No more beating around the bush for the ABC
An ombudsman for the ABC is long overdue — this taxpayer-funded news service should have to live by the same transparency it demands of everyone else, writes Vikki Campion.
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The ABC ignores half of Australia, let’s give it half the funds
Private media companies are accountable to their shareholders, why does the ABC not have to answer to its investors — the Australian taxpayers, writes Vikki Campion.
Left fail to acknowledge the real issues we confront
The sobering issue is not terrorism or even the Taliban in Afghanistan. Apparently the way we are going to defend ourselves in the new world is with climate policy, Vikki Campion writes.
Extinction Rebellion is a cult of the environment
If you believe no carbon is good carbon, why would you burn a pram in protest and create the carbon you object to, asks Vikki Campion.
Parliamentary privilege should not be a get out of jail free card
The origin of parliamentary privilege was to protect politicians, but it has morphed into a tool used to destroy the integrity of opponents, writes Vikki Campion.
Stop pushing Aussies around with illogical rules
When you stop the chippies from going to work, stop kids from seeing grandma with an arbitrary boundary, you lose the people who have given us the lowest Covid death rate in the world, Vikki Campion writes.
You can kill nan … unless she identifies as a man
How is it possible that referring to a person as “he” or “she” instead of “they” is now considered cruel, but sending grandma to an early grave is not, Vikki Campion asks.
Unfeasible ‘feasibility’ studies hurt our communities
Years ago, tobacco stopped being grown in Australia after government-funded studies decided against it. Why are these studies still determining what we can and can’t do, Vikki Campion asks.
Funding needed to protect people on our streets
A government fund originally intended to address crime or anti-social behaviour in public is now being used to stop terrorist attacks instead of protecting people on the street, Vikki Campion writes.
National Cabinet needs to take control
Our eight Premiers are acting as kings and queens of their fiefdoms they fail to acknowledge they all actually live in one nation. And that has to change, Vikki Campion writes.
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