This text discusses various topics, including the support teachers receive, the Australian Grand Prix funding, the political landscape and leadership, and the debate surrounding the minimum wage.
I was saddened when reading the article “School of last resort runs out of room for disengaged kids” (2/1/25) about the Pavilion school in Epping and a parent described it as having “teachers that care”. As a retired teacher, I know that teachers always care. They just may not have the resources provided at Pavilion, such as three educators in each classroom and no doubt small class sizes.
An Age letter to the editor of June 23, 2008, was accompanied by a Tanberg cartoon of then transport minister Tim Holding claiming that the grand prix was good for Melbourne. At that time, Victorians forked out $40 million to prop up the event. For the most recent financial year, Victorians forked out $130 million to support the AGPC and the CEO pocketed around $690,000. To date, the F1 car race at Albert Park has received over $1 billion from the state government. Enough is enough.I would be interested to know why people have swung away from Anthony Albanese. The failure of the Voice seems to have infected people’s perception of the government. The swing to Dutton is extraordinary given he hasn’t given any details of his policies or vision other than he is not Albanese. Peter Dutton is a confident yet glib communicator. Anthony Albanese is extremely poor. Is this is how people decide? Is Bill Shorten making a comeback? It didn’t work in 2016 and it won’t work in 2025.How could John Howard after all these years still defend his decision to go to war in Iraq? Thousands of Iraq civilians died for no benefit to anyone except arms sellers. Politicians will never admit they made a wrong decision even when it is so bleeding obvious. (The sooner the minimum wage is scrapped and employers are allowed to pay salaries that are commensurate with the financial status of their business, the better the relationship between employers and employees will be. Small businesses are hamstrung by these minimum wage
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