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News
24 Sep 2016
Organised crime and immigration
The benchmarks set for measuring progress did not include any in the refugee and humanitarian area, nor any on countering violent extremism, cybersecurity, protection against invasive species nor information-sharing.
Karen Middleton
The focus on asylum seekers has left the immigration department lacking intelligence capabilities and measures to combat crime.
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24 Sep 2016
Unions poisoned by ALP alliance
As soon as affiliation comes, so come all the apparatchiks and the wannabes. It’s mighty healthy for a union not to have that.
Mike Seccombe
With plotters using the labour movement as a means to amass power, unions have become vulnerable to rorting and the erosion of workers’ rights.
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Opinion
24 Sep 2016
Sustained energy
Karen Middleton
Environmentalist and chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council Tim Flannery explains the need to overcome the vested interests against climate change action and how to best use an innovation fund.
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Opinion
24 Sep 2016
Urban stall
Properly curated, Sydney and Melbourne could preserve their high standard of living. Extrapolating current trends, they will become sinks of inequality, blight and obliterated heritage.
Guy Rundle
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News
24 Sep 2016
Batt out of dell
Anne Davies
It was an elaborate scheme: invest in Nant whisky, to be drunk in Nant bars, eating Nant beef from Nant cows in which you had also invested. Except the cows are hard to track down, the whisky takes years to mature and your 9.55 per cent return looks a long way off.
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24 Sep 2016
Tackling FFA
The current FFA Board is no less ‘stacked’ than the former Soccer Australia board was. It’s simply stacked another way.
Jack Kerr
It may not be long since FIFA itself was rocked by scandal, but now soccer’s world governing body is in Australia to push through reforms to Football Federation Australia.
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Opinion
24 Sep 2016
Christensen charity
If ever leadership was needed it is now, before these corrosive views are allowed to destroy the multicultural cohesive society Australia has become.
Paul Bongiorno
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World
24 Sep 2016
Syrian truce over as aid convoy bombed
Hamish McDonald
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Culture
24 Sep 2016
Centre stage
Director Kate Cherry takes the helm at NIDA with a vision of the school not just as an incubator of dramatic talent but of the nation’s cultural future.
Peter Craven
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Music
24 Sep 2016
Animal instinct
Melbourne’s Big Scary have delivered a cycle of dark and intimate songs with a looser, live feel that makes it a masterpiece.
Dave Faulkner
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Books
24 Sep 2016
Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
Reviewer: CR
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Books
24 Sep 2016
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
Reviewer: LS
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Books
24 Sep 2016
Steven Amsterdam, The Easy Way Out
Reviewer: SH
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Food
24 Sep 2016
Steamed five-spice chicken and egg fried rice
Add some spice to fried rice with this juicy, succulent chicken.
Andrew McConnell
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Diary
24 Sep 2016
Gadfly: Assisting themselves with their inquiries
Diarist-at-large Richard Ackland flies about the nation.
Richard Ackland
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Life
24 Sep 2016
Into the light
On the farm with her dying father, the author ponders the complexities of grief and the path she will take when facing her own mortality.
Maggie MacKellar
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Food
23 Sep 2016
The best of spring 2016
A guide to the season’s primo vino.
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Portrait
24 Sep 2016
Puzzle master
In conversation with MUMA's new curator.
Patrick Hartigan
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Quiz
24 Sep 2016
What is the principal monetary unit of Sweden?
Test your general knowledge with our weekly quiz.
Cindy MacDonald
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Sport
24 Sep 2016
Rebounding
Lauren Jackson on the intensity of being one of the world’s best basketballers, and the heartache of retiring.
Richard Cooke
