South Australia

After the introduction of the Productive Pedagogies model in Queensland, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education and Training commissioned two of its developers to use this as a basis for creating a coherent model of pedagogy which could be used on a school-wide basis in NSW. Associate Professor James Ladwig and Professor Jennifer Gore devised the Quality Teaching Model (QTM), which can be applied across all key learning areas, from Kindergarten through to Grade 12 (Killen, 2016).…

completely disrupted a way of life that had been undisturbed for 50,000 years. The date of Australia Day is a disrespectful celebration towards aboriginal Australians. Firstly, the meaning of the celebration is disrespectful to aboriginals and the date should be changed or the meaning of celebration reconsidered. It is one thing to acknowledge the fact of invasion; it is quite another to celebrate it. Australia reveres its fallen warriors at Gallipoli nearly 100 years ago with monuments and…

notifies the reader that the story is observed from an Indigenous perspective. The native numbats and their constant futility against the invading rabbits serves as an allegorical representation of the Indigenous Australian’s plight during colonial-era Australia. This divide between animals shows the quintessential difference between the values of the Indigenous inhabitants of spirituality and one’s connection to the land and culture versus that of the imposing and brutalist nature of the…

Gender Equality. It’s fictitious, fake and false. Australia would not be like it is today without sport. Although, men and women are viewed vastly different. As a nation, we need to put this inequity to an end, before an important part of Australia will end itself. BY Elli Chapple Gender Equality. What exactly is Gender Equality? It is unacceptable. Gender inequality is a significant matter that reflects on Australia today. Fairness and equality in sport does not exist and remain today…

The Whitlam Government implemented a large number of reforms in the 1071 days it held office between December 5, 1972 and November 11, 1975 . Gough Whitlam changed Australia indefinitely not only through its laws and establishments, but by the way it was viewed by other countries and by itself. During the reign of the Gough Whitlam government, more bills were passed in its first year than any other federal government had passed in a single year with a total of 203 bills passed (e.g. the Trade…

What is a refugee? A refugee is someone that is forced to flee their country because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. 71,000 - 90,000 refugees come to the U.S. each year. Ha, in the book Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, is a ten year old girl that has to flee her country of Saigon in Vietnam. Ha and her family are refugees that have to flee Saigon because of the war. Ha and many other refugees have to flee the only place they know as home. Refugees lives turn “inside out” and…

As a psychology student I find this information to be very crucial in a psychological field, allowing psychologists to work with clients from a vast array of cultural diversities. Psychologists need to be properly educated on being culturally competent and aware, particularly on matters involving the stolen generation. Children were taken from their families under duress, compulsion and undue influence, where they were assimilated into the ‘white society’ and sent to mission stations (Clay,…

Key events in the gallipoli campaign The landing on 25th april 1915 on dawn April 25th 1915 the first anzac soldier arrived at Anzac cove in galliopoli penusla in turkey (also known as Çanakkale). There were approxiametley 60,000 Australian soldiers and 18,000 new zealand soldiers who were under the command of sir Ian Hamilton. At 4:30 under Hamiltons command the royal navy started firing. Some of the battilion were under heavy fire and so the battle of gallopoli began. During the…

farmlands. Two of our current poets who explicitly portray very different ideas about the environmental circumstances we are living in are: Les Murray, a typical Australian poet who reveals his passionate and unshakable love for the rural landscape of Australia in his poem Spring Hail; and Bruce Dawe, who has written a poem, Search and Destroy that expresses his protest and frustration at our human infested, machinery dominated and polluted environment. When we reflect on Murray’s free-verse…

Teachers and school communities need to be aware that Indigenous students’ learning and development link back to the three interrelated aspects: past historical policies, Socio-Economic Status (SES) and healthy physical and mental wellbeing. The institutional discrimination due to past government policies for Indigenous Australians resulted in generations of uneducated, or partly educated, Indigenous people (Lowe & Yunkaporta, 2013). Educational policymakers should learn from the past…