I write on behalf of many concerned residents to express our town’s absolute opposition to the proposed 68.50% rate rise, alongside the rise of the rubbish charge.
New England Times Engage
Posted inSocial
Tech to enforce Australia’s under-16s social media ban is flawed
Australia’s move to ban under-16s from social media is receiving widespread praise, but can it actually be done?
Posted inPolitics, Think
Can we be a little bit brave?
The big majority and friendly Senate the election has delivered Albanese could be bad, or it could be very, very good. Will it entice the conservative and cautious Albanese to be a little bit brave?
Posted inSocial
Banning young people from social media won’t work.
Banning young people from social media sounds like a silver bullet. Global evidence suggests otherwise.
Posted inPolitics
Sussan Ley: The Path Forward
New leader of the Federal Liberal Party Sussan Ley says she will fight for the values of the party she has committed to rebuild.
Posted inPolitics
Sussan Ley makes history, but faces unprecedented levels of difficulty
As if by visual metaphor, Sussan Ley’s task seemed both obvious and impossible in her first press conference as the new Liberal leader.
Posted inPolitics
Accessibility, not affordability, the cry of increasingly abandoned rural voters
What the city pundits failed to grasp in their endless vapid analysis of the election is that regional frustration isn’t about affordability, it’s about accessibility.
Posted inSocial
Labour is still gendered – and women are still getting a raw deal in the workplace
Cordelia Fine’s Patriarchy Inc. demonstrates that inequality is a result of policies, written and unwritten, within workplaces and across the economy.
Posted inOpinion, Solutions
Australia’s Unfinished Business: The Path to a Treaty and Recognition of First Nations Sovereignty.
For over two centuries, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have endured the profound injustices of colonisation, dispossession, and systemic marginalisation.
Posted inQuick Word
QW: Universal living wage. Cost of living.
“Cost of living” COL is a crisis resulting from prices rising faster than income.