Archive for June, 2007
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
The Thwarting of Free Speech
Yesterday’s Herald’s News Review section included an edited version of a piece written by David Marr for the Quarterly Essay, about the gradual corruption of public debate and the stifling of free speech under John Howard. Here is one of the opening chapters: Since 1996, Howard has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
More language in High School
Today, the Group of Eight universities (Australia’s version of the Ivy League, or Russel Group) has called for languages to be compulsory until year 10 (16 years). It seems that less than 6% of final year students in Australia can speak a language other than English – though, this figure is suffixed with the qualification [...]
