Melbourne Public Radio

MySchool.edu.au is a government website where the public look up government and private schools, and have access to data such as the schools NAPLAN performance and the schools index of community socio-educational advantage also known as ICSEA. Displaying this data may have had unintended consequences. When numerical measures are designed for people they may focus on achieving better numbers, but do these numbers necessarily reflect what they are trying to reflect?

You can pay a lot more for chilled water than chilled milk. Why? What is going on with dairy farming in Australia and what role has Murray Goulburn played in this disaster.

I had a chat with Luke James, who is the Victorian Candidate for the Australian Science Party. We discuss Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, the concept of an Australian space program, negative gearing, the capital gains tax discount and it's effect on creating a housing bubble in Australia.