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For the Government, economic transition doesn't include the need to restructure our energy and transport systems to address Australia's contribution to climate change. In fact, the budget laid out no vision on how the government conceives of Australia's place in a carbon constrained world
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The Queen recently turned 90. By doing so, she has already lived six years longer than the average Australian female. One might expect this would be the case given her privileged life, but science suggests that she has more in common with us than we think.
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What if you had to make a decision between continuing to work as a child laborer to make ends meet for your family or planning to risk the choppy waters and dangerous journey of taking a refugee boat from Turkey to Greece? This is the dilemma of Shrivan, a 16-year-old boy who fled Aleppo, Syria three years ago to southern Turkey.
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The changing or not changing of the name is, in my opinion, an unnecessarily charged issue. And with the title business (Miss, Ms, Mrs) that goes with it, it all just gets a bit confusing.
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The racists and bigots of America have always been out there. There have always been hideous trolls on the Internet. But now they are emboldened in a big way by the bellicose Donald Trump. He's opened Pandora's box, and nobody can shut it.
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Weddings are often considered one of the happiest days of your life but the special day on average costs over $65,000. Your big day shouldn't be dampened by the feeling that your bank account and back pocket are now empty, so we've got four tips to help you reduce that final bill.
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Everyone knows you should never get between a politician and a "working family." Working families are the political gold. They pay the tax, while creating the future tax-payers, and they've been the apple of every treasurer's eye since opinion polling was invented. But Tuesday night Scott Morrison erased them from his political sell. Gone in a puff of Mathias Cormann's cigar smoke.
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As the next federal election looms, we all see our Facebook feeds getting slowly more political in displays of slacktivism. But if you are actually passionate about an issue, what can you do that is more meaningful than some Facebook likes or shares, but that still requires minimal effort?
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I decided to ask 12 friends, ranging from 43 to 50 years of age, what they thought about this murky, surging undertow as we forge ahead into the next part of our lives.
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How you judge today's federal budget depends what you think a budget is for. Conventional wisdom has it that the best budgets stimulate the most growth. Conventional cynicism says the winner budgets are the ones that give enough prizes to the right voters to lock in a majority come polling day.
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As the budget draws closer I can only hope, for the sake of Malawi and for the sake of our self-respect, that the cut to Australian aid is not as deep as predicted.
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I don't believe Selena Gomez or Andra Day would intentionally harm a single child, and yet their association with Coke will inevitably set millions of children on a path to poor health. We can't go on letting these stars use their cachet to hook our kids.
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Bodies such as the Human Rights Commission are a vital part of the checks and balances on executive power. If it is cowed by fear of retribution or vicious personal attacks on its members, we are all the poorer.
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I've seen the generosity of Australians first hand. So when I hear reports that Australians think we should cut foreign aid, I'm genuinely surprised. It contradicts what I've always known.
Chris Poole
It's hard to log onto Facebook without being confronted by a kitten being adorably derpy. But why are cats the animal of an entire generation of the internet obsessed?
Jenna Wiley
With all of the stress that comes with teaching, I think it's easy to forget all the amazing things I experience as a teacher that would never be the status quo in a "normal job."
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If your career is your driving passion you will expect to be given as many opportunities in your workplace as the guy next to you. We know it doesn't always quite work out that way. These are eight things women have told me they have had to endure being told.
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If the Turnbull Government's budget does not boost funding for domestic violence services, it will leave women in grave danger. Even though the money is there to protect them, it's just being frittered away.
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I wet myself in public a few days after my Facebook message to the person who left a note on my car went viral. I sympathise with people who don't understand. I didn't understand MS or disability until I was diagnosed. I do now.
