Switzer Daily
27 May 2021
It’s
amazing what an by-election loss can do. Since the weekend’s poll in the Upper
Hunter that was a disaster for Labor (even the ABC headlined that!), we’ve seen
the state Opposition leader, Jodi McKay, face the possibility of her job going. She now looks like ‘dead woman
talking’.
And
now Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese looks like he will give a tick to the
Government’s third round of tax cuts. Geoff Chambers in
The Australian
says the Labor Opposition, after holding out on giving these future tax cuts
the tick of approval, is now set to pivot (a word we now say since the
Jensen and Kennedy at the NMA this morning. Photo: Helen Musa.
âITâS like Aladdin’s Cave”, National Museum of Australia director Matt Trinca exclaimed this morning (April 20), as he helped unveil the exhibition âTrevor Kennedy Collection: Highlights” showcasing 573 objects from some 5,000 acquired by the Museumâs biggest-ever private acquisition â and it would be the first of many such shows.
Some of the objects are small in scale, like the animal ornaments, while others like items of pre-1820 Australian-made furniture, are large. The gold objects drawn from the Gold Rush are priceless, and the display of 24 emu eggs, inimitable.
“Aladdin’s Cave”. Photo: Helen Musa
Ideally it works, but too often itâs a disaster
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Ideally it works, but too often itâs a disaster
As someone who was active in off-campus teaching for some 30 of a 50-year career in higher education, and with awards and media coverage for my innovations, I am nevertheless concerned at proposals such as the use of pre-recorded lectures combined with a weekly or fortnightly seminar. This strategy can work where lecture equivalents are updated, seminar sizes are limited to 30 or so well-prepared students, and they take place in purpose-designed classrooms with movable seating to allow for break-out groups.