IT workers have Australia’s smartest kids, according to OECD report

Bad results ... Australian students are falling behind in maths, finishing 18th out of the 63 countries measured. Source: Supplied

 

KIDS who have at least one parent working in IT, business or engineering are the best performing students in Australia. 

An OECD report into the link between student performance and their parents’ occupations has also found the sons and daughters of subsistence farmers, salespeople and machine operators are the lowest performing students in the nation’s schools.

Advantage ... children who have at least one parent working in IT, business or engineering are the best performing students. Source: News Limited

 

Not only were the kids of information and communications technology (ICT) workers top of the country in maths and science, they were also found to be the best in terms of reading.

Australian Information Industry Association CEO Suzanne Campbell said: “ICT workers’ skills include the analytical, the innovative, the creative thinking, the can-do, curiosity and solving business problems.

“My expectation is that the children of ICT workers are enjoying the benefits of being exposed to all of those skills and being inspired in their family environment to take risks.”

She said exposing kids to sites like www.code.org — where they learn how to make code software and solve problems — would also be having an effect.

Early start ... the children of information and communications technology workers are enjoying the benefits of being exposed to analytical and creative thinking skills, say experts. Source: Supplied

 

The report also highlighted our poor performance in maths, with Australian students finishing 18th out of the 63 countries measured.

The gap between Australia and the top maths performers is so big that the son or daughter of a Shanghai (China) subsistence farmer will perform as well as the offspring of an Australian health or teaching professional.

The kids of customer service clerks and clerical support workers in Singapore will on average perform better than the Australian kids of ICT workers, who are our best performing students.

First teachers ... parents need to turn off the television and get their child involved in stimulating and educational activities. Source: News Limited

 

The co-author of the Federal Government’s upcoming Australian Curriculum review, Dr Kevin Donnelly, said the international results show there are actually more important factors in student performance than simply their mum and dad’s education.

“How well you perform at school is not just about your home background and what your parents do,” he said.

“There is more we can do in Australia and it gets back to having stronger expectations about what students can actually do and not trying to make an excuse that just because they might come from a working class background that they are not going to do well.

“Parents are their children’s first teachers. Parents need to have higher expectations by turning off the computers and the plasma TV and actually getting their kids to do more stimulating and engaging activities.”
Charles Sturt Faculty of Education Professor Toni Downes said part of the difference between Australia and Asia is due to the importance placed on education overseas.

“There is a significant difference across these countries in the importance attributed to ‘schooling’ by families of different of socio-economic backgrounds,” she said.

“In some of these countries very poor families will make extraordinary sacrifices to ensure that their children get a good education — because they see it as a way of lifting the children and future generations out of poverty.

“These sentiments no longer seem as strong in western or first-world nations.”

Prof Downes said the amount of family income parents spent on out-of-school coaching in South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan is a lot higher than in Australia.

Explore the relationship between parents’ occupations and their children’s performance in mathematics, reading and science — in your own country and in other countries — by clicking here .

THE JOB OF PARENTING:

The best performing students in Australia are the sons and daughters of:
Information and communications technology workers
Business and administration professionals
Science and engineering associates
Science and engineering professionals
Legal, social and cultural workers
Chief executives senior officials
Professionals
Teaching professionals
Health professionals
Business and administration associates

The worst performing:
Subsistence farmers
Street and related salespeople
Stationary plant and machine workers
Cleaners and helpers
Elementary occupations
Food preparation assistants
Market-oriented skilled forestry and fishery workers
Plant and machine operators
Labourers in mining construction
Food processing and wood working

Source: OECD

news.com.au 19 Feb 2014

Previously convicted sex offender ‘Papa K’ plied teenage girls with drugs before sexually assaulting them

A CONVICTED sex grub known to a bevy of teenage girls as “Papa K” plied them with ice before sexually assaulting them. 

 
Kerry David Yates, 49, was jailed for more than six years today for the vile acts on children who returned sexual favours for cocktails of drugs.

At times the socially isolated loner committed the disgusting acts while other children watched on.

At the time of his offending he was already a convicted sex offender and ignored strict reporting conditions.

He pleaded guilty dozens of offences including sexual penetration, drug and failing to comply with reporting obligations charges.

