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No, I don't, and stop misrepresenting my argument. Lobster and education are completely different things. Lobster is a luxury. Education based on merit is a right. And yes, if people are denied equal rights, the government should in some way ensure they are provided. That is why the government...

I'm advocating the formation of public policy based on the idea that government shouldn't award one person advantage over another in a field as important as education based on nothing more than an accident of birth. Just because your parents are rich, you shouldn't be allowed to walk into...

Poor kid who scores just below the HECS cutoff misses out, but rich kid who scores the same mark gets in because he can afford to pay. That's not an injustice? Also, removing DFEE places would allow an increase in the number of HECS places, hence lowering HECS cutoffs and allowing the poor kid...

My impression was that he was referring to increasing annual funding by $400m. I may be wrong, but that's certainly what the Labor platform suggests:

The idea that people who can afford to pay should be allowed to get into university with lower requirements, but a person who gets the same result and can't afford it misses out, is intrinsically unfair. Also, who said that the number of HECS places would stay constant? Why wouldn't the current...

Hey, finally! A statement on university policy. Labor still intends to remove the DFEE system as of 2009 admissions, and will compensate universities with ~$400m. Details to be released this week.

chicky_pie is a troll. Ignore him/her/it.

Wow, Howard's media minders didn't think to avoid this?

The Economist/Council on Foreign Relations weekly podcast has a segment on the election here. It continues the Economist's remarkably uncritical and unsophisticated view of John Howard and of the Labor Party, and uses an extremely dodgy analogy to British politics to explain the situation, but...

BOS still won't let me upload them, but the outlines are available on the department websites, so: HSTY1088 Australian History: An Introduction ANHS1005 Power and Persuasion in Rome

Re: 2007 Federal Election - Coalition or Labor/Howard or Beazley? The bookies' average probability of a coalition win has dropped nearly 10% in the past week to 20.9%. Current best odds for the coalition are $4.50, current worst odds for Labor are $1.21. Also, an ERMS poll in Tasmania again...

I was reading an article a couple of days back saying that Broggers finds it difficult even going to the parliament building, so he's pretty unlikely to make a political comeback. Also, Broggers was on the left? And is the NSW liberal party really so pathetic that its youth branch can engineer...

That poll only takes in the formal marginals, though. The problem for the Liberals is that a lot of the second-tier seats (margins 5-10%) look shaky as well.

At my school, the drama department's video suite had iMacs, but apart from that the computer labs, library and staff all had PCs. As for uni, the computer labs are all PCs. However, staff have Macs for some reason. At least they do in the Arts faculty.

Yeah, I think the Libs will struggle with a primary down around 40-42 compared to Labor's at 47-48, since minor party preferences favour Labor. (For all the hue and cry about Family First, particularly last election, they barely have a quarter of the support the Greens have. Their preferences...

I agree. I read someone saying yesterday that Costello is parliament's best orator. That's such a sad indictment of the standard of our politicians, that Costello is considered to be a good speaker.

Re: Subject Reviews - UPDATED WITH .PDF on first post ARNE1001 Archaeology of the Near East Lecturer: Dr Dawn Cropper Ease: 7.5/10. Utterly shitty and pickily marked assignment in which you had to find an artefact and write about what it tells us about the society that created it. (And that...

Yep. However, he phrased it as 'protections have been lost'. He should have the nous to realise that that doesn't play well, particularly when he goes on TV the next day and issues a convoluted explanation which amounts to 'you have less job security, but you probably didn't like that job...

Wow, he's really an asset for the Coalition this year, huh? This is a pretty awesome photo of him, by the way: http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/28/abbott24806_wideweb__470x289,0.jpg

Semester is over! Over over over! Archaeology was sort of ok and hopefully I'll be able to get a distinction, but more importantly semester is over over over over over!