Policy
Gifts and Donations to MP’s
Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman yesterday declared over $10,000 in gifts that he and his office have received in the past......
COP21: The road to Paris: Legal considerations
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change consists of 196 signatories, who will come together to discuss the world’s......
No Bight drilling yet for BP
British oil company BP, the company responsible for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, has this week had its......
South Australia to become ‘greener’ by 2017
South Australia’s Premier Jay Weatherill is looking their government buildings to become neutral-carbon by 2017, and wants Adelaide to become......
Doubling the odds: China’s two child policy
The Chinese Government has announced it’s scrapping its controversial One Child Policy, thirty five years after it was put in......
Unfair imprisonment of Indigenous Australians with mental disabilities
Thousands of Indigenous Australians living with a mental or cognitive disability are imprisoned each year. A new study is looking......
Health professionals say it’s okay to ditch dairy
You don’t need to consume dairy to be healthy. The latest National Health and Medical Research Council’s dietary guidelines state......
Campaign against revenge porn gets political attention
A recent study has shown a concerning number of victims of online abuse, and in particular “Revenge Porn” based harrassment......
COAG asked to consider landowner gas veto rights
Following the suicide of Queensland farmer George Bender, who fought against three coal seam gas companies for ten years, Minister......
Roe 8 highway closer to construction
Last week in Perth almost two hundred people gathered to protest a highway extension across a large area of the......