Jim Belshaw has posted on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey 2006 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, released just today. I have downloaded the full report, and to be honest have not had… more →
Floating Life 4/06 ~ 11/07Neil wrote 1 week ago: 1. A feast for pollie-watchers and pundits Just look at The Australian today. Libs facing election r … more →
Neil wrote 2 months ago: I think I will let the graphic speak for itself, but it is relevant to my ongoing thoughts arising f … more →
Neil wrote 2 months ago: Circular Quay 1938 Illustration from A D Fraser This Century of Ours 1938 How the wool industry domi … more →
Neil wrote 4 months ago: … had a mix of the bizarre and the tragic. You wouldn’t read about it, would you? Hollywood couldn’t … more →
Neil wrote 4 months ago: I mentioned China’s ethnic and linguistic diversity in a comment on Multi-ethnic communities … more →
Neil wrote 4 months ago: … by your pupils you’ll be taught. Yes, from The King and I. Several things prompt this post today, … more →
Neil wrote 5 months ago: As I mention on the photo blog, I went over to an old stamping ground of mine today: Glebe and Fores … more →
Neil wrote 5 months ago: My former colleague at SBHS Russell Darnley has entered the blogosphere. I mentioned Russell a while … more →
Neil wrote 5 months ago: I see Kanani Fong has bitten the bullet, so I thought I would have a go. The meme was started by Jim … more →
Neil wrote 6 months ago: I was fascinated by Jim’s post today. Yesterday morning I finished my target 300 words on the curren … more →
Neil wrote 7 months ago: There has been so much said about the latest Australian Defence White Paper that I haven’t much to a … more →
Neil wrote 8 months ago: Over in the sidebar you will see various perspectives, Oz and other, on the current economic crisis … more →
Neil wrote 8 months ago: 1. Smoking in psychiatric clinics and hospitals Jim Belshaw went rather over the top in his title, b … more →
Neil wrote 9 months ago: Jim Belshaw has had a couple of interesting posts lately: Train Reading – J H Curle’s The Face … more →
Neil wrote 9 months ago: … but this is ridiculous! Something nasty seems to be happening to Jim Belshaw’s blog. Just now all … more →
Neil wrote 10 months ago: This is not on his personal blog, so won’t appear in the Google Reader: More economics 101 – t … more →
Neil wrote 10 months ago: Jim Belshaw has begun “a series on social and cultural change in Australia that began with A note on … more →
Neil wrote 10 months ago: Very relevant as a case in point to a stream of thought coming from Jim Belshaw lately – see Culture … more →
Neil wrote 10 months ago: Not all that intellectual today, but two items of interest from the recent Arts & Letters Daily … more →