Jacqueline Maley’s excellent analysis covers parts of the utterly broken system in the US that Luigi Mangione experienced in a failed healthcare system,
Sydney’s rail network will be strangled by industrial action in the lead-up to New Year after the NSW government failed to strike a pay deal with the Rail Tram and Bus Union.
Rodger Shanahan perfectly sums up the disturbing nature of Middle East commentary,where “advocates press hard for their side without conceding any ground to the other”.
Marks should be given a chance to prove his critics wrong by recognising that the ABC is not a commercial outfit,but a public broadcaster dedicated to producing independent,trustworthy and quality programming to a diverse audience,regardless of class or political persuasion.
Omi Kumari and Ehsan Noroozinejad effectively identify the “latte line” as a climate division line. The low side of the line is effectively the Sydney Basin,whose main climate problem was once that it trapped smog – toxic leaded fuel pollution. Trees,shade and constructing buildings close so together that the sun does not reach ground level are urban responses developed long ago by humanity for hot climates.
Behind the Liberal banner,reasonableness has been steadily squeezed out and,with supreme irony,the breadth of its ranks has been shrivelled to exclude moderation,pragmatism,compromise and tolerance.
I worked in the nuclear energy business in England in the 1960s and I have monitored disappointment after disappointment for the past 50 years.
Parnell Palme McGuinness is wrong about the ABC losing its curiosity But is its wealth of thought-provoking programs enough to stem the decline in audiences?
In 2023,China installed as much solar capacity as the entire world did in 2022.
Top fee-paying schools in North Sydney are significant users of local infrastructure. The time for them to be exempted from council rates has long gone.
Ross Gittins may well bemoan the “era of gutless government”,but perhaps he should direct his criticism to the people responsible,the electors of Australia.