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Could we have some more truthful reporting in this election, please? Apart from the utter nonsense that the Murdoch press came out about the Green Party's policies, now we have the bombastic treatment of Labor's excellent education package. Sixty-seven of Australia's most well funded schools have a funding cut. Nine and a half-thousand government and smaller independent schools get their funding improved. Yet how does that supposedly liberal paper, the Sydney Morning Herald conduct their online poll? "Do you support Latham's school funding cuts?"

Personally, I think there is a just question on why private schools should receive any government funding whatsoever.

Well, apparently both having a diary and using computers makes you sick. That about wraps it up for livejournal, right?

I suspect not.

Here's something to jot in your diary. "Revisiting September 1999: East Timor and Australian Foreign Policy" a presentation by Clinton Fernandes on Tuesday September 28 at the Globalism Institute, Building 37, Floor 5, Room 32 of RMIT from 12.30 to 2 pm. For queries or to RSVP please email damian.grenfell@rmit.edu.au

Clinton Fernandes is, quite simply, the smartest person I've ever met. He'll be discussing Australia's late intervention as part of an analysis that also addresses the role of the 'Jakarta Lobby', the construction of Australian national interest, and Australian relations with the Indonesian government. Oh, and he's just about to be published: Reluctant Saviour (Scribe, 2004), a study of the Australia-Indonesia relationship in the lead-up to the East Timor crisis.

A meme! I think I picked it up from

unsworn. I want anyone and EVERYONE who reads this to post (whether you have an LJ or not) to write a comment telling me something that you'd like to do with me one day.

And yes, I will accept "going crazy broadway style".

Back in the real world, all goes well with my CCNA studies, my Cert in Business, work and my PhD - even if I barely have enough time to scratch myself. I'm feeling pretty certain about the CCNA and am up to the point where I'm picking over a couple of specific issues rather than having weak/strong chapters. With regards to work/cert prospecting for clients is proving quite successful. I find myself pitching at least 2 serious proposals per week, although a recent debate over a motor vehicle website has unearthed how deceptive some in the IT industry can be - and I'm not impressed! I do have a new business website - comments are appreciated... OK, late for class, got to go!

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Would love to get together with you and talk about business, etc. My business seems to be heading in a similar direction at the moment. I'm actually in Melbourne for a few days, would be nice to catch up if possible. 0412073082.

Thing I'd like to do with you one day... probably be in some sort of political battle (on the same side, naturally).

Looks at web site - hey, you did the Borderlands cooperative. I think we often accidentally get their mail at a different Borderlands. Small world getting smaller.

It's been far too long in between hugs!

Gimme!

Hey Lev! Your new site's looking good. Very clean appearance. Engaging content.

The Greens? Yup. There've been some recent articles in The Age (I think) commenting on the so-called "doctors wives" phenomenon (disenchanted small-L liberals) and how they're not buying the attacks on the Greens by Howard and the Murdoch press at all. If anything, the attacks are steeling their resolve.

The meme? I definitely must pop over to Melburn and go clubbing with you at some point... Or we'll get pissed on grappa in comfy chairs on a veranda or something ;-).

I'd like to go to the opera with you....

I'd like to go nightclubbing for some doof. Good german doof. In Germany. And drink a sh*tload of schnapps.

Revisiting September 1999: East Timor and Australian Foreign Policy" a presentation by Clinton Fernandes on Tuesday September 28 at the Globalism Institute, Building 37, Floor 5, Room 32 of RMIT from 12.30 to 2 pm

Why on earth does it have to be during the day!!!! My lunch hour isn't long enough!

As for them meme - go overseas.....

Go through some of your photo albums and see pictures of all the places you've lived.

Find a pub which is open on Sundays, share a good port and smoke a light cigar ... again!!! :)

Sixty-seven of Australia's most well funded schools have a funding cut. Nine and a half-thousand government and smaller independent schools get their funding improved. Yet how does that supposedly liberal paper, the Sydney Morning Herald conduct their online poll? "Do you support Latham's school funding cuts?"
I find Age and SMH reporting on private schools hilarious. On one side, it is Virtuous to think Govt Schools Good, Private Schools Bad, and their journos are generally very big on being Terribly Virtuous.

On the other hand, where did a lot of those journos go to school? Who are a prime element in their target demographic?

I find their consequent gyrations very amusing.

Of course, I think you should fund students, not schools, with extra funding on basis of educational-disadvantage factors and tailored bonuses for levels of improvement, and get away from all this crap entirely, but that's me.

meet up in a seedy little bar in a country with unsafe drinking water, partake in the local poison (without ice made from the unsafe drinking water), and rant about politics until we get thrown out :)

When we're running the world, I'll get my people to call your people & we'll do lunch!

I met you at tabouli's birthday. I was the pigtailed redhead. Thought you sounded interesting. Found the article on the 'health issues' of diary users to be rather amusing. Personally, I think writing can only be beneficial for people; ie sorting out their emotions in a constructive way. As for the Greens, I can only say I cheered when Bob Brown was the only one with the balls to finally go against George W Bush, when he came to Australia. I occassionally flick through the letters pages of both the Herald Sun and MX; always good to know thy enemy. Though it is disturbing that so many people read these.
See, what the article should be about is the 'health issues' of otherwise average, well adjusted people dealing with the idiots we call our leaders.

I'd want to sit down with you and listen to you wax eloquent over any number of subjects; I'd mostly listen, ask questions, and keep you well fed and watered.

meme- must get you to be my tourguide. show me your neck of the woods (or desert, or jungle, or city, your choice). i'm sure there would be brew, computers, and politcal discussion involved. :-)

I did some heavy thinking about the Labor education promise and I've come down on the side of not liking it... Mainly because it appears to punish 'choice'. I am fully behind giving public schools more funding because there is a serious question of quality. But I don't believe that private schools should be self funding. (I have a whole theory about it - quite long).

Plus as a friend pointed out both Liberal and Labor are focusing on the wrong issue. They keep talking about affordable education - important yes but HECS is a good system. I think the real issue is Quality Education. But neither are addressing that issue.

I want anyone and EVERYONE who reads this to post (whether you have an LJ or not) to write a comment telling me something that you'd like to do with me one day

Work on your campaign team when you make a run for Prime Minister

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