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Juvenile justice disgrace shows it's time to take back the Territory
It's an image that should stay with us forever. Here in Australia, where we have the best of everything, a child is strapped to a bare restraint chair.
It's an image that should stay with us forever. Here in Australia, where we have the best of everything, a child is strapped to a bare restraint chair.
To any serious student of Hitler's frightening and unforeseen rise to power in Germany, the recurring echoes in Trump's speeches, interviews and his underlying thinking have become too blatant to overlook.
First it was dead birds, then noise. Now wind farms are being blamed for destroying the electricity market and pushing prices as high as $14,000 per megawatt hour.
At the Republican Convention, attendees had the chance to wear their sexist derision for the Hillary Clinton: stickers proclaiming "Life's a bitch, don't vote for one."
Former prime minister Tony Abbott puts Australia's war history in perspective and identifies what the heroic sacrifices can teach us about our battles today.
It is within routine success that the answer to systems failures may lie.
We know what happens when we don't hold people accountable. Let's stop doing that.
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Such was his contribution to the knowledge of the eucalyptus genus that the 'Brooker's Gum' or Eucalyptus brookeriana was named in his honor.
Reporting of Andrew Leigh's reappointment as shadow assistant treasurer has been dominated by the strange decision to reduce his salary.
It's free. It's good for the planet and it's good for you.
I couldn't watch the Four Corners expose of the abuse of children in the Northern Territory, it was just too much to bear. Especially after having just watched Australian Story, about a schoolgirl wasting away in detention after having fled Iran in fear of her life.
If you live in southern Australia, you may have noticed it’s been a rather wet couple of months.
Revealing Sulu to be gay is a soft way of introducing a gay character. In 2016 we should expect sexuality to no longer be a frontier in entertainment.
t was three of the less remarked-upon, non-primetime speakers, though, who highlighted some of the themes that I think will be crucial to a Hillary Clinton victory in November.
It is time to dispense with a relic lingering at the core of our economy: the male breadwinner.
Lake Burley Griffin is often referred to as the jewel in the crown of Canberra's setting.
Malcolm Turnbull has little experience as prime minister of dealing with the Senate.
The famed actor has paid tribute to his step-daughter Christina Knudsen after her death from cancer.
Unable to walk, shower alone, dress myself, cook, drive or travel to work, I saw first-hand the challenges, difficulties and discrimination that so many Australians have to deal with daily.
A Greens pollie praising a move by the WA government? That doesn't happen very often, so read on.
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Australians who visit and support orphanages in Cambodia are inadvertently fuelling an industry that is separating children from their families and putting kids at risk of abuse and exploitation.
Unborn foetuses with heartbeats and senses deserve a fair go.
Queensland is the only state that sends school-aged children to adult prisons.
A potential loser from the decision to split the Defence portfolio could well be the Australian Defence Force.
The PM's announcement of a Royal Commission into the abuse of children in Northern Territory jails gives an insight into his instincts on human rights.
It is apparent that the Australian dream will increasingly be out of reach for people in the lowest 40 per cent of incomes.