What Sutton should have said … ‘I had to eat!’
When faced with criticism for attending an awards soiree in Canberra last week, Victoria’s chief health officer should have taken a leaf out of Christine Nixon’s book.
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Don’t blame podium-loving Palaszczuk for exacerbating the problem of over-50s holding out for the Pfizer vaccine. That fault lies solely with Winton.
Why would you feel sympathy for Folau?
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Victimising vaccine-hesitant won’t work
Harangue them your hardest, sneer at them – even threaten to curtail their rights – but you will achieve nothing, other than exacerbate the problem.
Gender quotas and an emasculated police force
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Fighting white privilege from the Chairman’s Lounge
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Q+A spreads mistruths on Indigenous history
To assert that patriarchy, misogyny were unknown in Australia before European settlement contradicts scientific findings.
A middle-finger salute to angry ideologues
Those who incessantly and noisily demand the world be adjusted to suit their wants and needs deserve a short reply.
Christians trigger the tolerati
After Nine’s sympathetic interview, it’s worth remembering Jenny Morrison was not the one who donned blackface in the 1990s.
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