Sentencing him to six years and three months imprisonment today County Court judge Frank Gucciardo said Yates’ offending had been reprehensible.

The highly addictive ice was used to ply teenagers for sex.

 

He said he had shown no remorse, and failed to see how his offending on the vulnerable young girls was wrong.

The court heard Yates had a sexual offending history that spanned almost 15 years and started with the repeated assault of an eight-year-old girl.

The girl was abused her on a string of occasions at his Melbourne home between 2000 and 2001.

Yates denied the offending but was found guilty by a jury last month of nine counts of sexual penetration of the girl and of acting indecently in her company.

Judge Gucciardo said the offending against the young girl was repeated, brazen and sometimes in the presence of another young child.

“Sexual offences of this nature are repulsive to the community and the community rightly abhors them,” he said.

It took the young victim almost a decade to report the offending to police.

In the meantime Yates was placed on a suspended sentence for assaulting another 13-year-old girl in similar circumstances, again with another child present.

As part of his sentence he was placed on the sex offenders register and ordered to adhere to strict reporting conditions.

Instead he lied to authorities about his contact with children and embarked on a drug-fuelled sex abuse rampage of young girls.

Much of the offending took place in a garage at the back of Yates’ ex-wife’s home, where he was living.
They called him “Papa K” or “Big Kerry” and were aged between 14 and 16.

Judge Gucciardo said he plied them with ice and cannabis in return for sexual favours.

At least one of the girls had never used drugs but became addicted to ice after Yates encouraged her to try it.

Medical experts found no evidence of mental illness or cognitive impairment.

But Yates was found to have pedophilic tendencies and an attraction to young girls.

Judge Gucciardo said Yates became more socially isolated as his drug use increased and had made a deliberate choice to target young girls.

He imposed a non-parole period of four years and three months.

heraldsun.com.au 21 Feb 2014

This is another example of how the legal system does away with protection of the children of the masses from pedophiles.

His previous convictions stopped at nothing nor his mandate  to report the police.

His current sentence of a non parole period of four years is as abhorrent as his crimes on children.

Who will be his next victims after the jail sentence?

Will he kill anyone as a result?

Does it really pay to be a criminal in Australia?

Would the sentence be any different if it were a child of the law makers community?

Bill of Rights and Magna Carta valid in Victoria

A document from 1996 from the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE VICTORIA, signed by the then Director CHRIS HUMPHREYS, answers questions posed as to the validity of the 1688 Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta (1297).

The response is in point form as follows:

• [1688] 1 William and Mary SESS. 11 (Bill of Rights)c. 11 continues in force in Victoria by incorporation in the Imperial Acts Application Act 1980 (Vic);

• parts of the Magna Carta [(1297) 25 Edward I. c. XXIX] dealing with the issues of justice and liberty continue in force in Victoria again by incorporation in the Imperial Acts Application Act 1980 (Vic);

See original document below:

Police corruption supported by the corporate media

It is no doubt difficult for the public to gauge the level of corruption of Australia's police force given the fact that most of the information is suppressed, falsified or deliberately not catalogued.

At various points in history, the eastern seaboard states of Australia had various levels of corruption within the 'force' with every state's police competing for the number one place.

In the seventies and eighties the crown went to the New South Wales police as the country's largest narcotics transport network, followed by a close second by Victoria's police, a fact that was mentioned many times behind closed doors in the presence of the brotherhood.

The mid nineties saw a shift of balance of power going to the rival state of Victoria, where the police were working together with the state's crime families sharing the enormous profits of the drug trade.

Not one single piece of information makes it out into the public arena without the approval of the head of police, no matter how truthful or even illegal the actions of police are.

Ken Lay is the head of Victoria's police currently suppressing the states police force's crimes committed for which he has been asked to explain and justify, by members of the public, to which corpau is in possession of such letters, exposing the crimes committed by police against the general populous.


Reporters that sit in on cases, where police are involved in crime, somehow miraculously omit to report a story of significance, even if one is made, the names of the police are suppressed, where in similar cases the public is exposed.

