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The Arts
The issues | The arts have a long tradition of shaping our society and have an important part to play…
Biodiversity
The issues | Australia is a megadiverse continent supporting 7.8% of the world’s described species. More than 90% of our…
The Environment
Spending on the protection and restoration of nature isn’t just a nice-to-have item. More than half our GDP relies on…
Reforming the Constitution
The issues | The Australian people have not agreed to proposed changes to the Constitution in more than three decades….
Lobbying
The issues | Anyone is free to lobby their local member, the parliament or even the Prime Minister. Lobbyists and activists…
Schooling
The issues | Most young Australians receive a good education and perform above the OECD average for mathematics, reading and science….
Securing the Nation
The issues | Australia’s defence strategy should be coherent and have our national interest at its core. We should not…
Let’s have truth in political advertising
The issues | We are now in an era of post-truth, an age of disinformation. Political advertising campaigns should be…
Housing security
The issues | The fact that one of the least populated countries on Earth contains the world’s second most expensive…
The Drill – Are EVs really the green future
By Grahame Elder Before we start a quick recap. Last episode, the DRILL wrote about vaping and the proliferation of tobacco outlets. Subsequently the DRILL contacted local organisations and the Hornsby Shire Council, who recommended: THAT Council write to the (NSW) Minister for Planning and Public Spaces requesting changes to planning controls…
Vaping, by Grahame Elder
The DRILL is back, looking at the evidence behind topical issues. And since the last DRILL on nuclear small modular reactors (nuclear SMRs), the Liberal National party have made SMRs a centrepiece of their ‘clean’ energy policy. Here’s the link to that article if you want to refresh why the…
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Protesters criminalised but who’s at fault?
Five state governments have now passed tough new laws with powers to put protesters in jail, such is the battle now raging between governments…
Time to give up on ‘solidarity’
Just as the States are passing legislation to stop coercive control, Labor is using it on Senator Payman, ‘for the good of the Labor…
SA’s political donation ban
We welcome the plan to ban all political donations announced by South Australian Premier, Peter Malinauskas, ahead of the next state election. The plan…