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The Age • The Age's View • December 27, 2022 • theage.com.au
Australia must extend hand to Afghans in need
If we are serious about expressing solidarity with Afghans in this dark hour, as a nation, we need to step up.
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Rashida Yosufzai@Rashidajourno
"We were willing to spend more than $7 billion pursuing war in Afghanistan. For a fraction of that cost we could increase the Afghan refugee intake". @mbachelard theage.com.au/world/asia/aus…
December 28, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Richard Denniss • December 27, 2022 • smh.com.au
We know how to lower home prices, but our political leaders won’t have it
The International Monetary Fund is right: Australia’s home prices are far too high, and they are likely to fall. But if they fall sharply, just watch our governments prop them back up.
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Richard Denniss@RDNS_TAI
The brutal truth is that rising house prices make a majority of Australians happy and no leader wants to tell them its time for house prices to fall. Housing policy in Australia has nothing to do with economics & everything to sdo with politics #auspol smh.com.au/business/the-e…
December 28, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Clinton Fernandes • December 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
Scott Morrison’s booby trap: Buying US nuclear submarines is a huge mistake
Some submarines will eventually be located here, with Australian flags and personnel, but they’re essentially US boats operated in the great power’s interests.
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Intelligencer • Olivia Nuzzi • December 23, 2022 • nymag.com
Donald Trump’s Final Campaign
Inside his sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win.)
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Mike Foley • December 20, 2022 • smh.com.au
Labor facing test of green credentials in fight over native logging
Key crossbench senators say the federal government must end the native timber industry to meet Australia’s commitment to a new international deal to protect nature.
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David Pocock@DavidPocock
VicForests announced yesterday they made a $54 million dollar loss cutting down native forests.
Taxpayers are funding the logging of our native forests. Forests that are huge carbon sinks and home to amazing species like Greater gliders.
smh.com.au/environment/co…
December 21, 2022
The Guardian • Van Badham • December 27, 2022 • theguardian.com
Courage sums up the spirit of 2022. To honour the heroes among us, we must be brave too
From Colorado Springs to China, Ukraine to Afghanistan, Iran to Wieambilla, lessons in fearlessness and fortitude serve to inspire us all
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The Guardian • Lisa Cox • December 28, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW government seeks to use national park management to offset Warragamba Dam wall project
Officials warn the project would affect biodiversity and Aboriginal cultural heritage in the Blue Mountains world heritage area
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South China Morning Post • December 27, 2022 • scmp.com
2022 to be remembered as the beginning of China’s demographic crisis
The pandemic is a reminder that a society where pensioners make up a large part of the population will always be vulnerable to public health challenges.
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World Socialist Web Site • December 27, 2022 • wsws.org
US life expectancy drops to lowest level since 1996
Final CDC mortality data for 2021 shows life expectancy dropped by a cumulative 2.4 years in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Josie Ensor • December 28, 2022 • smh.com.au
Republican refuses to quit after lying about ancestry, education, employment
George Santos invented his qualifications, his career on Wall Street, and even his religion. Now he’s about to be sworn in to Congress.
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Australian Financial Review • Tom McIlroy • December 28, 2022 • afr.com
Better policy and a greater say: What the Voice will really mean
A vote is planned for second half of 2023. But for many Australians the idea of a Voice, derived from the Uluru Statement from the Heart, is still a nebulous concept.
@abcnews • December 24, 2022 • abc.net.au
Calls ramp up to increase protection visas for Afghan refugees
Humanitarian organisations have grave fears for the plight of Afghan women increasingly subjugated in public and private life.
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