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 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Opinion

Australia Voted for Change With New Prime Minister | Opinion

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is evidently capable of achieving the seemingly impossible.

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Atlassin co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes is pictured

Opinion

Can an Australian Billionaire Change the Face of Fossil Fuel Dependency? | Opinion

It is Mike Cannon-Brookes’ goal to use technology and investment to replace ageing coal dependency.

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Fish looking out from coral

Opinion

Australia’s Pledges to Protect Great Barrier Reef Are Too Little, Too Late | Opinion

In the past three decades, the GBR has lost more than half its coral cover, pollution has caused deadly starfish outbreaks and global warming has produced horrific coral bleaching.

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plant-based patty

Opinion

Despite High Meat Exports, Australia Is Leading the Way in Protein Alternatives | Opinion

The growth in demand for protein globally means a win-win for the livestock industry and alternative proteins businesses.

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Australia’s Prime Minister Earns ‘F’ at Home and Abroad for COP26 Bungling | Opinion

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Australia’s Prime Minister Earns ‘F’ at Home and Abroad for COP26 Bungling | Opinion

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s “Australian way” is worse than business as usual. It’s a national and international disgrace.

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Australian Parliament House

Opinion

Australia Needs a Federal Integrity Commission | Opinion

The Australian public deserve a meaningful national integrity system and the MPs who act with moral integrity deserve it too.

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Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin

Opinion

Australia is Playing a Dangerous Game With its Nuclear Submarine Deal | Opinion

Australia has seemingly created enormous economic and diplomatic divisions globally, while revealing none of the specific details around its deal to the Australian taxpaying public.

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A staff member prepares a Pfizer vaccine

Opinion

Australia Ignored Warnings on COVID Ravaging Indigenous Communities | Opinion

The Australian government neglected to address housing, accessibility and health campaign measures that all may have prevented COVID-19 deaths to date.

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Koala joey Humphrey sits

Opinion

Australia’s Koalas Face Extinction by 2050 | Opinion

If the Australian government and private sector are willing to sacrifice koalas for the sake of urban development—and continue to lag behind in addressing the impacts of climate change on our landscape—koalas and other species will likely be extinct.

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Shoppers sit with their purchases in paper

Opinion

Afterpay is Built on Underregulated Market | Opinion

Enabling consumers to use Afterpay to buy things they don’t need, or to be reckless with spending, is going to lead to the next economic crash.

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A couple walk past an advertisement

Opinion

Australia’s Failing Mental Health System Will Have Future Impact | Opinion

The cost of Australia’s failing health system is in human lives, and it is also in measurable economic and social loss.

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Judith Ann Warren modeling

Opinion

Older Models Aren’t a Passing Fashion, They Make Sense Financially and Socially | Opinion

Beyond the evident economic benefit or marketing to demographics that buy magazines, fashion and beauty products, there is a huge social benefit in portraying women in their 50s, 60s and 70s in magazines.

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Naomi Osaka of Japan attends press conference

Opinion

Female Athletes Face Greater Aggression from the Press | Opinion

Naomi Osaka is one of many women in sport who has felt bullied, patronized and disrespected by journalists. The answer is not to withdraw and refuse to partake in a considered dissection of a match.

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A very quiet Flinders Street in Melbourne

Opinion

Why is Part of Australia Experiencing a Fourth Lockdown? | Opinion

It is the Australian government that should be stepping up to support Victorians during lockdown 4.0.

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Australia

Opinion

Australia Isn’t Doing Enough to Address Climate Change | Opinion

As other nations rise to the challenge and intend to meet ambitious targets set by President Joe Biden for 2030, Australia’s prime minister missed his opportunity to show the world that Australia is serious when it comes to combating climate change.

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Australia

Opinion

Australia’s Indigenous Deaths in Custody Continue to Prove Systemic Racism | Opinion

The Australian government and systems of policing and corrections continue to feed the intergenerational trauma that resulted from institutional, systemic racism.

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Woman

Opinion

A City Designed For Women is a City Designed For All | Opinion

While a female-friendly city does not solve male violence, it is an essential element in making cities less prone to opportunistic crimes.

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Woman

Opinion

The Recovery of National GDP Depends on the She-conomy | Opinion

When women are involved in leadership, they create products and services that are ideally designed and marketed for the primary shopper in the household: women.

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Australian flag

Opinion

Most Australians Distrust the Media. This Can be Repaired | Opinion

The media landscape in Australia is problematic. Diversity in ownership largely eroded over the last decade and numerous TV, radio, print and online media is now owned by single organizations.

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Google logo

Opinion

Journalists, Democracy are Winners in Australia’s Plan to Make Google Pay | Opinion

If Google continues not to pay for the news it shares on its platform, it is not just Rupert Murdoch who stands to lose a dime, it’s all news.

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