Tag: Chris Pyne
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The Hirst Report: We don’t need no education
We don’t need no education / we don’t need no thought control. It is unlikely that Pink Floyd’s chorus of disillusioned schoolchildren were singing about Christopher Pyne’s review of the national curriculum, but if they had been, it would have been not only prescient, but entirely appropriate. Not because education is bad – it’s one…
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The end of HECS as we know it
In 2013, Education Minister Christopher Pyne announced that the wave of asset sales the Abbott government was embarking on – aimed at making Australia “open for business” – would not include the $26.3 billion of secured loans the government owns in the form of HECS debt. If you were a student, past, present or future,…