PAUL DALEY. The moment that forever changed my perspective on Anzac mythology
The Surafend massacre shows that the core business of good history must always be the preservation of memory.
JOHN AUSTEN. NSW farce rail
NSW Premier Berejiklian says her Government will ‘deliver a fast rail network slashing travel times across the State.’ Work will commence in the next term of Government and won’t wait for the Commonwealth – NSW will go it alone! Continue reading
Economists and the public agree privatisation has gone too far, but governments persist.
“If you’ve always doubted the sense of privatising government-owned businesses, vindication is now flowing thick and faster”, writes Ross Gittins in the Fairfax media. He draws attention to the privatisation of natural monopolies, including electric networks, ports, and airports. Confirming the work of writers in Pearls and Irritations, he reminds us that high electricity prices are a consequence of state governments’ privatisations. He also traces the consequences of the NSW privatising its ports –including unnecessary and unwelcome truck congestion on Sydney’s roads.
Ross’s contribution to economics has been recognised by the award of a Doctor of Lettersfrom the ANU. To quote from the Vice-Chancellor’s citation “Gittins does much more than report economics – he deciphers, illuminates and translates the complex and often confusing language and conceptual bases of the craft of economics”.
JOHN MENADUE. Newcastle Port – another botched privatisation -A repost from 5 September 2016
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New State Opposition leader Michael Daley has only been in the job a month, and in 100 days from now he wants to change jobs again.@florezcata pic.twitter.com/EchKalHA2i
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The NSW Opposition Leader has made a bold statement three months out from the state election, telling The Saturday Telegraph that Labor's factions are dead and cannot hold him hostage.
Michael Daley declares NSW Labor factions are dead and he is ready to lead ...
Towers of Trouble
In 2001, the Herald reported that some of Sydney's new high rises were so plagued with faults that the units failed building codes and were difficult to resell.
For Opal Tower residents to be left afraid and feeling mistreated was an unacceptable situation on day one. Several days later it is a failure of leadership. Berejiklian needs to stand up for these people and appoint a major incident coordinator today #OpalTower #nswpol
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'Get in quickly, commit large amount of crime and leave': how Chilean gang operated
Social media and property prices helped a South American "fly-in-fly-out" criminal syndicate find targets in Vaucluse, Rose Bay and other affluent areas of Sydney.
'Enough is enough, we've got to make a stand': Vietnamese
Street justice! Brave Vietnamese shopkeepers in Melbourne take matters into their own hands after African gang tried to rob their stores
Melbourne beachgoers attacked, robbed by group of youths
"No sex please, we're British." It's an oft-repeated adage satirising Britain's glacial pace in shedding its conservative, buttoned-up reputation.
We often assume British attitudes towards sex changed with the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when the contraceptive pill made the NHS (1961) and homosexuality was decriminalised (1967).
Do raunchy scenes in the latest period films show the truth about royal sex lives?
The ghosts of the dismissal of the Whitlam government 43 years ago were on display at an appeal hearing before the full bench of the federal court last week: Gough Whitlam, the deposed prime minister; Sir John Kerr, the governor general who dismissed him; Malcolm Fraser, the leader of the opposition appointed by Kerr to replace Whitlam; and David Smith, the governor general’s official secretary. Continue reading