Here we go again... in the Sydney Morning Herald : A new skirmish in the reading wars: Teachers take on the department by Jordan Baker https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/a-new-skirmish-in-the-reading-wars-teachers-take-on-the-department-20180726-p4zts6.html?csp=27ba7d7bc35cbf18c10e37b6dd538b3c

... me to argue for the proposition. The against team will be headed up by Robyn Ewing. The proposition is -- Phonics in context is NOT enough: Synthetic phonics and learning ...

... Australian Association for Education in Research (AARE) Blog, Professor Robyn Ewing of the University of Sydney asserts that there are "seven things teachers agree ...

... took over the Presidency in the early 2000’s. Current President is Robyn Ewing, also a devotee of Whole Language and Social Justice.. All these Presidents are/were ...

Just found out that Prof. Pamela Snow mentioned the David Hornsby 'phonics' publication in an earlier Snow Report post:

Santa Claus, Homeopathy, and Phonics: Where's the link?
http://pamelasnow.blogspot.co.uk/2015/0 ... onics.html

David Hornsby, one of the authors of this paper: The Place of Phonics in Learning to Read and Write http://www.alea.edu.au/documents/item/773/, added to the comments section: English spelling is more influenced by morphemes than phonemes, which is one of its strengths. For example, when we understan...

... to Professor Pamela Snow's excellent response to a post by Professor Robyn Ewing and the best way to do this is to provide a link to the thread started by Susan Godsland ...

... member of IFERI's Advisory Group, writes a full response to Professor Robyn Ewing's piece via Pamela's own blog: Reading is a verb. Literacy is not. April 30th 2016 http://pamelasnow.blogspot.co.uk/ ...

... teaching simple reading skills: it can’t be done in five easy steps By Robyn Ewing ''Robyn Ewing is Professor of Teacher Education and the Arts at the University of Sydney. ...