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Why have our ministers got it in for the unemployed?
Using the disabled as a human shield to defend cuts to others is as dumb as it gets. Propagating fake news is worse.
Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
Using the disabled as a human shield to defend cuts to others is as dumb as it gets. Propagating fake news is worse.
So keen has Malcolm Turnbull become to appease his party's right wing that he is actually governing badly.
They key to convincing people appears to be repetition – the more often something is said, the more likely it is to be regarded as true.
Strong governments stand up for little people.
Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump might be at loggerheads over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but in other respects they’re in sync.
No-one does it by themselves, especially not Springsteen.
The most frightening thing about the Centrelink malware debacle is the verve with which the government embraced it.
The Centrelink robo-debt debacle will dwarf that of the bungled census, for which the Prime Minister declared that heads would roll.
This year you are going to lose weight. Really. Not like last year, when you tried to eat less and exercise more and ended up no lighter, but by approaching the problem differently. Because calories in and calories out is probably the worst way to think about it.
Once Labor and the unions stood up for battlers. Now they’re robocalling seeking sympathy for millionaires who want to stay on the pension.
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