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You started your career at Melbourne-based The Age. In the late 1970s, you started your life as a foreign correspondent, first in China for Fairfax and…
This may turn out to be a major threat to Australian security, but it is important that the political class – including the media – not overreact to the "China threat".
Budgetary pressures will dictate a re-balancing of an unfair tax system in which younger taxpayers continue to underwrite a wealth transfer to an older generation.
The public’s right to know should be encompassed in a charter of rights that enshrines basic freedoms taken for granted in comparable western democracies.
In a raw geopolitical game in one of the most volatile corners of the world it is hard to exaggerate the degree of irresponsibility displayed by an American president in this instance.