Australia has injected a substantial degree of transparency in its shool system by putting online ((http://www.myschool.edu.au/) the data on students' performance relatively to almost 10000 schools, both public and private. The schools are aggregated among themselves on the basis of homogeneous socio-economic data in order to have meaningful comparisons between schools with similar backgrounds in terms of resources. Not everyone is happy with the new course...

Document: Scuola a raggi X - Pdf

Cattle barons are on the way out in Australia. The mythical 'stations' that have been so central to the legend of the outback are increasingly been bought by investment funds that see the 'deal of food and land' as a profitable investement in these turbolent days. But the question is: will the corporate manager be able to live and work the way the cattle barons used to do, infusing life and profitability to their cattle stations?

Document: Mandrie e finanza - Pdf

Adelaide - Dr Death is in town. Philip Nitschke, who has been the doctor who - during the brief season of legal euthanasia in the Northern Territory - had practiced four assisted death has come to Adelaide to search for the proper location for what could be a clinic for assisted death. It may be open once the Parliament of South Australia approves a law that is being discussed nowadays, on the legal assistance to practitioners that would make themsleves available to assist terminal patient in their 'final journey'...

Document: Dr Morte in città

The Gold Coast, in the South-East of Australia has seen a constant flow of nouveaux riches from former URSS buying expensive properties. Beating - for the time being - the competition of other nouveaux riches, those from China...

Document: 2011:3 - Global Report.pdf

Yasi, a 5 grede cyclone, has swept the northern coastline of Queensland. With a frontline of 500 km it has impacted on the area between Townsville to the south and Cairns to the north. Although too early to assess the damgages, these will be massive. The good news is that until now potential casualties are apparently restricted to only missing person...

Document: Yasi terrorizza l'Australia - Pdf

A journey among the bushmen, the ante-litteram nomads along the invisible routes of a world that is disappearing...

Document: Bushmanland - Pdf

After the initial hard and sometimes overtly racist reaction of part of the population of the area of Inverbrackie (where 400 women and children refugees will be hosted), those who support the government plan are making themselves heard. Also thanks to the fact that the government has finally explained to the citizens of the area how it would to deal with the issue...

Document: Inverbrackie, c'è anche chi i rifugiati li vuole - Pm3

Short of strenght. Less fertile. And increasingly 'slow' from the intellectual point of view. We are living with the most inadequate man in history. This is what Peter McAllister - the anthropologist that wanted to praise Homo Masculinis modernus - has concluded after his investigation...

Document: Elle 2010:12 - Ciao Maschio.pdf

Woomera (South Australia) - It has never been a city like others. Starting from the way it was born - hastily, after WWII, on an area bordering the nothingness of the Australian outback. You understand that Woomera is different as soon as you enter the township, as you drive through silent and deserted roads, until you get to the main square, where rockets and missiles are displayed as monuments, reminding the reason this town was created for...

Document: 50. Woomera (14:11:10).pdf

The decision made by the Federal government to host in the Inverbrackie barracks - now not in use - 400 asylum seekers families, has been met with strong opposition by part of the community in the nearby area of Woodside. During the community events that has been organized by the population of the area to discuss the matter, there have also been words of intollerance and outright racism...

Document: Rivolta contro il centro di detenzione - Mp3

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