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Joyce’s resurrection makes a mockery of democracy
Have National Party members who returned Barnaby Joyce to leadership considered how it might look to the general population?
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Nats re-Joyce but Barnaby’s baggage will nag Coalition
The re-emergence of Barnaby Joyce as a political leader will impair meaningful action on climate change by the Coalition.
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Cycle of unfairness is now further entrenched
For some years now, around about the period of the conservative stewardship of Australia, it has become obvious that society is being partitioned into the “haves” and the “have nots”.
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‘Privileged playpen’ a penile colony
How pathetically childlike are the members of the Boys’ Own Australian Club of Sydney, with their night frights about “frilly, flouncy, bossy” women.
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Our children are more than economic units
Heaven forbid we consider overhauling the school day to improve educational outcomes.
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Compassion for a family that has suffered enough
It must surely be blatantly obvious to the Morrison government by now that the longer the saga of Murugappan family drags on, the court of public opinion and its own ranks will put further pressure on it to grant them refugee status?
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Cruel decision reflects a leadership moral vacuum
The Murugappan family decision exposes the heartlessness of the Australian government.
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PM, you have the power: send them home to Biloela
Minister Alex Hawke, “appropriate compassion” goes nowhere near addressing ongoing disproportionate cruelty.
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Former PM’s staffer’s gong shows its time to scrap honours
Honouring divisive public commentators like Peta Credlin for their partisan political work is not what the Australia honours system should be about.
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Reliance on migrant labour exposes slothful selfishness
Our selfish reliance on immigrant labour robs the developing world of skills and allows the dismantling of our own training pathways.
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Badgered boomers bite back over big homes
Older people are not “refusing” to leave their homes to make them available to prospective buyers. They have the right to retain their homes as long as they wish.