Who is Alf Hickey ?

Alf's Movember creation for his fiance last year.
Movember is a great initiative supporting oft neglected men's health.

See: Movember Australia

ALF ?
Alf got his nick name at high school, when ALF (Alien Life Form) showed on Australian TV. Alf always felt comfortable with that name, saying "every Christian is an alien in this world." Alf is cheeky and likes taking the piss.

See: Christians are Alfs ? 1 Peter 2:11

Alf is a no-nonsense person, with a heart for justice, truth and the whole person, which for him includes the spiritual dimension. He has a good balance of technical, mechanical and creative thinking in his problem solving bag. He needs to be challenged. He cares deeply for the real needs of people and society, with a unique generosity and discerning wit. Alf likes singing, he co-led the singing at the Easter March last year and sang with the Docklands Community Choir, as seen on TV adds:

Alf the only boy in an add for the Dockland's Community choir 2008.
Where are all the boys ?

He is a reformer of church and community, believing that these sometimes follow negative patterns, which devalue people and God. He says. common sense can solve most problems, yet where is this common sense today ? Common sense is something that computers do very poorly.

See: Marvin Minsky at technology Review on Computers and Common Sense

Alf says that people are immensely valuable, having great purpose and glory, being created in God's image. For him, eternal things are more valuable than mortal things, people can be immortal. This world displays how far or how close we are to God and each other. He says, without Jesus he is and has nothing. He wants to be more like Jesus. He says, "Jesus loves us all so much that he died and rose for us. You can't care more than that !" We are supposed to love Jesus too.

Alf played for the Docklands Demons in 2009, having being one of the co-founders of Docklands Church as pastor Guy Mason describes him. The church is now called City on a Hill. The other team was the St Jude's Unicorns. Alf joked, "at least we're biblical."

He has applied this design thinking to difficult problems in many domains. The cognitive model sketch below, is one of Alf's explanatory models of human cognition from contemporary research, with a few ideas of his own. It describes, explains and predicts general human behaviour and thinking. He argues, that it has been predictive of recent developments in cognition and neuroscience, making it potentially causal. The model transcends the Cartesian brain body divide issue and can explain the operation of most gestures and actions which people perform.

See: Dualism
See: Situated Cognition

One of Alf's sketches of cognitive models of the human mind from his PhD studies at Sydney University.
His original research was gestures in designing. This quickly required a new cognitive model to account for their place in a cognitive system. The model accounts for prospective, retrospective and bodily "memory," sensation, perception and conception as well as "limbic drivers." The model can be applied to sleep as well as waking phenomena. It may holds keys to a causal explanation of human cognition generally.

RENAISSANCE MAN
Alf is a Renaissance man, an artist, designer, poet and philosopher. Alf's favourite poem is a parody of Western life which he wrote about 10 years ago:

Not me too

I'm at peace in my heart, I don't really exist
My robotic cells burn day after day
And when I wear out and fertilize the flowers of the field
I'm reborn as the muck of the worm

Such peace and harmony covers my life
Such Nirvana that fills my whole universe
My brain is tickled by the touch of the light
As my alarm clock beckons again
To the computer I am called

My bones, my stomach, my testicles, my all
Just atoms moving around in temporary patterns
And microwaves and sounds of cars so beat
I dive into the pixels on the screen
I dive into the pixels on the screen

I'm a clone, I'm a drone, in the world the big computer
I'm a chip and a brick, even a number too
And I'm also just a pixel on the screen
I'm also just a pixel on the screen

I follow and conform to the educated norm
I enjoy all the normal activity
Controversial crass never comes across my face
Cause I do the perfect robot thing, yeeeeeha !

Follow me and you will see, the joy of ignorance
The freedom and the peace, they grow so sweet
I live like an ape, moving up into the tree
The tree of the scientific, logical world.

The Carpenter's Tear.
Alf's sculpture exhibited at the Docklands Community Art Exhibition.

His poem about Jesus, coincides with a sculpture he made for an exhibition at Docklands, where he lived for a year. The idea is that people have lost a sense of empathy for God. The God of the bible is just like us, perfectly represented in Jesus Christ, who has real emotions, love and desire for love, which is terribly unrequited by us, even Christians.
The sculpture depicts the emotions and love of God in timber, the medium of Jesus' trade.
People spear God's tears, in God's love and suffering for people. It is not a pretty picture of Australian attitudes to God.

