A deeply important decision that offers modern Australia an opportunity to reflect on its views as to consent, trauma, post-assault presentation, and our collective understanding of prejudice, bias, and the perpetuation of stereotypes.

#BruceLehrmann #Lehrmann #Ten #Higgins

'Having escaped the lion's den, #BruceLehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat,' said Justice Michael Lee, referring to the abandonment of Lehrmann's rape trial, due to juror misconduct, followed by his subsequent disastrous decision to sue for defamation.

Good news story 👇👇👇

Teachers once feared working at Cessnock High, now it's a model for best practice - congrats principal, teachers & students plus Dr Drew Miller ⁦University of Newcastle⁩ ⁦⁦Conor Duffy⁩ 🙏🙏🙏🙏 abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

Mindfulness gurus can often be found on ice baths, hilltops, sculpted on Instagram. But one of the most powerful forms of mindfulness is in fact, knitting and crochet, too often dismissed as “women’s craft”. My latest Staying Upright for ABC News

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How does AI impact our humanity? A TEDx talk I did last month: youtube.com/watch?v=EwjTKx…

Phonics isn’t working - for children’s reading to improve, they need to learn to love stories theconversation.com/phonics-isnt-w… #readingformeaning #comprehension
What happens when 5 year olds go to school reading & they have to do these dreaded stepped reading programs with puerile texts?

The nastiness and irrationality in some of the response to the appointment of the widely respected Sam Mostyn as our new GG this week was bonkers. Wrote this for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
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Brilliant. Netanyahu’s Australian lapdogs won’t like it, of course, but…

The 'teacher shortage will disproportionately hit the bottom ranks of society' and 'further cement the economic divide in the country.' Thanks Simon Kuestenmacher for this informative snapshot of grim data. thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2024/0…

Zomi Frankcom’s family have called for a war crimes investigation into her death.

Our government needs to endorse this & impose sanctions. We know it’s a war crime, killing aid workers is a war crime and you don’t need to be a genius to work that out.

Great to read this piece Mary Coupland Centre for Res on Ed'n in a Digital Society, UTS 👇

How do we solve the maths teacher shortage? We can start by training more existing teachers to teach maths theconversation.com/how-do-we-solv… NSW Secondary Principals' Council Catholic Schools NSW NSW Dept of Education

TIPs for creating an ed'n podcast - reaching beyond the scholarly paper and conference presentation. Associate Professor Don Carter Jane Hunter chat with Chris from LX at UTS UTS UTS Arts & Social Sciences #podcasting
lx.uts.edu.au/blog/2024/04/0…

Luke Bartolo No internal announcement? Cringe. On ABC Radio Murat Dizdar said “this won’t be a one off on day 1, term 2, but everything we roll out from now on…will be embedded in explicit teaching.” I recommend a listen to Jane Hunter (from 38 min mark): abc.net.au/listen/program…

The feverish gossip about an ill Kate Middleton shows how little we understand about chronic illness, let alone the uncertain timelines of a cancer diagnosis. Wrote this for ABC News abc.net.au/news/2024-03-2…

Whale-hello The Sydney Morning Herald! In today’s paper and online here, journey along the #Humpbackhighway via my new book out in just over a week!!! smh.com.au/culture/books/…

#weekend #paper #sundat #whaleon

Harmony Day UTS Arts & Social Sciences
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