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Bureaucrats are easy scapegoats for the ills that come with governments supplying thousands services. Sure they make some ridiculous and identifiable...
This ACT government has done some stupid things in its time, but cutting education spending must be up there for the craziest. Subscribe now for...
First of all, my humble thanks for the warm reception my first essay in this forum on Tuesday received from Echidna readers. Subscribe now for...
The majority of ACT public school principals are facing difficult choices as they grapple with their school budgets for 2027. Subscribe now for...
Education Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith says principals "should not have been surprised" to see changes to their budgets, as the Education...
Magna Carta Place was opened on September 26, 2001, and this week it will be the 25th anniversary of the opening by John Howard, the prime minister of...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has launched a bid for Australia to secure a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council for 2029-2030,...
The many ponderous pundits, armchair analysts, talking heads and paid-up members of the commentariat who have spent the last few days critiquing the...
I was born in Gunnedah, on the Liverpool Plains in north-central New South Wales - a small farming town with a population of about 10,000 people,...
Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Having been born at the tail end of the baby boom, it was inevitable I would...
The proposal that Canada could become an associate member of the European Union is of historic moment and something which Australia should take heed....
The ACT government was left hanging by a thread last week, with Labor clinging on to minority rule despite no longer having formal agreements in place...
Australia's migration debate is at fever pitch, with both the government and One Nation announcing policies on the subject in the past week....
Ask Canberrans why they're angry about Big Splash and you'll hear about slides, summers and school holidays. Subscribe now for unlimited...
"How do we tell Mum?" I whispered over the phone. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Those were the...
The Albanese government has set out the most comprehensive statement on AI any Australian government has made. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
You're riled up. It might be the overnight 30 cent hike in the price of a litre of petrol. Or the half day wasted waiting for the plumber to turn...
Australia's inwardly focused immigration debate is a tawdry exercise heaving with more politics than policy. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
When the Australian Education Union announced this Thursday's two-hour strike, parents braced for yet another disruption. Subscribe now for...
Every once in a while, we get a planetary alignment of evidence so significant that you have to pay attention. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
The flowers that bloom in the Spring - tra la, Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Breathe promise of merry...
James Saunders's new book, Fighting for Country, a biography of Captain Reg Saunders, an Indigenous soldier in two wars, will no doubt reveal...
Tony Burke was late to the National Press Club to announce the government's migration policy on Thursday. Six weeks late, to be precise....
Good policy makes good politics, Paul Keating used to say. The converse is not necessarily true. When the making of policy is subordinated to mere...
I think I'd love to have philosophers in charge of everything. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I feel...
Federal Transport Minister Catherine King has accepted a lifetime Platinum status from Qantas. This astonishingly generous perk, accrued over a...
For an older Canberran living alone, the local club may be the one place they regularly go where someone knows their name. Losing it means more than...
In 1998, the then-prime minister John Howard rejected the idea that the Australian War Memorial should commemorate Aboriginal people who died in the...
I've been living under intense surveillance for the past 13 years. Every movement monitored. Every step followed. Every conversation overheard....
We're hoping that the ACT planning minister is brave enough to send a signal to developers that it's not okay to grab community use sites,...
Access Canberra, aka the Territory Planning Authority, had all the chance in the world to save Big Splash as a water park for the national capital....
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a flawed measure. Economists have known this for as long as we've been measuring it. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Clinton election strategist James Carville was on the money in 1992 when he coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid." Subscribe now...
Who knows when and how the end will come for humanity? Will an overheated climate make life impossible? Or will artificial intelligence (AI) decide...
Allocating 73 per cent of a $560 million community infrastructure program to government-held seats: approximately $409 million. Subscribe now for...
Here's an interesting figure: Australia's household debt (mortgages, credit cards, loans etc) is $3400 billion. Australia's total...
Albo's old home was down the road a few blocks from where I lived - if you could call it "living" back then. Subscribe now for...
Jacqui Lambie nailed it last week when she opened fire on Pauline Hanson. Every round hit the target. But it was the headshot which impressed me the...
At this time, 25 years ago, traumatised emergency services personnel were still working an enormous pile of glass, concrete and torn metal, with its...
It's a solution of some kind, or a step closer. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading But it could be a...
"You're blind but your life is better than mine," she told me, and it was impossible not to agree. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
At this time, 25 years ago, traumatised emergency services personnel were still working an enormous pile of glass, concrete and torn metal, with its...
"It must have been absolutely terrifying for Ms Ticehurst to die knowing that her worst fears had been realised." Subscribe now for...
It's not all men, but it's almost always men. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading A series of sexual...
Most Australians believe disasters happen to someone else. Until they don't. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
Anthony Albanese has acquired another cross to bear over recent months. It's one that will dog him, the more so for having come up in both One...
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had seen before. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
Do we all have fantasy jobs? The work we might have done if we'd had the right skills or talents? And if we had those jobs, would we then be...
I wish I grew up in a world without the algorithm. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I hate the algorithm. I...
I swore I would never stray. Not this old-fashioned guy. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Unfaithful friends...
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