While 'social distancing' measures are important, what we need more than ever to get through this crisis is 鈥渟ocial solidarity鈥, write Pip Hinman and Susan Price.
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Health professionals, community groups and the public have been arguing for some time that privatising public hospitals is a health disaster. A parliamentary inquiry has come to the same conclusion, writes Jim McIlroy.
Peter Dutton pretends not to know his right from his left. But, as Peter Boyle argues, facts have never been his strong point.
The Federal Court ruling that the federal police raid on the ABC last year was valid is a new blow to media freedoms, argues聽Jim McIlroy.
The latest fire emergency in four states has rammed home the meaning of the words 鈥渃atastrophic climate change鈥 in the minds of most people in Australia. Most now realise that this is a climate emergency and our society should mobilise all its resources to address it.
In late June, School Strike 4 Climate founder Greta Thunberg shared footage of French police pepper spraying the faces of a group of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists blocking a road in Paris.
Given the fierce police repression used against the Yellow Vests movement since it erupted in late November, this was hardly a surprise.
The most farcical side of the parliamentary banter between the Coalition and Labor regarding politicians鈥 ties to Chinese billionaires and government 鈥渁gents of foreign influence鈥 is not the pot-calling-the-kettle-black nature of their posture. It is that both studiously avoid mentioning the elephant in the room 鈥 the deeply entrenched corporate corruption of parliament and the state apparatus, writes Peter Boyle.
Revelations at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) hearing at the end of August that an Aldi shopping bag filled with $100,000 was delivered to Labor鈥檚 Sydney headquarters in March 2015 are further proof that a federal ICAC, with a lot more power than its state counterpart, is urgently needed.
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Last November, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australia will take its engagement with the region 鈥渢o a new level鈥 through a 鈥渘ew package of security, economic, diplomatic and people-to-people initiatives鈥 in the region.
A month later, the Morrison government established a new Office of the Pacific within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to support 鈥渄eepening engagement鈥 with the region.
"Australia may be the world's most secretive democracy," the reported on June 5.
The US newspaper was commenting on the raids by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on a NewsCorp journalist and then the head office of the ABC. They were looking for evidence of information provided by whistleblowers that was used in articles exposing possible crimes by the Australian military and other authorities.
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