Bullying and harrassment at Katherine High School

Forget the academics – sort the discipline. God, what a mess and in the high school in the  town represented in parliament by our Education Minister.  Who is the Principal at KHS these days?

These happenings put a rather  sad twist on the opening stanza written on Katherine High School’s website. It says “Katherine High School provides every person with every opportunity to work and learn in a safe and welcoming educational environment.” 

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The behaviour on the buses that are allowed to go on is astiunding. That it is allowed to continue is beyond comprehension. The perpetrators should be denied bus travel, be suspended from school and charges of assault should become a matter of legal course. This should also be a matter pushed home to parents of bullying and fighting students. 

Katherine and bullying

It is also the responsibility of the parents of the young thugs and bullies.  If they are not stopped, they could well grow up to be the next cohort of domestic violence perpetrators.

Federal grant for energy saving measures for Darwin City Council

How wonderful, significant, and timely that our ‘waste not, want not, energy conscious’ council is able to negotiate these grants from our far-sighted and visionary Federal Energy Minister.

All go at Beetaloo

With ex-Minister Nicole Manison now connected with Tamboran and helping to move this project forward, the NT could be in a good place and one through which it can promote economic prosperity.

Vaping

Vaping is awful to watch and behold. Whenever I see vapers vaping, I am reminded of the old steam trains chosing out a mix of steam, coal fragments and miscellaneous bits and pieces in the olden day I also think of “Puff the Magic Dragon”, which was sung with a resolution By Peter, Paul, and Mary.

Birthing services in the NT are going belly up

With the Darwin Private Hospital pulling back in Kaye areas of service, the Northern Territory population is increasingly being painted into a corner in terms of medical alternatives. Before long it will be Royal Darwin or nothing. With the way things are, healthcare issues  will strangle the a territory and force people elsewhere. 

Groote Area Council

This will be a wonderful fillip and meaningful boost to locals who want to contribute to and have greater and more meaningful input into local decision-making.

Crime must be curtailed

The circumstances then and the circumstances now are entirely different.  Please, Ms Uibo, do not deny the seriousness of the situation with which we are confronted. Through the eight years of Labor, crime went up and up. Labour left the government benches and crime levels that had reached tsunami-like proportions. How about working with the government to fix a desperate situation created by eight years of government acceptance and forgiveness of criminal behaviour with its ‘tag and release’ policy?

CLP Maternity support on offer with  DPH birthing ‘bonus’.

I cannot for the life of me see how the packages on offer post-birth are in any way connected with birthing. What I can imagine is that there will be a significant increase in the number of pregnant women, now and into the future, whose plans involve DPH maternity support so they can get a nice little holiday/respite break after the birth.