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Smoke and mirrors: The big money behind Australia’s vaping ban
With a new financial year underway, the Morrison government will request the Governor-General to prohibit the importation of e-cigarettes containing vaporiser nicotine and nicotine-containing …
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Pandemic history ignored by state premiers
If we’ve learnt anything about the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that history may not repeat but it does have a habit of popping its …
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Our loony protesters are among the looniest
Around 100 assembled in Melbourne and less in Sydney. Not big numbers but what they lacked in people power they more than made up …
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A Short History of Australia
Australia was created 13.7 billion years ago on an otherwise uneventful Wednesday afternoon. The Big Bang was crucial to the creation of Australia. It …
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Don’t accept sanitised history of clerical abuse
I have written on numerous occasions that I despaired Pell’s trial would become a circus that overwhelmed everything around it and everything that had …
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How to survive lockdown as COVID-19 cabin fever hits
The media dances between adjectives. Depending on who is doing the scribbling for the autocue, we live in unusual, unprecedented, extraordinary, unique or challenging …
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A bad day for con artists
Yesterday was a bad day for grifters, conmen and bullshit artists. As they traipsed into court across two states, we ticked them off in …
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No leaping for joy until you leave
Yesterday I walked out the doors of the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead with a clean bill of health. The CT scan I …
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Uber ‘vision’ a mass of hot air
The future is upon us apparently. Excitingly, it is a future Australia or a bit of it will be part of unlike the interminable …
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Albo’s listening tour … not coming to a theatre near you
Spare a thought for the Labor Party. Or don’t. See if I care. This week, while the realisation dawned on Australians that we live …