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Time to tackle this crisis in our community

The public discussion about gendered violence in the past week, triggered by the deaths of NSW woman Molly Ticehurst and Victorian woman Emma Bates,...

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Sydney’s shark nets will be removed for winter. They should not be reinstalled

There is no greater psychological threat underpinning Sydney’s beach culture than the lurking fear of sharks, despite the fact the city has had only...

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How many more women have to die before we get serious about this epidemic?

How many more women have to be beaten to a pulp, strangled, stabbed, shot, drowned or set fire to before Australia gets serious about confronting the...

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Hard lessons of war seem so easy to forget amid sabre-rattling

“Gaza doctors save baby from womb of mother killed in Israeli airstrike,” said the headlines. The pictures on television showed the feeble newborn...

wednesday 10

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Short-sighted lack of support for Ukraine could come at cost to Australia

The Albanese government’s lukewarm support for Ukraine in its fight against the evil Russian President Vladimir Putin has been a source of...

23.04.2024 10

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Coalition meltdown casts doubt on Dutton’s nuclear plan

Peter Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal Party leadership introduced a nuclear twist to the climate wars that have roiled Australian politics for the...

22.04.2024 10

WA Today

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Coalition meltdown casts doubt on Dutton’s nuclear plan

Peter Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal Party leadership introduced a nuclear twist to the climate wars that have roiled Australian politics for the...

22.04.2024 10

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Coalition meltdown casts doubt on Dutton’s nuclear plan

Peter Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal Party leadership introduced a nuclear twist to the climate wars that have roiled Australian politics for the...

22.04.2024 10

Brisbane Times

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Coalition meltdown casts doubt on Dutton’s nuclear plan

Peter Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal Party leadership introduced a nuclear twist to the climate wars that have roiled Australian politics for the...

22.04.2024 20

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Impact of GST carve-up reveals urgent need to fix a bad system

A speech by NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey to be delivered today to the McKell Institute details how the shortfall in GST revenue allocated to NSW will...

21.04.2024 9

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After a week of horror, remember what matters most

Smell the air. Count the clouds. Kick a ball with the children. Call that friend you’ve been meaning to catch up with. Take the time to watch the...

20.04.2024 10

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Government beginning to look impotent in its failure to rein in X

The response of politicians to the growing repugnance to social media’s malign influence following the Sydney stabbings is big on rhetoric, but a...

19.04.2024 10

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For pity’s sake, it’s time to bring Assange saga to an end

Julian Assange has always polarised opinion. Now his long-running saga to avoid extradition to the US has triggered a renewed sense of pity over his...

18.04.2024 7

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Star casino’s bluff poker is a short-term end game

The management of Sydney’s Star casino continues to labour under the delusion it can treat the authority charged with regulating the industry with...

17.04.2024 10

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Blind faith cannot justify attacks on police and paramedics

The second violent attack to rattle our city in as many days – the knifing and ensuing riot at a western Sydney church – has cast a blasphemous...

16.04.2024 10

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Why governments should subsidise household batteries to go with solar

15.04.2024 10

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A salute to the bravery displayed at Bondi Junction

On Saturday, as reports started emerging about the Bondi Junction mass stabbing, across Sydney people started phoning or texting to reassure loved...

14.04.2024 10

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Our track record in medical innovation can only be maintained with funding support

Medical research in Australia plays a vital role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of the population and our track record is impressive. We can...

14.04.2024 10

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Conscripting war memorial into the political sphere is out of order

Just as the people in the electorate of Cook vote in Saturday’s byelection comes another reminder that Scott Morrison, the MHR who represented them...

12.04.2024 10

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Power to the renters: Demographic changes give them new clout

For many Sydneysiders, renting or trying to rent is a brutal reminder of their true powerlessness in a society that values homeownership as shelter...

11.04.2024 6

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Minns must explain how cutting school budgets is in Labor’s DNA

Reports that NSW public schools will have their budgets slashed by up to $148 million at first glance risks making a mockery of Premier Chris Minns’...

10.04.2024 6

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No discrimination in the trenches of Tobruk, but back home it hit hard

On the anniversary of one of Australia’s greatest war achievements, the Australian War Memorial has found that the most recognised of all the...

09.04.2024 10

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The squalor of buying a scoop undermines good journalism

The ever-growing cluster of self-immolation surrounding the Lehrmann case has now remorselessly spread to journalism, thrusting it into the...

08.04.2024 10

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Political rhetoric on supermarkets went further than mandatory code

Many Australians have run out of money and sympathy for major supermarket chains but the first of an array of inquiries aimed at promoting competition...

08.04.2024 10

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The days of living by the sword in the Middle East must end

Six months ago tomorrow, Hamas’ furtive and obscene October 7 attack, replete with murder, rape and kidnapping, prompted widespread sympathy for...

