(Seriously though, the techniques I used were taken from counseling theory, negotiation theory, my experience in early childhood education, and me being a mum.)
Jan 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Or: make public schools so good private schools can't compete and die.
(Believe it or not, this was the policy preference of... Michael Gove. Famously detested Tory. I agreed with him then AND I STILL DO.)
Also, free school meals for all children! An all but faultless policy. Guarantees kids with chaotic homes get one decent meal a day every day, and that they have enough food in their tummy to concentrate after lunch. Can you concentrate on no food? Neither can children.
Mar 6, 2021 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Some of you may have seen an article on @crikey_news - which I will not link to - asserting that ‘repressed memories’ may have played a role in Christian Porter’s alleged victims recollections.
The article contains factual inaccuracies. Lots of them.
If you saw the headline and shuddered, rest assured - you don’t have to read it. The factual inaccuracies are so extensive, and the misapprehensions so profound, that the premise of the article has no value.
I don’t know why it was published. I don’t know why it’s still up.
Mar 4, 2021 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Let’s do some good old fashioned live tweeting!
Today: capitalism and civilisation with @ntinatzouvala
and public finance/parliamentary constitutionalism with Will missed-his-surname. #cipl
Ntina: lawyers don’t define concepts, they call on concepts to justify arguments. So the concept of civilisation isn’t one that lawyers control.
Jan 8, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Good morning everyone. As a representative of team ADHD I would like to tell you about ‘executive function’ because you’ve probably lost a lot of yours. It’s temporary. (Ours is permanent so - we know what we’re about.)
Executive function is the ability to stay on top of things.
Executive function is like a little butler in your brain. It knows where your keys are. It knows you have a meeting after lunch. It reminds you to buy milk when you’re at the shop. Usually, this takes almost no energy.
But yours has stopped working properly.
Feb 21, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Hey, @TatianaTMac! You said after your talk yesterday that you didn’t have enough info to understand why saying that any person with ethnic heritage from a colonising group is part of the oppressing group is a statement that harms aboriginal Australians. So, here’s some info!
(I think I’m representing what you said accurately, didn’t write it down verbatim. Feel free to correct.)
Following white settlement/invasion in 1788, we entered what are now called ‘the frontier wars’. They were very nasty, but the white people didn’t think of it as ‘war’.
