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Support for smoke-free laws is near universal in Australia.
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a call for a total smoking ban in the City of Melbourne, including all outdoor areas, appears to have widespread support. Councillor Richard Foster’s proposal calls for a complete ban on smoking in any outdoor dining areas, footpaths, city squares – essentially any area that is not deemed to be private land. It’s unclear how or if such polices would be enforced. Delete the scoop?
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Bob Brown’s opinion piece for Fairfax today seems to endorse Jonathan Moylan’s “activism” as a form of civil disobedience.The thoughts echo the sentiments expressed earlier in the week by his former… Delete the scoop?
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Aboriginal objects have no place in museums, and should be returned to the living cultures that still mourn their loss. Delete the scoop?
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Can our legal system, which is so quick to lock up Indigenous offenders, deliver justice for Indigenous people when they are the victims of crime? Delete the scoop?
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Nicola Roxon's consolidation of anti-discrimination legislation is strong and sensible, but modest, says Larissa Behrendt. Unlike a charter of rights, its provisions can be displaced when it suits Parliament. Delete the scoop?
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How can we have a government that has a simultaneous eye for the curse of sexism and of institutional sexual abuse, but then resorts to cruelty as its response to equally desperate and determined asylum seekers? Delete the scoop?
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More than six million animals are used in experiments in Australia each year. Delete the scoop?
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The Victorian Government is the latest government to release a handy little instruction manual to tell us the right words to use when we're talking about disabled people. Or is it people with disabilities? Delete the scoop?
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After an unprecedented amount of research, Vince O'Grady starts a new series mapping out what really happened in Ashbygate. Delete the scoop?
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The Victorian Government is the latest government to release a handy little instruction manual to tell us the right words to use when we're talking about disabled people. Or is it people with disabilities? Delete the scoop?
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Laws requiring Catholic priests to break the confessional seal sound good. But they would achieve nothing. Delete the scoop?
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FORMER University of Canberra vice-chancellor and former chairman of the National Capital Authority Don Aitkin is being sued for $6 million for alleged racial discrimination. Delete the scoop?
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A STATEWIDE crackdown on student cyber bullies is set to be ramped up with increased tracking of social media use on State Government school laptops. Delete the scoop?
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One news item buried among all the discussion about the early election announcement, Craig Thomson’s arrest and Moses Obeid’s testimony to ICAC yesterday was a statement from the Attorney-General, Nicola…...
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Free speech and other human rights: the clause that almost sank the Human Rights Bill
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This week’s hoax email from an anti-coal activist, Jonathan Moylan, highlights an emerging issue in land-use conflicts both in Australia and internationally. Delete the scoop?
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Claims that our copyright law isn’t out of date or irrelevant in the digital age, and that it hasn’t held back economic or technological progress are disingenuous to say the least. Delete the scoop?
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A child's weight should be included in their school report to help tackle obesity, expert says. Delete the scoop?
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The Government has made significant strides in the right direction with this week's announced changes to anti-discrimination laws, but some important opportunities have been missed. Delete the scoop?
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Turn Down the Heat – a new report from the World Bank – stresses “no nation will be immune to the impact of climate change” and argues compellingly the necessity to hold warming below 2 degrees. Delete the scoop?
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Some persistent themes run through campaigns by the preventive health lobby to ban and tax things. But should these taxpayer-funded elites be allowed to crack down on what they disapprove of? Delete the scoop?
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Marcia Langton and Noel Pearson have the right goals but the wrong method for achieving Aboriginal wellbeing, write Morgan Brigg and Matthew Johnson. Delete the scoop?
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The online abuse of women may be a 21st Century issue, but it has its roots in much older forms of sex-based harassment and misogyny. Delete the scoop?
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Could anyone who has raised a teenager or simply retained a skerrick of common humanity not have been distraught and outraged by the recent 7.30 footage of a 14-year-old boy being twice Tasered by police and calling for help from his dead mother? Delete the scoop?
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In response to the ongoing cascade of accusations and evidence of systemic and decades long child abuse, the federal government finally announced a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child…... Delete the scoop?
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It's become clear that the Australian government is working to launch an international attack on online privacy. Delete the scoop?
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