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It’s taken a while, but finally a skerrick of common sense has appeared on the British educational horizon.

A draft mathematics curriculum suggests that five and six year-olds will be expected to count up to 100, recognise basic fractions and memorise the results of simple sums by the end of the first year of compulsory education.
In the second year, they will be required to know the two, five and 10 times tables, add and subtract two-digit numbers in their head and begin to use graphs.

Hopefully, educational authorities here will follow the lead. And while they’re at it, could they return the alphabet to the top of the blackboard?

What price would they put on Julia Gillard?

The al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia has mocked the new $33 million bounty on its top leaders heads by offering its own bounty for President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – 10 camels for Obama and 20 chickens for Clinton.

Bloody hell, Joan Kirner gets a Queen’s Birthday gong!

Former Queensland Labor premier Peter Beattie, ex-federal ministers Gareth Evans and Robert Hill and former Victorian premier Joan Kirner have been appointed Companions in the Order of Australia in the diamond jubilee year of Queen Elizabeth II.

She’s under challenge from Ted Baillieu, but she’s still clearly Victoria’s worst premier. Ever. And they reckon inflation is under control.