The biggest shift is likely to be forced by allowing and encouraging the growth of a revamped system that is increasingly decentralised. With the rapid falling cost of solar power and improvements in battery storage, this is now within grasp. This is a future in which households become “prosumers” – both producers and consumers.
The suicide rate for health professionals, and female practitioners in particular, is a major community concern.
Syria is at the heart of the refugee challenge. A resolution to this vicious conflict is sorely needed.
Treasurer Scott Morrison is short-changing Victoria by as much as half a billion dollars.
When he took over as AFL chief executive, Gillon McLachlan stated one of his top priorities would be ‘‘engaging with our fans’’. The fans, he told us, were as important to him as the clubs and the players. The Age hailed Mr McLachlan for those words at the time, but now the AFL has failed fans of GWS and the Bulldogs.
There is no defensible reason that it should overwhelmingly be women at home keeping the family on track.
Yet another inquiry seems to be yet another excuse to limp on with a clearly broken system. Turnbull must act now.
Mr Turnbull has opened the door for greater collaboration; we urge all federal lawmakers to calmly step through it in the national interest, for the things that unite them outweigh their differences.
One speech united people by presenting facts and a personal story of the widespread tragedy of suicide. The other divided people by presenting misinformation and by fanning fear and prejudice, primarily about immigration and Muslims.
The world appears remarkably complacent about the danger from North Korea's nuclear ambition.
A year ago, Mr Turnbull promised to treat voters as sophisticated and mature, amid historically exciting times laden with potential. He hasn’t, and the phrase ‘exciting times’ is sadly becoming a national joke. But the potential remains.
A criminal culture where guns have become fashion items for deluded thugs and fools is an unacceptable threat to many innocent people, and must be stopped.
The current approach is a pseudo climate policy, more about planting trees than cutting industrial emissions. Wise heads in both major parties know this, and want an end to the years of aggressively oppositional politics on climate change.
The lessons from the September 11, 2001 attack are still being absorbed - the failings that allowed such a devastating attack to occur, as well as the mistakes made in the aftermath.
This ‘‘out of sight, out of mind’’ tactic minimises the chances of widespread empathy and compassion that would lead to the community demanding the government cease one of the most ignoble episodes in Australian political history.
The fundamental reason we oppose changing Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act is that we have come to the view it is the wrong thing to do, morally, socially and practically.
The Philippine President should not be surprised if his disdain for international concern over extrajudicial killings results in isolation.
For far too long, this massive flaw in our democratic process has undermined community confidence in our lawmakers’ probity, and thus in the very policies that are supposed to be beyond the influence of vested interests.
Central to the Intercity report is the notion that creating a faster and better regional rail network would lead to significant growth in regional cities, taking the pressure off Melbourne and creating a vibrant state-wide economic and cultural network.
The view that Australia has acted unreasonably is compounded by the otherwise inexplicable decision in 2002 to exempt itself under the law of the sea from any arbitration proceedings to resolve maritime boundaries.
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