Today in The Australian
Good thing the phones are smart; many of the people who use them clearly aren’t. But whether the boorishness involved in sending lewd photos by text message justifies Cricket Australia’s treatment of Tim Paine is an open question.
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Today in The Australian
It was the past, not the future, that changed at last week’s plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee.
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If nothing is more precious than the gift of life, we are not only richer but also more equal than ever before.
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Today in The Australian
“He who decides on the exception is sovereign”, the German polymath Carl Schmitt famously wrote, in what remains the most frequently cited sentence from his vast body of work.
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It may well be that the “National Indigenous Visual Arts Action Plan, 2021-2025”, which the government released late last week, contains some worthwhile initiatives. But it was hard not to be struck by a statement tucked away among the indicators of “what success looks like”.
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Although the High Court has dismissed Peter Ridd’s appeal against the termination of his appointment by James Cook University, its unanimous decision is an important step forward in the defence of intellectual freedom.
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