SHUDDER. I hear a few of you have struggled with Telstra in the past month or so. My phone dinged the other day saying there would be upgrades – read: outages – over Wild Horse Mountain way.
Best say goodbye to friends, loved ones and anyone else you associate with via phone for the next few days at least.
When you’re off your game
WHAT do the Matildas and youth justice have in common? They’re two causes that show how desperate the Queesland Labor Party is to stay in power.
It’s interesting that when the sheen starts wearing off leaders, it happens particularly fast and every decision seems, for want of a better word: lame.
Suggesting the Matildas should get a bronze statue for winning one game of football then losing two more, is a bridge too far.
Then using the unicameral system to ram through youth justice laws that are almost universally derided as wrong – or at the very least deserves appropriate oversight – reeks further. It is hard to believe that it is the Labor Party turning watch houses into youth prisons where those same kids can be held indefinitely. They’ve been so focused on the Olympics and other distractions that anything of consequence can only be dealt with too late and by use of a sledgehammer.
Spelling it out
The recent Naplan results should come as no surprise. Some sections of the media have brushed it away as a glitch. Maybe there’s some part truth, but you can’t tell me that kids have as good a grasp of the basics that they had a generation ago.
They simply can’t read or write as well as they once did because they are not reading or writing the way we used to. Snapchat, You Tube, Tik Tok… kids might be able to talk smart and fast but that’ll only get you so far.
