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At last, industry stands up to retrograde IR changes

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The Australian

Editorial

Is Labor committed to a return to low inflation?

It seems the RBA will need to further raise interest rates. The question is how much the other arms of policy will increase the economic cost of...

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Financial Review

The Afr View

How NZ’s own law helped Australia win the Manuka Honey trademark war

The recent decision in “one of the most complex and long running” trademark cases in New Zealand was a loss for the country’s mānuka honey...

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The Conversation

David Jefferson

‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup, from cave to can

Hot soup on a cold day brings warmth and comfort so simple that we don’t think too much about its origins. But its long history runs from the...

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The Conversation

Garritt C Van Dyk

People thinking of voluntary assisted dying may be able to donate their organs. We need to start talking about this

The number of people needing an organ transplant vastly outweighs the number of organs available. In 2022 there were about 1,800 Australians...

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The Conversation

Robert Ray

Using electric water heaters to store renewable energy could do the work of 2 million home batteries – and save us billions

Australia’s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales of medium-sized electric cars are surging....

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The Conversation

David Roche

10 Australian companies have embraced the 4-day week. Here’s what they say about it

Most of us look forward to a rare long weekend. But some Australians now enjoy a four-day week every week. They’re lucky enough to work for the...

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The Conversation

John L Hopkins

Labor and the Greens don’t get along. Here’s why

Relations between a centrist Labor government feeling its way and an ascendant Greens party have become surprisingly strained of late. The...

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The Conversation

Mark Kenny

Don’t be conned by the PR spin: The AFL is no exemplar on racism

The latest failure of the AFL to resolve allegations of racism in the sport it oversees provides a cautionary tale of what happens when we do not...

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WA Today

Barry Judd

Don’t be conned by the PR spin: The AFL is no exemplar on racism

The latest failure of the AFL to resolve allegations of racism in the sport it oversees provides a cautionary tale of what happens when we do not...

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Barry Judd

Why the climate debate in Australia is changing

Smoke haze has smothered most of Brisbane over the last week, in parts it was so bad people with respiratory conditions were advised to stay...

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The Examiner

Dermot O&x27Gorman

Why a victory for the truth is more important than ever

Marshall McLuhan's reputation was built on one crisp sound-bite. Perceiving the ephemeral shallowness of '60s television sitcoms he proclaimed "the...

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The Examiner

Nicholas Stuart

Don’t be conned by the PR spin: The AFL is no exemplar on racism

The latest failure of the AFL to resolve allegations of racism in the sport it oversees provides a cautionary tale of what happens when we do not...

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The Age

Barry Judd

Is it really the Nutbush without someone stuffing up the steps?

I love a choreographed dance moment. There's something about it that makes me feel like I'm in the middle of a 1980s teen film - Ferris Bueller's...

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Canberra Times

Amy Martin

Three ways to break the baby barrier

China's National Bureau of Statistics recently confirmed that 2022 was the first year since the great famine in 1959-1961 that China's population...

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Canberra Times

Daniel Dinale

Why the climate debate in Australia is changing

Smoke haze has smothered most of Brisbane over the last week, in parts it was so bad people with respiratory conditions were advised to stay...

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Canberra Times

Dermot O&x27Gorman

A simple planning change to improve ACT housing affordability

Labor and the Greens have reached broad agreement on the Planning Bill 2022, and will work through a series of amendments in the Assembly. With the...

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Canberra Times

Howard Maclean

Why a victory for the truth is more important than ever

Marshall McLuhan's reputation was built on one crisp sound-bite. Perceiving the ephemeral shallowness of '60s television sitcoms he proclaimed "the...

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Canberra Times

Nicholas Stuart

Don’t be conned by the PR spin: The AFL is no exemplar on racism

The latest failure of the AFL to resolve allegations of racism in the sport it oversees provides a cautionary tale of what happens when we do not...

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Brisbane Times

Barry Judd

Big business cries poor on wages even as profits mount

Don’t believe anyone – not even a governor of the Reserve Bank – trying to tell you the Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase minimum...

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WA Today

Ross Gittins

Wall-to-wall coverage, but no uniformity in media’s treatment of Roberts-Smith

Justice Anthony Besanko’s dispassionate tone gave nothing away about the force of the judgment he was delivering in Ben Roberts-Smith’s...

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WA Today

Nick Bonyhady

No time to lose for Albanese, but there’s a clear and present danger for Dutton

Amid all the factors that might affect a government’s ability to govern well, a broad and simple one sits at the top: the luck of governing at...

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WA Today

Sean Kelly

Big business cries poor on wages even as profits mount

Don’t believe anyone – not even a governor of the Reserve Bank – trying to tell you the Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase minimum...

2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Ross Gittins

Wall-to-wall coverage, but no uniformity in media’s treatment of Roberts-Smith

Justice Anthony Besanko’s dispassionate tone gave nothing away about the force of the judgment he was delivering in Ben Roberts-Smith’s...

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick Bonyhady

Revamped Central Station will help revitalise a great city

Redevelopment of railway stations in CBDs can revitalise great cities and Sydney train users have had their first glimpse of the future with the...

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Herald&x27S View

No time to lose for Albanese, but there’s a clear and present danger for Dutton

Amid all the factors that might affect a government’s ability to govern well, a broad and simple one sits at the top: the luck of governing at...

