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On income taxes levied at a state level

Apparently the Turnbull Liberal government is considering allowing states to levy their own income taxes, after the federal government makes a significant cut to federal income taxes to allow for the change.

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CarolMar 253 min read

Está pasando en las Antípodas

MURRUMU WALABARA Yidinji es periodista pero ya no ejerce como tal. Durante años fue redactor político en Canberra para una cadena de televisión. Entonces se llamaba Jeremy Geia. Hace dos años decidió dar un giro a su vida para reivindicar la plena soberanía de su pueblo…

Jess McGuireMar 2113 min read

George Christensen & Cory Bernardi vs Safe Schools: A Love Story

I was a last minute addition to the bill of Erotic Fan Fiction at the Wheeler Centre the other night and had just a few hours to invent a coupling that could capture the imagination of the audience. I’ve spent the last…

Tristan Cooke in Humans in the Design of the Mundane and EverydayMar 2010 min read

Australia’s senate voting reforms are the first step to designing back democracy.

***At the last federal election I wrote a post about why the senate ballot in Australia is broken. I’ve re-mixed it here to provide comment on the recent reforms to the senate voting system…

Daniel SwainMar 194 min read

The Safe Schools Debate reminds LGBT Australians of when our childhood bullying was ignored.

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Thomas Foster in Thomas Foster’s BlogMar 183 min read

Conservatism’s Favourite Tool: Families and Children

This was originally posted on my blog as Conservatism’s Favourite Tool.

The Safe Schools review has arrived in a rush, with Education Minister Simon Birmingham revealing some fairly major changes without actually…

Jackson BlytheMar 156 min read

On the Ethics of Repatriation of Failed Iranian Asylum Seekers

Or: why Julie really needs to lay off the crack pipe

Yesterday Julia Bishop played host to what may well end up being one of the most fatal foreign policy errors…

Clem CargillMar 94 min read

Black-face, White-Face; Spiritual Aboriginality and other White Women’s Bullshit.

“White women are bloody bouncy,” says the guy next to me, in between slurps on his coconut water.

Charmaine Kedmenec in Travelling & GamblingFeb 263 min read

Playing the pokies at Australian RSL clubs

A local RSL club will be well known for a few things. Mainly as a nice place to have a casual meal, a drink with friends, hire a function room, watch some sport on the screens, or have a spin at the pokies. But even though that is what you see from the…

Jason WilsonFeb 236 min read

The uses of “Cultural Marxism”: Safe Schools, Cory Bernardi, Conspiracy Theory

Whenever I write about right-wing movements and ideologies, I can almost guarantee that someone — usually a political liberal — will dismiss what I’ve said on the basis that we’re not in danger…

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