I’ve written before about how annoying I find the rules about religious education in NSW public schools. In 1880, the NSW government established the Public Instruction Act, which introduced compulsory free education in NSW. In a compromise with the (non catholic) religious schools, the government also took over most of the poor, parish schools. As [...]
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Moral majority?
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Parenting on 31 March, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Darling Harbour grown up
Posted in Life on 23 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today the Penguin family went (as we often do) to Darling Harbour. Over easter, there is a circus festival. Which meant that we saw three different live shows out of the ten on offer – The Pitts, Leo Bonne, and Ace P. Freckle. They were all good. The Pitts (my favourite), especially was a seriously [...]
Happy Easter
Posted in Life on 23 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To pass the time on my regular jogging route, I count the weddings and critique the bridesmaid’s dresses. I’m lucky that I can run through a very scenic part of Sydney, and on the weekend, I’m guaranteed at least one wedding to gawk at.
This afternoon was a bit different. Only two weddings – one Jewish and [...]
Moral Hazard – was the Fed right to intervene?
Posted in Economics on 18 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many column inches have been spent in the past couple of days analysing the Fed’s decision to prop up Bear Stearns while it found a buyer – in the end JP Morgan agreed to buy it for around 10% of the trading price a week before.
What the Fed did was to provide liquidity – effectively [...]
Family
Posted in Life on 10 March, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m in New Zealand at the moment, for work, but I managed to sneak in a visit to some relatives on the way. There is a shared experience in visiting family that makes me wish I did it a bit more often.
I had dinner at Teacher aunt’s house with various other relatives. Mathematical cousin (who [...]
Single sex schools
Posted in Australian Politics, Education, Parenting on 5 March, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Around here, one of the common topics of conversation among the parent community is, “where are you going to send your kids to high school?” We genuinely have no idea. Our options are made much more complex by the fact that all of the six high schools within walking distance of our house (two public, four private) [...]
Demographic pressures
Posted in Australian Politics, Economics, Parenting on 1 March, 2008 | 4 Comments »
When you have a new baby, suddenly you notice them everywhere. Certainly, that’s how I felt with Chatterboy. I assumed that in my formerly childless state, they’d always been there, but I hadn’t noticed them before. But I’ve just been looking at the census statistics for my local area, and it turns out that, like [...]
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