TJ Catalanotto

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

To Motivate Teens, Ask Them “Who’s Your Future Self?” https://t.co/zM1ocYxPKM

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

What about the whole Day every day. Big Picture Learning?

[Dr. Paul Kish @PaulKishEdu]

@mraspinall @derwood73 @marcisseks @branbrotherton @jennwritesedu @DrSunainaSharma @SammonSTEAM @TKtalksSTEAM @jedipadmaster @MikeAzzalina Great question. A section of each school day that serves as an advisory/enrichment/flex period structured for intervention, passion projects, exploratory, elective, team building, etc. Individualized for what kids need and what they desire to learn. #RelationshipsFirst

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

Read the article. The headline and the reality are very different. Taylor forgets about Fraser and even Howard when he makes this quote. Read the whole article.

[ABC News @abcnews]

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says personal income tax has increased by a "record" 27 per cent in the first 18 months of the Albanese government. https://t.co/54oSnb9MPi

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

Thank you for sharing Jane Caro.. Could not agree more well worth a read.

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

This is a brilliant article. Why should publicly subsidised private schools be allowed to use their superior resources to poach teachers in a teacher shortage? This directly hobbles the life chances of kids who are already struggling with disadvantage. https://t.co/5cbgT6ACqA

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Just got the final draft of the cover of my memoir!! It’s absolutely amazing (sorry I can’t post as the publishers are doing a whole launch around it!). We will be making a QR code available very soon for pre-orders & I will be launching that (hopefully) at the Cairns Cairns Tropical Writers' Festival!
But I can let you know the title at least which I love:

Jilya: how one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology.

♥️🖤💛

[Peter Botsman @PeterBotsman]

The Ugly Australian*

Australians are apt to think themselves better than Americans or Brits: frendlier, more informal, egalitarian, more worldy than most insular "septic tanks" and less class bound than "poms".

After October 14, 2023 the lie is exposed.

The 1958 novel The Ugly American was about the innate arrogance of American diplomats in South East Asia and their failure to understand local culture in the context of the Vietnam war.

After the 2023 Australian Referendum we can now talk about the Ugly Australian. The Ugly Australian is someone who suggests:

- people are people no matter what the colour of their skin/but knows no-one but their own insular mainstream Australian family group

- Aboriginal people should not see themselves as victims/without reflecting on their own relative wealth and affluence and where it came from.

- Aboriginal people should just get a job and live like everyone else/total ignorance of the cultural differences and unwillingness of many first nations people to assimilate into what they consider a destructive economy and society

- 'real' Aboriginal people did not really want “the voice”/this fabrication reflects a long tradition of listening to Aboriginal people who say only what the mainstream society wants them to say.

- Australia should not be divided on racial lines/complete ignorance of the massive inequality and racial division that exists in Australia

- Spiritual connections with Aboriginal people were more profound than ‘political connections’/again this is a construction of acceptable Aboriginal people and beliefs that do not threaten the status quo

- Constitutional change was permanent and might cause harm over a long time/exhibits complete ignorance about the nature of the founding Commonwealth document written by white misogynistic horse and buggy era colonialists which in itself is damaging and destructive.

- Politicians of all persuasions cannot be trusted/while believing the worst racist, fear mongering populists and just being lazy about learning anything about civil society and its functions.

- People are people no matter what race or colour and should not be treated differently/this is again just another sop for a status quo in which White and mainstream Australia lives supreme.

- The Uluru Statement of the Heart was not a true reflection of the deep spiritual sovereignty of Aboriginal people/ this once again cherry picks Aboriginal people who mainstream Australians want to hear as against those they dont.

- “The voice” would be another welfare rort for grifters, bludgers and elites that wouldnt do any good/blatent lie that in fact protects the many mainstream Australians who benefit from what is called the Aboriginal industry, the voice would have reformed and brought accountability to the “Aboriginal industry”

- Recognising Aboriginal people symbolically was safer than allowing them to question the nation’s government and politicians/ another indicator of laziness and mainstream Australian protection of their own insular culture and lifestyle

- The voice would be a permanent place for Aboriginal people to complain and not take responsibility for their own issues/again just a fabrication the opposite was the case

- Aboriginal people just need to connect back to their roots and their own spiritual needs/plain hypocrisy when most Australians have no connections to land other than to benefit from its exploitation and abuse

- the Aboriginal world and the world of politics and government should not be mixed up with one another/this is just another rationale for assimilation and for not being “different”

- Like lock-downs and vaccination the voice was just another exercise in big government that would take away every one, including Aboriginal peoples’ freedom/in fact it was a product of a process of deliberative democracy in which Aboriginal leaders wanted to take responsiblity for cleaning up welfare and government spending in their own communities.

