Today in The Australian
It may well be that the “National Indigenous Visual Arts Action Plan, 2021-2025”, which the government released late last week, contains some worthwhile initiatives. But it was hard not to be struck by a statement tucked away among the indicators of “what success looks like”.
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Although the High Court has dismissed Peter Ridd’s appeal against the termination of his appointment by James Cook University, its unanimous decision is an important step forward in the defence of intellectual freedom.
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ICAC … even the Star Chamber did better
It would be a mistake to call the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption a new Star Chamber. After all, despite the injustices that marred its later years, the Star Chamber was, by the standards of its time, a model of procedural fairness.
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Once upon a time, schoolchildren were taught that the coming of Federation in 1901 was the work of providence, whose bounteous hand was guided by an omniscient and benevolent deity.
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It is one thing to say, as I did on these pages last week, that Covid-19 should ultimately be managed like the flu, and quite another to imply that there is little difference between Covid and the flu. Let’s be clear: Covid is not the Black Death. But neither is it merely the flu with some punch added.
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As other countries prepare to live with Covid, Australia and lockdowns remain joined in a fatal embrace. The problem is not just the harm wreaked by the unpredictable disruptions to daily life, the drastic restrictions on domestic and international travel and the myriad other erosions of basic freedoms; it is that the elimination strategy has degenerated into a policy at war with itself.
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