News this week that the federal government will allocate Victoria just 7.7 per cent of the national infrastructure budget is bitterly disappointing and a prime example of politicking triumphing over sound reason.
All parties in Victoria's Parliament must work together to determine how best to respond to fix buildings already built and how to stop the problem getting worse.
Until standards are raised, local governments will remain, in the minds of many, somewhat of farce.
On Tuesday, an extraordinary trial will resume that sees the Christian governor of Jakarta, capital the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, charged with blasphemy against Islam. The case carries monumental importance for Indonesia, and sends a worrisome signal about the political and social trajectory of Australia's most significant neighbour.
The abolition of the carbon price, married with the government’s failure to introduce anything in its place to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, is now actually increasing costs for consumers.
State politics verged on the bizarre this week when Premier Daniel Andrews ordered his ministers to hand over their mobile phones, in a bid to trace the source of cabinet leaks.
Aleppo might become another byword to denote international failure, but it should also be another reason to work harder to prevent another catastrophe.
The decision by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to speak this weekend at the 25th anniversary of the Australian Republican Movement will almost certainly reopen the debate on Australia's status.
The fallout of any Russian effort to help Mr Trump into the White House reverberates well past America's shores.
Instead of cutting rates in the hope business investment drives the economy, it is time to take the brave political move to use public debt to fund key projects.
Another climate policy retreat and you're left wondering, just what, exactly, does Malcolm Turnbull stand for?
All Mr Turnbull seems to currently stand for is clinging to power.
Victoria is the only state whose regional economy went backwards in 2015-16.
Not everyone is going to suffer a slow and excruciating end from terminal illness, but everyone has the moral right, should they be in such extremis, to physician-assisted death.
In 2010, Malcolm Turnbull said Australia "cannot cost-effectively achieve a substantial cut in emissions without putting a price on carbon". He's still right, and the situation is increasingly urgent.
What the thunderstorm asthma event has done is shine a light on the state of Victoria’s ailing ambulance and paramedic services.
Australia cannot say it is doing everything possible to save its most precious natural icon until it commits to what scientists and experts advise is necessary on climate change.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Addressing crime is a huge challenge for the Andrews government, but it is not one that will be solved by ill-conceived, reactionary measures.
Whether it is universal suffrage, equal pay, Indigenous rights, or the present campaign for marriage equality, no social advance towards equity has come without struggle and often polarising disputes.
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