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SPORT
WIN TV News, 6.10pm 28 Dec 2017
Wild Oats XI stripped
of line honours
Wild Oats XI has lost its line
honours win in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race following Comanche's
appeal being upheld tonight.
Surprisingly heavy penalty, ABC
News, 29 Dec 2017
THINKING ABILITY
Twitter hits teens' intelligence
Daily Mail, 26 Dec 2017
 UK Twitter-using teenagers
could be losing the ability to think, a New Zealand intelligence
expert says..
FEDERAL POLITICS
Cabinet reshuffle
ABC News, 16 Dec 2017
Today's federal government Cabinet reshuffle does not put any
Tasmanians into Cabinet..
 FEDERAL POLITICS
Libs hold Bennelong seat
ABC News 24, 16 Dec 2017
Tonight's counting in the
Bennelong by-election indicate that there has been a swing away
from the Liberals and to Labor, but not strong enough to unseat
sitting member John Alexander. ..
CHILD SEXUAL
ABUSE
Church challenge
ABC News, 15 Dec 2017
 With the child sexual abuse Royal Commission
announcing its findings, the biggest issue for the Catholic
Church appears to be the recommendation that information about
instances of abuse gained during confessionals no longer be
exempt from mandatory reporting laws..
Preventing child sexual abuse a national responsibility, The
Conversation, 15 Dec 2017
Sweeping reforms for Catholic Church recommended, The
Conversation, 15 Dec 2017
CURRICULUM
Civics understanding decreases
ABC News, 15 Dec 2017
Most Year 10 students lack the kind of civics and citizenship
education that will enable them to participate meaningfully in a
democratic society, a report shows..
Schools not adequately
preparing students, The Conversation, 13 Dec 2017
Getting the fundamentals right, Simon Birmingham, Minister
for Education and Training, 13 Dec 2017
NAPLAN
NAPLAN results flatline
The Conversation (opinion by Glenn C. Savage), 13 Dec 2017
 Achievement in literacy and numeracy by Australian
students has largely plateaued, an analysis of NAPLAN results
released today suggests. (Individual school results are not
available until March 2018.)..
ACARA Update 2017
NAPLAN National Report
2017
[pdf]
Home LOTE speakers better spellers, TABC News, 13 Dec 2017
Year 3 Tassie's strongest, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 14 Dec 2017
 FEDERAL POLITICS
Sam Dastyari resigns
ABC News, 12 Dec 2017
Senator Sam Dastyari, under
pressure over his association with a Chinese businessman, has
announced he will not return to the Senate next year...
TAS EDUCATION
SYSTEM
College system questioned
TCCI, 11 Dec 2017
 Economist Saul Eslake says in a
report [pdf] prepared for the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce
and Industries that "Some if not all of the colleges could be
converted to comprehensive high schools" (page 71)...
TCCI Tasmania Report 2017 [pdf]
Eslake's comments reinforce Labor's emphasis on a smooth 7-12
pathway instead of extensions, Michelle O'Byrne, Deputy
Opposition Leader, 11 Dec 2017
TAS ELECTION
AEU calls for more teachers
ABC News, 10 Dec 2017
 The Australian Education Union
has produced a research report showing the number of base-grade
teachers has been cut by 68 during the term of the present state
government but the Premier says 107 more teachers have been
employed...
Teacher cuts, jump in stress claims highlighted in AEU (Federal)
report, AEU (Tas), 10 Dec 2017
AEU and Labor claims are false, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister
for Education and Training, 10
Dec 2017
TAFE
Release TasTAFE audit report
TasLabor website, 10 Dec 2017
 Confidence and morale at TasTAFE have been adversely
affected by the state government's refusal to release a report
into the conduct of certain senior staff and by the cancellation
of this year's Awards for Excellence ceremony, Opposition
education spokesperson Josh Willie says....
LITERACY
Year 4 literacy up
Tas Govt media release, 6 Dec 2017
 Tasmania's 2016
Year 4 students have shown significant improvements in literacy
skills, Progress in International Literacy Study testing shows...
Many Aussie kids
struggling, need early phonics, The Conversation, 7 Dec 2017
Feds want states to adopt Year 1 phonics test, ABC News, 8
Dec 2017
Data shows schools under-resourced, AEU (Tas), 6 Dec 2017
WEATHER ALERT
 Heavy rainfall for
the East Coast and NE Tas
BoM, 6 Dec 2017,
9.44am
Flash flooding is possible.
Road
closures (Tas Police)
Power outages (Tas Networks)
FEDERAL
CITIZENSHIP FARCE
Are these the last in doubt?
ABC News, 6 Dec 2017
The release of citizenship documents shows that four Labor MPs
(Member for Braddon Justine Keay, Josh Wilson, David Feeney and
Susan Lamb) and Nick Xenophon Team member Rebekha Sharkie may
join Labor senator Katy Gallagher as requiring clear
confirmation over their right to remain in Parliament...
HEALTH
CURRICULUM
Endometriosis education call
ABC News, 5 Dec 2017
 All teenagers should be taught
about menstrual health and in particular the painful and often
long-undiagnosed endometriosis condition, women's health groups
say...
STEM EDUCATION
Primary school STEM lessons
hindered
The Conversation (opinion by Jane Louise Hunter), 4 Dec 2017
 The laudable goal of promoting
STEM education in primary schools is being frustrated by
practical impediments such as lack of storage space, lack of
teacher confidence and professional development, and time wasted
in reusing materials...
EXTENSION TO YEAR 12
Year 12 ubiquity promise
ABC News, 3 Dec 2017
All Tasmanian high schools will
be able to offer courses to Year 12 level by 2022, education
minister Jeremy Rockliff said in an election pledge today...
Grades 11-12 rollout
promise, The Examiner, 3 Dec 2017
Survival of the colleges
would be threatened, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition
education spokesperson, 3 Dec 2017
Labor would enrol students 7-12 and create learning networks,
Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition education spokesperson, 4 Dec 2017
Labor's Penguin policy questioned, Roger Jaensch, Liberal
member for Braddon, 4 Dec 2017
A 'courageous' policy, Saul Eslake says, The Examiner, 4 Dec
2017
 FEDERAL CITIZENSHIP FARCE
Barnaby rejoices
ABC News, 2 Dec 2017
Former dual citizen Barnaby
Joyce will easily win today's by-election for his seat, election
analyst Antony Green predicts...
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