Carpenter's Tears

Forming, growing, living drops
Falling upward to the Father
Drowning pain as water
Twirling streams cyclonic
Our origins unravelling
Rage of unrequited love
Strands of life-captured-time
Beginning to the end of all
In His heart's hand held
Suffering weave of striving
To one's own wood rejected
Till tears turn to blood
Downward falling lead-like
Melting this globe dripping
Consuming in the consummation
Whose blood breathes His breath
Those carved by The mouth's chisel
Animation by His lumber lungs
Blood burying with His blood too
Tears floating us to the second life

After a recent rejection because of money, Alf wrote his "recycle me" poems presenting what the world is doing to people. Alf likes to personify society as self. In Recycle Me 2, he portrays people as reduced to money and how he wishes money would turn on those who revel in oppressing people with it. Alf reminds that Keynes, the father of demand economics promised that it would be an immoral system and a temporary system at that. He also jokes, that we should pay a royalty to the Indians, every time a computer uses the numbers O, or any number at that.

See: John Maynard Keynes Quote Five
See: Indian origin of our number system

Recycle me 2

A silly sausage, yes am I
For the world it tells me so
That I need to be a dollar
To be ground up, so they say

So turn me inside out
Roll me through your press
Mint me with your stamp
I want to have your worth

It works for the Queen
Her head on every coin
If I can be converted
This world is quite perverted

I could be in every dollar
And some of me in cents
Then I would have a function
Purpose, use & relevance

Melt my fat to make your diesel
Brush my blood, upon your easel
Oh yes that's right
I'm just a weasel

Feed my soul to your machine
I'll turn your stocks a cow poo green
The bullish market with its horns
To gouge what once was only thorns

The bear will tear you limb from limb
Ching ching you, from rim to rim
Slotted as the slot you are
Your atoms to one big bazaar

I'll become your God your dollar
Morphed into an ATM walla
I feel your fingers and your pocket
Plug into your heart's own socket

Recycled into your cash
In crotch pocket dwell like rash
When dead I'm reincarnated
Under money you outdated

By default your soul is dead
Bleeding into thousands red
All life to the mainframe at the bank
Saviour Wall Street God I thank

Squash my head into a coin
Crush my soul into a note
Turn my neurones into numbers
I want to live forever

DESIGNER
Alf believes that design is a key paradigm for understanding and improving our lives. He believes it can be applied to any problem. This is being more and more acknowledged in society. At RMIT, Alf studied sustainability and eco-redesign, where he developed his local philosophy of society and even products.

He designed a new type of air-conditioner which localised air distribution. At Swinburne two years later, he designed a lantern, promoting the prosthetic light, rather than a full room fixed light as a more sustainable paradigm. As for the ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme), Alf jokes, "dump the ETS, go to bed when the sun goes down."

Alf's design and prototype for a palpatory simulator robot to help train midwifery students in Abdominal Palpation. Alf had to learn abdominal palpation, in order to understand abdominal palpation and the
positions, possibilities of presentation of a mid term fetus. The skills demonstrate, complex problem solving, organic sculptural modelling, robotics, complex cad, assembly and part drawings for manufacture. This was Commonwealth funded research (CAUT grant) and was achieved in his second year of Industrial Design at RMIT, with a full course load, while doing another project, for RMIT Asset Management.

Alf resolves complex designs. The robot was designed in the second year of his Industrial design course. In his furniture technology course Alf demonstrated his problem solving skills from concept models and Cad to writing G-Code programs to cut out his design using a CNC (computer numerical control machine).

TEACHING

Alf has taught in many contexts, at many schools, in Sydney, Melbourne and the UK.
His teaching philosophy is applied to the real world and contexts, customised to the student's personal interests.

Alf has been in many leadership roles and taught many subjects. But his core has always been Design and Technology, Graphics and Art, for which he trained. He has also tutored and lectured at university. In one school in 2006, he demonstrated both his ability and the exploitation of teachers in Victorian schools. Just one of these tasks, such as the school yearbook, saved the school over $10,000. At St Albans Secondary, in one year, he did these activities on top of his teaching load:

1. PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR, SASC
Coordinated, created policy, collated, promoted, designed and published Alba
and Special editions on request, odd graphics for other publications, publicity brochures for
promotions overseas and CD cover for 50th Anniversary CD
Created an interactive online version of the Alba school newsletter.
Planning, policy, organisation, promoting student involvement in School Magazine (yearbook),
organising quotes and deadlines. Designed and Implemented Yearbook.
2. JUNIOR SCHOOL COORDINATOR, SASC,
> Student Academic, Social Monitoring and Correction
> Rolls
> Report collation and checking
3. JUNIOR/INTERMEDIATE GIRLS + BOYS BADMINTON, July-September, SASC
> Helped with training, supervising and coaching teams, helped manage excursions
4. DEVELOPED PROGRAMS
A. YEAR 7 GRAPHICS
B. YEAR 9 MULTIMEDIA ART & DESIGN
C. YEAR 10 PHOTOGRAPHY,
D. YEAR 8 ACCELERATED PROGRAMS IN MULTIMEDIA, SASC
5. JUNIOR TABLE TENNIS, August-September, SASC
Training Support at lunchtimes
6. TOOK A PRACTICUM STUDENT, June, SASC
> Mentored, supervised, encouraged, guided and evaluated
> Demonstrated basic teaching/learning strategies and classroom management
7. CREATED BANNERS WITH STUDENTS FOR FURLONG-MAIN GAMES, March, SASC
> Used the thematic integration strategy associated with the Commonwealth Games to
organise learning
8. PLAYED IN THE TEACHER-STUDENT FUTSAL, SASC,
March to June
> Was playing to keep fit and have fun, but injured my knee quite seriously in the process.
10. SETTING UP THE GRAPHICS, MAD AND PHOTOGRAPHY AREA, SASC,
January to August
Setting up the graphics area was a great challenge. The place was a complete mess. Work
was left all over the place, there was no system and resources were not working when I first
came. Getting it under control followed these stages:
A. Courses basic plans and Activities
B. Resourcing and getting resources to work
C. Creating a positive learning environment
11. HELPING WITH THE ATHLETICS, SASC, August 23
> Helped organise students
> Coached individuals in running, high jump
> Marshalled relays/supervision
> Photography for the day
13. COORDINATING “GRAPHICS” (Multimedia Art & Design, Photography electives),
SASC, January to December
> Course plan
> Resourcing
> Room development
> Room maintenance
> Computer maintenance

FAMILY

Alf's immediate family in 2008

He comes from an interesting family. Alf was named after his dad Alfred Hickey. His father was born in Parkville, and after his grandmother's death, was then swapped between relatives, in Ballarat and Pascoe Vale. Uncle Andy owned and ran the historic Magnet Bakery in Ballarat, where the current McDonalds is today. He also raced greyhounds, naming them after different pastries, like dropscone and crumpet. He collected leeches for the Ballarat hospital for burns victims and walked the dogs around Lake Wendoree. His aunt sponsored the building of a ward at the hospital.

Being an orphan, he duced Uni High and became a pioneer in Art and Design in Melbourne and gospel work in the Middle East, after mystical encounters with God. Real places would be shown him, which later appeared real, as he went there. After doing an apprenticeship in Advertising with Maxwell Goswinkle and studying under Alan Sumner at National Gallery Art School, he then went to London where he studied theology at London Bible College and studied at London printing school, all while being an art director at Ben Brothers and manager in advertising.

There is little doubt in the Hickey's mind about the reality of God and Jesus from personal experiences. In India he ran two advertising agencies, Grafika and Alfred Allan, which still runs today.

See: Alfred Allan Advertising

Starting the first advertising agency in Afghanistan "Dilkesh," Alf's father designed the corporate image Ariana Afghan Airlines (a subsidiary of Pan America) which is still used today.

Many stamps from the 60s in Afghanistan, were designed by Fred Hickey, including one which contained real gold. Speaking fluent Dari, he was able to communicate with the people and was friends with the king Zahir Khan, teaching the king's children art and playing tennis with the king's son. He observed the politics and working with US AID, as a communications person, he was party to many of the nations secrets as the Americans developed the south and the Russians developed the north of the country. He was part of the first church in Afghanistan, whose building upon completion was demolished the day after. The government coincidentally fell and the people understood this to be judgment associated with demolishing the building, this for Christians, in what was still then, a strongly Islamic country.


FOREIGN POLICY
He explained to the late Senator George Georges, who was one of his relatives, that Afghanistan was not invaded by Russia, a lie which saw Australia boycott an Olympic games in Moscow. After hearing his father's evidence, George admitted, that the government had made a mistake. The newspapers would not publish his evidence.

When doing a PhD at Sydney University, Alf explained, after September 11, that the US had no legitimate reason to invade Iraq. About Afghanistan, that Bin Laden was a CIA operative, which was public knowledge.

See: Bin Laden's CIA Roots

Dad watched silly Australian reporters, call "Mujaheddin" Afghan freedom fighters, when they clearly were Pakistani and other foreigners. People in Australia and the US, were so angered and emotional, that reason was thrown out the window.

Alf was called a "dickhead terrorist." He explained that "the truth will come out about Iraq," which it has recently, that the war in Iraq was based on a lie. Alf also advised some Australian officers, that Australia probably should not have helped invade Afghanistan. As with any tribal people they remember wrongs for thousands of years and they are suspicious of foreigners. Australia which was somewhat neutral, has become so associated with the US, that we can be targeted as Americans now.

