On average, public schools certainly get more money, but they enrol the highest-needs kids from the highest-cost families in the highest-cost locations. Anyone can find this out with a couple of mouse clicks on the My School website.
We demonise asylum seekers as illegal boat people and lock them up for years. Meanwhile, our lucky citizens can travel to the countries from where refugees originate.
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PM shift towards net zero may be too little, too late
February 3, 2021 12.05am
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Very much like an iceberg in the Arctic, Scott Morrison is slowly melting to the idea of taking some sort of climate change action (“PM shifts towards net-zero emissions”, February 2), but it has to be targeted, incremental and won’t cost the people who vote for him any money. The trouble with this approach is by the time he does anything, we’re all cooked.
Chris Moe, Bensville
The idea to have zero emissions by almost 30 years from now is the Prime Minister playing politics. It’s a put-off. The Coalition has had the past 10 years to devise a plan and all we’ve got is obfuscation.
We need the COVID jab now
January 2, 2021 12.05am
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If Britain, America, Canada, Israel, Chile, Belgium, Argentina and many other countries are already rolling out vaccines for COVID-19, why is Australia sitting back and waiting (‘‘New entrant in vaccination race’’, January 1)? When are we going to see some proactive approaches implemented by our national cabinet and scrap leaving it all to individual state governments to deal with? It’s more than time that state governments either introduced vaccinations themselves or utilised the national cabinet to get the ball rolling. Other parts of the world will be vaccinated while Australia is still dithering. We want vaccines in Australia and we want them now.