вЂњWe must be always alert to the misuse of power,вЂќ warned Tony Harris, former NSW Auditor-General, in an ABC interview after Ms Berejiklian resigned. The federal governmentвЂ™s exploitation of taxpayersвЂ™ money for political party purposes has blown out into the billions and the government now boasts about the Treasury being looted. ThatвЂ™s effectively what Ms Berejiklian said in 2020 when caught with her fingers in the shredder and what Finance Minister Simon Birmingham did three months ago defending #carpork. Political corruption has evolved to the extent of politicians claiming it doesnвЂ™t matter, that voters expect it, too bad. Now we have the potential to lift standards again вЂ“ if ICAC isnвЂ™t nobbled вЂ“ after they have fallen over the past three years. It is the threat of ICAC, as much as what it actually does, that has enabled progress. ICAC (and the Wood Royal Commission, substantially instigated by independent MP John Hatton) dragged NSW out of the sewer, lifting standards and cleaning out much of the corruption from both sides of politics. It took Nick Greiner as Premier to make the big leap of establishing ICAC, and an ICAC with teeth at that.ДЄlthough Mr Greiner was damaged by ICAC вЂ“ and subsequently cleared вЂ“ he has continued to defend it from its detractors. We can fall as well as rise.ДЇrom AskinвЂ™s days of cash bundles, NSW moved to Neville Wran who, at best, turned a blind eye to obvious corruption. We urgently need it as corruption also evolves. What is publicly known about the several million dollars given to WaggaвЂ™s Australian Clay Target Association has been best summarised by the ABCвЂ™s Paul Farrell.ДЇrom that and the ICAC media release, we can safely expect the public hearings and the commissionвЂ™s findings will explore what precisely is the nature of вЂњpublic trustвЂќ that may or may not have been breached by Ms Berejiklian. Such ignorance hasnвЂ™t stopped all manner of people voicing strong opinions for and against Ms Berejiklian, and for and against ICAC. All of the opinion pieces written since Friday are in ignorance of what ICAC knows about the вЂDaz and GladвЂ™ affair. I want to be clear here that this, like all the myriad opinion pieces rushed into print and broadcast since Friday, is written in ignorance of what ICAC knows about the вЂњDaz and GladвЂќ affair, of exactly what led the commission to issue its Friday media release. If anything, the Commonwealth government should be held to higher standards than the states. Ms BerejiklianвЂ™s critics вЂ“ and the disinterested вЂ“ can agree it is unfair, but to Australian citizens, not to Ms Berejiklian. Ms BerejiklianвЂ™s defenders can claim it is unfair for her to be expected to resign from a state Coalition government when the federal Coalition government welcomes onto its benches a politician who has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors he either canвЂ™t or wonвЂ™t name, when the federal CoalitionвЂ™s plundering of taxpayersвЂ™ funds has been at least as flagrant as the matters being investigated by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption and on a vastly larger scale. The disparity between what is expected of federal and state politicians is driving the rise of independents. The disparity between what is expected of New South Wales politicians and what federal politicians flaunt, is one of the three core issues driving the rise of the independentsвЂ™ movement towards the next election. The concept map provided here is tied to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).The journey from Sir Robert Askin to Gladys Berejiklian represents a tide in the affairs of politics that is gaining momentum.ДЇor the moment, the flood is crashing up against a resolute wall shielding the Morrison governmentвЂ™s lack of integrity and its unprecedented exploitation of public money for the benefit of the Liberal and National parties вЂ“ but that wall canвЂ™t last. It constitutes a unifying explanatory framework that can generate a powerful affective commitment to the subject. Biological evolution is a compelling account of life on Earth and of human origins. We present a concept map that organizes concepts of history of life and the processes that generate it, and the hierarchical relationships among them. Concept maps are useful tools in meaningful learning. Meaningful learning of evolution requires (1) that the students incorporate new knowledge into a cognitive structure linked with higher-order concepts (2) a well-organized knowledge structure and (3) a positive emotional attachment and identification (affective commitment) to the subject by the learner. Is it possible to teach biology without mentioning evolution? The answer is yes, but it is not possible for students to understand biology without the evolutionary context on which the meaning and intellectual value of biological concepts depend.

Evolution concept map