05.04.2024 10

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On-screen chemistry helps explain how the chemistry went wrong

Hollywood may imitate life but occasionally, it can shine a light and illuminate a shadowy and unacknowledged world kept hidden by lawsuits, spin...

04.04.2024 10

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Play it again, Sam: A second woman goes to Yarralumla

The announcement that businesswoman and women’s advocate Samantha Mostyn is to become Australia’s next governor-general is a further sign that...

03.04.2024 7

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Councils must resist noisy NIMBYs

The so-called Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) forces have chalked up some dubious triumphs in Sydney over the years. But there are few so ludicrous as the...

02.04.2024 3

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No excuse for not fixing parliament’s untouchable culture

The possibility that federal politicians could be docked up to 5 per cent of their base salary for misbehaviour is a contentious but welcome piece of...

01.04.2024 6

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Three key reasons why the Steve Jackson hiring matters

Well, wasn’t that totally predictable? Less than a fortnight after the appointment of a controversial Seven Network producer to an executive role at...

01.04.2024 10

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They are among the most trusted members of our community. They deserve support

They are a reassuring presence in times of crisis, rising to the occasion when Australians are most in need. Whether it’s bushfires, floods or a...

30.03.2024 5

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The proof that Minns’ housing policy is the right call

With many empty-nesters staying put as their children leave home, possibly to join immigrants moving to greenfield suburbs, the population crush is...

29.03.2024 10

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Alice Springs cannot be allowed to remain in a cycle of despair

The imposition of a two-week youth curfew in Alice Springs following an outbreak of violence has again exposed Australia’s dark heart ruined by the...

28.03.2024 2

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Record immigration drives capital city population differences

Each day, 391 people call Sydney their new home. It is a statistic that shows how Sydney is bursting at the seams – but it has also lost the title...

27.03.2024 10

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Double life of China’s man in Suva could help Australia in the Pacific

Beijing’s use of Chinese nationals to further its ambitions in the Pacific has received a setback by the revelation that their man in Suva is...

26.03.2024 6

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Here comes another busload of broken promises

The arrival of a fleet of 60 Chinese-made diesel buses to ferry people between Sydenham and Bankstown when a busy railway line in Sydney’s...

24.03.2024 10

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Civility of the NSW election should be template for MPs’ behaviour

Australians increasingly hold many members of parliament in subterranean regard thanks to their propensity to treat each other with contempt, but...

22.03.2024 9

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Sydney Fish Market tenants are biting too hard

The redevelopment and relocation of the Sydney Fish Market is proving so troublesome the project has turned into a saga rivalling the Sydney Opera...

21.03.2024 30

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Trump clearly does not believe Rudd is there to help

Convention and civility once required presidential candidates not to announce they would dump another nation’s ambassador, but the Republican Party...

20.03.2024 10

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Chris Minns’ political platitudes do not pass the drug test

Premier Chris Minns’ observation that it would be far better if young people did not take drugs before they went to music festivals feels to be a...

19.03.2024 40

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Surgeon’s licence must have restrictions imposed

Redemption can be earned in a relatively short period of time, if the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal is to be believed. In 2021, prominent ear...

18.03.2024 10

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Sydney’s cocaine addiction is costing non-users dearly

Sydney has Australia’s highest house prices and is the nation’s cocaine capital, two crowning achievements that should be matters of deep regret...

17.03.2024 9

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Rosehill sale opponents risk killing a genuinely exciting idea for Sydney

In an era where governments of all political persuasions think small and short-term, the proposal to sell Rosehill Racecourse and turn the area into a...

15.03.2024 8

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NSW education shows some improvement but must apply itself more

The chance to publish more complete HSC result lists, retention of the ATAR rating, the controversial NAPLAN aptitude tests and the gap that leaves...

14.03.2024 6

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Reforms to political donations laws long overdue

The Albanese government’s planned changes to rules governing political donations are long-overdue reforms that should introduce more transparency...

13.03.2024 7

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Why the NRL judiciary was right to come down hard on Spencer Leniu

There are several important lessons flowing from the appalling racial abuse which marred the NRL’s season opener in Las Vegas and has dogged the...

12.03.2024 9

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Why the Robin Hood-style plan to fix Sydney’s tolling system could be a tough sell

Sydney has become Australia’s most tolled city courtesy of road building programs that developed nearly a dozen toll roads without much regard to...

11.03.2024 3

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Income inequality a sleeper issue that threatens our egalitarian ethos

The rising cost of living is a grim reality and a growing political issue, but the disparity between incomes is turning Sydney into a tale of two...

10.03.2024 6

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Anniversary shows that housing an enduring problem

In this era of bureaucracy and red tape, it’s hard to imagine the grassroots evolution of Sydney’s first domestic violence refuge being...

09.03.2024 8

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NRL club executives fail to realise PNG is a scoring opportunity

The Albanese government is scrambling to counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific but the people who control one of the most effective ways...

08.03.2024 10

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