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We can do more to cut the road toll
Each fatality is a disaster at an individual, family and community level.
Each fatality is a disaster at an individual, family and community level.
The time for excuses is over and all-round solutions must be found.
Here's a suggestion for our nation's parliamentarians that should sustain them for the full 12 months ahead: make this the year Canberra slaps a tax on sugar.
Here's a question you're guaranteed to be asked at tonight's New Year's Eve party over a glass of wine and a snack – or several: "Made any new year's resolutions?"
The Institute of Public Affairs has done well to highlight the way new laws have been eroding the basic rights of Australians over the past 12 months.
There are many reasons why it was wrong for a court to excuse a man for not voting in the last federal election.
In the days before Christmas a dangerous new tone crept into the political combat surrounding the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and suspected Russian efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
We could all think about an act of charity, or "boxing", today
We must avoid leaping to knee-jerk conclusions, and instead have the bravery and wisdom to grapple with complexities.
The novella by Charles Dickens, to give it its full title, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, was first published in 1843.
The Turnbull government's progress on climate change is too slow, and not enough.
In the final countdown to Christmas, we are all out late, scrambling for those last-minute gifts
Traditionally, there are two Australian summer sports. One is cricket, and the other is criticising the selectors of the Australian cricket team.
If the political parties can work together to deliver on child protection, that would also be a monumental legacy.
Education, knowledge, training and personal responsibility can all combine to reduce the number of drownings.
We now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to change things, but grasping that opportunity in this country presents enormous challenges.
From 7am on Friday, more than 51,000 students across Victoria will log on to receive their VCE results.
The worst that can be said of new measures to curb foreign interference in the political process is that they are overdue.
The government must go after the appalling exploiters, who are also unfairly driving small businesses out of the market.
Slavery is the world's second-biggest illicit market, behind drugs, with an estimated 45 million people treated as commodities.
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