Escape Routes
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From mermaids and space matriarchs to fresh starts and flights of fancy, Escape Routes explores what it means to break out and break free.
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Power without values or purpose makes Australians vulnerable to the nihilism of populists and renders our institutions and deliberative processes incapable of the reform and change needed to secure future prosperity.
In the third instalment of her online series, political scientist Anne Tiernan considers the power and potential of collaboration.
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Through the window: Who are 'we'?
Would speaking the Statement aloud make its words an embodied part of me, singing through my cells and my blood? And if so, would that be disrespectful? Was voicing that ‘we’ yet another appropriation?
In our latest Through the Window, Ailsa Piper reflects on the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Through the window: The final choice
The passage of VAD laws in Queensland on the afternoon of 16 September was emphatic. With both major parties allowed a conscience vote, the legislation passed 61–30. From the ruling Labor Party, who hold a five-seat majority, only three voted against.
In our latest Through the Window, journalist and author Andrew Stafford examines what Queensland's new voluntary assisted dying legislation means for dementia sufferers.
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ConnectionIT’S BEEN AN unedifying fortnight in the Australian parliament. Ugly scenes in both chambers compounded violent protests outside Victoria’s Parliament House – so-called ‘freedom rallies’ opposing vaccine mandates. Threats towards elected re...
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ConsequencesAS ANY PARENT knows, the capital of consequences – their potential to shape desired behaviour – is critical to define and to spend wisely. Take an illustrative case from my childhood. Once, during the long summer holidays, our family and some vis...
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