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The word you won't hear spoken by politicians
A four letter word politicians hate - and it isn't what you might think.
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Bracket creep is code for cutting high-end taxes
Many of us would welcome bracket creep if it meant actually getting a pay rise.
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A personal story of child sexual abuse
Memories of abuse can be suppressed, and so many lives have been ruined. It is an epic tragedy.
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The real Malcolm: agile or fragile?
The clock is ticking. Increasingly, people are asking where is the Turnbull government's vision.
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Who can say no to grandmother?
Serious women's business is being conducted in Puckle Street, Essendon.
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Guns: madness begets madness
In America, predictably, but also in Paris, we heard some worrying words this week.
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The world's best invention is ...
Never mind Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Let's think about the humble sewing machine.
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Scalia's death sets Presidential race in tailspin
Forget process. Forget justice. This is politics raw and simple and as tough as it gets in what was ...
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Why is Australia so desperate to ignore PNG?
Why is it that there are more Cook Islanders in Australia than Papua New Guineans? Not only was ...
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Turnbull, stop dithering on tax reform
The Turnbull government has yet to explain why we need tax reform. Meanwhile, Labor is strangely ...
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Middle class bickering over negative gearing
While the country debates every detail of changes to property taxes 44,000 young people and ...
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Doctors should boycott detention centres
Working in immigration detention is contrary to the medical code of ethics.
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Pearson's hunt for 'radical centre' is doomed
Noel Pearson's idea is doomed because this is a shifting centre without ground, especially in ...
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More than one way to kill negative gearing
The big problem is the capital gains tax concession.
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Where have all the true leaders gone?
The world is leaderless. And that makes people scared. Forced to look elsewhere for that rare magic ...
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Apple's fight with FBI isn't about encryption
The FBI has a strong case that it should be able to inspect the contents of a killer's iPhone, but ...
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Failure disguises the success to come
The list of successful people who have embraced failure is edifying.
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We'll never Close the Gap like this
We'll never empower Indigenous people if the government doesn't keep its side of the bargain and ...
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Danger signs multiply for Andrews
Is he headed the way of Rudd, Gillard, Baillieu, Napthine and Abbott?
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The Pope should let priests marry
Let those who want to be celibate continue as is; the rest should be allowed to marry.
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Sorry tale of Telstra's 'customer service'
On the fourth call, I am advised by the recorded voice to go to a trouble-shooting website to ...
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Changing embedded attitudes about violence
How do we teach them to pause in that moment before emotion turns to action?
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Syrian refugees just want a fresh start
Driven from their homeland by violence, these people need our help.
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Not only investigative reporters who need time
Journalists on regular beats must be given the resources to expose secrets and lies too.
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Prisons trap our money along with crooks
Things may be gloomy in other countries, and even in parts of our own economy, but there's one ...
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Why we shouldn't scrap negative gearing
The $2.4 billion a year currently spent on negative gearing is an unjustifiable use of precious ...
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Prevent bushfires the Aboriginal way
Indigenous people’s deep knowledge of the bush and their use of fire to manage the land is the key ...
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Why has ideas boom eluded government?
Despite Malcolm Turnbull being in the top job for months and having declared an appetite for ...
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Labor's tax policy is courageous
Tax reform is politically difficult, so the opposition should be applauded for giving it a go.
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Can we rely on the US to keep us safe?
As the Turnbull government reviews its defence policy, Americans are becoming increasingly ...
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Announcement starts rapid political decline
Once you have the scent of politics, it is hard to get it out of your system.
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Presidency isn't most important US decision
Forget Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. There is a new defining figure in the US presidential ...
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Government is continuing to attack family life
Why don't politicians pander to the ordinary people who vote for them in quite the same way they ...
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Turnbull will win election with long game
The key is to listen to the deeper theme. It's the structural fundamentals that will chart our ...
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NAPLAN vital tool to see standards are met
As a caring society, we should all want our children to master and understand literacy and numeracy ...
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Turnbull's soft-shoe shuffle
What some wanted to see as a crisis, the PM typically saw as an opportunity.
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How aged-care became an ethical minefield
Making ethical judgments about the wishes of old people in care is fraught with difficulty.
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Econobabble: how the ‘experts’ try to fool us
Too often, politicians use economics as a tool to exclude us from the conversation.
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When smoke gets in your eyes
We're outside in our tiny backyard. From over the fence, the acrid waft of smoke drifts, and that's ...
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Daniel Andrews' vision gets blown sky high
If the government was more open and accountable about its plans, elevated rail could end up being a ...
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Having an unhappy Valentine's Day?
From a healthy foundation, natural love expands.
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This midlife crisis wasn't too destructive
Ice addict Michael Coulter has taken an ice-cold, jarring route to, um, ageing.