- The best way to help Aboriginal people was to police their communities and stop child abuse, violence against women and bludging/this is short hand for police state, apartheid, justification for the extreme levels of Aboriginal incarceration.

- Welfare and sit down money is the main reason for Aboriginal people’s problems they should just work and earn a living like everyone else/Aboriginal Australians have their own culture, economy and society, welfare or market capitalism, expresses that reality.

- voting no in the 2023 referendum was not about racism or guilt, it was just common sense, only politicians, academics and bleeding hearts supported the voice and they were a cancer on our society. They did not have a practical bone in their body/In fact the no vote was impractical and unwise. It sets Australia on a more confrontational, rights based, courts based process to determine how Aboriginal and mainstream Australians live alongside one another. This now seems to be the main pathway to ensuring that the 97 per cent of new Australians respect the rights, culture and society of the first peoples of Australia.

- the ugly Australian like the ugly American of the 1950s has no concept of how he/she is viewed by the world and by anyone other than an insular peer group of like minded people of limited culture and intelligence. Social media confounds this issue.

4 November, 2023

*feel free to tighten this up and share

#October14nomorelies

#thetruthwillsetyoufree
#TheShadowofNo
#theenlightenednovoter?
#questionsafterthereferendum
#theabc
#October14
#theygolowwegohigher
#theuglyAustralian

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Awesome to see this FINALLY published. The exclusion of my critical culturally and clinically validated screening tools for Aboriginal youth and adults at suicide and mental health risk has been horrific over the last 20 years and forced me to have to self-fund their development and the resulting crucial data that has come from them-every national review into Indigenous mental health & suicide prevention has managed to exclude and dismiss them. If you cannot assess, you cannot treat, you cannot prevent. All roads to Indigenous suicide prevention is about getting assessment RIGHT.

This publication should put this exclusion on notice.

https://t.co/Y6owO8gxqI

[Academics Write @academicswrite]

I did a thing this term where I told my students they were allowed to use ChatGPT. The catch was, they had to tell me about it in a reflection when they handed in their paper. This is a thread about how it all went.

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

Here is your chance to find out more. Thanks for your clear and logical explanation Megan Davis.

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

Songlines by Margo Neale and Lynne Kellly

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

What’s the most thought-provoking book you’ve read in the past year?

[Magda Szubanski AO @MagdaSzubanski]

Hi loves
PLEASE RT
This is a brilliant, non-threatening, non judgmental video aimed at “good-spirited, fair-minded people” who are confused by the conflicting messages re The Voice
It’s by my dear friend Shelley Reys, a Djiriibul woman and one of the architects of Reconciliation

It’s clear, fair, reasonable and, yes, detailed
Let’s try and clear up the misconceptions and confusion
❤️🥰🙏
Magda

to parliament https://t.co/S1A6Y0iW6L via @YouTube

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

@Matt_KeanMP @EddieSynot Voice to parliament https://t.co/vTW2nXQGYy via @YouTube

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

@pmwachtel @Matt_KeanMP Voice to parliament https://t.co/vTW2nXQGYy via @YouTube

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

@Jack_TheRooster @Matt_KeanMP Voice to parliament https://t.co/vTW2nXQGYy via @YouTube

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

Please have a read if this article.

[Alice Leung @aliceleung]

What I find most disappointing (or upsetting, disturbing, I actually can’t pin point a word) is the marketization of education. That education is to be bought, as opposed to something the community provides to benefit the whole community. https://t.co/7InXhQkOxY

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

Something to think about and support.

[TJ Catalanotto @tjcatalanotto]

Can’t believe the tax office has been able to do this. Wonder what the bill would be if they give back all that has been over collected?