Lawyers, barristers, magistrates judges, etc are part of this corruption, and totally ignore any evidence put forward that exposes corrupt police, only to endanger the life and family of the 'whistle blower' / complainant, initially with intimidation, as witnessed recently many times in Melbourne's courts.

Here are some matters from the mid to late nineties involving corrupt police:

• Victoria is by the admission of Police themselves, now the illegal drugs capital of Australia. Whistle blowers Mick Skrijel, Peter McCartney and others recently gave evidence (and proof) at a drugs inquiry that the Victorian Police were the main dealers in Melbourne. Their evidence was not reported by the media, even though their reporters were in attendance.

•  King Street Melbourne, is now one of the most violent and dangerous places to go out in all of Australia. Assaults are a daily occurrence. In many parts of Melbourne, the streets are now unsafe. Recently 11 off-duty Police were allegedly involved in a brawl at the "Public Bar" in Victoria Street, North Melbourne.

• A Police Whistle blower, Constable Karl Konrad, tells of entrenched corruption within his own Police force and alleges widespread corruption involving smashing windows and other matters, involving over a hundred fellow officers. He is no longer actively employed by the Victoria Police. He was recently fined $1,000 by his department after making comments about the Police to the media without authorisation from senior Police Management.

• A senior Internal Investigations Department (IID) Official (Tom McGrath) confirms entrenched Police corruption and a "brotherhood". Another officer, Inspector Barbara Oldfield made similar and even more damning statements about corruption in the Victoria Police (transcript of her conversation is in The Hoser Files, 322 pp.). The media refuse to report the Oldfield allegations on the basis that they are "too hot to handle".

•  A recent inquiry ("Operation Bart") uncovers a scam whereby at least twelve corrupt Police allegedly turn a blind eye to crimes by Panel Beaters and Tow Truck Drivers in return for secret repairs to Police cars smashed up when being improperly used, in order to prevent the officers being charged or disciplined.

• The state's road toll for the first time in some years is now on the rise. A disproportionate number of crashes involve Police officers that have drunk excessive alcohol.

• Six Police in one car recently smashed the car outside Knox shopping centre on a Friday night, with the driver over the legal alcohol limit and another officer going to hospital and lying about how he'd got his injuries. He'd falsely claimed assault.

•  Another Police officer, (Terrence Olsen) kills a young pushbike rider on New Year's day, by running him over when drink driving after a party and then attempting to hide his crime by self repairing his own car to hide the damage. He is then allowed to retire from the force on full benefits.

• Yet another Police officer (Grant McPhie) kills himself after driving at least 163 kmh in an 80 km zone, while having a blood alcohol level over three times the legal limit. Scores of other Police officers crash cars while drunk.

• Police attempt to suppress an internal report that documents excessive drinking of alcohol as a major problem in the Victoria Police. It was leaked by a whistle blower.

• An Assistant Commissioner (Brian Church) recently refuses to allow journalists from the 7.30 report to ask him questions at a press conference, because he is worried about potentially adverse criticism or exposure. Previously he allegedly "pulled" an ABC documentary about Police violence in the Flemington/Ascot Vale area of inner Melbourne.

• A book the Police have attempted to suppress (The Hoser Files, 322 pp.), details repeated cases of bashings, thefts, perjury, court fixing, cover-ups and other misconduct in the local Police, as well as gross failures of the Victorian Ombudsman's Office to act on proof of Police and other public service corruption. This book is the single biggest expose' of corruption in Victoria's history and yet the mainstream media have black-banned the it (see below).

•  A key witness into a Police corruption inquiry, Mr. Tony Rossi was allegedly set-up by Police and improperly jailed for three months, while the Sergeant (Beardsley) who was the subject of the investigation was allowed to retire from the force with a $240,000 pay out. 

•  Rossi was then jailed on falsified charges. He later cleared his name and was acquitted.

• Large amounts of cash handed in to Police Stations by members of the public have been stolen by Police. This includes $7,500 recently handed in by a taxi driver to Sunshine Police station that Police allegedly took. The Police department covered the losses through it's general budgetary process allowing the thief to escape with the cash.

•  Police suppressed from the public information alleging a computer fraud in it's own department that may have resulted in up to a million dollars on losses.

