Dr Melitta Hogarth from the University of Melbourne brought up the controversial topic during her address at the Australian Association for the Teaching of English conference.
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Calling to account those who tore her down
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CHRISTINE HOLGATE
Calling to account those who tore her down
The executives who negotiated a deal for post offices to handle banking for their local communities made a significant contribution to the livelihoods of those outlets. Well done. But should they get a bonus for doing their jobs? Do intensive care nurses get bonuses for saving lives? Or rubbish collectors get one for doing a job that makes a difference to everyone in their local municipalities? Or workers who support people in aged care?
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On one level it was a straightforward play-based assignment for the year 1 students of Princes Hill Primary School: they were to design and make a collection of toys to be given to asylum seeker children living in Australian detention centres.
But it was also radical, in that the teacher hadnât set the children any tasks. They had come up with the ideas themselves in a series of classroom discussions about the notion of play and how different cultures do it differently.