No, I haven’t started playing rugby. I’m suggesting that Tim Wilson can go to hell for reasons which have nothing to do with his personal life. Nor am I asserting my religious freedom by judging others.
Although that does beg the question that if I actually suggested he was going hell
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Why did an ordinary citizen take a One Nation senator to court over his breach of Section 44? To prove that no politician is above the law.
The post
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Donald Trump and his typing fingers are in trouble again (as they are pretty much every day) for telling “the Squad” of Democrat Congresswomen to “go back where they come from”. This was deemed to be deeply racist (the hashtag #RacistInChief is currently trending) as well as inaccurate, as three of
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The Queensland treaty process is still in the early stages and negotiations will not begin for several years. But it’s still a historic step forward for Indigenous communities. Tracey Nearmy/AAP
Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad has announced that the state will begin a conversation about a pathway to treaty with Aboriginal
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A ‘revenge body’ is built to show someone how well you are doing without them. With the advent of social media the phenomenon is increasingly popular. Shutterstock
Months after a public breakup with her husband, the politician Barnaby Joyce, Natalie Joyce made news when she displayed her “new” body in a
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Even if you put aside basic cultural and spiritual respect, a look at the raw legal fact will tell you Uluru is as much public land as Pauline Hanson’s house
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Guidelines advise children under two shouldn’t have any screen time, but most do anyway. Photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem on Unsplash
Most (80%) Australian parents worry children spend too much time with screens.
But what children are doing on and off screen matters more than how much time they’re exposed to screen
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There are many awards paying tribute to achievements across the Victorian public sector and the #TechDiversity Awards are gaining traction for their positive focus.
Founded in 2015 by Soozey Johnstone, Deirdre Diamante, Claire Marriott and Tracey Habron, the #TechDiversity Awards recognise, reward and inspire organisations promoting diversity through the use
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Whether sex therapy should be a funded disability support has been controversial since the NDIS was rolled out. From shutterstock.com
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal recently granted a woman with multiple sclerosis the right to have a sex therapist paid for under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
After her initial
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The Adani conglomerate should be best described as a bloated gangster, promising the earth even as it mines it. Like other corporate thugs of such disposition, it will do things within, and if necessary outside, the regulatory framework it encounters. Where necessary, it will libel detractors and bribe critics, speak
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It wasn’t surprising when a sombre group marched along a New Zealand beach to protest the ongoing murders of white South African farmers chose to wear black “the colour of death”. Unfortunately, their choice to wear black did little to attract the attention of our media, where this important cause
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Last week on this podcast we talked to Ken Wyatt about the government’s plan for a referendum – hopefully this parliamentary term – to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution.
This week, we continue the conversation on Indigenous recognition with Megan Davis, a law professor and expert member of
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What can Australia do to restore and preserve our sphere of influence in the South Pacific, and deny it to China?
Our government has at least taken the first step by recognising there is a problem. It is now clearly understood that Australia can no longer
read now Scott Morrison really likes quiet Australians – as quiet as possible. So it was really no surprise that his response to his minister, Ken Wyatt’s modest and tentative proposal to consider reviving an Indigenous Voice through the Uluru Statement from the Heart was simple and direct: bloody well shut up
read now In an editorial to mark Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent visit, The Times of India alluded to US policy incoherence in urging Washington to make up its mind between dealing with India as an ally or a frenemy. Earlier, in February Washington broke from its traditional non-committal stance on India–Pakistan skirmishes
read now The New South Wales deputy premier wants to allow logging in a national park in the state’s Riverina. John Barilaro says he intends removing statutory protection of the 42,000 hectare Murray Valley National Park – either by de-gazetting the entire area or reducing its size.
