Comment is free Australia
Opinion
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
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We had a bushfire two months ago that burned most of our property. It didn’t matter. It burned again -
The injustices that First Nations people are so often forced to weather in the shadows have been violently brought into the light
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Our noise at the beginning is pitiful and lacking energy, like a barely concealed fake orgasm -
Even today, we have people disputing the evidence or spreading misinformation -
Should we only talk about climate change outside the fire season? That’ll soon be one (single) Thursday in July (at long as it’s raining)
Columnists
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For yet another year, the government will be forced to revise down its overly optimistic predictions for wages growth
Cartoons
Indigenous Australia
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Nobody knows the problems besetting Aboriginal youth better than young blackfullas themselves. It’s time we had a voice at the table -
Buying cheap Indigenous art is not a victimless crime; it is either deeply naive or deeply irresponsible -
Our work portfolios have been enriched by our learning journey over 12 years, and so have our personal lives -
Researchers once used collections to perpetuate myths about Indigenous ‘inferiority’. Now we are using them to reclaim our knowledge
World view
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Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much -
Data shows the economy has been weaker since 2010 than under Labour between 1997 and 2007, says Simon Wren-Lewis, emeritus professor of economics and fellow of Merton College, Oxford -
Here are some of the real quiet Australians