Opinions

OPINION

Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone

In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home Affairs Minister to cancel someone’s Centrelink payment if they are suspected of a serious crime.

OPINION

Northern Australia is extraordinary, and it’s under severe threat

Right now, this region, is under siege, in large part due to insatiable corporate and government desires to ‘develop’ the North.

OPINION

Australia’s health system is in intensive care, and the GST flatline is to blame

Richard Denniss

OPINION

Power for its own sake, and to hell with courage – Labor has lost its way

Amy Remeikis

OPINION

Cutting red tape shows that when we ‘trust the market’ taxpayers usually end up footing the bill

Richard Denniss

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Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny

Virginia Young

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We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment

Kasy Chambers

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Facts are among the biggest casualties in the war against renewable energy

Amy Remeikis

OPINION

Excessive unpaid overtime: What exactly is the problem and how will it be solved?

Fiona Macdonald

OPINION

How many extra possums does it take to compensate for a dead platypus?

Richard Denniss

That’s the kind of calculation a bureaucrat would literally have to make under Environment Minister Murray Watt’s new ‘environmental laws’.