No support from PM for an Australian under siege
January 7, 2021 12.05am
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Julian Assange has been offered consular assistance which in reality has meant no assistance at all ( PM won t seek US pardon for publisher , January 6). Our record in helping stranded Australians has not been good. Did consular assistance help David Hicks, the Bali nine, Mamdouh Habib – all Australian citizens who were abandoned by our government?
Assange s crime: exposing the truth about Americans gunning down innocent journalists and seriously wounding two children in Iraq. Like John Howard, all Scott Morrison had to do to bring Assange home was to pick up the phone. The recently departed great journalist Alan Ramsay was quite correct when he once described our relationship with the USA as America s tea lady .
Itâs time to send returning travellers away from cities
Itâs time to send returning travellers away from cities
December 21, 2020 â 12.01am
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Many experts and most people think itâs time for returning travellers to be redirected to unpopulated areas for quarantine (ââCity on high alertââ, December 19-20). Leakage from quarantine in Victoria cost many lives and billions of dollars. And thereâs little doubt that the current outbreak in Sydney will ruin Christmas for far more people than those who want to return to Australia for the holidays. Surely the Prime Minister and the premiers should call time on quarantining in major population centres. Any cost benefit analysis will prove that decision as being correct.
Coalition wilfully ignores renewables  many benefits
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Coalition wilfully ignores renewables  many benefits
December 11, 2020 â 12.03am
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Thank you, Jessica Irvine, for spelling out the dilemma facing any government of Australia but, most particularly, the mob currently in charge ( Kicking the fossil-fuel jobs myth , December 10).
The vast weight of respected science says two things about Australia and climate change: one, because we are the driest continent on earth we are in greater danger from climate change than other continents and, two, because of the wealth of sunshine, minerals, wind and access to unlimited sources of water from the ocean, we are well placed to take advantage of renewable energy.