Readers offer their advice to new Labor Premier Jacinta Allan, and respond to questions about her female-majority cabinet.
A note for Premier Jacinta Allan: when asked about things she’d rather not answer, for example legal fees incurred in withdrawing from hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games, she should just address the questions frankly. References to unrelated topics like “delivering housing and other priorities to the regions” are too obviously red herrings, .
Where will it end? When the whole state is covered in houses? Instead of taxing owners of vacant land to promote more of this catastrophic invasion of our fertile paddocks, how about providing incentives to builders of higher density housing around the major suburban and city centres where services and public transport exist already?Dan Andrews leaves at the top of his achievements and gives the state government a smooth transition to continue, what is not only his, but Labor’s legacy in the...
I look forward to meeting the generation of adults who have had the privilege of being educated appropriately alongside classmates of all abilities.It is sometimes said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. In New South Wales in the 1980s, the Richmond report recommended closing down large mental health institutions and replacing them with community care. While the large institutions were closed down, the resources provided for community care were woefully inadequate.
Our dislike of Qantas seems to have morphed into heroic statements about competition. The current Senate inquiry seems to me to be politically motivated and not based in reality. Personally, I will never fly Qatar. Past the age of being strip searched to see if I have given birth in an airport toilet, I stand in solidarity with the women who did suffer this outrageous assault.Qantas isn’t the only Australian airline lacking in customer loyalty.
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