Early childhood education and schooling

Australia dropped down OECD ranks based on the last Programme for International Student Assessment of 15-year-olds, and on other measures of performance have stagnated or gone backwards. The annual NAPLAN reports show that …

Early childhood development

The years from birth to the age of eight are crucial for children’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. Services currently provided for pre-school early childhood development and care are expensive, ill-defined, …

Budget: Universities

The budget has done nothing to address the crisis in university funding. The Age newspaper reported that the budget contained $19 billion dollars for universities. Was this an increase in …

IDAHOBIT

We are fed up with politicians, shock jocks and lobbyists having ‘debates’ about the LGBTIQ community and  International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (Sunday 17th May) is a …