April 21st 2018
Articles from this issue:COVER STORY The deeper causes of Australia's social malaise GENDER POLITICS Queensland proposes transgender birth certificates CANBERRA OBSERVED Malcolm at 30 (polls): the cloud on Turnbull's horizon NATIONAL AFFAIRS Cardinal Pell firmly denies sex abuse allegations NATIONAL AFFAIRS Sydney Archdiocese aims to eliminate slavery in supply chain RURAL DEVELOPMENT Irrigation along Fitzroy River proposed and opposed LIFE ISSUES Abortion Rethink Summit: the case for care VERBATIM WA food, drink producers face shortage of carbon dioxide HOUSING AFFORDABILITY Land costs: economist Henry George's solution ELECTRICITY Will Turnbull lose three out of three? ECONOMICS Trade wars: tariffs unlikely to be fired in anger SEX AND TEENS How about support for the abstaining majority? VISUAL ARTS Layers of meaning in Botticelli's La Primavera and The Birth of Venus MUSIC Is it good?: Or, do we just like the sound it makes? CINEMA The Death of Stalin: Black comedy of a dark time BOOK REVIEW Cool head on topic that generates heat BOOK REVIEW Life's not so bad: from the outside POETRY LETTERS Books promotion page
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Green Energy, Green Car |
Australia has the unique ability to reduce its carbon emissions, the cost of a carbon-trading system, its dependence on imported oil and cars and thereby cut its burgeoning foreign debt. |
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NCC Strategic Report 2008 |
For 200 years Australia has depended on first the British and then the US strategic umbrellas for military protection.
Over this period Australia welcomed foreign investment, first from Britain and later from the US and nations of the Western Alliance. This investment was vital to the development of Australia’s resources, infrastructure and industries. |
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Making the Internet Safe |
Public concern is growing rapidly over the vast and growing array of seriously disturbing and illegal content on the internet.
There is no one “silver bullet” capable of filtering such content. However, as a matter of principle, what is illegal in other forms should also be illegal on the internet. Sites with illegal content should be shut down, or if they originate overseas, be blocked by filters. |
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AustraliaÂ's Water Management Crisis |
Urgent solutions
- a moratorium on permanent water-trade
- build a weir at Wellington in SA to save 1,000,000 megalitres p.a.
- Governments to comprehensively consult with all irrigation groups in the Basin
- Governments to bring back high-level expertise for a Basin crisis management-team
- Investigate emergency water supply measures
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FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT |
Australia doesn’t export 80 per cent of its agriculture as widely believed. It exports around 25 per cent by value at second stage production, according to research done over a decade ago by economist, Dr Mark McGovern. Yet agricultural policy is almost exclusively aimed at the export market. As farm profits continue their long-term decline and food imports continue to rise, Australia faces becoming a net importer of food in the not too distant future. |
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Trending articlesENVIRONMENT Europe's freeze further proof of global warming! INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Sexual exploitation at Oxfam symptom of culture of death COVER STORY Media ensure a comfy rise for Bill Shorten INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Middle-East time bomb: youth unemployment CANBERRA OBSERVED Can Liberals' broad church survive schism? GENDER POLITICS Queensland proposes transgender birth certificates NATIONAL AFFAIRS The deeper causes of Australia's social malaise
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