Jacinta Price to Run for Australian Senate to Push Back on Left Wing ‘Ideology’
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the deputy mayor of Alice Springs, in central Australia, has announced that she will run for one of the Northern Territory’s two Senate seats in federal Parliament.
Price will run for the Country Liberal Party (CLP) against Nationals senator Sam McMahon in a bid for the seat, which will pit her against a fellow Coalition member. The Liberal-National coalition form the current Australian government.
“It is nothing personal at all,” Price told The Australian. “I have the respect of many Coalition members, both Nationals and Liberal, and I know I can bring … a wealth of knowledge across many different areas, including the plight of marginalised Indigenous Australians.”
Queensland to Legalise Euthanasia Amid ‘Slippery Slope’ Concerns
Queensland could become the next Australian jurisdiction to legalise euthanasia with the government set to introduce new laws into Parliament next week.
However, one expert warns that the continuing adoption of euthanasia in the country would result in a slippery slope, where “death on demand” becomes the norm.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the state Parliament would hold a conscience vote on the Bill, which includes increased safeguards to prevent “doctor shopping” and abuse of the system.
The premier said she was motivated to legalise the practice after witnessing the deaths of her grandmother and uncle last year.
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NAPLAN critics âweaponise student stressâ
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Calls to scrap the national schoolsâ assessment is an attempt to weaponise student and parent anxiety against what is a low-stakes test, education experts say.
âNAPLAN provides external accountability which gives assurance to parents, but also helps schools make planning decisions and provides a professional reference tool for teachers against the national standards,â said Glenn Fahey, research fellow in education policy at the Centre for Independent Studies.
Mr Fahey was responding to a report calling for NAPLAN to be scrapped. The report
Putting Students First: Moving on from NAPLAN to a new educational assessment system from the Gonski Institute at the University of NSW, calls for the end of universal testing of all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It recommended NAPLAN be replaced by a suite of nationally-consistent online tests and questions that can be deployed by teachers when they choose.
Report Calls for Fresh Approach to Indigenous Suicide Crisis
Living in safe and clean environments, having access to modern services that individuals find personally meaningful, possessing the necessary skills to function in the 21st century, developing a robust sense of self-worth, engaging in personally meaningful activities, and practising personal responsibility.
These are the recommendations of a new Centre for Independent Studies report by Indigenous researcher Anthony Dillon, Ph.D, to address the crisis of high suicide rates among Indigenous Australians.
Dillon’s recommendations take what he calls a strengths-based approach that assumes that people mostly do okay when both the aforementioned external and internal conditions are right. “As thousands of Indigenous Australians prove every day,” he said.