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 COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Tassie's Games reps
Tas Govt media release, 31 Mar 2018
A
list of Tasmanian athletes participating in the Commonwealth
Games on the Gold Coast has been released by the Minister for
Sport and Recreation, Jacquie Petrusma...
ESSENTIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
Basslink cable damaged again
ABC News, 28 Mar 2018
Damage to equipment at the Victorian end of the Basslink cable
has put the electricity link, but not the digital data link, out
of action until mid-April....
SCHOOL
STARTING AGE
French starting age to be 3 years
ABC News, 28 Mar 2018
 France's President
Emmanuel Macron says the country's compulsory school starting
age will change from six years to three years...
WORLD
POLITICS
Kim and Xi meet
ABC News, 28 Mar 2018
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has traveled by train to
Beijing to meet China's President Xi Jinping...
SPORT
Cricket trio sent home
ABC News, 28 Mar 2018
 Cricket Australia says
the only people to know about the ball-tampering plan in South
Africa were captain Steve Smith, vice captain
David Warner and ball sandpaperer
Cameron Bancroft.
Darren Lehmann remains head coach (contrary to
some media reports).
Tasmania's Tim Paine is now officially the new
captain ...
SCHOOL
ATENDANCE
Attendance key
The Conversation (opinion by Nicholas Biddle), 26 Mar 2018
 Improving students' Year 7 attendance
levels makes them more likely to complete Year 12, research
using Smith Family data shows...
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING
No more
damaging winds
Bo M website, 26 Mar 2018
There is no longer a warning for damaging winds in Tasmania.
As well, flood warnings are coming to an end for the
North Esk River,
northern catchments and the
Huon River.
BoM
warnings
Power outages (TasNetworks)
Road
closures (Tas Police)
SES
alerts
SPORT
Cricket mess: ball tampering stand-downs
ABC News, 25 Mar 2018
Australia's cricket
team captain Steve Smith and vice-captain Dave Warner will stand
down after confessing they planned the deliberate modification
of the condition of the ball in South Africa...
 EARLY
CHILDHOOD
Early childhood Tuesday walkout
explained
The Conversation (opinion), 23 Mar 2018
Whether or not they are
university-qualified, early childhood educators suffer
financially from the fact that their jobs have traditionally
been regarded as "women's work", three academics write...
KEY
PERSONNEL
Bullard Secretary
Tas Govt media release, 23 Mar 2018
 The Premier, Will
Hodgman, has announced that Tim Bullard will be
the Secretary of the Department of Education (after having been
acting secretary), and Jenny Gale will become
Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet (after having
been P&C acting secretary, and DoE secretary before that)...
CENTRAL
TASMANIA
Chalet destroyed
The Examiner, 23 Mar 2018
The Bronte Park Chalet
has been destroyed by fire...
Historic lodge destroyed
by fire, ABC News, 23 Mar 2018
 TASMANIAN POLITICS
Shadow ministry announced
ABC News, 21 Mar 2018
Opposition leader
Rebecca White has announced
Labor's shadow ministry.
Michelle O'Byrne is Shadow Minister for
Education and Early Years...
TASMANIAN POLITICS
New Cabinet announced
ABC News, 20 Mar 2018
 Premier Will Hodgman has announced
his new Ministry.
Jeremy Rockliff remains Minister for
Education and Training...
List of portfolios [pdf]
Portfolios revealed, The Examiner, 20 Mar 2018
AEU welcomes Rockliff remaining education minister, AEU
media release, 20 Mar 2018
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING
Damaging
winds alert
BoM website, 18 Mar 2018
Damaging winds gusting to
100km/h (120km/h in exposed areas) are expected throughout
mainland Tasmania on Sunday night and Monday morning.
BoM
warnings
Power outages (TasNetworks)
Road
closures (Tas Police)
SES
alerts
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTION
Liberals win SA election
ABC News, 17 Mar 2018
 Sixteen years of Labor government have come
to an end with the Liberal Party led by Steven Marshall winning
today's state election in South Australia.
Nick Xenophon
appears unlikely to win the seat he stood for...
FEDERAL POLITICS
Labor wins Batman federal
by-election
ABC News, 17 Mar 2018
 Labor's Ged Kearney, former ACTU
president, appears likely to finish ahead of the Greens in
Victoria's federal by-election for Batman which had been brought
on by the resignation of the sitting member over citizenship...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Fire at Penguin District School
The Examiner, 16 Mar 2018
 Students were evacuated
while the Tasmania Fire Service investigated the source of smoke
in a classroom at Penguin District School this morning. The
cause appears to be faulty wiring..
TASMANIAN ELECTION
Greens win second seat
ABC News, 15 Mar 2018
 The Greens have won two
seats in the Tasmanian State election with Franklin MP
Rosalie
Woodruff now being elected after distribution of
preferences 226 votes ahead of
the Liberals' Nic Street.
Bass Greens
candidate Andrea Dawkins was defeated by
Labor's Jennifer Houston who won the fifth seat
in that electorate
In Denison, Ella Haddad has defeated
sitting member and fellow Labor candidate Madeleine
Ogilvie.
HISTORIC RESULT: The new Parliament will enter uncharted
territory with a majority of the Members of the House of
Assembly being women...
