There was an opinion piece on private education in the SMH in Spectrum on the weekend, which I can’t find online. Unfortunately, I’ve thrown out the paper, too, so you’ll just have to cope with my rantings informed by unreliable memory. The author starts by saying that private education inContinue Reading
There’s been a bit of a storm recently about how boys are falling behind at school. So, being the mathematical type, I went on a search for some statistics about how girls are doing at maths these days. After all, if boys are falling behind, girls must be doing betterContinue Reading
The SMH a couple of days ago had a story about Australian Business Limited‘s suggestion of how the NSW state government should cut spending, improve efficiency and cut business taxes. OK so far, so good. I tend to agree that the NSW state government hasn’t exactly spent its money wiselyContinue Reading
Jody at Raising WEG has a fascinating post about boys and the toys they choose. She has much better comparison points than me (she has triplets – two girls and a boy), and has posted about her boy’s toy choices, and his peers’ reaction to them. One thing she saidContinue Reading
This week’s book review is Secrets of the Jury Room : Inside the Black Box of Criminal Justice in Australia by Malcolm Knox. Malcolm Knox is the SMH’s literary editor, and a few years ago got himself on a jury in a fairly serious criminal trial. This book is theContinue Reading
Our local issue is Graythwaite – a six acre estate in the middle of North Sydney currently used as a nursing home. There is a local campaign going on – posters everywhere, and stalls at all of the local markets. My four year old has been asking what it’s allContinue Reading
There has been a frenzy of comment in the US blogs I read about a recent article arguing that “Half the wealthiest, most-privileged, best-educated females in the country stay home with their babies rather than work in the market economy” Further research by US demographers (as opposed to anecdotally interviewingContinue Reading
There has been a huge amount of publicity of increasing proportions of children being overweight and obese. The studies often add that obesity is much more common in poorer children, for a variety of reasons (including access to exercise as well as healthy food). So I’ve been assuming that whereContinue Reading
This week’s book review is Better than Sex – How a whole generation got hooked on work, by Helen Trinca & Catherine Fox (who edit the Australian Financial Review‘s Boss magazine). Helen Trinca and Catherine Fox are journalists who write about the world of work very much from a managementContinue Reading
I was very excited this week when I logged on to the Sydney Water dam update – we’ve had the best week since last July! So this week, we had enough new water in the dams to cover us for six weeks of normal consumption. It’s still not enough, though.Continue Reading