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The dismantling of a successful Aboriginal employment program by Labor and Liberal has proved to be disastrous. Professor Jon Altman explains.

Routine testing on a coal seam gas well has lead AGL to suspend operations. Thom Mitchell reports.

Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics is publishing a report on recreational marijuana use among kids under the age of 18. Like a good pediatrician, the report summarizes the latest research to answer kids' and parents' most pressing questions. Is pot bad for young brains? Will the newest wave of changes in American law about marijuana make things better or worse?

For the past few years, I have mixed it with the flag bearers on the 26 January long weekend. This is not because I think jingoistic and cringe-worthy flag fetishism, as rekindled by the terror-mongering wedge-master John Howard, is a worthy reflection of our national character.

No. My choice of company on the 26 January long weekend is rather because I am middle-aged, and can no longer attend gigs with the gusto and regularity I one did, and still love going to live music events. For over two decades the 26 January long weekend offered the opportunity to see a years’ worth of live music in one jam-packed day and night.

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As I've said before, when Tony Abbott gets into trouble he will reach out to his base on the far right, and that's why he offered Prince Phillip the knighthood. Only right-wingers can even discern what Prince Phillip's service to Australia has been. When he married the then Princess Elizabeth in 1947 the State of Queensland presented 500 cans of pineapple to the happy couple. They must have assumed they were like other war-battered Poms, in need of food aid but reluctant to fork out £10 to come over and work for it.

As a Brisbane city councillor, Campbell Newman thought coal was a bad, bad thing. But as Premier, he can't get enough of it. Literally. Thom Mitchell explains.

In making my predictions for 2015, I was tempted to predict that Abbott would last out the year, mainly on the basis of inertia, but decided it was too risky (Commenter Fran B sensibly went the other way). I’m already glad of that: even before Sir Phil, it seemed as if he was on the skids.

The Daily Telegraph has published the second Galaxy poll of state voting intention in New South Wales since Luke Foley’s leadership takeover, and it’s all but identical to the first in having the Coalition with a 54-46 lead on two-party preferred, from primary votes of 45% for the Coalition (up one), 36% for Labor (steady) and 11% for the Greens (steady). There are two further questions, finding voters to be largely indifferent to Foley’s drink driving record, and emphatically opposed to the government’s move to allow supermarkets to sell lottery tickets.

Thursday February 26th, 6.30pm Level 2, 22 Punch Lane, Melbourne Presenter: Karl Fitzgerald RSVP Last year was Australia’s 3rd hottest on record. The likelihood of a radical future grows with each day we do not take action. The need for greater economic flexibility is vital. How can the economic system support cyclists and seaweed cultivists for […]

Australia's National Science and Technology Centre, Questacon, to have 10% of annual electricity needs provided by new rooftop PV installation.

NSW's Marrickville Council has become Australia's second local government group to join the global fossil fuel divestment campaign.

Tony Abbott’s decision to award an Australian knighthood to a 93 year-old British prince tells us all we need to know about this Coalition government: isolated, ignorant and locked in the past. Now we may find out if there are any moderates left in government, and if Australia's climate and clean energy policies can be retrieved.