Not two weeks ago the Department of Education and Training of Western Australia made a pay offer to teachers that was little short of insulting. In it the DET offered nothing more than the paltry 14% they had previously offered and sought to reduce conditions by foisting a one-hour compulsory, out of hours staff meeting [...]
Life has stages, but it isn’t until you get to one of those stages that you begin to realise it.
When you hit your 30s you begin to examine your life in ways you never did before and certain sudden realisations hit you. In your mid-teens you yearn to be 18 and take on the mantle [...]
Having decided to wait for a while before purchasing an iPhone I thought that it might be a good idea to try and get a real understanding of what the Australian telcos are offering. To do this I gathered pricing information from each and then broke it down in terms of included calls, monthly costs, [...]
The 3G iPhone landed with much applause. From the moment that Steve Jobs announced it people around the globe became excited beyond all reason about the latest gadget from Apple. It wasn’t just the Apple fanatics either, suddenly the iPhone, speculation and fact was everywhere and as July 11 drew nearer even the mainstream media [...]
Ever since the industrial revolution there has been a steady migration of people from the country side to the city. Certainly cities in one form or another have existed since civilisation and cities like London are the product of thousands of years of continuous occupation by one people or another. Other cities like New York [...]
Joel Fitzgibbon is a name well known to those in politics, but as Defence Minister I must confess that I hadn’t taken note of him until now. The ABC reports that at the inaugural Edmond Barton lecture in Newcastle on Friday night Mr.Fitzgibbon described Australia as the most over governed country in the world and [...]