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The Age Editorials

Not shirking the hard questions

An emaciated Somali boy is weighed next to his distraught mother.

Our job is not to sanitise what's going on in the world, but to inform, both about what's wonderful about our pale blue dot and also what's not.

US strike justified and humanitarian

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We fervently hope the stark change of tactics might end the use of chemical weapons, and even help end the wretched tragedy in Syria by catalysing the fall of Dr Assad.

Cut distorting tax breaks on property

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The Australian government is wrong to not accept that reducing one of the most unduly generous tax concessions in the world should be part of the mix.