Claire Loades

A CODA and heritage Auslan speaker, interests include family history, genealogy, education of deaf and hard of hearing children, and applied linguistics,

[Claire Loades @crloades]

Lessons for Australia as well

[Andy Hargreaves @HargreavesBC]

10 points for @andyburnham if he becomes PM on what might be done to improve schools? Here are some suggestions that would cost little & achieve much.
1. Incentivize schools' commitment to common place & community among schools serving the same locality - within & across local authorities, across academies & between local authorities & academies. Differentiate budgets according to genuine commitment to the policy.
2. Ensure all schools take and keep their fair share of SEND students & don't manipulate their intake through selective recruitment & exclusions.
3. Commission & report publicly on an independent @OECD review of OFsted that includes Chief Inspectors from higher performing & less punitive systems such as Ireland, Estonia, Nordic countries & the Netherlands.
4. Promote the value of learning in real life for all young people, not just those who can't manage or don't want the traditional academic route.
5. Make the first priority of a rethought SEND policy a whole school focus on whole child development with discretionary time for teacher collaboration around shared children and an engaging curriculum - then follow this up with specific support where there are additional needs.
6. Allocate 30% of curriculum time to be school-based, inspiring & engaging, like the higher performing Netherlands.
7. Increase attention to learning outdoors which benefits children cognitively, emotionally and behaviourally. Remove bureaucratic roadblocks of endless form-filling to make this happen.
8. Develop a national strategy of parent responsibility that is considerate of different life circumstances yet clear about how parents should, for example, monitor their own as well as their kids' screen-time, take more responsibility for their children's misbehaviour, & commit to civil & fair processes for airing grievances & complaints.
9. Have a judicious approach to device regulation in schools that avoids AI euphoria on the one hand or a return to textbook fundamentalism on the other.
10. Abolish all high stakes tests before Year 6. Keep and indeed increase diagnostic tests as early as possible, but for accountability & monitoring purposes, test samples rather than a census of everyone. Don't let high stakes, high stress tests distort the curriculum & undermine wellbeing. Ireland, much of Canada & much of the Nordic world manages perfectly well without them - so can England. The best way to improve wellbeing is immediately act on school practices that are creating ill-being.

@LesWalton500 @steve_munby @MelAinscow @NAHTnews @jon_severs @NASUWT @ViviennePorritt @Headteacherchat @TeacherToolkit

[Clare O'Neil MP @ClareONeilMP]

If you can’t stand up and defend multiculturalism in Australia, you should not be the leader of a mainstream political party.

[Oliver Janich @OliverJanich]

🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Vee ♥️🖤🐾🏇 @tweeter_vee]

Australia has never been a monoculture.
We are a nation built by First Nations peoples and generations of Australians from many cultures, faiths and backgrounds
Our diversity is one of our greatest strengths
Multiracial. Multifaith. Multicultural.
That's modern Australia.
#auspol

[Claire Loades @crloades]

A great read that reminds us an alternative Australia exists than the one Pauline Hanson thinks we should be. An Australia that I want to be part of. https://t.co/BQorzPyR58

[Claire Loades @crloades]

One umbrella, many stories: Why a "monocultural" Australia misses the point | Pearls and Irritations https://t.co/zlpPeDuTt5

[Claire Loades @crloades]

@simpsubhswf @DrCraigEmerson @Angelica196057 If we are to be a monocultural society, it should be a First Nations Society, the rest of us are immigrants. Australia’s first culture is First Nations. Not Anglo Saxon white culture

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

We love our Multicultural and Indigenous Australia Pauline #Hanson. We have never been a monoculture and never will be. Our diversity is our strength.

[Lyn Leedham @Lynnyleedham]

A group said make this go viral

[Ella Cooper @EllaCoo55777104]

After her speech at the National Press Club
👇👇👇👇
#NPC

[Claire Loades @crloades]

@strangerous10 Sarah Martin must be asking the right questions. More journalists should do this.

[Claire Loades @crloades]

Do people ever really listen to this woman. If they did no one would give her airspace. She is supporting small business, she is supporting big business and multimillionaires. https://t.co/20S1PM2mDv

[stranger @strangerous10]

Prof Hal Pawson says Labor’s CGT changes are “to be commended” & shreds the LNP’s “well out of line” tax scheme that incentivised investors to pile in “causing inflation in the system”💥
Says we’re “already seeing the beginnings of the beneficial impact” of the changes✅ #auspol

[Claire Loades @crloades]

@JJKALE2 Yes

[Deborah Lyttle @lyttle_deb9361]

Thank you @LouiseAdler for being a role model for others in your community who don’t approve of Jillian Segal and her cohort

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

Dear AUS PM @AlboMP
cc @SenatorWong
Rebuke Israel.
Sanction Israel.
Expel the Israeli Ambassador.
And stop selling arms to Israel! #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism

[Deborah Lyttle @lyttle_deb9361]

Interesting that listeners on @abcmelbourne not buying @Raf_Epstein ‘s nonsense and sick of hearing “broken promises” on repeat. A pilot called to say he would be remiss if he didn’t change the flight path if there was a safer better way. Enough of your Labor bashing @abcnews

[Claire Loades @crloades]

The Labor government need to explain exactly what they mean by appropriate treatment options - are we applying medical models and interventions to disabilities like deafness? https://t.co/ceyRFOh9nq

[Claire Loades @crloades]

The South Australian Labor government is showing a total disrespect for the environment. First the parklands and now fracking in the South East. Malinauskas believes his own spin. @PMalinauskasMP @jaynestinson

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

The rumours were true, the budget brought big changes for negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount!

"For the first time in forever, I'm actually optimistic about housing affordability."
- @MattGrudnoff
@GrogsGamut #auspol #Budget2026