| Quadrant Today, 23 May 2024 |
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Big eSister is Watching and Taking Names |
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| Be aware that each quoted tweet was monitored, recorded and filed in submissions to the Federal Court by the Office of eSafety on the basis of 'a very large increase in the number of daily mentions' of Julie Inman Grant. |
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| Raisi’s death may be coincidental, but coming at the present time, with the Israel-Hamas war moving towards a final showdown, can only be further destabilising. |
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| The first thing to say is that there is nothing remotely new about student centered learning. It has existed since the start of the twentieth century, when many of its foundational ideas were promulgated by John Dewey. |
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With lead articles from Tony Abbott, David Martin Jones, Simon Haines, and Dyson Heydon, this issue is packed with Australia's best writers and thinkers.
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| Tony Macken, from 2020: "On the late summer evening of July 17, 1794, there was another execution, this time in Paris at the high point of Robespierre’s Terror in the course of the French Revolution, claiming sixteen innocent lives." |
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Margaret Cameron-Ash, Beating France to Botany Bay, $44.95 This book rewrites the history of the founding of modern Australia. It tells how the French had a jump start in the race for a Pacific empire, but English officials then launched their own pursuit around the globe. BUY IT HERE
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Keith Windschuttle, The Persecution of George Pell, $39.95 The persecution of George Pell is a story not only of a serious injustice heaped on one individual but also of the damage that can be done to a civilised society by ideologues within our major institutions when they are convinced of their own virtue and determined to get their own way. BUY IT HERE
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