• Police refuse to hand over investigations of Police to an independent authority, insisting on the use of a Police Internal Investigations Section to do such work under the benevolent guidance of the State Ombudsman's Office, which also relies on Police to do most investigative work, even after the Queensland Fitzgerald report and NSW Wood Royal Commission Interim Report noted that such a complaints mechanism failed to work effectively.

• Police reject repeated calls from a wide range of Political and community groups, including Whistle blowers, Lawwatch, Coalition Against Police Violence, Victims of Crime League, Australian Council For Civil Liberties, Australian Civil Liberties Union and others for a Royal Commission, even though if they had nothing to hide, then they should have nothing to fear from such an inquiry. Furthermore they would be expected to welcome such an opportunity to show potential critics that all is well within the force if in fact no corruption existed.

• The editor of the Sunday-Herald Sun, Alan Howe gagged a senior journalist from the same paper, Fia Cumming, from discussing The Hoser Files and Police corruption on the Couchman radio programme on 17th January this year. The editor of the Herald-Sun spoke to Couchman the night before the interview was to go to air and attempted to kill the story.

• It is leaked to the media that unnamed Police stole files from the St. Kilda Road Police Complex relating to a drug racket involving senior Police. The theft was an inside job, having been done by corrupt Police. Rather than attempting to identify the perpetrators of the theft and bringing them to account, senior Police go on a witch-hunt to find the person who leaked the information to the media.

• Police rent-a-witness David Winduss is found guilty of being a child molester and sent to prison. It is alleged that Winduss had been allowed to get away with illegal activities for years by Police as he was their man. 

• The Ombudsman's Office and Police are revealed to have with-held information from the public about Police involvement in paedophile rings and other related illegal activity.

•  Police refuse to charge Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett with a series of criminal and other offences, including assaulting journalists by Shovelling dirt on them (and then challenging them to charge him), contempt of court, and driving at 143 kmh in a 100 kmh zone (which for any other person would result in automatic licence loss and an appearance in court due to the seriousness of the offence).

• Police refuse to name the over 100 officers involved in shutter scams, tow truck rackets and other illegal activity. Most are allowed to remain in the force without penalty, while the grand total of four are removed from the force. The Police refuse to name either those removed from the force and/or those corrupt 96 officers (at least) who remain. This allows these officers to falsify charges against other persons without fear of being identified by potential defendants as corrupt. 

There are many more cases involving corrupt police, where politicians and lawmakers, paedophile judges (from the Family Court - you can't kill everyone who knows the information!) are involved in serious crimes, but are deliberately NOT reported and covered up by authorities, and not brought before the 'justice' system.

Victoria Police is a corporation (ABN 63 446 481 493) that functions for profit.

 http://www.smuggled.com/vrb4.htm

Police submitting dozens of falsified documents to courts daily

The court rooms of Melbourne and its outer suburbs are a hive of activity and flurry with a range of people from administrative staff, lawyers, barristers all supported by the ‘crimes’ committed by the paying general populous.

From the outside, one who approaches the place of business and trade commonly known as the court one is greeted with a vision of a structure that is of a huge scale, somewhat intimidating, and even oppressive.

Upon passing the mandatory security check, where the confiscation of one’s nail clipper will occur if one was absent minded enough to leave it in the carry facility one has on one’s person, there is another picture of the trade on cannon fodder that occurs.

The picture painted on the faces of the herded in masses is of despair, angst, frustration and even anger.

The picture of what the ‘court’ looks like from underneath is quite different.  There are holding cells, which hold the criminals that are awaiting sentencing. There is also a ‘SWAT’ team waiting for any disturbance that the herd may conjure up.

Another picture that is kept away from the plebs is what happens behind the scenes. The one pertaining to the trade of your case. The judges/judicial clerks/magistrates purchase matters, where all the income from these matters is not subject to any form of tax. Securitised bonds is another terms that should be known.

What is even more disturbing is what is hidden in plain sight.

A court is supposed to be a place of justice and apparently impartiality, but in reality this is not the case.

The judges have a vested interest in your case, where the ruling made will determine the payment to the system including themselves.

Depending on the size of the court, up to 80 matters can be heard on a daily basis, which can bring in substantial revenue for the business.