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Sean Kelly

Time for the Premier to act and stamp out conversion practices

TWELVE months ago on June 5, Premier Jeremy Rockliff showed significant leadership in committing his government to banning LGBTIQA conversion...

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The Examiner

Letters To The Editor

Big business cries poor on wages even as profits mount

Don’t believe anyone – not even a governor of the Reserve Bank – trying to tell you the Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase minimum...

1

The Age

Ross Gittins

Wall-to-wall coverage, but no uniformity in media’s treatment of Roberts-Smith

Justice Anthony Besanko’s dispassionate tone gave nothing away about the force of the judgment he was delivering in Ben Roberts-Smith’s...

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The Age

Nick Bonyhady

No time to lose for Albanese, but there’s a clear and present danger for Dutton

Amid all the factors that might affect a government’s ability to govern well, a broad and simple one sits at the top: the luck of governing at...

1

The Age

Sean Kelly

The US drive to war with China and the battle of ideas

Somewhere, somehow, China became the number one enemy of the world, or at least to the world that is run by the USA. For many the ‘reason’ has...

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Pearls and Irritations

William Briggs

The earth has Bipolar Disorder: and so do we

World Environment Day – June 5 – demands some sober reflection about the mess we humans have got ourselves into. And how the hell we get out. Even...

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Pearls and Irritations

Julian Cribb

Australia, little country lost

You could hear, when Biden squibbed the Quad, the Austral-Americans deflate. They watched aghast when Captain Ahab abandoned them, and the sinking...

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Pearls and Irritations

Jeff Rich

Big business cries poor on wages even as profits mount

Don’t believe anyone – not even a governor of the Reserve Bank – trying to tell you the Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase minimum...

3

Brisbane Times

Ross Gittins

Wall-to-wall coverage, but no uniformity in media’s treatment of Roberts-Smith

Justice Anthony Besanko’s dispassionate tone gave nothing away about the force of the judgment he was delivering in Ben Roberts-Smith’s...

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Brisbane Times

Nick Bonyhady

No time to lose for Albanese, but there’s a clear and present danger for Dutton

Amid all the factors that might affect a government’s ability to govern well, a broad and simple one sits at the top: the luck of governing at...

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Brisbane Times

Sean Kelly

Pregnant Aboriginal women are living in fear due to Victoria’s unborn child protection notifications

Melissa*, an Aboriginal woman, was five weeks’ pregnant when a mark was made against her name – an unborn child protection notification. There...

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The Guardian

Sue-Anne Hunter

Sharing the Load Do yourself and other parents a favour – lower the bar

O ne of the most memorable birthday parties I’ve hosted was also one of the easiest and cheapest. Our eldest son was turning five and wanted to...

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The Guardian

Emma Wilkins

Mums and dads, are you guilty of ‘sharenting’? In France it’s a crime

The French have an unnerving (to me) way of doing certain things very well. French women don’t get fat, because they only eat three mouthfuls of...

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The Age

Daisy Turnbull

Make YIMBYs cool to take the heat out of housing inferno

It is a year for divisive debates – the kind that pit generations against one another and make people hateful and racist. While you’d think the...

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The Age

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Four Points: De Goey bump raises questions, Tigers show bite but Dogs disappoint

Jordan De Goey has never made it through a full season of games so on that score there was a sense of inevitability that something would come up to...

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The Age

Michael Gleeson

Warner’s Test exit a harbinger of franchise future

Taking pride of place on David Warner’s bat in photos promoting the showpiece World Championship final of cricket’s oldest format is a harbinger...

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The Age

Daniel Brettig

The case for Cody: Why Walker can help save NSW – without leaving a fingerprint

Every so often, a player will throw a pass and it happens so quickly you swear if the good folk with CSI: Miami had been called in even they might...

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The Age

Adam Pengilly

We should be losing the plot over this grave real estate crisis

Owning property has long been sold as the great Australian dream. Now the frenzy is not just about finding somewhere affordable to live; there’s...

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The Age

Antoinette Lattouf

Make YIMBYs cool to take the heat out of housing inferno

It is a year for divisive debates – the kind that pit generations against one another and make people hateful and racist. While you’d think the...

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Brisbane Times

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Four Points: De Goey bump raises questions, Tigers show bite but Dogs disappoint

Jordan De Goey has never made it through a full season of games so on that score there was a sense of inevitability that something would come up to...

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Brisbane Times

Michael Gleeson

Being an international student is not all bad. Some of it is terrible

In the summer of 2006, my family had taken the day off only to usher me towards the promise of a big bright future in which I was about to scale...

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The Age

Daksh Tyagi

Warner’s Test exit a harbinger of franchise future

Taking pride of place on David Warner’s bat in photos promoting the showpiece World Championship final of cricket’s oldest format is a harbinger...

3

Brisbane Times

Daniel Brettig

Four Points: De Goey bump raises questions, Tigers show bite but Dogs disappoint

Jordan De Goey has never made it through a full season of games so on that score there was a sense of inevitability that something would come up to...

4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Michael Gleeson

Warner’s Test exit a harbinger of franchise future

Taking pride of place on David Warner’s bat in photos promoting the showpiece World Championship final of cricket’s oldest format is a harbinger...

4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Daniel Brettig

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