Is it a back flip or 3 card trick on Gonski?
It looks like the biggest back flip since Nadia Comaneci won gymnastics gold. The Abbott government has backed down and will now adopt the previous Labor government’s Gonski model for funding school...
View ArticleWho would you believe – Christopher ‘the Grub’ Pyne or Socialist Alternative?
The Grub, aka Education Minister Christopher Pyne, was on ABC News the other day defending his $30 billion cuts to education. For Universities he will cut per student funding by 20%, allow...
View ArticleMinister Pyne’s claims of anti-Semitism by Socialist Alternative are lies
In The Australian on Friday the Minister for Education labelled Socialist Alternative anti-Semitic. This is the letter I sent to the Australian in response. What odds on it being published? None and...
View ArticleIn defence of free speech; in defence of the Socialist Alternative club at...
This is an announcement on the Australasian Union of Jewish Students’ facebook page: BREAKING: Following various complaints from AUJS, the Socialist Alternative club at Monash University has been...
View ArticleIt’s shameful to use bogus claims of anti-Semitism to shut your opponents down
Jeff Sparrow writes in Overland on the bogus claims against Socialist Alternative and other supporters of Palestine. Here is a snippet. Naturally, supporters of Israel don’t like to hear their views...
View ArticlePyne’s strategic retreat
The Illawarra Mercury on opponents of the higher education reforms and Pyne’s supposed back down. John Passant, of protest group UOW Uncut, said the concessions were a temporary measure designed to...
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Police pepper spray Pyne protest: this is what their ‘democracy’ looks like
About 30 students in Sydney were protesting against Education Minister Christopher Pyne and his attacks on Universities. Here is the ABC video of a policeman pepper spraying the students. This is what...
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Police say it is OK to pepper spray protesters away
According to both The Guardian and The Australian, New South Wales police (the ones currently having a few major differences between Deputy Commissioners) think it is OK to pepper spray protesters....
View ArticleLet’s axe Pyne’s University ‘reforms’
Sarah Garnham writes in Red Flag that ‘our protest-based campaign has already had two significant victories over the government.’ ‘But for these victories to be meaningful, we need to match Pyne’s...
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