Alf says: people like Andrew Wilkie and the Wikileaks guy should be honoured, because,
"Australians don't want blood of innocent people on their hands, or our consciences, because of the lies of our leaders. We would eventually pay for it. National hatreds can be hard to heal. We need to learn from our mistakes." Alf says, despite the false motives for going to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Australians have learned, as have the Americans, to help the people, and develop, not oppress or destroy them. It may be too late though, for such healing.

Fred Hickey's Corporate Image of Ariana Afghan Airlines from the 60s

Promotion for Ariana Afghan Airlines

Alf has a talented mother who won the Shankar art award for her age group as a teenager. As a teacher of over 30 years, her art students have won many art competitions in Melbourne.

See: Shankar International Children's Competition

One of Alf's sisters, is a star ballerina at the local Ballet school, almost completing her Cecchetti certificate. The other is the general manager of a company.

STORIES FROM PASCOE VALE

RACISM ALIVE AND WELL IN PASCOE VALE

I was at Coburg railway station putting up signs and handing out material. I sat down to have a drink and a kid about 18 or 19, was ripping up and pulling down my signs. He was shouting, "I wanta kill this fucking Arab- Hickey," I was sitting down, laughing in the background. I then went up to him and explained, "my name is Alf Hickey, how are you doing, last time I checked, Hickey is an Irish name." All his friends cracked up laughing.

When handing out literature, I noticed that "Anglo men," tended to reject it, while women and people with seemingly non-Anglo heritage accepted it. I had gone to a church once in Coburg, where there was a distinctly anti-Arab feeling.

A few weeks ago, an anti-racism rap group called "Arab," played at The Brunswick Town Hall, their performance was incredible with spontaneous creation of poetry/rap with random words given by the audience.

THE LYING PRIEST

Was handing out literature in a Catholic church car park. The local Catholic priest came up to me and said, "I do not allow political advertising on this church property." He then threatened to call the police and said, "this property is mine."

I explained to him then, that the land is God's, not his.  I then reminded him about Peter Kavanagh's DLP promotional literature, which He had placed on the entrance table to the church. Parishoners in the car park were quietly amused. I said, "sorry if I offended you."

POLICE & TRAFFIC CAMERA REVENUE

Was at Preston Maccas at 2 or 3 in the morning during the campaign. I asked the police about their attitude to traffic cameras. They explained that they understood them to be for revenue raising. One constable explained, that it might be better, if they knew what the money was being spent on. He said police hate speed cameras, "we think they do nothing to prevent speeding."  I made and put up a few signs around the area after they told me this emphasising "Let's end traffic camera revenue raising."Probably should have added, "parking revenue raising."

After the police explained that they understood traffic cameras to be revenue raising,
I put some of these signs up around Pascoe Vale.

The police explained how they were understaffed. That in one night there are only two police officers on duty in any one district. This contrasts to previous decades when I was a kid, where there were two police stations on Bell St alone. They explained how response is coordinated in major incidents. Several people in the Pascoe Vale district were complaining about police issues and response times.

See: Top cop warned to ignore faulty cameras for revenue
See: Carr.org on cameras
See: Police agree speed cameras are for revenue raising

ON RED HEADS

Was competing with Christine Campbell in Pascoe Vale for votes. She made a comment about the superiority and coming of red heads, I responded, "Red heads are so successful, that they almost create a double dissolution (DD) in Parliament." She didn't get it. I explained that Julia Gillard, our red headed prime minister, may create a double dissolution in parliament. 

Christine Campbell and he father at a school in North Coburg.
My father manned the booth for an hour or so at Pascoe Vale Primary.

A double dissolusion is where both houses of a parliament are dissolved and a new election is held, because the parliament does not function. There has been talk, that there will be a DD in federal parliament under Julia Gillard. There is a strong possibility that Victorian parliament will not function, if the parliament is hung.

See: Rangaism isn't racism
See: Seeing red over Ranga Clangers
See: Melbourne redheads see red on climate

ALF HICKEY "EDUCATION REFORMER- WHISTLEBLOWER."

FOR THREE YEARS I HAVE BEEN FIGHTING A CORRUPT, BILLION DOLLAR DEECD ALONE
I think I have demonstrated sufficient guts, to take on politicians in Parliament and make Parliament accountable for us people. 

Alf Angelo Hickey. The guts to improve Education in Victoria and make the Education Department accountable through basic common sense vs their beaurocratic baloney.

