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Opinion & Perspectives

Can we escape the curse of the unlucky '7'?

The world has just two months left on the clock to see if it can finally vanquish the decennial curse of the "7".

Jessica Irvine
    Jessica Irvine

    Bright sparks on energy leave Abbott in the shadows

    The national energy guarantee policy is much better than a mere surrender to Abbott and the far right's theological attachment to coal. It's policy devised by experts and agreed to by politicians.

    Peter Hartcher
      Peter Hartcher

      Stress is no excuse for the racist, sexist targeting of a young poet

      Lauren Lancaster, a 16-year-old student entering year 12 at Hornsby Girls High School, examines what the outcry over the Mango poem meant.

      Lauren Lancaster
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        Politics

        Minister for Health Brad Hazzard.

        NSW government abandons fifth hospital privatisation plan in Maitland

        More than a year after it announced it was opening up five regional hospitals to tenders that would have then privately built and run, the state government quietly decided to keep the last entirely in public hands on Friday.

        • by Kate Aubusson and James Robertson
        Illustration: Simon Letch
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        Opinion

        Gender equality: it takes a troubled woman to change a troubled world

        Men are increasingly proving themselves incapable of taking the world where it needs to go. Never has the need for imaginative female leadership been so urgent.

        • by Elizabeth Farrelly
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