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Teachers and professional behaviour.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: In the April issue Kevin Donnelly discusses the promotion of political correctness and left-wing bias by our academics through the teachers and so to school students in the curriculum of our schools.
As a fifteen-year-old attending a mission boarding school, I sought permission of the headmaster to go to a revue called Red Hot and Blue. In denying my request he explained that my parents were responsible for my education and that they had sent me to school for my formal education; thus the teachers were acting in loco parentis and were obliged to respect the views of the students' parents. Although I was taught about the structure of government in the UK, I would not have a clue as to the political ...
- An important biography of Sir Owen Dixon. (Legal Notes).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs Spry, I.C.F. January 1, 2003 700+ words
...judges of the greatest distinction: Sir Owen Dixon, Sir Wilfred Fullagar and Sir Harry...by his recently-released biography Owen Dixon. Dixon has been widely regarded as the...of prior decisions of the courts. In Owen Dixon Ayres follows Dixon's life back from...
- Philip Ayres, Owen Dixon.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Lewis, D.L. June 1, 2004 700+ words
Philip Ayres, Owen Dixon, Miegunyah Press, 2003, 400 pages; ISBN 0 52285 045 6. Owen Dixon stood head and shoulders above his contemporaries in the field of law. It has taken thirty years for a biography of sufficient stature to be released...
- LONGTIME TVA COACH OWEN DIXON PONDERS FUTURE FROM OUTSIDE.(VIRGINIA BEACH...
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot May 27, 2001 700+ words
Byline: ROBIN BRINKLEY Sports Editor For many people, Owen Dixon is the face of volleyball in Virginia Beach. He spent 22...WAVES volleyball player Laurie Alpert, from left, coach Owen Dixon and player Jordan McGeary share a laugh before practice.
- Australia's war in American eyes: Owen Dixon in Washington, 1942-43....
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ayres, Philip April 1, 2003 700+ words
IN APRIL 1942 John Curtin appointed Owen Dixon Minister to Washington in place of R.G. Casey, who had resigned. The most brilliant man on the High Court, Dixon had already...
- Sir Owen Dixon in the Cold War.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ayres, Philip December 1, 2007 700+ words
...L.W. Maher, in the course of his letter headed "The Cold War and the High Court" (October 2007), refers to Sir Owen Dixon's judicial career as "characterised by a ... record of continuous partisan politicking in the conservative cause, some...
- Australia's greatest jurist: Philip Ayres' Owen Dixon. (Law).(Biography)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Spigelman, J.J. July 1, 2003 700+ words
SIR OWEN DIXON possessed the most formidable legal mind in all of our history. If there was a Nobel Prize for reasoning he was the most likely...
- Two Chief Justices: Sir Owen Dixon's view of Sir John Latham.(Legal...
- Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs Ayres, Philip April 1, 2004 700+ words
It is remarkable that there is no book-length biography of Sir John Latham, whose contribution to Australian politics and law was so substantial. The Latham Papers at the National Library are available to anyone who asks to see them. They cover his whole life and offer a great opportunity for a
- Law reviews: good for judges, bad for law schools?(Australia)
- Magazine article from: Melbourne University Law Review Gava, John December 1, 2002 700+ words
...Australian lawyers that Sir Owen Dixon was the finest common...writing. Certainly, Sir Owen Dixon when writing extra-judicially...and influence as a law teacher was manifested by Sir...10) So, clearly, Sir Owen Dixon was not antagonistic toward...
