Rupert Murdoch

Competitive education: Is that what we want?

Sep 13, 2010 | ,

Published as 'Lifting the bar', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 1 December 2008, p. 17. Isn’t it fascinating when you have Rupert Murdoch and Julia Gillard singing from the same song sheet? Rupert Murdoch’s fourth Boyer Lecture was aimed directly at ‘our public education...

Human capital and technology

Sep 13, 2010 | ,

Published as 'Battle of carrot versus stick', Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 13 November 2008, p. 23. Rupert Murdoch’s second Boyer Lecture on the ABC ‘Who’s afraid of new technology?’ was a challenging call to Australians to embrace the opportunities of the new rather...