This week’s Paradigm Shift 24 Jan 2021 is all about independent filmmaking to document activism and protect the environment. We chat to Sally Ingleton (director of the new film “Wild Things – A Year on the frontline of environmental activism”), Jane Hammond (director of “Cry of the Forests” about Western Australian forests and the fight […]
Welcome to the Paradigm Shift on FM 102.1 4ZZZ Fridays at noon. We challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression … January 15, 2021 This week we hear from the environmental frontlines around the country. We speak to Miranda Gibson about Olney State Forest in New South Wales, Erik Hayward about protecting […]
Welcome to the Paradigm Shift on FM 102.1 4ZZZ Fridays at noon. We challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression …more January 8, 2021 – Listen @ http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift This week we look back over 2020 and play some of the best Australian protest songs of the year. Fingermae – Scotty’s bad week […]
Major stories from Paradigm Shift in 2020 – Refugees, Aboriginal farming practices, Assange, & cuts at Qld College of Art. Intro by Ian, Andy on Refugees and Aboriginal land use, Ian on the extradition of Julian Assange, Bec Mac on cuts to Qld College of Art. PlaylistDorothy & friends – Down Under (satire)Mo’Ju – Native […]
Why do Australia and New Zealand governments want the power to irradiate all fruit and vegetables? More trade, pure and simple. But what about human and animal health? Previously there was only one food irradiation plant at Narangba on the outskirts of Brisbane, now there are two. The second being at Vic Markets in Melbourne […]
Australian teacher discusses school testing in England
The AEU supports accountability and transparency in education, but league tables based on raw test results are bad for our students, our schools and our communities.
Teachers, education support staff, principals, parents and school councils are united in opposing simplistic league tables. They are misleading, inaccurate, damaging, demoralising – and unnecessary.
Why we oppose league tables
AEU members who have worked in the UK and United States know the damages high-stakes testing and league tables can cause, by stigmatising schools and students, narrowing the curriculum, stifling creativity and forcing schools to teach to the test. These videos of AEU members who have taught in London and New York speak for themselves…more @ http://www.aeuvic.asn.au/campaigns/stop_league_tables/
Teachers facing $6600 fines over test
DAN HARRISON
May 5, 2010 source http://www.theage.com.au/national/teachers-facing-6600-fines-over-test-20100504-u7a0.html
INDIVIDUAL school teachers could be fined up to $6600 if they defy an order from the industrial umpire and refuse to administer national literacy and numeracy tests next week.
Fair Work Australia yesterday ruled in favour of the Victorian government, ordering the Australian Education Union and its members to cancel a threatened boycott of the tests, which children in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are scheduled to sit from next Tuesday to Thursday.
The union was ordered to issue notices, including on its websites, by 4.30pm yesterday, cancelling the boycott and directing teachers not to disrupt the tests. But the union was defying the orders last night, exposing it to the risk of a financial penalty of up to $33,000 and fines of up to $6600 for each of its officials and members.
more>> http://www.theage.com.au/national/teachers-facing-6600-fines-over-test-20100504-u7a0.html
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