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What a couple of years!

Posted on December 22, 2021 by colinfraser

So, 2021 is nearly over. About time too. You know, I get worried about calendars, really concerned as their days are definitely numbered. <Groan> I know dreadful dad joke, but that is about the standard of the last two years. … Continue reading →

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What’s Next?

Posted on August 20, 2021 by colinfraser

So 2021 is turning out to be as big a mess as 2020. Perhaps even bigger. Not only do we have Covid-19 and the Delta variant, also Epsilon and anything else that crops up, we also have a Vietnam rerun … Continue reading →

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The Year We Wished Wasn’t!

Posted on December 31, 2020 by colinfraser

2020! Wow! What a year. In Oz, we faced huge bushfires throughout the summer. In my home state, South Australia, we were choking on the smoke of fires a hundred kilometres away. Kangaroo Island was burning. At one point, it … Continue reading →

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A Personal View of the Australian Curriculum

Posted on January 22, 2020 by colinfraser

[This is the first in a series of items I am writing about the Australian Curriculum. Hopefully, they will when completed, make sense. ] The concept of the Australian Curriculum (AC) should have been adopted a generation before it was. … Continue reading →

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The Failure of the West

Posted on January 22, 2020 by colinfraser

There is so many things going wrong in the West right now. It is really hard to know where to start. Leadership is a talentless, moral and ethical vacuum. Our political leaders are increasingly coming from the Right, more extreme … Continue reading →

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In the thick of it

Posted on August 12, 2015 by colinfraser

Fearless Leader is doing it again. In this case it is Mr Tony Abbott, Fearless Leader, PM of Australia, the Captain who seems unable to pick a winning team, the would be Catholic priest who went from aestheticism to materialism, … Continue reading →

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Letters I have written

Posted on December 26, 2014 by colinfraser

Every now and again, erm.. ok, let’s start that again…. Fairly frequently, I get a bee in my bonnet, (silly expression, I have never worn a bonnet, my dear mother once told me I seriously objected to anything on my … Continue reading →

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One good fraud deserves another!

Posted on June 15, 2014 by colinfraser

Right from the outset, I an telling everyone that I believe that the private education system in Australia is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the Australian public. It is hugely bigger than the Iraqi WMD, immensely larger than the … Continue reading →

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On air with Peter Goers

Posted on February 17, 2014 by colinfraser

Last Thursday, 12th February, (2014 that is) I had the unusual honour of being invited to attend Australia’s national broadcaster’s, ABC, studios in Collinswood, Adelaide. I joined the host, Peter Goers, on his evening radio show in a discussion about … Continue reading →

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“It’s all good tank country”

Posted on August 29, 2012 by colinfraser

What is it that we mean when we talk about public education?  I know what I mean, but I wonder sometimes if I am thinking of the same things as others do. I ask this of myself as the idea … Continue reading →

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