Category: Education

  • Perspective – What diary do you use?

    I’ve just started another semester of teaching and studying so I have been filling in the semester’s assignment due dates, social occasions and running races. It struck me that the style of diary one uses (or prefers) could have a big impact on how you perceive time, and even day to day life. I have…

  • Unlearning

    Tonight was the launch of the Cadbury AFL 9s Touch Football season. My team and I are playing tomorrow night, but I happened to pass another competition on a walk and stopped to watch some teams play this new hybrid of netball, touch football and AFL. The teams I watched were all male (mixed teams…

  • A Fragment of Your Imagination

    Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is just public relations. -George Orwell I’m increasingly worried that online versions of newspapers and more television channels, while providing more information, will in fact make the general population less informed. To paraphrase George, is news meant to be more than what we want…