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Greens thrown down the gauntlet on TAFE funding - Northern Daily Leader
The Greens are the only party offering a guarantee for 100 per cent of the public vocational education budget to be devoted to TAFE, says the party’s New England candidate Pete Wills.

“Instead of replacing TAFE with an internet cafe like the Nationals, or keeping TAFE on life support with a 70 per cent funding threshold like Labor, the Greens will restore quality public TAFE colleges throughout New England with a 100 per cent funding guarantee,” he said.
New England candidates line up for education debate at Wests Leagues Club - Northern Daily Leader
ELEVEN candidates will line up to talk about their vision for the nation’s education at a public forum on Tuesday night.The event will be held at West Leagues Club at 6pm. NSW Teachers Federation president Maurie Mulheron will update the audience on the school funding situation, following the Gonski 2.0 announcement in June.Candidates will then have three minutes to talk about their education policies, which will be followed by 15 minutes of question time.Mr Mulheron was critical of former MP Barnaby Joyce, who is boycotting all public debates and forums.
FIVE New England byelection contenders got together at Tamworth’s Bicentennial Park for a campaign event that was as grassroots as they come – a meet the candidates barbecue.
Barnaby Joyce gearing up for New England by-election - Hunter Valley News
Just as farmers in Merriwa are awaiting rain and the return of a good harvest, Nationals candidate Barnaby Joyce is hoping to be re-elected as the Member for New England on Saturday, December 2. Joyce is predicted to return, despite a large field of candidates, ranging from the standard parties to the more obscure subjects.
It’s a Ponzi Scheme”: Wall Street Fears Trump’s Deranged Tax Plan Could Kick Off Economic Euthanasia - Vanity Fair
Wall Street vets say an attack on blue states could start a chain reaction in the housing market. “Will this be the first tax cut in American history that actually results in a recession?”
Science has outgrown the human mind - Quartz
Science is in the midst of a data crisis. Last year, there were more than 1.2 million new papers published in the biomedical sciences alone, bringing the total number of peer-reviewed biomedical papers to over 26 million. However, the average scientist reads only about 250 papers a year. Meanwhile, the quality of the scientific literature has been in decline. Some recent studies found that the majority of biomedical papers were irreproducible.
New study reaches a stunning conclusion about the cost of solar and wind energy - Think Progress
Building new renewables is now cheaper than just running old coal and nuclear plants.
Merkel signals readiness for new election after coalition talks collapse - Reuters
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would prefer a new election to ruling with a minority after talks on forming a three-way coalition failed overnight, but Germany’s president told parties they owed it to voters to try to form a government.

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