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Overcrowded, unreliable V/line trains are here to stay

20 April, 2017 - Regional train travellers should prepare to stand for long periods, with V/line CEO James Pinder today conceding there is no plan to cut overcr...

NAPLAN testing riddled with errors – not just with the online roll out

20 April, 2017 - The Australian Greens are calling on the NAPLAN testing model to be reviewed following the latest flaw, a failed online roll-out, and reports t...

Peter Dutton's values are not Australian values

20 April, 2017 - Peter Dutton and Malcolm Turnbull's rolling citizenship announcements are a transparently desperate attempt to win back votes from Pauline Hans...

Victorian ‘environment’ minister opposes plastic bag ban

20 April, 2017 - Victoria’s environment department today outsourced the role of reducing marine plastic pollution to the big supermarkets, refusing to back the ...

LNP kow-towing to big donors over communities with promise of more casinos

20 April, 2017 - The Liberal-National party’s pledge to relax criteria for two new casinos in regional Queensland is more proof they’re putting the interests of...

Lest we forget

20 April, 2017 - Senator Scott Ludlam “Let silent contemplation be your offering.” Those are the words etched before the flame of remembrance under the shadow o...

A double bind

20 April, 2017 - Derek Hamilton Understanding the terminology Gender dysphoria is a developmental disorder, essentially a neurological mis-wiring, locked deep ...

The long, steep drop from Rio

20 April, 2017 - Michael Berkman The Rio Declaration, the Convention on Biological Diversity and Agenda 21 that flowed from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 seem to...

Government to put university out of reach for low income students

19 April, 2017 - The Australian Greens have slammed the Government’s plans to hit university students with higher fees and force graduates to pay their HELP/HEC...

Government to put university out of reach for low income students

19 April, 2017 - The Australian Greens have slammed the Government’s plans to hit university students with higher fees and force graduates to pay their HELP/HEC...

Victoria alone in opposing safe cycling laws

19 April, 2017 - The Victorian government is now alone in opposing minimum bicycle overtaking distance laws following the Western Australian Labor government's ...

Mental illness "one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century"

19 April, 2017 - "The findings of the Mission Australia and Black Dog Five Year Mental Health Youth Report that almost one in four young people are likely to ha...

Making light work of political cartoons

19 April, 2017 - Emma Davidson One of the many benefits of living in Canberra is easy access to our national institutions, especially when they run special work...

Janet stands up for Australia's anti-discrimination laws

18 April, 2017 - This debate [on weakening Australia's anti-discrimination laws] is not happening in a vacuum. It is not something confined to the chambers of t...

Janet speaks on Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching

18 April, 2017 - I have only had the privilege of visiting the Great Barrier Reef once. It was just over a decade ago. I was there with my family, with my kids....