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EDITORIAL: We know we need to derive more of our power from renewable sources. We also need to keep the lights on. Eco-extremists wrongly cast it as a zero-sum proposition — team gas or team renewables.
BILL SHORTEN: This time last year Joeanne Cassar’s life changed forever because of a vicious knife attack in her workplace. No worker should have to face aggression for simply doing their job.
AMELIA BRACE: When considering which way to vote, Ronald Reagan famously encouraged Americans to ask themselves whether they are better off today than they were four years ago.
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RICHO’S TOP 10: The rule players are using to milk free kicks, the two defenders who could win their side a flag and a rising star in the midfield ranks you have to see in action.
CAITLIN BASSETT: You know you’ve made it as a professional athlete when you receive your first abusive message from an online troll.
Cyclists, once the mistreated third-class citizens of the roads, have now become as arrogant and overbearing as the worst of drivers.
HUGH PENNINGTON: Without the COVID vaccines, many thousands more would have died. And I am probably one of them.
EDITORIAL: Economists are barracking for a constrained Budget that keeps spending at or below current levels. The country can’t afford for Dr Chalmers to put a foot wrong.
KATINA CURTIS: Economists might have a clear-cut view of the way the world should be but when you add the brutal realities of politics into the mix, that cost-benefit analysis becomes a lot murkier.
Female referees should be treated equally on the field but the ugly scenes at the weekend and the torrent of abuse levelled at Kasey Badger online have no place in the NRL.
SAMANTHA BRICK: Face it chaps — we women are better drivers than you could ever hope to be.
RICHARD KAY: So much for olive branches. The hand-wringing excuse of a ‘full diary’ offers a different and, for Harry, a more ominous message about why the King could not meet him during his return to the UK.
GEMMA ACTON: It’s easy to take universal healthcare for granted until you realise with a shock that it’s a privilege available in few countries.
MARK RILEY: In Kevin Rudd, Scott Morrison has found a surprising candidate to launch his new book to the US market.
CAITLIN BASSETT: The public show of support to stop gendered violence was admirable but if the AFL wants to get serious it should follow the lead of the NRL.