I’ve had many people tell me in recent months they were grateful to those of us who sought to give voice to their doubts. The least we can do is to learn from our mistakes and ensure they are not repeated.
Cameras manufactured by companies linked to grave human rights abuses are monitoring public spaces all over Australia, and potentially providing backdoor access to footage to other bad actors.
Premiers have sung a chorus of condemnation towards the embattled, allegedly corruption-riddled CFMEU as each moved to clamp down and remedy their prospective state unions.
Senior Labor and union figures said federal intervention was the best way to deal with the serious allegations against the union.
CFMEU national secretary Zach Smith has promised an inquiry but refuses to criticise John Setka, former head of the union’s Victorian division, which faces allegations of criminal behaviour.
The Victorian government’s reluctance to expedite the Melbourne Airport rail project comes after it booked a $5bn saving in its May budget by declaring the project had been delayed by at least four years.
In Ralph Lewinsohn’s kibbutz of about 800 people, 63 were killed and 18 taken hostage by Hamas, with five hostages still unaccounted for in Gaza nine months later.
Land tax bills for some businesses have increased more than tenfold over the past five years, as the Victorian government scrambles to rein in its rising debt.
Victoria’s chamber of commerce is warning that the state government’s energy policy has the state on a trajectory which will cause the ‘closure of manufacturing and other gas-reliant businesses’.
The move to trial pill testing comes after sustained pressure from the Greens, Animal Justice and Legalise Cannabis parties, upon whose votes the Allan government relies in Victoria’s upper house.
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