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Captain kRudd Turns the Other Cheek

September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

The Federal Government allowed the controversial Exclusive Brethren schools in Queensland to exploit the Building the Education Revolution (BER) funding.
This year, they granted the Exclusive Brethren’s Brisbane campus, Agnew School, $1.6 million to build a library.
The school (at Wakerley in Brisbane’s east) with just 118 students in years three to 12 (57 primary and 61 [...]

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Tags: australia · education · funding · money · politics · religion · young people

Young People Must Take The Lead in Fighting Climate Change

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Anna Rose;    The Age – Opinion
VOICES OF YOUTH
“LOSING a future is not like losing a few points on the stock market.” Severn Suzuki said this to a room full of negotiators at the UN Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, when she was only 12 years old. The message was pertinent then, but now, 17 [...]

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Tags: climate change · young people