I thought the ABC represented balanced and insightful reporting. I never thought that the ABC would lower itself, to acknowledge the sensationalist rubbish which comes out of the Herald Sun. Anyway, they mention that I was dubbed "hoon teacher." Just remember I also called Andrew Bolt a "hoon mouth" too, such imbalanced reporting from you guys, tut tut !
I refuse to accept media and state bullying by the multi billion dollar DEECD and VIT. I will stand up for what is right and true !



BULLYING ENDEMIC IN THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
In 2007 I was bullied with aggressive vague slander and allegations, after defending a teacher who was herself bullied. I have been fighting this group of principals, ever since and the corrupt education department who supports them. This began with a principal, Tony Jacobs at Vermont Secondary College, who until May 23, 2007, said that I would be given a permanent position promised me in my job interview. Before May 23, he said I was an excellent teacher, then he backflipped.


Let's have a look at Tony Jacob's recent deceit:

Schools Cheating on Naplan Tests (Age)
Schools ask Struggling kids to avoid Naplan (Herald Sun)

In my experience, the school hid its failures by bullying the source that revealed them, or the person who is struggling. This school, from my first hand experience, actively tried to remove students of certain ethnicities from the school. One coordinator said, "we move students like that, on to more appropriate contexts." The administrative speak for racism today. 


Any photos from 2007, will show a primarily Anglo group of staff and students. Harry Ruff another principal, reinforced an inbred school mentality saying "...many teachers send their own kids there." This sort of nepotism and mentality is not on in Victorian schools. 


UNQUALIFIED STAFF
I had complained in a meeting on May 23, that Vermont was employing unqualified teachers to teach woodwork. I observed teachers allowing students to use heavy power tools, without identifying serious mistakes, like using a disk sander on the wrong side of the wheel.

See: Over 50% of schools with unqualified staff
See: Cheap Unqualified teachers in UK
See: 500% Increase in unqualified staff under Labor

My supervisor there said, that he had observed my incumbent let a student use a Mig welder without eye or hand protection. This is the sort of risk, which some principals are unleashing on our students. The reason was revealed at a VIT hearing. Rod Williamson said, "we thought it would be best to place woodwork in the art curriculum." At VIT, this "principal" wasn't even aware of my qualifications and expertise. 

When I taught at Pascoe Vale Girls College, Helen Jackson (Victorias longest serving teacher/principal) was honoured by students as a progressive, encouraging students to do "rap."

EXTREME INEPTITUDE
I knew there was a major problem at Vermont, when a student using a power tool and I were showered with glass while working in a class.  A ball hit a window. A principal who was supposed to be supervising an activity, had just left students wandering the school to mess around.


I wanted to get a report on this for VIT and VCAT. This was denied me. I reported this to DEECD and it seems my complaint was ignored. I was not able to get any information from the school. When I requested it, they said, "you don't work for DEECD anymore." It just further highlights a corrupt education system which hides its error, rather than make principals accountable. I realised there are few mechanisms to keep principals and DEECD/VIT truly accountable. The DATA from the Auditor General's Office, while it has revealed the failure of Labor's billion dollar education blueprint, cannot police the great ineptitude of principals like Tony Jacobs and Rod Williamson. 
I will bring accountability back to Education in Victoria if I am elected in. I wont target teachers. I will make DEECD do its job, so lost in its beaurocatic mess.

PASCOE VALE LOCALS ANGRY

I was at a local supermarket yesterday and bumped into a local student from the past, who is now a manager. She studied in my form at the school. She explained how a principal at Pascoe Vale Girls College, tried to bully her sister out of the school. It just so happened, that this principal also bullied me at the school. It's not Helen Jackson either, despite the school's excessive Christmas parties.

This principal authorised, that all my student's work be thrown out, several weeks before the end of term. Fortunately I had documented all the work and the class. The students were angry. When I asked where the work was, I discovered much of it had been thrown out. She said, the room was left in a mess. Fortunately I had photos of the class, as I had been recording the progress of the work as is my habit, the room had not been in a mess. She was lying and bullying me, by trying to destroy my student's work and undermining my effectiveness with the class. This has happened before too. The reason they do it, I believe, is that you outshine their political supporters in the school. I have hundred's of examples of this in my own teaching experience.  
I will tackle workplace bullying in schools created by Labor's beaurocracy. This detracts from care and teaching students. 

See $70,000 on School Christmas Parties

Students always had a great regard for Helen Jackson as "progressive," believe it or not. Students explained, how she took a poetry class one day and actually asked the kids to make a rap. They appreciated Julie Atkinson as someone who really cared for student's welfare.

