The FLN Recipe Book
| There is a tradition at Fitzroy
Learning Network that has been ongoing for many years, the
Community lunch. It is a time to relax, share food and conversation
with all involved at the network, students, staff and volunteers.
As a celebration of our cultural diversity we have collected
some of the recipes that have been shared and would like to
share them with you.
The Fitzroy Learning Network Recipe Book “Tastes
from Home” is now available. For just $12.95 you can
have your own copy to share the stories of the network while
you try your hand at the delicious recipes in the book.
Please download our order
form and send it into admin@fitzroylearningnetwork.org.au
Should you have any enquiries, do not hesitate to call us
on 9417 2897.
All funds raised from the Recipe Book will go toward our
Programs for Refugee Support at the FLN.
Thank you for your help.
A Story of Natural Numbers by David Demant
Let's introduce you to the amazing natural numbers-meet 0,1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. You will have already met them.
Without them your life would be very different. You wouldn't
be able to tell the time, send a letter or use a telephone.
Imagine-no computers, no TVs and no birthdays. But there was
a time when they didn't exist. Natural numbers have a long
and fascinating history. Whet your appetite for numbers by
reading A Story of Natural Numbers, which will grip
you all the way from mysterious zero to the wonderful nine.
Reviews
This new book is a brilliant starting point for any number
of investigations and discoveries about numbers… good
maths teachers will just want to carry it round from classroom
to classroom with them, using it as the basis for any number
of challenging lessons.
— Garry Chapman, Director of Curriculum (Middle Years),
Ivanhoe Grammar School
I have recurring nightmares about long division, which
is why I opened this book with some trepidation. What a
surprise. The way David Demant talks about numbers you learn
something without even trying. He begins by looking at natural
numbers, the ones we use to count and label things: everything
from how many people are at the footy to the numbers on
a raffle ticket… You’ll find hundreds of interesting
facts such as animals recognize two, three, four and even
five items, but have difficulty recognizing more. And the
difference between mathematics, arithmetic and geometry.
— The Sunday Age
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Fitzroy 2010 Pub Crawl Calender
Ever wondered where the best pubs in Fitzroy are? For $15 you won't have to think about it again. Just flip the page on your new calender and you'll know exactly where to go each month of 2010. Most pubs featured will be selling the calendar. You can’t see which ones are featured yet... You will have to try and find them by sampling drinks around Fitzroy. If you can’t find them, the Napier Hotel just down the street from the Network are selling them. All proceeds from sales will go to the Fitzroy Learning Network.
Grab a sneak preview of the calender here.
The Pacific Solution by Susan Metcalfe
The Australian Government said frankly, ‘we don’t want to accept you, you are never going to get accepted’. On the other hand, it wasn’t safe for us to go back home as well. It’s like you are in space, disconnected from the earth and the sky, uncertain of having a future.
Between 2001 and 2008, Australia detained a total of 1,637 asylum-seekers in offshore camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. This Pacific Solution policy caused undeniable damage to vulnerable people seeking sanctuary in Australia.
An Amnesty International representative described the Pacific camps as ‘a kind of Dante-like scenario or Fellini-like scenario where you have a lot of people who are just milling around, dressed up with nowhere to go, just waiting’. The camps became breeding grounds for relentless anxieties and severe depressions. Some people took medication, others turned to alcohol, hunger strikes and self-harm – measures of last resort for those without hope.
In The Pacific Solution, Susan Metcalfe brings together accounts of her own visits to Nauru, extensive interviews conducted with refugees and advocates, media reports, long-distance correspondence and new research. Going beyond labels of ‘illegals’ and ‘queue-jumpers’, she engages with the stories of people who, after years of exile in Pacific countries, are now our neighbours, workmates and friends, and for whom Australia is now home.
How, she asks, can we justify what we have done?
We are challenged to ensure that the political policy that underpinned such trauma remains dead and buried forever.
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