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Age readers react to what Australia Day stands for.

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Immigration Minister Andrew Giles

Time to end political point-scoring over freed detainees and crime

The current blame game is setting a low bar for Australia’s political discourse. A sober, balanced assessment of the problem is urgently required.

  • The Age's View
The proposed Treasury Square development project at Jolimont Rail Yards.

This large, ugly excrescence risks wrecking Melbourne for decades to come

To be built over the Jolimont rail yards, it’s called Treasury Square. In fact, what is proposed is simply a dense set of three buildings – no open public square in sight. Will we allow our city to slide into squalor once again?

  • Norman Day
End of the Golden Age of TV composite with The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad.

How corporate greed is killing the ‘golden age’ of television

The churn and burn strategy adopted by streaming giants means we may never see shows like The Wire, Six Feet Under or Breaking Bad on screens again.

  • Glen Dolman
Scammers are spruiking actual Telstra bonds with the incorrect return.

We reached the spending cliff – but the jobs cliff awaits

Conventionally, a slowdown in the economy would have triggered companies to shed staff, but convention is being challenged by a counter-trend – staff hoarding.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Nelson Mandela votes in Johannesburg in 2011, assisted by his granddaughter Ndileka Mandela.

Nelson Mandela is my grandfather. His courage can guide our climate battle

Moral challenges require leaders who can provide a moral framework that political goals can leverage. Except now we need it on a global scale.

  • Ndileka Mandela
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Author Salman Rushdie, attacked at a forum to discuss freedom of expression.

Rushdie attack: naive Westerners still refuse to accept truth about Iran’s evil regime

Iran never has lifted the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie, even as the West pretended it could be trusted.

  • Stephen Pollard
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall at their wedding ceremony in London in 2016.

I was feeling old but Murdoch’s divorce cheered me

The man is 91 and he can still be bothered to not only run a giant media empire and go on boats but to get divorced.

  • Kate Halfpenny
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