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A Sense of Place Magazine

Crave: Australia’s Broken Heartlands

To the squadrons of mossies, her naked curves glistening under the fluorescence must have made them think they were about to feast on Lancelin’s tribute to Venus de Milo, but instead of an open clam she had left the door of her shower cubicle open as she dried herself...

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Australians Being Crushed: 125 Different Taxes

Scott Kuru has become one of the sharper voices arguing that Australian governments are mismanaging the economy through relentless taxation and policies that punish effort. The property adviser and YouTuber repeatedly shows how households and small businesses are...

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You Can Become a Pot Plant: NSW Legalises Humans Made into Soil

New South Wales has become the first Australian jurisdiction to legalise terramation – human composting – as a third option alongside burial and cremation. Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich’s private member’s bill, the Public Health Amendment (Terramation) Bill...

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New Politics

Europe’s revolt and the future of neoliberalism

The most politically significant images coming out of France are of the crowds who have decided that their government is no longer listening, and that the economic conditions that they are repeatedly told to accept are failing to deliver a viable and acceptable future.Last week, hundreds of thousands of people

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Going beyond the politics of outrage and avoidance

As parliament resumes following the alleged attack on Helen Haines, there needs to be more than just the sombre speeches and assurances that security will be reviewed, and that we need a “kinder” version of politics. The lack of effective security requests mentioned by Labor Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah – who

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Neoliberalism’s long winter of discontent

How long can governments ask people to endure hardship before the promise of a better future loses its political value? France’s protests over rising living costs and underfunded public services bring that question into focus. Violence and looting deserve condemnation, but allowing them to dominate the debate obscures the grievances

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