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Charity that ends at home makes us poorer
Australia's overseas aid is directly in our interests, whatever populists like George Christensen say.
Australia's overseas aid is directly in our interests, whatever populists like George Christensen say.
The real challenge for Australia is to see India not for what it was or even is now, but for what it will be in the future.
Most urgent issue between Australia and PNG not mentioned in PM's statement.
If any politicians are interested, here are five steps to prevent blackouts and provide affordable energy.
Even when assessed on its own flawed indicators, the government isn't measuring up.
Otto von Bismarck, Germany's first Chancellor, is usually credited with the famous remark likening laws to sausages: for peace of mind, one should never see either being made.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's observation about Islamic violence cannot be ignored.
The parallels go right down to misleading threats and ultimatums issued to "clients", bad algorithms and drawing misleading conclusions from matching incompatible data.
If the situation escalates, Australia would be hard pressed to avoid getting involved.
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Assad improbably started his career as a doctor, training in London. But got his tyrannical break when his older brother died, catapulting him into the heir-apparent spot.
Pauline and James are 15,000 feet above the outback desert, perched in the tiny cockpit of a Jabiru 230-D.
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The public yearns for more consensus rather than confrontation, but our parties are yet to learn.
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Global warming will radically change our region, with massive military and humanitarian repercussions.
The former prime minister of Denmark says Australia is failing to take its place in the world and the country's paltry foreign aid contributions have made it less influential on the world stage.
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Members of the public unfamiliar with parliamentary practice may be surprised to learn that there are limitations on how far a member can go in saying offensive things.
In a barely noticed respite from last week's hyper-partisan squabbling, Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten actually agreed on a couple of things. It is an enduring curiosity that such moments tend to escape attention.
In the end, the deal to secure Malcolm Turnbull's signature election pledge of enterprise tax cuts, at least for small and medium businesses, was, to use the vernacular, a little "exxy". Big business missed out. A bridge too far. As such the cost to the budget is substantially less - around $20 billion. The X-man of Australian politics, Nick Xenophon has once again proved the master-negotiator, and Turnbull, the great deal-maker and achiever of results. As in all compromises, neither got all they wanted, But both will be happy.
Australia has equalled the Netherlands' record of 103 consecutive quarters of economic growth.
Bliss to be alive, but to be young not very heaven
Right then. The parliamentary consideration of section 18C
The simplest way to solve super's many problems is to make contributions voluntary.
If there were a law against insulting and offending the political class, a lot of my mates and acquaintances would be in strife.
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The performance of the Senate in the company tax debate has been marked by an overweening self-importance.
Consider this: since Bronwyn Bishop finally left the federal Parliament nine months ago – kicking and screaming after being rolled by her own party – Australian taxpayers have paid her nearly $200,000.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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