Discrimination
One-hour challenge: Council to vote on speedy removal of hate-speech graffiti
Jewish and LGBTQ groups are backing a push for speedier removal of offensive graffiti, following a number of slogans appearing in Sydney playgrounds.
- by Andrew Taylor
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It’s not nice, not polite, but not racist: Hanson’s lawyer defends One Nation leader
Pauline Hanson’s barrister said the One Nation senator was not literally telling Mehreen Faruqi to go home when she told her to “piss off back to Pakistan”.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Pauline Hanson grilled over views on Islam during heated court hearing
The One Nation leader came under pressure over her repeated public statements criticising Islam during her court battle with Senator Mehreen Faruqi.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
‘The ultimate racist slur’: Faruqi pursues Hanson in court over tweet
Mehreen Faruqi wants Pauline Hanson to attend anti-racism training at her own expense and to donate $150,000 to charity.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Council workers accused of Islamophobic chants directed at Muslim mayor
Liverpool Council union workers chanted “Put some pork on your fork” and held up a plastic pig in a protest directed at the city’s mayor, Ned Mannoun.
- by Anthony Segaert
Opinion
Sunday Life
The list of reasons why men are luckier than women is long. But here’s a start
If I were a man, I could lick an ice-cream without every guy in the vicinity imagining me naked.
- by Kathy Lette
Docking rogue politicians’ pay ‘just a slap on the wrist’: Lidia Thorpe
‘Whatever, let the purge begin’. Some Coalition MPs think a new parliamentary watchdog would be used to pursue vendettas, but Lidia Thorpe says it should be a lot tougher.
- by Olivia Ireland
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Political leadership
Badly behaved politicians face docked pay, suspension under proposed new code
Politicians who breach parliamentary workplace standards could be fined up to $10,853, according to a leaked draft of new laws.
- by Olivia Ireland
The steps being taken to get better treatment for Australia’s autistic people
Australia has its first assistant minister for autism and is crafting its first national autism strategy. How the rest of society steps up will be crucial.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Albanese government under fire over ‘disturbing practice’ of secrecy
Critics say the government’s use of non-disclosure agreements is accelerating, limiting feedback on contentious draft legislation to hand-picked participants.
- by Matthew Knott
Opinion
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Education has become Game of Thrones, and we the faithful are cast beyond the wall
We’ve become the Wildlings of education. All we pray for is the opportunity to educate, to freely associate, and to serve where our help is accepted.
- by Stephen Fogarty