RK writes that in all the handwringing about the manosphere and DV, a simple truth gets lost: the vast majority of Australian men are genuinely good people.
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Posted inOpinion, Social
Opinion: why Australians must stand up for the arts
Educator Cathryn Horvat writes that the arts have always shown up for us at weddings and funerals, in ceremony and celebration, in classrooms and theatres, for grief, memory, possibility and hope. Showing up for them now means protecting the teachers, subjects and pathways through which another generation can find what they do not yet know they need.
Posted inOpinion, Regulars, Social
Denise’s Desk: Something Doesn’t Quite Add Up
Denise says there is a substantial disconnect between Australia’s economic data and much of the reporting about it.
Posted inOpinion, Political, Regulars, Social
Begin Rant: Mars is the Northern Tablelands, not the North Shore
RK Crosby writes that there is a huge opportunity for data centres in our region, but we shouldn’t wait for state and federal governments or AI companies to realise it.
Posted inOpinion, Social
Opinion | Closing The Gap: What exactly is being measured here?
Professor Peter Anderson, the Pro-Vice Chancellor Indigenous at UNE, asks whether we are measuring how far Indigenous people are from a national benchmark, or whether institutions are meeting their obligations.
Posted inOpinion, Regulars, Social
Denise’s Desk | Pauline and me
Denise says that she and Pauline Hanson have more in common than you might think.
Posted inOpinion, Social
Opinion: Breaking through the infloglut: the vicious cycle between information overload and anger
COVID, global warming, conspiracy theorists, natural disasters, financial collapses — and a sham social media ban. It’s no wonder young Australians are glum, writes Professor Axel Bruns
Posted inOpinion, Regulars, Social
Denise’s Desk: The $1,200 Lesson Hidden in a Wedding Dress
Denise writes there are practical skills, trades and crafts sitting right under our noses for which there is genuine demand, good money and, in some cases, employers crying out for people.
Posted inFeatured, Opinion, Social
Opinion: Counting the cost-of-living, angrily
Mark Kenny writes that fights over multiculturalism and gender are hiding the core of the nation’s despair — rising economic inequality.
Posted inOpinion, Political, Social
Opinion: The collapse of trust in facts
Ned Watt and Michelle Riedlinger say the modern fact-checking movement launched 25 years ago but is now in retreat — just as it’s needed more than ever.