A welcome plan for social housing for the needy
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May 15, 2021 12.02am
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LABOR’S BUDGET REPLY
A welcome plan for social housing for the needy
Anthony Albanese’s commitment to social housing (The Age, 14/5) provides a much needed vision for Australians on low incomes. The added importance of this announcement is the inclusion of older women in the target groups to be housed. It is projected that 440,000 private renters aged over 65 will be living in poverty by 2031 if investment in affordable rental housing is not tackled by governments.
Canberra must face up to its responsibilities
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May 3, 2021 12.00am
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QUARANTINE AND THE TRAVEL BAN
Canberra must face up to its responsibilities
The Commonwealth government can’t ignore its duty to provide effective, purpose-built quarantine facilities throughout Australia (“Shifting pandemic politics brings PM to the table”,
The Age, 1/5).
Like national defence, quarantine is ultimately a Commonwealth responsibility. We face potential aggression from foreign countries as a nation, not as individual states and territories. Any proposal to fund separate armies, navies and air forces would be laughed at as ludicrous. Defence is up to the Commonwealth. Neither in a pandemic should the states and territories have to scrabble to find money for quara
Governmentâs insular and retrograde move
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April 23, 2021 â 12.03am
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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.
This is an opportunity to show what we stand for
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April 20, 2021 12.02am
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THE WINTER OLYMPICS
This is an opportunity to show what we stand for
Your measured editorial (″China can’t avoid the Olympics torchlight″, 19/4) raised some pivotal points regarding how a nation such as Australia – with its ingrained social values of the dignity of the individual, freedom of speech, the rule of law and open government – might possibly participate in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
The next generation of scientists is being robbed
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HIGHER EDUCATION
The nex generation of scientists is being robbed
As a graduate student of a beloved Melbourne University chemistry professor made redundant as a result of the universityâs pandemic âreset planâ (âUni set to slash subjects and jobsâ,
The Age, 3/4), the news has been shattering. Morale among fellow chemistry students has plummeted as the future of scientific research in Australia grows bleaker by the day.