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Waive obligation for artists to apply for jobs
Artists largely missed out on JobKeeper payments under the 12 months employment rule yet they are still obliged to apply for scarce jobs and turn…
Police lockdown intimidating
500 armed Victorian police officers stopping 3,000 residents in nine public housing towers from leaving is, to say the least, heavy-handed. It must be confusing…
EV Strategy – still waiting
With much of the world powering on with electric vehicle targets and Australia an embarrassing laggard, the Government finally agreed late last year to release…
Collaery update
Professor Spencer Zifcak explains today in The Conversation why the Bernard Collaery case is one of the gravest threats to freedom of expression in this…
Missile madness
Australia should not be spending $270 billion more on arms. With the world awash with weapons that could wipe out the planet many times over,…
Wrong way on Arts funding
The Government’s $250 million package will breathe some life into the ailing arts sector but $90 million is for loans, not grants and government will…
LONGER READS
Government incompetence on the environment – EPBC update
Last Thursday, the Federal Auditor-General handed down a damning report into the Referrals, Assessments and Approvals of Controlled Actions under the EPBC Act 1999. Here’s…
Mental health plan no answer to surge in youth job losses
The Federal Government’s National Mental Health and Wellbeing Pandemic Response Plan, announced on Friday 15 May, is grand enough in its rhetoric but the money…
Energy at the crossroads
This is the right time for governments to reshape the economy so it’s fit for purpose for at least the next few decades. Australia is…
Better-funded science can avoid health crises. Here’s why.
The covid-19 pandemic has exposed just how fragile the global economy is. In a matter of days, the world was turned on its head.