CORRUPT EDUCATION & CHRISTINE CAMPBELL'S INEPTITUDE

My own case reveals the serious corruption in Victorian Education.
I am labelled a hoon, without evidence by people, who are not qualified to make those judgments. I asked Christine Campbell, my local MP, to support me this year, she ignored my requests. Our rights and values are being crushed by Labor.
As I explained before, in 2007, after defending a woman bullied in a school for her faith, I was then bullied by principals and denied a position promised to me. When I complained, false allegations were made against me. One of these principals, was exposed in the media this year by parents. He claimed that students had disability at his school, which they didn’t, to hide poor school performance in school tables. 

The Education Department and VIT (Victorian Institute of Teaching) has not brought him to account.  I went to Parliament myself, to fight manipulative amendments to the ETR ACT 2006 legislation, which enables such corruption in the Victorian Education system. I found that parliament, at times to be out of touch with educational realities. What is worse, I discovered that MPs sometimes vote without knowing what they are voting for. The bain of party politics. 
I am fighting for fairness and for truly safer workplaces in Parliament. I will stress that legislation protects the underdog, not just powerful bullies like principals.I aim to end the culture of weak workers unions with managers who create unions like VASSP and other pressure groups which have failed to raise standards in schools.

BILLIONS OF OUR DOLLARS FOR LOWER LITERACY & NUMERACY
“More teachers” and schools, will not solve the issues in Education. Despite The Australian Labor’s Party’s billion dollar initiatives, the Auditor General’s reports, shows literacy and numeracy are in drammatic decline at most levels, except early years, but even then the improvements are not sustained after this.
See Literacy, Numeracy, Science, School Safety down despite high teacher to student ratios
See Auditor General's Statement

The truth is crushed by an Education Department (DEECD), with little accountability from government, despite the public uproar about the problems. 
I will bring accountability back to an Education Department, which inundates teachers with so much unnecessary paperwork and stress, that teachers can hardly focus on the students anymore. I will oppose the VIT, an expensive white elephant, funded by the public and “teacher tax,” which claims to regulate teachers, when it’s the Education Department which needs the regulation. This is an accountability which Labor fails to provide.

HICKEY HOON TEACHER OR HERO TEACHER WITH INTEGRITY ?

At Pascoe Vale Girls College, my students didn't just get plans and build something. They actually designed a fussball table as a group, detailed the design and manufactured it, in smaller teams, who competed to complete it first. I turned the class into a microcosm of Industry and situated the work in the current World Cup, to make the course relevant.

Student work in my classes at Vermont in 2007, where it is falsely claimed I couldn't cope because of anxiety and stress. I became anxious and suicidally depressed after an intense barrage of bullying by principals who threatened, blackmailed and lied against me. The students had already submitted the semester assessment work which had been assessed prior to me leaving the school, to protect myself from the bullying.

SUPPOSEDLY UNFIT TO TEACH DUE TO ANXIETY

The summary of the determination at VIT. November 20, 2010.  
As a graduate teacher, the school is supposed to modify work, to the level or needs of the teacher, by the VGSA agreement active at the time. Problem is there is no evidence of failures and there is evidence of a lot of abuse of process. It also makes any principal actions illegal and inappropriate management actions. 

I understand that the VIT is a body, designed to enable the institutional bullying of teachers by principals. Patrick McGorry, Australian of the year, explained in the Maurice Blackburn Oration at Moreland Town Hall, that claims like this VIT statement about me (unfit because of anxiety/stress), is discriminatory and can be likened to apartheid. 


But this state sanctioned bullying and "apartheid" is normal in Victorian Education and is institutionalised by the VIT. The VIT lacks insight regarding the law and the fact that the "management decisions" of the principals were illegal by the VGSA 2004 (Victorian Government School Agreement ). The principal's actions against me are discriminatory and broke all the responsibilities and duty of care, of a principal toward a teacher. VIT lacked the insight to see what was obvious.


The school's own OH&S policy was broken in actions towards me. 
Despite incredible successes with the students at Vermont in 2007, with the bullying from principals. The anxiety and as you will see, the allegations, were a lie. The bullying is of an extreme form, abusing state systems and making up statements that I did not make; it must shock Victoria, that public funds are misused this way. But the Labor Government has just given VIT almost unlimited power against a teacher. 

Government enables, through its instruments of Institutional bullying, DEECD (The Department of Education) and VIT (Victorian Institute of Teaching), who steal public and teacher money, to do something better done by the police or AFP.
VIT is a white elephant. As The King report showed, it failed to improve the profile of teaching in Victoria. And my case demonstrates that it lacks the ability to regulate as well.


The journalists who slandered me, need to be reigned in by someone with responsibility. After Andrew Bolt got involved, I just called him a "hoon mouth, who imagines he's driving a Ferrari on his tricycle." He is far from being a responsible journalist. Hoon mouth Bolt !!

