be in the Australian History curriculum. The history of the Union movement, for better or worse. It is utterly fascinating, gives insights into the Australian political psyche and nobody knows poo poo about it. Remember Rothbury? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothbury_riot Po Po shoot indiscriminately at a bunch of unarmed miners killing Norman Brown. * Strike action that today would be illegal.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 00:53 |
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Kegslayer posted:His parents and his sister are apparently pretty ill. I think he's legitimately stepping down for family reasons. I wish i could share your lack of cynicism. He'll reappear as a lobbyist/consultant within 12 months guaranteed.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:14 |
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aejix posted:I wish i could share your lack of cynicism. He'll reappear as a lobbyist/consultant within 12 months guaranteed. It can be both. It's been discussed openly for a while that Baird didn't want to spend a long time in office and that he'd be more comfortable in whichever private sector lurk comes up. Anidav posted:Wait, NSW ALP has a chance now with loving Foley? This is probably bad for NSW ALP. "Casino Mike" was a lightning rod for negative sentiment. Now they're going to have to figure out an actual platform to run on.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:35 |
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Who's the expected replacement, Gladys?SLASHER HAWKE posted:It can be both. It's been discussed openly for a while that Baird didn't want to spend a long time in office and that he'd be more comfortable in whichever private sector lurk comes up.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:41 |
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ewe2 posted:OK, look I was wrong. Where had Hunt advocated for a more American system?
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:43 |
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The suddenness of it seemed to point to scandal or illness. I'm just an optimist so was hoping for it to be scandal related.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:44 |
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Brown Paper Bag posted:Where had Hunt advocated for a more American system? I don't know if this is what he was referring to, but from his maiden speech: quote:http://www.greghunt.com.au/AboutGreg/MaidenSpeech.aspx
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:49 |
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Brown Paper Bag posted:Where had Hunt advocated for a more American system? The Minister for Rhyming Slang posted:The next expansion in private health coverage is, I believe, through employer incentives for the inclusion of health care in workplace arrangements—perhaps through creative ways of excluding employer health care from the fringe benefits tax regime. The result of this, the freeing of resources which private health care generates—it is not about some special system of privilege, it is about freeing resources for the rest of society—will allow even greater funding to be directed to our elderly,
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:50 |
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SLASHER HAWKE posted:It can be both. It's been discussed openly for a while that Baird didn't want to spend a long time in office and that he'd be more comfortable in whichever private sector lurk comes up. Yeah agree totally. I did type out "he's just using their sickness as a convenient excuse for him to gently caress off to the private sector because there's either a really sweet gig on offer or theres a corruption shitstorm coming that not even that silver tongued loving snake can slither his way out of" but felt a bit lovely saying that. Incidentally, feeling lovely about saying those sorts of things presumably excludes you from ever becoming a career politican
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:55 |
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I wouldn't expect too much to come of it. One Nation are psychos but this isn't their style, and nobody else would potentially support it.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 02:03 |
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'I think it’s great': Peter Dutton praises Australia Day billboard featuring Muslim girls Oh no, a ghost has possessed Peter Dutton and he's speaking in tongues!
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 02:28 |
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Waaaaagh let them in, let them in! *projectile vomits over Scott Morrison *
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 02:31 |
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I had a dream the other night that Scott Morrison was on the news face down on a hospital bed and the newsreader was saying his family are saying their tearful goodbyes then I explained to a person in my dream that even monsters have families
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 02:50 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Who's the expected replacement, Gladys? Yep. I'll be surprised if anyone tries to contest it.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 03:13 |
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KennyTheFish posted:Standardised tests as a diagnostic tool are great. the PAT, RR etc used systemwide have positive effects, especially for itinerant student populations. using them in aggregate to compare schools is the education equivalent of pushing on a rope. It displays a fundamental lack of understanding about what the gently caress you are doing. Its the biases in the choice of variables particularly. They always bias the richer/more resourced/private than poorer/less resourced/public. This happened fairly deliberately in two cases, the K-12 sector and the tertiary sector in America. In K-12 it targets teachers and guess what happens. They leave, they cheat or they go to the private school sector which doesn't use the instrument (how's that for a guilt-free win). With tertiary, the standard is accidental, written by journalists and has acquired force simply by the competition it generated (the magazine which started it is now a ratings business). Same general result, but the twist is attracting better students not teachers. This has gutted the midrange universities who can't compete on price or facilities, same kind of cheating goes on and at the bottom, predatory degree-farms. Too bad you can't afford good schooling in America, and the really bad part is that this lets the people who should be managing those sectors off the hook because no one questions the algorithm. Coming to Australia.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 03:37 |
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You Am I posted:Hunt went on a huge spiel that he knows about healthcare because his mother and wife are/were nurses. Yeah, okay, but you're still a Liberal scum who wants to see Medicare stripped back, if it isn't killed off entirely. He wrote a thesis on carbon taxation but had no problem closing the Climate Commission and letting people irrevocably gently caress the Great Barrier Reef and all manner of destructive horseshit, gently caress him even more.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 06:04 |
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Found this in a Dr waiting room today lmao
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 06:51 |
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its easy to forget why the Church exists
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 06:54 |
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:Found this in a Dr waiting room today lmao The Nazi News had a similar article about religious tolerance in schools. Maybe they're onto something?
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 06:56 |
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I really like the repeated attempts to make rainbows look sinister.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 06:57 |
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Zenithe posted:I really like the repeated attempts to make rainbows look sinister. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g9NEea2zcQ
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 06:59 |
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https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/821925609743925248
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 08:51 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 07:49 |
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Bronwyn Bishop needs to get help for her monomania.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 08:55 |