Projections that the state’s debt would rise from $135.9 billion this year to $187.8 billion by mid-2028 highlight a need for drastic action.
The building should be a source of civic pride and a monument to when Melbourne became a bustling metropolis on the world stage.
The state government must play a greater role co-ordinating the institutions that have the expertise to address the causes of this growing violence.
Sporting codes themselves could no doubt play a larger role in working to curtail the scourge of gambling advertising.
Australia’s mining and gas companies have reaped billions of dollars from their operations on the traditional lands of Indigenous Australians. It’s time they returned the favour.
Over generations,Cricket Australia has been indefensibly slow in quashing racism,curbing its dominant white-man culture,and implementing practical and inclusive initiatives.
On the questions of power with integrity,success in implementing policies and improving the state of the nation,the Albanese government has so far done well.
Since the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788,Australia has lost about 100 unique flora and fauna species. We lose another one or two animals every decade.
Victorians are all too familiar with the harm caused by gambling addiction. It is an ongoing crisis perpetuated by a less obvious form of addiction – the dependence of politicians on donations from pokies barons and taxes from their machines.
Allegations from former Indigenous players at Hawthorn that former senior staff at the AFL club separated them from their families and demanded pregnancy terminations for their partners are echoes of the devastating racist policies that stain the history of Australia’s treatment of First Nations people.
The longer the war goes,the clearer it becomes Vladimir Putin must not get away with starting an invasion and seizing the territory of a sovereign state.