Keywords: English Teacher
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 17 March 2010
7 Comments
The cockatoo screeched, hurling himself against
the windows of a Pitt Street high-rise. He didn't have a branch to sit on. We Sydney-siders, jammed between tower blocks which cut out the sun, and
pavements shutting off the earth, were in sympathy. Thank God for McDonald's.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 12 March 2010
2 Comments
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne Doyle
- 17 February 2010
3 Comments
Before long we come upon an open stone building — the meeting room. We
enter to find 60 weathered women seated on mats on the dirt floor.
Their saris fill the enclosure with colour. Their faces tell the
poignant stories of their lives.
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AUSTRALIA
- Thomas Bartlett
- 22 January 2010
7 Comments
Did Google really think their entering China could exert a force for China's
'opening up'? If so, they have deceived
themselves.
First and foremost, Chinese government is about control, and the more it changes, the more it stays the same.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 13 October 2009
14 Comments
Some Aboriginal languages do not distinguish the unvoiced and voiced
consonants 'b' and 'p', 'd' and 't', and 'g' and 'k'. Julia Gillard's push to provide 'English as a second language' training to teachers in remote communities can address such language obstacles and help lift levels of Indigenous education.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Frank O'Shea
- 18 September 2009
16 Comments
Those of us with normal hearing feel good if we think technology such as cochlear implants can help deaf people to hear. But Deaf people generally have little interest in 'cures'. They value their identity and see no value in becoming a different person.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Helen Brake
- 03 September 2009
8 Comments
For international students, the eagerness to accept new faces is intensified by a desire to make Australian friends, improve communication skills, and embrace all the opportunities available to them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 22 July 2009
4 Comments
For a while there, McCourt was 'mick of the moment', except in his native Limerick where they wanted to strangle him. Teacher Man, his best book, captures what it is to be the lonely figure with only cunning and a stick of chalk to protect you.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 24 June 2009
5 Comments
Neither lapsed nor nominal, but wandering — squizzing through
church doors to check the whereabouts of altar, cross and candlesticks,
before slipping into the back row. Last up to Communion, first out the door. A True Anglican.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roanna Gonsalves
- 23 June 2009
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Vincent and I were both international students
from Bombay. He had lived here for a year while I had only arrived
three months ago. We worked in the same Indian restaurant. The night of his attack, Vincent sounded upbeat on the train.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 18 May 2009
9 Comments
In 1962, Port Kembla was stoked with the dispossessed of the Old World, pouring
steel back into the reconstruction of their war-ravaged homelands.
Now, it's a ghost town. They're putting together an
industrial museum, and that has an ominous ring to it.
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