The degree of the penalty rates had become not only out of step with modern life, but financially unsustainable. And unjust - Australia has three-quarters of a million unemployed citizens, and a lot these people are being denied work because of penalty rates.
Negotiations - rather than a traffic blockade - will win the best compensation deal for Melbourne's taxi licence owners.
In balancing benefits and risks, we believe that community safety must have paramount priority.
We believe the dangerous black market would be all but destroyed by decriminalising substances and regulating their production and sale.
After Israeli spies using counterfeit Australian passports were discovered to have assassinated a Hamas figure in Dubai in 2010, then foreign minister Stephen Smith rightly condemned the forgery as "not the action of a friend". A Mossad agent in Canberra was subsequently expelled and the entire saga marked a low point in relations between Israel and Australia.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's team is, if you will, playing base politics with baseload electricity.
There is simply no truth to the Coalition mantra that it is the political force wedded to small government and that Labor is the permanent party of big government.
Until now, support for the NDIS has been largely bipartisan, and it would be a shame were the Turnbull government to break with this position.
It is past time for the world to to devote sustained diplomatic resources to finding a solution to the problem of North Korea.
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.
It's encouraging to see such a co-ordinated clarion call to lawmakers to put aside politics and broker a bipartisan approach to energy policy.
Homelessness is most successfully tackled when people are first given a safe place to live, and then working on underlying causes.
The Coalition has betrayed a distinct lack of imagination by persistently attacking vulnerable people.
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.
It is with mixed feelings that we observe the outbreak of unfettered verbal hostilities in our national Parliament.
The political world is convulsing with complexity, but Cory Bernardi's resignation from the Liberal Party is a simple case of ego.
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.
The Catholic Church stands damned for the sheer number of paedophiles in its ranks, monstrous criminals it has finally admitted were in many instances protected by the church hierarchy.
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.
Community safety, rightly a perennial and widespread concern, is a particularly potent topic in Victoria at the moment.
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