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Anzac Day rightly highlights sacrifice, but it also spotlights shortcomings

Anzac Day has become, quite rightly, a revered public holiday. It provides a poignant occasion each year to reflect upon and commemorate the...

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We should dare to dream of a Docklands that isn’t dreadful

On the western edge of the city, at the mouth of Victoria Harbour, lies a perplexing planning and political legacy. The Docklands may be only three...

19.04.2024 10

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World watching as Trump finally fronts courtroom

For all his bluster, bad-mouthing and myriad delay attempts, former US president Donald Trump finally found himself in court this week facing charges...

16.04.2024 30

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Asbestos fail: Allan government should have heeded the warning signs

On April 3, The Age revealed a dad had found asbestos, along with other building waste, nestled in the mulch at a popular Melbourne playground....

12.04.2024 6

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Bad for transparency, bad for democracy: The bill the state government should drop or change

Few people may know of it, but the Public Record Office Victoria is a unique body that collects and safeguards a selection of original documents...

09.04.2024 9

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Society’s progress on autism has long way to go

In 2013, just as Australia began rolling out its long-awaited National Disability Insurance Scheme, the globally recognised clinical definition of...

05.04.2024 10

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Heed rising chorus of critics over freedom of information law

There are some things that most people agree on when it comes to Victoria’s freedom of information laws: they are dysfunctional, excessively biased...

02.04.2024 10

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Can Crown be trusted in future? We’re not convinced

The decision by the state’s gambling watchdog, the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, to allow Crown Resorts to retain its licence is...

26.03.2024 10

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Time for Dutton to pump the brakes on ‘ute tax’ rhetoric

The Coalition is right: Australians do love their cars, particularly utes. A walk through any building site car park would demonstrate that, as did...

12.03.2024 10

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The words that should haunt America and serve as a warning to Australians

When US President Joe Biden opened his State of the Union address, he sought to harness a collective nostalgia for America’s past. He recalled the...

08.03.2024 40

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Marketing of tanning products on social media is reprehensible

It was just over 40 years ago that the Cancer Council launched its first Slip, Slop, Slap campaign, with Sid the singing seagull encouraging people to...

05.03.2024 8

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Content deal with Facebook, Google critical for Australian journalism

Three years ago, the federal government put in place groundbreaking laws forcing Meta, the owner of Facebook, and Google to pay media companies for...

27.02.2024 7

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Well past closing time on parliamentary drinking culture

Stories of Australia’s national political leaders imbibing too much alcohol go as far back as our first prime minister, Edmund Barton, a renowned...

20.02.2024 10

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Energy system should not be a high wire act

Neighbours heated water for tea on their barbecue. A widow couldn’t call her daughter. Some tried calling triple zero, but found the line was dead....

16.02.2024 7

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Buck stops with nobody in embarrassing fallout from Home Affairs scandals

The buck stops with me. It’s a phrase often invoked by politicians to signify their willingness to bear the consequences of their decisions or,...

13.02.2024 7

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Silence not an option in face of China’s injustice

It was at Guangzhou airport in China that Yang Hengjun phoned a friend to say he was being followed by three men. After the call, Yang was not heard...

06.02.2024 7

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State input on schools funding doesn’t add up

As more than 1 million Victorian students started their school year this week, the Albanese government unveiled a four-year public school funding deal...

02.02.2024 5

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Rail review just another Pesutto pledge that melts under scrutiny

This year will mark 10 years since Labor, under the leadership of former premier Daniel Andrews, came to power. While the state government will surely...

30.01.2024 10

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Melbourne is lucky to have the Open, and the Open is lucky to have Melbourne

Millions of people around the world have been treated to some first-class tennis from this year’s Australian Open, made all the more interesting by...

27.01.2024 10

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Breaking a promise is one thing, a real plan for tax reform is another

Labor’s decision to unwind the final stage of the former Coalition government’s three-stage tax plan represents a broken promise of historical...

24.01.2024 9

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Opposition’s treaty stance is disgraceful political opportunism

Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh is correct on one count. The state’s cultural heritage system has problems. In May last year, for example, ...

22.01.2024 9

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The state government must take this golden opportunity on pill testing

Seventeen-year-old Anson, who worked in his parents’ restaurant, tried a psychedelic drug with friends one night in 2016 before having a seizure,...

19.01.2024 8

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State and federal governments must act on inundation threat

Dotted along the horsehead outline of Port Phillip Bay are distinctly Melbourne landmarks one might find photographed in a glossy Victorian tourism...

12.01.2024 6

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The latest embarrassing hack reminds us we are losing the race against cybercriminals

There would be few Victorians who do not have some form of personal information stored by private companies and government bodies. It’s an essential...

05.01.2024 20

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Why the ICC should let Khawaja have his dove and thank him for asking

Like church and state, the prevailing sentiment is that politics and sport should remain separate. This separation has been crucial to upholding the...

