Governmentâs insular and retrograde move
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BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
Governmentâs insular and retrograde move
With its anachronistic mentality of the Cold War, the Morrison government has cancelled Victorianâs Belt and Road agreement with the Chinese government, as well as two Victorian government education agreements (The Age, 22/4). Foreign Minister Marise Payneâs declaration they they are âinconsistent with Australiaâs foreign policy or adverse to our foreign relationsâ has soured any hope of a gentle rapprochement with our largest trading partner and a healing of the political rift. Her assertion that China would not retaliate is naive at best.
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Commonsense fairness and humanity is needed
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GENDER EQUALITY
Commonsense fairness and humanity is needed
I’m a bloke and was on school-pickup duty yesterday – I wish I could have marched, such a great thing to see happening. My mum taught me and my brother as boys in the 1980s and ’90s to respect girls and women – especially her and our sister. So I am fortunate to have lived and breathed her feminism (which today just looks like commonsense fairness and humanity, funny that) and – unlike many men more powerful than me – to find today’s changes afoot plainly needed and no great challenge to my values or self-concept. Thanks mum.