“Cost of living” COL is a crisis resulting from prices rising faster than income.
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QW: Vittoria student living in Tenterfield
Vittoria from Turino, my family are from Piedmont although I was born in Australia and I visit regularly to Torre Pellice where it all started. Turino is a beautiful city on the river Po with the country side and the alps enhancing the district. Vittoria enjoy your time in our country as much as I […]
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QW: Why we are losing a generation of journos
Journos are more important than at any other time in history. With a plethora of fake news infiltrating social media, it is important that the media puts the facts out there. Society fails when it runs on bull dust.
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Letter: Voters pinning their hopes on cost of living relief from a Coalition government should think again.
Peter Dutton’s shadow treasurer, Angus Taylor, was asked repeatedly on ABC radio recently to name a single Coalition policy to combat cost of living pressures.
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QW: Nuclear losing support
Nuclear does not make sense if renewables can supply 100% energy. however that is far from clear. Renewables supply 35% today but unlikely to supply all. We need another source. Coal gas Ok short term but not long term.
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QW: Barnaby no-show at all candidate forums
Barnaby owes it to his electorate to show up to all ‘meet the candidates’ across the electorate. What thinking person would vote for a candidate that can’t be bothered to attend these meetings
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QW: Decentralisation the way to prosperity
Planning for the future decentralisation is the foundation of which Australia should be looking at, for rather than continually creating more of the same within our larger cities opening up the country offers a way forward in not only lowering cost of living standards but offering growth and prosperity once again like in the past.
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Letter: Barnaby’s legacy just rotten policy
Barnaby Joyce was told it was a bad idea to move the pesticides regulator (APVMA) to Armidale and he did it anyway.
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QW: RU OK Barnaby?
I saw at the candidate forum in Armidale that someone had written on a card for Barnaby Joyce: “R U OK? (serious question)” I was thinking the same thing. I know he’s not that old, but he hasn’t looked well for a while. Y’know, when we actually see him. Maybe he’s just tired?
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Letter: Nuclear support melting down; water question unanswered
RE-Alliance has been working with rural and regional communities navigating energy projects for more than a decade. We recently released polling across several proposed nuclear communities, which found support for nuclear reactors in those communities was very low. The polling of 1250 regional residents was conducted by respected research firm 89 Degrees East, which is a member of the Research Society of Australia. The data revealed only 22% of […]