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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.
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.
Clive Hamilton is executive director of The Australia Institute, a private, non-profit think tank in Canberra.
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.
Medibank Private should be sold. It no longer justifies government ownership.
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?
In a knee-jerk of anti-terrorist fervour, the French Government seems to want religion to be totally private, walled in.
The move to private education is not always what parents might hope.
Michael Furtado on public money and private schools.
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