Tag: Victoria Australia
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Throwing the First Stone
by John Mikkelsen, ©2026 (Sep. 11, 2026) — There’s a quote I remember from my Sunday School days that has been brought to mind by this week’s news headlines and political hit jobs: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Those words were spoken by Jesus when Scribes and Pharisees brought a woman…
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Ex-Cops Are Speaking Out. Parliament Is Looking Away.
by Cheryl Lacey, DGSJ, ©2026 (Aug. 20, 2026) — In 2013 a 15-year-old boy was hit by an SUV, but Victorians were told otherwise – that then opposition leader Daniel Andrews and his wife were the ones hit, by the boy. Then the photos surfaced. The damage wasn’t on the side of the car where…
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What? Who, Me?
3 July 2026 Dear Editor, Under Labor, we see Victoria’s so astoundingly awful continuous lawlessness and more- than-credible allegations of government and allied union corruption, not to mention the inexplicable leniency of Victoria’s Judiciary under Labor. Ringing out so loudly are the words of U.S. African-American, Korean War veteran, economist, and philosopher, Dr. Thomas Sowell:…
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The Whole Child: A Warning That Was Ignored
by Cheryl Lacey, DGSJ, ©2026 (Feb. 2, 2026) — I recently came across a 2011 ABC article on Victoria’s education system. It quoted the then Liberal Minister for Education, Martin Dixon, reflecting on the reform agenda introduced by the previous Labor government, including the Blueprint for Schools of 2003, revised in 2008. Dixon praised the…
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Inheriting a School System
by Cheryl Lacey, DSJ, Take The Lead On Education™, ©2024 (Sep. 2, 2024) — Not everyone agrees on the value school education brings to students, teachers, families, and school communities. Similarly, there’s ongoing conflict over who should contribute financially and to what extent. Some argue the issues stem from the public-private debate. Others point to…
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Media Stories and Stats Don’t Cut It
by Cheryl Lacey, DSJ, Take The Lead On Education™, ©2024 (Aug. 6, 2024) — It’s always about people: Individuals or Tribes? 1600 teachers in Victoria are under investigation with the states registration body – Victorian Institute of Teaching. (That’s at June 2023) In actual figures that’s 1600 out of 52,399 full time equivalent teachers – 3%…
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Daniel Andrews’ Potholes: Here, There, and Everywhere!
November 4, 2022 Dear Editor, Infrastructure? Really? Almost everywhere you go in Victoria there are potholes; here, there, and everywhere you’re ambushed with a shuddering wheelrim-jarring and buckling, almighty crunch – felt right throughout your body! And that’s just how it is under the Andrews-led Labor government. Ambulance response times, power prices, SES resources, hospital waiting…
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RSPCA, Let the Culls Proceed!
October 3, 2022 Dear Editor, “Let the culls begin!” I say to the ever-woke-folk-oriented RSPCA (Roo meat off shelves, HS, 3/10), as I’ve seen many hundreds of kangaroos for tens of kilometres around the Lilydale Gateway to the Yarra Valley where large numbers of ‘roos exist (many a menace) despite British white-fella colonisation! And Alyssa…
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Now it’s Cannabis! Patten’s Reasoning Questions God, While Pasteur’s Revered Him!
October 1, 2022 Dear Editor, How true to form of Fiona Patten’s push to legalise cannabis, despite its documented contribution to the road toll, industrial accidents, and very serious mental health problems. While Australia was being mercilessly bludgeoned by a pandemic of the COVID-19 microbe; while effective vaccination/immunization is sought against its non-discriminating and all-inclusive…
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Labor is at Fault, Continuously!
June 26, 2022 Dear Editor, Regarding the horrific continually-escalating bikie (and related inter-ethnic) gang violence/warfare now engulfing terrified innocent Victorian citizens, make no mistake: Victoria Police Service’s (once a very serious “Force”) lacking sufficient powers (not to mention judicial support) to fully fight bikie gang violence and gang-wars can be squarely placed at the feet…
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Be Warned: Younger Aussies Will Hurt More under Labor!
May 13, 2022 Dear Editor, Younger Australians (especially Victorians) trembling at the thought of what their parents and grandparents so stoically suffered and so painfully weathered, sky-high interest rates, had best remember Labor (generally, with a mere few notable past exceptions) could not manage a kindergarten tuckshop in a depression, and certainly not with an…
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Schools and the Law
by Cheryl Lacey, ©2022 (Jan. 18, 2022) — Schools operate within a complex web of Federal and State laws that have an impact on the rights and responsibilities of school leaders, students, teachers, parents and others connected to school-based education. Many of the issues schools must address – professional conduct, student injury, child custody matters,…
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Even in a “State of Deception?”
December 28, 2021 Dear Editor, Great African-American economist/philosopher Dr Thomas Sowell’s: “It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis with people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance” applies to John Glazebrook’s “Public health comes first” HS, 27/12, defence of, and praise and case for Daniel Andrews’ re-election…
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No 4,000 ICU Beds Promised by Dan!
December 1, 2021 Dear Editor, Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews (aided and abetted by the Greens, Merrick, Barton and Patten; who will all be remembered with utter contempt by most Victorians!) has rammed his draconian pandemic laws through Parliament because Andrews has not provided the 4,000 ICU beds he so fervently promised! I contend Andrews…
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Labor-Appointed Nixon’s Legacy Shameful!
September 22, 2021 Dear Editor, Labor-appointed “Princess of Political Correctness” former Victoria Police “Service” Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon (and every current-day highest-ranking VicPol woke, folk acolyte) should hang her head (and their heads) in shame! Because the current horrendous physical, vile, verbal and anti-society-instigated psychological attacks upon our – so often undersized and/or physical-strength-deficient (Christine Nixon…
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No, Mr Premier, No!
Dear Editor, I am proud of my own, and Australia’s, Judeo/Christian heritage. That said. I implore Victoria’s Andrews/Merlino-led Labor Government to refuse exemption for Melbourne’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community (my great-grandparents were Jewish) from Victoria’s Covid-19 prevention laws of public/private gatherings applicable to all other Victorians of all other faiths, origins, genders, colours, classes, etc., etc!…
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“Silly Sally” Does Not Vote for CBD Safety!
August 27, 2021 Dear Editor, “We can re-open safely,” HS, 28/8, is truly a hollow promise from Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp, who (along with Dep. Lord Mayor and Head of City Planning Nicholas Reece), voted for the Daniel Andrews/James Merlino Labor Government-inspired CBD “safe” (just like Richmond’s) injecting room for heroin addicts; ever-present drug…
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The Potential Power of the Parent Voice
by Cheryl Lacey, ©2021 (Jun. 22, 2021) — VICTORIAN parents have the power to take control of poorly performing Victorian government schools. For decades, parents have been held to ransom by selfish and incompetent government ministers and by teacher-friendly unions. “Teachers work an average of 15 hours unpaid overtime every week”, says the Australian Education…
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School Holidays Are Definitely ‘Vacations’
(Jun. 16, 2021) — With just a few weeks before Victorian schools start their end of term holiday, or ‘vacation’, there’s a timely question we need to ask: Are schools providing maximum value? by Cheryl Lacey, ©2021 More than 2,260 schools, some of them with state-of-the-art facilities and 21st century architecture, will be well and…
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Communicate and Innovate
by Cheryl Lacey, ©2021 (Jun. 2, 2021) — Most parents and school leaders have the same desire: to ensure children’s needs are matched with the best possible teaching. Victorians are in yet another lockdown. School education has been disrupted once again for more than 1 million children. The same disruptions continue in the USA and other…