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Climate Act review calls for government with character

It began as a routine campaign stop by prime minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney last week to announce a billion-dollar mental health package. But it was vision of an agitated climate protester being hustled off the scene by security guards … Continue reading

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Sinister undertones in Trump’s power plays

The political scientists say that there are three branches of democratic government: the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. Historians add other essential elements: the news media, the satirists, and of course the voters. All these ingredients are now coming … Continue reading

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The Clinking: a beautiful, important story

“There was no apocalypse, no singular cataclysmic event… just the passing of each day under the accumulating weight of evidence….” That’s how a new, landmark Tasmanian novel set a few decades into the future describes the changing climate just before … Continue reading

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