Right now the government is utterly hamstrung on the issue of climate change. After more than a decade of obstruction and doing the least possible, the rest of the world is changing fast and the debate in Australia needs to get real. As Katharine Murphy put it so well on Tuesday, the government has no real climate change policy to speak of, but they do have a hell of a lot of fighting over pretending that there is. Which is more abysmal – the.
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The Melbourne Demons are a genuine 2021 AFL premiership contender.
While teams such as Fremantle and Carlton are the justifiably popular dark-horse selections of the competition, it’s the Demons who fly under the radar as a potential top-four team.
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Melbourne have made the finals once in the last 14 seasons, and the fifth-place finish in 2018 appeared to be an aberration in the two seasons that followed.
WTA make major final set change but strange omission from Friday ATP Cup schedule
The WTA will shorten matches this weekend by implementing a final set tie-break, while the ATP Cup will also resume on Friday.
Should scores be level after two sets, female players will play a first to 10 point tie-break instead of the traditional deciding format.
The major move,
confirmed by WTA Insider on Twitter, will help speed up matches after players were forced into isolation on Thursday.
In a race against time, Margaret Court Arena will host no fewer than
eight women’s matches on Friday – with the world’s top five players all in action.
The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill makes it illegal to attempt to change or suppress a person s sexual orientation or gender identity, carrying a penalty of 10 years jail or fines up to $10,000.
It also gives investigative powers to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) and the ability to refer matters to police.
Parliament of Victoria, where the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill passed late on Thursday evening.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Victorian Parliament s only openly gay MP, Harriet Shing, said the legislation is an important move to recognise the pain and the trauma and the hurt of victims and survivors ,