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    Martin Place Hostage Situation

    No, what led to a loss of life was an extremely unfortunate combination of factors, including the fact that this person was out on bail rather than locked up, the fact that he had access to a weapon, the fact that he decided to hold up a cafe with this weapon, the fact that he was not stopped by...
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    Martin Place Hostage Situation

    I never said that storming in earlier would have prevented a loss of life. I simply pointed out that waiting for 16 hours led to a loss of life. This much we know. As for what could have happened - well, we can hypothesise, but we will never truly know.
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    Martin Place Hostage Situation

    Let me reiterate: neither I, nor you, nor any member of the general public, has access to all of the facts regarding this matter, so we can only assess what we know, that is, what we have been told. And here is what we have been told: seventeen people entered a cafe yesterday morning expecting...
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    Martin Place Hostage Situation

    I completely understand that I do not have access to all of the facts and that I am in no way a professional in this field. Nonetheless, in spite of there being more than 200 highly trained and heavily armed police officers on the scene, and only one gunman, two innocent people are dead because...
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    Martin Place Hostage Situation

    What part of "they waited around from 9:45am to 2am the next day" don't you understand?
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    Martin Place Hostage Situation

    The situation started at 9:30-45 approx. The police went in about 16 hours later - when somebody had already been shot.
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    Martin Place Hostage Situation

    Yes he's dead, and so are two innocent people, because the police waited for 16 FUCKING HOURS!
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    Atar estimate

    School 260ish Ranks: English Adv: 1/89 English ext1: 1/19 Bio: 1/47 Engineering: 1/13 Russian: 1/7 Maths adv: 8/67 Maths ext1: 15/31
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    Maths tutor for 3U

    Dr Du. Fun, easygoing learning environment, inclusive of students of all abilities!
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    Roll Call: Class of 2015

    Hello, I'm Andrei. Doing: 3U Maths, 4U English, Biology and Russian Continuers. ATAR aim: above 90. We'll see what happens when the fecal matter collides with the rotating blades.
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    What technique is in...

    "Inclusive language through the use of the second person singular pronoun "you" establishes a rapport with responders by promptly capturing their attention and interest."
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    "Provide evidence from text" - question format

    Hello, At the moment I am studying Russian Continuers in year 11 for HSC in 2015. Today, we were doing a practice exam, with one of the questions (a response in English was required) being "What is the dentists' opinions on using chewing gum? Provide evidence from the text." My teacher for...
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