02.01.2024 8

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Cabinet papers on Iraq War decision MIA

One of two Diggers to die during the Iraq conflict, Jake Kovco, was shot by his own gun, and John Howard made a great show of attending the...

31.12.2023 10

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This state government promise sounded too good to be true. It now seems that it was

In his first newspaper interview after last year’s state election, then-premier Daniel Andrews was in no doubt about the effect his pledge to bring...

29.12.2023 10

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Troubling youth crime statistics serve as a warning for state’s justice reform

At the age of 10, a child is considered too young by Facebook to create an account. Airlines may refuse them a spot on a flight on some routes if they...

22.12.2023 10

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Urgent action is needed to tackle tobacco shop wars

Make no mistake about it, Victoria is in the midst of another gangland war, one that is the worst and most vicious since the infamous Underbelly wars...

19.12.2023 10

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Federal funding may not be fair, but Victoria has cruelled its credibility

At first glance, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas’ two-day shot at the Albanese government for neglecting the state’s vital infrastructure needs...

15.12.2023 10

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Tertiary sector must graduate from rorts industry

International students are Australia’s fourth-largest export industry, with the higher education system reaping $34 billion each year from tuition...

12.12.2023 7

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Victorians are already paying for the corrosion of the public service

What Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass revealed in her report this week on the politicisation of the state public service should be deeply concerning...

08.12.2023 10

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Summit offers chance to repair climate reputation

Australia has spent a decade as one of the world’s most notorious climate outsiders thanks to a particularly meagre climate policy, even within a...

01.12.2023 4

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We must never again see a public servant like Pezzullo

The sacking on Monday of public service hard man Michael Pezzullo brings to a close an appalling episode in the history of the Australian bureaucracy....

27.11.2023 8

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Failing immigration detention system in dire need of review

Born in strife-torn Sierra Leone, an orphan at nine, Moses Kellie arrived in Australia aged 21 with a humanitarian visa in hand and the dream of a new...

24.11.2023 7

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Lowering speed limits can help save lives

Change can be difficult. But often, once unpopular decisions are implemented, it can be hard to believe there was ever resistance. This is especially...

21.11.2023 4

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The days of the flat no on granny flats should be gone

The problem is plain to see for anyone trying to buy or rent a home in Melbourne. Just this week, the housing crisis was laid bare by the National...

15.11.2023 10

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Optus needs new leadership, Australia needs new rules

Tenuousness is not a word that should be associated with essential services. It is for this reason that services such as electricity, gas and water...

10.11.2023 9

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Cup field shows racing can tackle horse welfare

This city’s incomparable chronicler of the Melbourne Cup, the late Les Carlyon, told us that nothing in sport is forever. Writing in 2010 to mark...

03.11.2023 8

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The direction is clear for a city worth living in

As Melburnians, we take more than a little pride in our city’s famed liveability. Yes, we don’t have a spectacular harbour or year-round sunshine,...

27.10.2023 4

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Israel deserves the right to safety. To achieve that, it must compromise

There would be few nations in which historical grievances play such an influential role as Israel. It’s very raison d’etre is to provide a haven...

13.10.2023 10

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No more quick fixes: Real solutions needed after immigration problems laid bare

When flaws have been found in Australia’s visa and immigration systems, the federal government has historically taken a quick-fix approach. A class...

08.10.2023 10

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Allan’s credibility suffers early blow as tough challenges loom

When The Age’s state editor, Annika Smethurst, wrote a profile of then-deputy premier Jacinta Allan last year, there was a recurring sentiment from...

06.10.2023 7

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Grand final a tribute to all Barassi hoped for the great game

The 2023 grand final falls between the death of Ron Barassi two weeks ago and his state funeral on a date yet to be announced. Doubtlessly...

29.09.2023 5

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Was it the right time for Andrews to quit? One issue provides the answer

It is perhaps fitting that arguably the most consequential premier in Victoria’s history was derided as uncharismatic and unimpressive when he...

26.09.2023 8

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The piece of his own advice that Michael Pezzullo chose to ignore

Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo does not deserve to remain in his role a minute longer, stood aside or otherwise. He does not deserve the...

26.09.2023 9

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Top federal public servant Michael Pezzullo should go

The politicisation of the Australian public service is grudgingly accepted, but the secret effort of the secretary of the Department of Home Affairs,...

24.09.2023 10

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Melbourne left trailing in cycling revolution

Being one of the most liveable cities in the world is, quite justifiably, a point of pride for Melburnians. Relative to most cities, Melbourne’s...

15.09.2023 5

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Schools alone cannot tackle threat to students’ safety

When children leave for school in the morning, it’s a natural expectation that they return home at the end of the day safe and sound. That should be...

08.09.2023 2

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