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The Age Editorials

The high real cost of those cut-price pizzas

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The report is the latest in a series that has shown widespread wage fraud - targeting vulnerable employees, including foreign students and recent immigrants - in the nation's $170 billion-a-year franchise sector.

Political pugilism is merely a sideshow

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There is a role for passion and strong language in politics – when it's primarily about public policy. Politics is not a blood sport; it's about the battle of ideas and measures to improve opportunities for the community.

A welcome buttress for our health system

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For far too long serious complaints about health care have been hidden from the public, putting people at risk of unsafe practitioners who continue to ply their trade.

Lack of dental care a cruel false economy

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Public sector options are minimal at best, forcing most people to either accept whatever the private sector decides they must pay, or avoid this aspect of their health until it becomes an emergency.

PM's cowardly stance on Trump shames us all

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It is more than disappointing that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop are cravenly endorsing such a stupid, unfounded policy as the US ban on citizens of seven countries.