Dastyari had to go, but China the bigger issue
SAM Dastyari wasn’t the disease, he was merely the symptom of China’s systematic meddling in the affairs of foreign countries, writes James Morrow.
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Editorial: Now Jason Falinski is in citizenship frame
AFTER a week in which the rolling citizenship crisis threatened to finally wash over any number of Labor members comes word that once again the Liberals are in the frame with Liberal MP Jason Falinski now facing his own issues.
Can of worms a load of rubbish
There are some ideas so daft only a government could cook them up. Such as NSW’s new container deposit scheme.
Jail privatisation by stealth
A SNEAKY benchmarking process is putting public jails against private operators, putting everyone at risk.
Trump’s Israel shift may finally lead to peace
Donald Trump’s move to shift the United States’ embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is being portrayed in many quarters as more controversial than a week’s worth of Milo shows. But it has the potential to break through the fifty-year deadlock that has been the “peace process”.
Editorial: Estimates of influence
PARLIAMENTARY estimates hearings, while perhaps a bit dry to those who live outside the Canberra bubble, are in fact one of the great accountability checks built into our transparent Australian democracy.
ANZ Stadium was built for athletes, not football
Just when we hoped that throwing $2 billion or more at new facilities would end Sydney’s long running “stadium wars” a new battlefront has opened an ideological chasm across the city. Petitions at fifty paces, threats of contract cancellations, duelling front pages and political hysteria abound.
Editorial: Section 44, Labor’s turn
FOR the past several weeks we have heard Labor, and in particular Bill Shorten, sanctimoniously declare that the ALP’s party room was made up of 100 per cent Australians with no dual nationalities or extra passports hanging around in the back of a sock drawer. But that confidence would appear to have been misplaced.
Editorial: Close teacher sex loophole
PARENTS should have a reasonable expectation that when they send their children to school, they will not be seduced by their teachers — and that if that does happen, the law will step in and act. But a bizaare legal loophole has helped a teacher avoid jail for just that.
Stadium investment will help secure NSW future
THE NSW government’s investment in stadiums is an investment in the future of our state and it is not a decision just for today but an investment with a 30-year return, writes NSW Minister for Sport Stuart Ayres.
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