Not a long post- but I just wanted to acknowlege a momentous event. After 10 years and much debate, the Australian government has finally apologised to the Aboringinal community for the Stolen generation. If you don’t know about it, google it, and if you are Australian- you are truly  ignorant. I wanted to listen live, [...]

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I’m probably a little late on this, but I had to make a comment. As part of his Australia day comments, our Prime Minister decided that we don’t teach history well enough. Excuse me? As someone from thechalk whiteboard-face I don’t quite understand what he thinks I do as a SOSE teacher. He says “Too [...]

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of Australians are racist, or so the herd said. I’d like to believe that it’s not true. At the moment I am sitting at my computer, in tears. I can’t believe I live in this country. Yesterday, 5000 yobs marched in Cronulla, assaulting ‘lebs and wogs” and generally taking multiculturalism back 60 years. Without a [...]

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I’ve got to admit- I’ve been hiding out. Firstly hiding from my blog. This week, as I’ve been so busy, so it’s been justified. But I have felt that I’m a little less open and a lot more self-censoring. Particularly over the last year or so. I should have blogged this week on the things [...]

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