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Claw back booty, at any cost
Why doesn’t the government pass legislation to liquidate all the Obeid family assets, pay the outstanding tax and keep the rest?
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Refusal to deal with blind trust erodes integrity
Speaker Tony Smith displays both impartiality, which the Speaker should have, and integrity, which the Coalition lacks.
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Delay of bill causes more pain and needless suffering
It is very disappointing to see that the assisted dying bill has been delayed. It means that suffering people at the end of life will have to suffer a bit longer.
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Net zero push meaningless without bolder 2030 target
Scott Morrison is trying to claim that voters are not in favour of a 45 per cent cut to emissions by 2030 by saying that voters rejected Labor’s embrace of this target at the last election.
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Weighing up the national interest against the Nationals’ interests
The Nationals’ recalcitrance over carbon emission targets reveals a determination to pursue their own interests over the national interest.
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Koala flashpoint finally must be a line in the sand
Policy and action from the state government and the local councils - in this case, Campbelltown - could bring koalas back from the brink.
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Fresh thinking, a ferry good idea
Why is the state government replacing polluting diesel ferries with new polluting diesel ferries?
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Church has no moral authority over assisted dying
It is one thing for the Catholic Church to lobby MPs to get privileges and exemptions for itself, it is another thing for it to try to defeat the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill and deprive the 70 per cent of citizens who support it.
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Shame on politicians who ignore the climate science
Our democracy is broken. A clear majority of Australians want urgent action on climate change, and it appears most of our parliamentarians also support that. Yet Parliament cannot agree on the net-zero-by-2050 target to which much of the world has committed,
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Dying with dignity should be a basic human right
As someone who is facing his own mortality – I have bone cancer – I do not wish to spend my last days “doped to the eyeballs” or being kept alive by a machine.
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Backflips and double-speak from climate converts
Never mind the underlying principle of doing the right thing, it’s clear that the latest likely converts to net-zero carbon emission targets are motivated solely by what it might mean for profits for their mega-businesses, or votes for their political parties.