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The Echo

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2 years

What happened to standards and trust in Australian politics?

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As an eager Young Liberal in the 1980s, I was schooled by a generation of older Australians whose values were forged during World War II.

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2 years

Choosing to make a difference https://t.co/K47XNnYlI8 #knittingnannas

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Whenever anyone says, ‘There is nothing we can do,’ I think of the Knitting Nannas. I think of this powerful and politically potent group of older women who hold the frontline of so many impossible...

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You are a hero. You are my Australian of the Year. You have stood strong where many would have crumbled.

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You don’t know me, and you probably won’t ever read this. But I want it to sit in the public record; something emotive and kind and human. You are a hero. You are my Australian of the Year. You have...

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2 years

Father Christmas was replaced by a monster

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It was Christmas Eve. There was no doubt about that. The editor of his newspaper, full of the bonhomie of the season, had given Edward Herring a memo and assigned him to the graveyard shift that...

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2 years

A chance to value yourself

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The images from my childhood Christmases play like a super-8 film. They are grainy and disjointed. A sad child with a crooked fringe is in the corner of the frame.

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2 years

What does the future hold? https://t.co/m4pIuiVDHE

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Do you remember when we were inundated with Christmas beetles at this time of year? What happened to them, and can we revive the Christmas beetle spirit?

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2 years

Only Feet

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The internet is a very strange place. It does things to you when you’re sleeping. Today I was looking for an old article I wrote, so I googled myself. It was something I’d written on ‘feet’ as a...

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2 years

The future is in your hands

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As a fierce sun finally fades, hundreds of people dance in the darkness, stars swirling above. This is not the Burning Man festival but an outdoor end of year school concert in Byron Bay last week.

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2 years

Poorest are suffering

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The other day I watched someone put their groceries back. They were at the checkout anxiously watching the tally. I know that feeling. It’s something I’ve done many times in the past. Especially when...

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2 years

Examining the 'No' vote

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The victorious ‘No’ camp is oddly reluctant to examine the roots of its cruel snub to our First Nations peoples.

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2 years

Defending all women

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In 2003, when I introduced myself as an MP with my maiden speech in parliament, I articulated my centralist, small ‘l’ liberal principles. I argued that values are not something to be on display in...

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2 years

Taking action

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The truth about climate change is alarming to say the least. But I was heartened over the weekend of November 25 and 26 to hear it discussed with great clarity and nuance at the Rising blockade of...

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2 years

How to move forward?

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Why is peace so hard? As the assault on Gaza resumes I am reminded of the quote by Albert Einstein: ‘Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding’.

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2 years

What does the Voice result tell us? #VoiceReferendum

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In order to transcend the disappointment of the Voice referendum, many political and Aboriginal leaders are focusing on ‘truth-telling’.

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2 years

Time to give

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There is one thing we can all do in these wretched times of powerlessness and overwhelming sorrow. Give.

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2 years

By six I had witnessed countless incidents of domestic violence

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When I was six years old my father was killed in a car accident. By then I had witnessed countless incidents of domestic violence. I had seen my father physically and verbally abusing my mother. I...

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2 years

Linking ecocide to religion

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Linking ecocide to religion, Dr John Wilson brings psychedelics, psychology and ecology together in his latest book Ecocide. Regarding our ecological crisis as more urgent than the urban distress he...

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2 years

Support young people fight for their future

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Young people are fighting for their future. They are asking governments to stop approving fossil-fuel operations and to put the money, focus and opportunity towards technology and options that will...

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2 years

What's your best high?

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I am scared of heights Which is ironic because I’m six foot tall. And I wear heels. And I’m a Capricorn. It appears my destiny is to inhabit high places. It’s a weird fear. I don’t remember ever not...

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2 years

The endless idiocy of Tony Abbott For a bloke on a very large pension, former Prime Minister the not-so-honourable Tony Abbott is working very hard for the Institute of Public Affairs these days. @TheIPA @HonTonyAbbott #Auspol2023 https://t.co/5UuLCkjEcV

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For a bloke on a very large pension, former Prime Minister the not-so-honourable Tony Abbott is working very hard for the Institute of Public Affairs these days. His latest IPA speech in London was...

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