Forty years ago we fought to stop the logging of
read now Australians are dissatisfied with private health insurance. Premiums are rising and consumers are dropping their cover, especially younger people, who are less likely to need health services. Those who are left are more likely to use services, driving insurance costs up further. Government subsidies for private health insurance and private
read now There are many good reasons to support the latest plans to find a constitutional referendum question to encapsulate the principles of the Uluru statement from the heart. There’s the fact that it represents a good idea and good ideal – perhaps one, as some say, that is essential to a
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McKinsey researchers find a new generation of outperforming nations, from the South China Sea to the Horn of Africa, which are leaving poverty behind.
Why do some countries grow faster than others, year after year? Why do China and South Korea grow rapidly while a large group of countries in
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A cybersecurity firm says a new “critical vulnerability” it found this month in a common piece of software used with industrial control systems could have been exploited in the nightmare-scenario of a major attack on critical infrastructure.
The security flaw affects the STEP-7 TIA Portal made by Siemens, which has
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Yesterday’s Border Force e-gate meltdown shows how one tech failure can hold up thousands at airports. But it’s not even close to the most common reason flights are delayed around
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Scarlett Johansson is in deep-shit again for raging against identity politics. In 2018, Johansson abandoned her starring role as a transgender man in the film Rub & Tug, in the thick of reaction from left-wing SJWs and LGBTQI activists — who believed that a transgender actor should be cast in
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The New South Wales government aims to have 114 senior leaders from Indigenous backgrounds in the state’s public sector by 2025, up from a current figure of about 87.
Another target is to have Indigenous people make up 3% of non-executive ranks. This will result in about 13,000 Aboriginal people
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Under the Abbott and Turnbull governments, Myanmar appeared to fall off the map. It’s time that changed.
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A new paper argues that private health insurance subsidies are a policy mess. It’s also part of our intergenerational war on young people.
The post Private health insurance isn’t just
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The Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) has called on all levels of government to work with industry and explore collaborative procurement opportunities to strengthen the recycling system.
It comes after the Victorian Waste Management Association’s chief executive Peter Anderson criticised councils for continuing to send recyclables to SKM — the
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read now The social conditioning Wimbledon creates is unique. For a couple of weeks, rich and poor, elite and every day dutifully comply with strict rules of etiquette and behaviour.
There’s
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The implementation of the ambitious National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS, or the scheme) has been marked by significant delays in the budget allocation of its participants.
The urgency in solving these issues is great: soon after the election win earlier this year, Prime Minister Morrison vowed to prioritise NDIS issues,
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The Final Showdown, as the Sun/Talkradio’s debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt was billed, clarified some important points for Tory members still deciding how to cast their vote. Both candidates ruled out a general election before the UK leaves the EU, though Hunt warned that setting a deadline as
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We live, as the Indian essayist Saeed Akhter Mirza has put it, in “an age of amnesia.” Across the world, most notably in the West, we are discarding the knowledge and insights passed down over millennia and replacing it with politically correct bromides cooked up in the media and the
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Tonight’s Sun debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt was far more relaxed than last week’s head-to-head clash. But it was also stuffed with news lines, as both men prepared for the final few days of voting in the Tory leadership contest. Both declared the Northern Irish backstop dead, Johnson
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Bluey is not just a TV success story – it also contains important parenting wisdom. IMDB
Bluey is a ground-breaking Australian children’s television series and the most downloaded show in ABC iView history. Since premiering in October 2018, Bluey has been played on iView over 100 million times, and it
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The teeth in these _Australopithecus africanus_ skulls contain important evidence about the nutrition of these individuals as they grew up. Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Author provided
Humans’ distant ancestor Australopithecus africanus had a unique approach to raising their young, as shown in our new research published today in Nature.
Geochemical analysis
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Target, Cotton On, Jeanswest, Dangerfield, IKEA and H&M are among the brands in Australia sourcing cotton from Xinjiang. www.shutterstock.com
With China’s western-most province of Xinjiang being turned into a mass internment camp, last night’s ABC Four Corners program reported on the Chinese Communist Party’s alleged plans to put up to a
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