WHISTLEBLOWER
Being a whistleblower about state corruption, I am protected by the Whistleblower Act , to reveal such things publicly, including the names of the corrupt elements. I did make disclosures to DEECD Conduct and Ethics, VIT and principals. These were disgregarded. This is why I make public presentations, because of the extreme injustice. As a whistleblower, prior to the actions of the principals, I am also protected from persecution. This did not stop the aggressive bullying and targeting of me by the principals.

TORTURED FOR STANDING UP FOR PEOPLE
The lady I defended, was bullied by staff for her faith. I was then bullied by three principals intensely for the next few months. This continued to DEECD (Education Department) and VIT (Victorian Institute of Teaching), without adequate recourse. This included backing down, on a position promised me, despite clear evidence of outcomes, assessments and good teaching, all while supporting the school community strongly and taking extra-curricula sport, which I was encouraged to take. I am a qualified designer and offer advanced skills to students. Here is some work I did voluntarily after the Kinglake Bushfires:

Voluntary design of this booklet cover and making a large sign
for The Kinglake Anzac Dawn Service

LABOR & CHRISTINE CAMPBELL FAILED TO ACT ON THIS INJUSTICE

Students make receipt stakes for their parents. I tried to contextualise projects like this, calling it, "Tax Time." The design is painted in the parent's football team colors and or favourite colors and is framed as a gift for father's/mother's day or their birthday. 

The government has supported this torture against a local Pascoe Vale person and Christine Campbell refused to act, supporting the injustice and shirking her Ministerial responsibility to help a local. I have been committed to the community in Pascoe Vale, since I was a kid. What is worse, Christine Campbell's failure to take up my cause in parliament, might be parliamentary misconduct. Bronwyn Pike (Education Minister) has also shirked her responsibility to act. When I actually sat in parliament, two people described Bronwyn Pike, as a really poor Parliamentary performer.

I have supported the elderly and others in Oak Park since I was a kid and am approved by an ex-Mayor/Veteran/Justice of the peace/Principal, the late Dave Bucknell, who recommended me and gave me references to do teaching. Despite incredible accomplishments in schools, I am treated like garbage. I think Victorians and people in Pascoe Vale are sick of being bullied by this dud government and want their better teachers to teach their kids. It becomes increasingly clear that principals do not have the judgment necessary to employ teachers.

I developed courses and online learning materials at Pascoe vale Girls College. I Taught students ahow to create a dress up doll using their own elements, scripting in HTML, Photoshop and some separately in Flash. 

I WAS ACCUSED OF ILLEGITIMATE ALLEGATIONS WITHOUT EVIDENCE:

1. Falsified minutes said, "I take speed to stay awake."
2. Being late (when the school record showed otherwise)
3. On a camp, the evidence shows that I was probably on time. No one rang to see if I was lost or not, I made every attempt to contact the camp that I was lost at Phillip Island, but it seems by the evidence that i was actually there on time.
4. Dangerous driving, when the evidence shows that I was tailgated by as school bus and that there is no true evidence of dangerous driving at the school at all.

The student that accused me of swearing at him, threatened me consistently and manufactured false allegations against me. This is his table. I had sourced free materials to recycle from a company, for him to make it. It showed that I achieved with extremely challenging students despite the bullying and lack of support from principals. 

5. Swearing at a student, when the context was that a student had given me death threats, which was revealed at all hearings. I told the student, that if he spoke like that at Tafe, where he told me he wanted to study, "they'd tell him to fuck off." It's what they do ! 
It's worse in the Army, where I was a reservist for about 5 years. Principal Harry Ruff admitted that he did not take an incident report from me (against school policy), yet raises the allegations from this student who had previously given me death threats, in line with another violent student at the school. I did write one, this was suppressed by the school. Isn't it obvious by action and omission they were bullying me.

I taught students like this girl at Vermont Secondary
how to design an innovative jewellery stand.

I created these posters to encourage female students to take up design
 

7. Not supervising students, when all evidence shows that I supported students, that any other claims could not be made, by common sense.
One of these involved being sick in a toilet emergency, where I secured supervision and then. Another example from class was brought up, but when a map of the class is shown, as I did, I was actually supervising better, by being in the back room. The principals lied.
A coordinator admits at VIT, that he let a student return to camp unsupervised, and I was then blamed for this with a serious allegation.

