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57Do you know where and how you want to be buried?
Will you choose an elaborate Victorian-style headstone, or do you prefer a “green” burial, with only a GPS tracking signal indicating your location? Or you may elect to purchase a Bios Urn, a...
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611The $3.8 billion expansion of the New South Wales prison estate by 7000 beds represents a manifest and very expensive failure of public policy.
There are three reasons why this is so. First, the lack of evidence to support the expansion; second, because prisons...
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118Once the natural party of government, the Liberal Party has been performing badly across Australia for thirty years or more. Mike Baird has shown the party a way out
Mike Baird’s victory in Saturday’s NSW election is far more unusual than it looks....
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106Last week Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Sydney would get a second airport at Badgerys Creek. It's estimated that the new airport will cost somewhere around $2.5 billion, the majority of which is to come from the private sector.
Mr Abbott wants to...
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The timing of Barry O’Farrell’s departure, and its aftermath, reveal much about the heavily factionalised NSW Liberal Party
POLITICS these days is not only big business, but also smart business. The age of the street-corner soapbox, town hall meeting and leaflet...
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292Australia's system of representative democracy is stable but weak. We aren’t about to have an Arab spring, but, when people’s engagement with democracy is limited to voting at elections, often with hostility or resentment, it’s a weak democracy. The system needs revitalising and the local...
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164Having asked two ministers for their resignations, Premier Nathan Rees will have to hope that he has not thrown away Labor's last chance to retain government, writes Tony Smith in Eureka Street
WHEN NEW SOUTH WALES ministers Joe Tripodi and Ian Macdonald tendered their...
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136The mining industry likes to consider itself special.
Tax laws that apply to other industries don’t apply to miners, as the controversy around Glencore’s tax bill shows.
Planning laws get changed when miners don’t like them, as the NSW government showed with Rio...
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260Governments began watering down Gonski’s school-funding recommendations right from the start, says panel member Ken Boston. But New South Wales shows how it could have been.
THE Gonski review is history. The Gonski panel submitted its report in December 2011, and the government...