Corpau has obtained information in relation to matters from a source within the system, which clearly shows that police falsify reports and statements contrary to the contemporaneous notes, or even transcribed recordings.

The source indicated that this is across the board on a large scale with no end in sight as there is free rein and no one can stop them. The source asked not to comment on specific matters as this could endanger the well being of the accused or their families, and could also be used to reveal the source of the information.

The police prosecutors together with the magistrates are fully aware of the fraud, but still persist to sentence the ‘criminal’ based on falsified police evidence.

The is an epidemic that is rife with corruption that is supported by the ‘system’ and the so called police that are allegedly supposed to ‘protect’.

(illustration: The upside down star of Victoria Police with the words: "UPHOLD THE RIGHT")

If anyone stands up in court to question or expose the fraud one is shut down promptly by the judge, or escorted out of the premises, or even arrested and strip searched as a result, with police downloading all the information from the arrested individuals smart phone for their reference to be placed on your file, to be used against you at a later date.

The politics of limiting your choices in corporate media/political polls to guarantee the 'right result'

Polls have been used in the lamestream media for a long time. Pre-internet & mobile phones, people were asked to 'ring in' with their analogue phones, or were called by people conducting opinion polls which gave the 'public's opinion' about a range of serious topics.

Many moons ago, i worked for a market research company called Quadrant, who at the time, performed surveys on behalf of the Herald-Sun. In a room full of people performing the same menial task, i would have a list of phone numbers & would ring them in turn and ask a series of questions.

These questions were designed to elicit a particular response, before, we asked the question that would be published in the paper. Most questions that i asked were never published in the paper.

This two minute, seventeen seconds clip from the brilliant English tv series, 'Yes Prime-Minister' illustrates the method of governing peoples opinions in polls rather magnificently. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA&feature=player_embedded
 

Yesterday, whilst reading a story that i intend to share on 'Mikiverse Law', entitled "Detaining drivers a human rights' breach: lawyer" in the Canberra Times, i came across a poll that was using the logic of limiting your choices in order to get public opinion to a pre-arranged destination.

Notice that all of the questions presume that the police have the right to detain you. The poll is debating the issue of the circumstances that govern this police detention of an innocent man, and for how long this detention. Not, whether or not a detention should be taking place.

It is also worth noting that the positioning of the poll immediately after the story, as opposed to above, in the middle or to the side is not accidental.

It is my opinion that the logic that underpins a poll like this is that because, apart from the article itself, there are no 'primer' questions to shepherd you to pre-arranged conclusion, different tools have to be employed to try to ensure success. 

Therefore, the article, coupled with the limitations enforced by the poll question itself, is the employed method of generating 'public opinion' on this particular issue.

USING THE REFERENDUM TO GUARANTEE A POLITICAL OUTCOME.

In 1999, war-mongering terrorist, Prime-Minister, John Coward, proposed a referendum on the issue of whether or not Australia should be a republic.

Coward, a staunch monarchist, didn't want Australia to become a republic to become a republic, unless it was on his terms, so, being the devious criminal that he is, successfully sought to pervert the referendum process itself.

He did this by, instead of asking a direct & simple question such as:

Do you support Australia becoming a republic?

Instead, Coward had the temerity to ask: 

"A proposed law: To alter the Constitution to establish the Commonwealth of Australia as a republic with the Queen and Governor-General being replaced by a President appointed by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Commonwealth Parliament.1"

It is in fact a proposal for the continuation of the same cistern, with the Monarch/Governor-General being retitled a 'President' and being appointed by politicians as opposed to 'we the people'.

The most significant change is in fact the change in appointment of the Governor-General/President from the Prime-Minister/Cabinet to both Houses of Parliament.

Naturally enough, no mention was made in the referendum to the question of the existing ownership of the land by the various Originie nations.

The second question was more devious.

"Electors were also asked to vote on a second question at the 1999 referendum which asked whether they approved of:
A proposed law: To alter the Constitution to insert a preamble.2"

The people said NO. 

The Constitution ALREADY HAD A PREAMBLE in it, so why ask people if the government could insert something that already exists.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

This is an important point to get your head around because these are particular employments of a dangerous political instrument called the 'Hegelian Dialectic', whereby, the media/government et al uses the generated 'public opinion' to demand that the government engage in particular behaviour.

