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Private coaching entrenches school inequality
A reader asks when governments will lift funding to poorer schools.
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Blame game is the most overplayed Trump card
Donald Trump’s criticism of President Joe Biden and Californian Governor Gavin Newsom over the Los Angeles wildfires is starkly at odds with his support for the fossil fuel industry, a reader writes.
Flame trees’ fiery warning for tinderbox Aussie bush
The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles hold important lessons for Australia which, like California, has large forests of highly flammable (introduced) eucalypt trees, which are nicknamed “gasoline trees” in the US.
Fixing hospitals should take priority over fast rail
Living on the Central Coast, I am all for the construction of a high-speed rail link to Sydney. Currently it takes approximately the same time (1.5 hours) to drive from Gosford to the CBD on an increasingly crowded M1 as a train service that is frustratingly slow in sections.
The bank of nan and pop has undermined the fair go
Jordan Baker’s article about the growing ubiquity of the bank of nan and pop in the payment of school fees should make us very concerned about the direction our society has decided to follow.
Where’s the good in Riverwood? Get a heart!
With the number of homeless aged people on the rise, how heartwarming it would have been if the residents of Hardwicke Street had put out the welcome mat.
Look beyond left and right for a climate solution
Malcolm Knox is asking politicians to stop engaging in the toxic left v right divide that plagues our politics on every level.
Negative Peter Dutton drags the country backwards
Peter Dutton has shown nothing but negativity, choosing political point scoring over positive policies that would improve the life of Australians.
We need to exercise common sense before trundling off to a GP
A substantial number of patients who see a GP are suffering a minor ailment or illness that resolves on its own.
Coalition haunted by its anti-Medicare history
Liberal spokesperson Anne Ruston claims that “the Coalition always has, and always will, invest in Medicare”. Well, except when under Malcolm Fraser they demolished Medibank and opposed any changes to the ramshackle health scheme we had.
We are still paying cost of Howard’s housing failure
The 2004 cabinet papers are smoking-gun evidence of Howard and Costello’s wilful and damaging dithering on housing policy.
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