8. Allowing students to sit and stand on tables. There is no clear reason for why you can't, as long as a risk assessment is made (Worksafe). And in this school, I was the most qualified at the school to make it. Despite letting a kid stand on a table oncee. I stopped when I was told not to, then this was raised as a serious allegation and I was dubbed as "bizarre" by Stephen Drill of The Herald Sun." 
At VIT, I showed a photo from a principal who authorised an image image for the school website, where a student is sitting on a computer table. This principal, Sandra Woodman then taught at Vermont. In my VIT portfolio, I had an image of a student standing on a table to do work. It was approved and not raised as an issue by any one, including Tony Jacobs who saw it.

Banner start of Blackburn High School Secondary College, shows student sitting on a computer table, approved by Principal Sandra Woodman, who then became a principal at Vermont Secondary College. She was doing research in 2007 while I was there.

9. While I support transparent communications between students of all ages, teachers and others as is normal on the internet, as long as parents are part of this. VIT had the wisdom to rule that, there was no investigation or valid evidence that I had tried to contact students on facebook and even then it is questionable if this would be bad, eg. educational reasons. Stephen Drill is a journalist hell bent on implicating teachers who help students after school. He needs to be challenged. I argue that teachers as well as parents need to engage more with students online. It may prevent situations like the My Space suicides.
10. I was accused of not doing assessments. I had done all the assessments in my journal which I presented at VIT and VCAT. I was on leave, to protect myself from the principal's bullying. The school refused to pay for my leave, where I was also looking for other work and doing some odd jobs for a local night club for the cost of materials. The school refused to pay for my sick leave and I had to pay rent at my Docklands apartment. All these actions of the school manager are in breach of law.

11. It was claimed that I did not tell the daily organiser that I was not going to be away on leave, yet this is not true and the record at the school, it seems agrees with me. Principal Rod Williamson admitted that I had rung in explaining the extreme effect of his and Tony Jacob's bullying was doing to me.

MySpace Suicides


ILLEGAL BULLYING PROMOTED BY THIS LABOR GOVERNMENT
The  bullying I experienced and its effects, are described as torture by the UN, especially when these are justified by state authorities. Such institutional bullying is also what is described as sham peer review by Holland and Hart, a legal firm who often sees this in Parliament.

See: Holland and Hart- Sham Peer Review

The extreme nature of the bullying warrants criminal charges. Yet when I asked my local member Christine Campbell, to support me, she refused. I had to take my cause to Parliament and fight parts of the legislation which enables such bullying. The ETR ACT 2006 !

INDEPENDENTS ARE NOW

A LEADER MADE FOR PASCOE VALE

Cultural diversity at Senior Boys Hostel, at Woodstock International School Mussoorie.

Pascoe Vale has been Alf Hickey's home for most of his life. He loves the cultural diversity and potential in the area. He has studied at Woodstock boarding school in India, for two years, taught in England for a year and lived, worked and studied in Sydney for 5 years. In India he was elected into hiking, house, sport and re-forestry leadership at school in this multi-ethnic community from all over the world. At RMIT, Alf was elected student leader in all courses and secretary of the basketaball club for several years.

Alf says, "there should be no such thing as a 'safe seat' in Victoria.

If the local population is struggling with the basics, and billions are wasted, change the Government and keep Parliament accountable."
Alf wants to transfer his skills as a designer and innovative thinker, to tackle problems in the community.


He believes that grassroots, local solutions, will solve the big issues in Pascoe Vale like: affordability, “dorm suburbia” and general social decline. Alf’s real stories from Pascoe Vale are shocking. In the last year he started a strategy, to connect local business with locals to improve business and jobs.

Alf's slogan, "serving people not a party," captures his grassroots philosphy.

Alf says, "we need to invest in people rather than oppress them. People are feeling boxed in. We can improve affordability, reduce debt and foster friendship by investing in friendship, rather than 'just buildings.' "  We can transform the local community.

Alf's Black and White Campaign, contrasts expensive glossy party adverts.

Alf says, “Independents are our Future.” Pascoe Vale wants to end the “Liberal Saves-Labor Spends” rigmarole.
Independents reduce the politics and make it, “REAL NEEDS MET.”
Alf says, “The data is clear, that in almost all areas Labor has failed. It's well known that Labor spent over a billion dollars in advertising, to seemingly gloss over a dud government. The Liberals, let them do it."

Alf wants to stop this abuse of power. Alf wants to stimulate local innovation, which naturally develops industry, jobs, economy, local and national competitiveness. Alf says, by facilitating local opportunities,and acting local, be that in your own house, issues like grid lock, packed public transport and energy waste/pollution, can naturally be eliminated.

This is a local INDEPENDENT strategy, not one imposed by a political party. 
He says, "A healthy global community emerges from bottom up, not just top down. If the roots are sick, the whole planet will suffer."