Many of you are familiar with its employment after false flag op's like 9/11, but, not so familiar with the fact that this tool is rudimentally employed by corporate media, government etc to give you a false impression about what 'public opinion' is on a myriad of topics that seeks to influence or govern, not just your view but, your activities relative to perceived authority.

It is my opinion that it is in all of our interests to be as aware as we can about all of the tools that these vipers employ against us individually and collectively so they can live of our collected energy.

Anything we can do to prevent this is in all of our interests.

FOOTNOTE

1. http://www.aec.gov.au/elections/referendums/1999_Referendum_Reports_Statistics/1999.htm
2. http://www.aec.gov.au/elections/referendums/1999_Referendum_Reports_Statistics/1999.htm 

mikiversepolitics 18 Feb 2014

Supreme Court of Victoria seal exposed

In the words of a high profile Melbourne lawyer who is responsible for bribing judges / police prosecutors and others in order for his clients to avoid jail;

"There are two types of people who are in prison, those who do not have the money to pay for a lawyer, and those too stupid to pay for one".

Many high profile criminals have been able to escape a jail sentence, and continue to operate under the watchful eye of the corrupt police heads and their 'foot soldiers' in Victoria.

To the uneducated public, one might be under the impression that if all forms of resolution to a dispute have failed, then taking the matter to the "Supreme Court of Victoria" will result in justice prevailing once the truth is told.

In Australia, the courts are not courts of 'law', but rather places of business/trading/commerce (trading on your ESTATE NAME) which have ABN's (Australian Business Numbers), which in the example of the County Court of Victoria (ABN: 32 790 228 959), is owned by the Liberty Group, which has financial ties to the Rothschilds.

Unbeknown to the public, judges/magistrates/judicial clerks bid for matters, which are paid for by securitised bonds.

Matters are already decided before the 'official' commencement of the matter, which appears in the daily law list.

The company logo or in this case, the Coat of Arms is another aspect that escapes the notice of mere mortals.

The Coat of Arms with the lion and unicorn as in the "Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1901" document pertains to the only valid version of the 'Constitution', where it is also part of a seal, which is the ONLY valid seal for any Act.

(See illustration)



The kangaroo and emu Coat of Arms which is pictured on another version of the so called 'Constitution' is NOT part of any valid laws, and that particular Constitution is NOT VALID, contrary to popular belief.

The Supreme Court of Victoria, has its own logo, which looks very similar to that of the original one from the 'Constitution' with one very important difference.

The Coat of Arms contained in the "Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1901" has a lion sitting atop of the Crown.

This refers to the habeas corpus, which is valid and in force in Victoria (a fact that the 'authorities do not want the masses to know) and expresses that:

“No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgement of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land”


When stepping into the jurisdiction of the business known as the Supreme Court of Victoria, there is no lion atop of the Crown, which quite simply translates to in lay mans terms is that you are guilty and MUST prove your innocence.

Not one single judge has an impartial perspective but rather a vested interest, as the payment of the judge depends on the resolution of your matter, which must be judged in a manner that is first and foremost to the benefit of the system.

Every single so called judge that presides over any matter  is factually corrupt, in contempt of court and should realistically be arrested.

As a side note:

The Australia Act 1986 is INVALID.

This has been established in 2006 within the County Court of Victoria, and thus is Ultra Vires in the main as it does not comply with section 128 of the Commonwealth Constitution Act, to which the crown conceded to this fact.

No need to carry driver licence

With the assumption that Australia's Road Safety Act is lawful and valid, then from this:

ROAD SAFETY ACT 1986 

- SECT 19

Driver licences

(8)     A person under the age of 26 years who holds a driver licence must have the licence in his or her possession at all times while driving or in charge of a motor vehicle.

Penalty:     5 penalty units.--



________________

Therefore, 
anyone over the age of 26 years old who is stopped by police does not need to produce a 'driver licence'.

Only your name and address (can be business) needs to be stated, and NOT your date of birth.


Note:

Other material to consider:

Driver Licence unlawful?

http://corpau.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/drivers-license-unlawful.html