My Latest Twitter Updates

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is holding a press conference in Canberra on the My School website – with Peter Garrett and Barry McGaw… #
Gillard: MySchool has been hugely popular – 2.5 million Australians have visited, over 4 million hits… #auspol #
Gillard: My School 2.0 will provide even more information… on growth in student achievement… more accurate socio-economic index. #auspol #
Garrett: 2.0 will have addition information provided by schools to "contextualise" the school… #auspol #
Garrett: School financial information will now be shown on MySchool – recurrent finances and capital expenditure. #auspol #
Barry McGaw, chairman of the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), demonstrates MySchool 2.0 #auspol #
McGaw: MySchool now shows what proportion of students fronted for NAPLAN tests, so as to track attempts to manipulate results. #auspol #
My very own picture from @firstdogonmoon http://twitpic.com/37kum7 #
And buy the book! http://twitpic.com/37kuyo #
@RicRaftis …no… #
The Independent has other priorities today… but take a look at the bottom left: http://twitpic.com/37le8k #
@wolfcat With your avatar, I don't feel so bad for not recognising you tonight! #
@anaya_latter Ditto, good to catch up again. We must do something about those wonkdrinks. #
Video of last week's forum where Barry, Guthrie, Beecher & Overington discussed the future of the media: http://auspol.info/aGg17o #
Apparently John Black had a piece in the Financial Review today – anyone able to illegally scan me a copy? #
@Cecilia_St I think I'm covered now – thanks so much all the same. #
Morgan phone poll claims Greens on 51-61% 2PP in Richmond, Northcote, Brunswick & Melbourne: http://auspol.info/dnDj6N – sample size 276! #
@samanthamaiden Melbourne a possibility – stick my neck out 0/4. #
Hitchens talks of writing as his raison d'etre. He worried that his will to live might be diminished if he could not write. #Lateline #
"To write a book, to plant a tree, to have a son." #Lateline #
The first phone book was a single sheet of paper with 50 names. The last phone book is nigh. http://auspol.info/avy9pz #
@Subwaybelconnen When I was a kid, our phone number was 44 ! #
@Subwaybelconnen No, I'm younger!! I think those numbers depend on location. We were in a small town prior to automatic exchange. #
@smurray38 But where's Dirt Cheap Books, Collingwood? That list has no credibility. #
$78,000 to tweet for Melbourne City Council: http://auspol.info/9aYDpR #
@empatt You wouldn't say that if you knew anything about the Lord Mayor…! #
@electric589 You could do a bit of busking on the side… #
The Green tide turns: http://auspol.info/c49xJF – Paul Austin says the Greens got cocky in Victoria and are paying for the miscalculation. #
@jayness33 The Morgan polling had a sample size of 276 people – it's just not credible. #
The Speaker has just cast his first tie-breaking vote in the House of Reps. 72-all on an Opposition amendment, Jenkins voted against. #
RT @reselsnark: perhaps important to note that he cast that vote entirely in keeping with past precedent. ie leave motion in the original. #