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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
Justice Kirby Could Have Told Them…
It was two pints of ale into the evening when I was asked the question I had been expecting for some time: “What do you think about this Voice referendum?”
My companion at the pub, a distinguished visiting professor from Britain, would have been in no doubt about the answer given the present kulturkampf in Inner Sydney. From the multitude of Yes T-shirts, Yes lapel badges, Yes corflutes, Yes electronic signage, Yes flags, the monolithic Yes position in the respectable media, in academe, in … well, you get the idea.
I simply said, “Irrespective of the merits of the argument, No will win”. Had I been a bit more confident, I would have gone further and said that I expected No would win in every state.
“No will win because of two reasons – the small ‘c’ conservative nature of Australian voters. And the Yes campaign has broken every single one of the Kirby Rules.”
Having been involved in politics as an amateur and professional for more than three decades, I am…
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
