Violence against women is under focus yet again – something that never seems to change.
If I have paid a high price for a ticket to an evening show,screaming children are not part of the deal. It’s not fair to the other members of the audience or the performers.
Curbing the corrosive effects of social media is not only about enforcing take-down orders but must extend to their other deleterious aspects.
The CSIRO/AEMO GenCost report has said for years,including during the time of Coalition governments,that wind and solar are the cheapest form of new energy for Australia,even when considering additional integration costs such as energy storage and transmission. Nothing has changed.
Surely religious prayer groups are not entitled to active supervision by our overworked public school teachers?
If only you’d have stopped and thought about it from someone else’s point of view. Isn’t that what art is meant to make us do?
In Gwandalan,we have a plethora of unlicensed underage riders,often without helmets,riding noisy,unregistered two-wheeled machines,who even ride at speed on one wheel through the shopping area.
The only 100 per cent “safe” strategy is to keep people in hospital forever,but,apart from forensic psychiatry,that is unfair to the person and requires resources we do not have.
It is naive for anyone to think that there are no deep divisions among races and ethnicities in Australia.
Joel Cauchi’s father Andrew Cauchi said:“I made myself a servant to my son when I found out he had a mental illness.” If ever there was a heroic statement,this is one.
Once again,In the face of catastrophe and in the worst circumstances,the best Australian characteristics shone through.