What makes a good teacher?www.shutterstock.comResults from the trial literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education students are in. The tests were sat by 5,000 volunteers across the country, with 92% passing in literacy and 90% in the numeracy component.
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Mutual admiration between big businessmen like Alan Bond (left) and the Labor Party was a double-edged sword for Bob Hawke in the 1980s.AAP/NAAThis is an edited extract from The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno, published by Black Inc.
In April 1986 Prime Minister Bob Hawke told a television interviewer:
The party...
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“Sources to substantiate the Senator’s statements include Andrew Harper (UNHCR country director) comments made on the ABC PM program:
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Japan will kill Minke Whales in the Southern Ocean under the new whaling program. Whale image from www.shutterstock.comJapan’s whaling fleet will leave port today to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean as part of its new scientific program, NEWREP-A.
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