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  • AUSTRALIA

    Short changing working mothers

    • Jen Vuk
    • 13 December 2007
    1 Comment

    The leaders' election promises of more child care and tax breaks for private school fees were simply icing on a non-existent cake. And while the baby bonus is undoubtedly a welcome addition to the family purse, it's just that — a bonus. A 'generous' package filled not only with promise but problems.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Island nation looks inwards after monarch's passing

    • Luke James
    • 13 June 2007
    14 Comments

    The recent death of the Samoan Head of State, Malietoa Tanumafili II, has elicited public and private comment noting his good leadership and unique status in Samoa’s political history.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Clive Hamilton

    • Clive Hamilton
    • 17 May 2007

    Clive Hamilton is executive director of The Australia Institute, a private, non-profit think tank in Canberra.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Gill Straker-Bryce

    • Gill Straker-Bryce
    • 17 May 2007

    Gill Straker-Bryce has a PhD in psychology and is a consultant to Encompass Australasia in addition to working in private practice in Sydney. She is also a clinical professor inthe medical faculty at Sydney University.    

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Sell Medibank Private, it no longer justifies government ownership

    • Francis Sullivan
    • 27 February 2007

    Medibank Private should be sold. It no longer justifies government ownership.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A murder in the family

    • Trent O'Bryan
    • 10 July 2006
    2 Comments

    Karen Kissane’s book on the murder of Julie Ramage by her husband makes us ask ourselves whether the private attitudes that allowed men to claim provocation as a defence for killing their partners have really changed.  Do they also need to be overhauled? 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Thinly veiled

    • Joshua Puls
    • 05 June 2006

    In a knee-jerk of anti-terrorist fervour, the French Government seems to want religion to be totally private, walled in.

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  • EDUCATION

    The strength of diversity

    • Joanna Leonard
    • 22 May 2006

    The move to private education is not always what parents might hope.

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  • EDUCATION

    Richer or poorer

    • Michael Furtado
    • 22 May 2006

    Michael Furtado on public money and private schools.

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