 BRILLIANT THINKERS
Stephen
Hawking dies
ABC News, 14 Mar 2018
Astro-physicist Stephen Hawking, who was given two
years to live when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease
in 1963, has died aged 76...
TEACHING
PROFESSION
No confidence in principal and
school council
New Daily, 12 Mar 2018
Former school captains
of Melbourne's Trinity Grammar say the deputy principal who had
been sacked over haircutting was trying to preserve the school's
traditional values over the principal's push to increase "ATAR
excellence, growth and profit"...
 NAPLAN
Pleased as Punch over NAPLAN
The Examiner, 12 Mar 2018
The principal of
Punchbowl Primary School, Elizabeth O'Donahue, says "a lot of
hard work" enabled the school to achieve substantially improved
NAPLAN results...
 TASMANIAN
PEOPLE
Tony Benneworth dies
The Examiner, 11 Mar 2018
Former Tasmanian
cricketer and Member of the House of Assembly Tony Benneworth
was one of the two men who lost their lives in a boating
incident at Ansons Bay yesterday. Mr Benneworth was 67...
TEACHING
PROFESSION
PR disaster over sacked deputy
ABC News, 9 Mar 2018
The sacking of the
popular deputy principal of Melbourne's Trinity Grammar School
because he trimmed a student's hair on school photo day has
created anger among parents, students and former students,
attracting unwanted national attention...
Review announced, ABC News, 12 Mar 2018
 BICYCLE
SKILLS
Bike skills shock
stuff.co.nz, 7 Mar 2018
A New Zealand primary school is teaching
safe cycling skills after many of its students embarrassingly
admitted they could not ride a bike...
WORLD POLITICS
Kim and Trump to meet
ABC News, 9 Mar 2018
President Donald Trump
has agreed to meet North Korea's President Kim Jong-un by May,
in a stunning development that apparently also includes Kim's
willingness to tone down his nuclear ambitions...
LITERACY
Boys need to enjoy reading
The Conversation (opinion by Laura Scholes), 8 Mar 2018
 Reducing boys' underperformance in
 NAPLAN reading tests
requires schools to ensure they enjoy reading, a researcher
says, warning that specifically preparing boys for the tests can
actually reduce their motivation...
SCHOOL SAFETY
Armed teachers now
The Guardian, 8 Mar 2018
Florida has passed a Bill that allows teachers to be
armed and will provide more funding for mental health, in the
wake of the recent school shooting in that State...
SCHOOL SAFETY
How to prevent school shootings
npr.org, 7 Mar 2018
Experts say proactive policies in schools can prevent
mass shootings, particularly:
policies that address bullying, emotional health, suicide and
the reduction of suspensions and expulsions
a
school climate that encourages witnesses to report weapons being
shown at school, and
the
use of threat assessments
...
TASMANIAN ELECTION
List of policies released
Tas Liberals website [pdf], 7 Mar 2018
Premier Will Hodgman has released an
extended list of policies that includes previously unpublicised
policy topics raised by various special interest groups....
TEACHING BY SCARING
Croc lesson
ABC News, 7 Mar 2018
A live but restrained 3.9 metre crocodile has been
taken to a Northern Territory school in an effort to persuade
the students to keep away from it in its natural habitat....
NAPLAN
NAPLAN and other data now on My
School site
ACARA media release, 7 Mar 2018
 The My
School website has
been updated with the latest NAPLAN data
and other data about individual schools....
My School website
Call for NAPLAN review, The Examiner, 7 Mar 2018
NAPLAN
No improvement in maths and
reading
ABC News, 7 Mar 2018
There has been no sign of improvement in
student maths and reading results in ten years of NAPLAN
results, a review using ACER data has shown. As well, the
results of disadvantaged students have fallen sharply...
 FINANCIAL LITERACY
Financial literacy starts in
school
ABC News, 6 Mar 2018
A foundation set up by
a debt collection agency tells Queensland school students how to
manage their finances...
TASMANIAN
ELECTION
Will wins
ABC News, 4 Mar 2018
Premier Will Hodgman has achieved historic
consecutive Liberal state election victories. Labor has won a
seat from the Liberals in Braddon. Uncertainty remains over the
fifth seats in Bass and Franklin...
Why this result occurred, The Conversation (opinion by Adrian
Beaumont), 4 Mar 2018
Tasmanians like majority
government, The Conversation (opinion by Richard
Eccleston),
4 Mar 2018
TASMANIAN
ELECTION
Libs scrape back
ABC News, 3 Mar 2018
 Election analyst Antony Green
says the Liberals will gain a (reduced) majority of at least 13 seats,
winning the 2018 Tasmanian state election...
TASMANIAN
POLITICS
Vanessa Goodwin dies
ABC News, 3 Mar 2018
Former attorney-general Vanessa
Goodwin has died aged 48 following a battle with brain cancer...
BULLYING
Bullying letter
ABC News, 1 Mar 2018
 The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has
written to Australia's principals to ask them for assistance in
stamping out school and online bullying and violence...
TASMANIAN
SCHOOLS
Clarendon Vale Primary closed
ABC News, 6.30am, 1 Mar 2018
 Clarendon Vale Primary
School is closed today (Thursday) due to water damage.
The
school is expected to reopen tomorrow.
 Check for
confirmation on the school's
Facebook page.
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