Victoria’s per capita public debt now stands at $28,000 per man, woman and child – 40 per cent higher than that of the other major states. But the state’s looming fiscal disaster is merely one symptom of a state in much broader disarray.
Let’s face it: 1973 and 1974, not 1788, better explains this long-scale traumatic hurt and human damage to Aboriginal Australia.
Rupert Murdoch’s first national daily upholds a time-honoured mission even as it meets modern challenges.
The strength of our democracy relies on informed citizens, but a flawed draft history curriculum, if accepted, will put that at risk.
As the centre of electoral gravity shifts for the Coalition, one thing stands out: the good old bankable blue-ribbon Liberal heartland is dead.
Tim Gurner’s frustration has a long pedigree in Australian history. It goes back to the first generation of bosses tearing their hair out over slack, idle convicts.
When ‘spontaneous violence’ looms as a real prospect, we would do well to remember that whatever the outcome of the voice we’re going to have to live with it for a long time to come.
The latest progressive wave is not new but it is threatening to crash our party-political system.
We can’t rewrite our history, but we can rethink the way we talk about it.
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