How are shonky ticketing sites still allowed to operate?
Ticket scalping websites have a business model of creating baseless panic and preying on confusion. So how are they still allowed to operate in Australia, asks David Penberthy.
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We owe everything to volunteer firefighters
With the fire season now well and truly upon us, let’s hope all Australian towns can walk away telling the same incredible story as Edithburgh in South Australia, writes David Penberthy.
Facebook needs to follow Westpac’s lead
Westpac may not deserve any praise, but they did eventually act on child exploitation. Which is far more than can be said for the world’s largest social media publisher, writes David Penberthy.
Hanson-Young was right to fight verbal attacks
Well done Sarah Hanson-Young for standing up to verbal abuse and for showing that slurs against women too often include sex and gender, writes David Penberthy.
Our obsession with safety is making kids miserable
All my sons want for Christmas is a trampoline, writes David Penberthy. But in the eyes of some parents, I might as well throw them off a cliff. What ever happened to kids being kids?
Prince Andrew makes a compelling argument for a republic
The fact that a man, once friends with a convicted paedophile and commonly referred to as Randy Andy, could be our head of state should have us worried — and talking, writes David Penberthy.
Greens’ bushfire blame game has exposed the worst in us
With most of the eastern seaboard ablaze this week, the message from some hasn’t been to come together, but to drive each other further apart, writes David Penberthy. What an utter disgrace.
Fair mayor makes our pollies look like galahs
In the dusty western reaches of SA lies a community whose local government is experimenting with a radical new approach to politics – talking to its people, writes David Penberthy
Paying workers properly shouldn’t be this hard
Whether it’s the sniff test, the front bar test or the barbecue test, there isn’t a one that corporate Australia can pass when it comes to the chronic underpayment of workers, writes David Penberthy.
This isn’t racism — it’s the Far Left at its worst
You’d think that an Australian horse winning the Melbourne Cup this week would be cause for celebration. But according to some on the Left, it’s racism at its worst, writes David Penberthy.
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