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By Leith van Onselen The Greens are seeking to legalise marijuana for Australians over the age of 18 in a bid to stifle organised crime: Senator Richard Di Natale argued his party’s proposal would not result in the widespread sale and use of cannabis, and claimed there would be strict regulations on sale and production.

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By Leith van Onselen One of the common arguments against ‘urban sprawl’ is that it endangers Australia’s food bowl – the food producing farms that sit beyond the urban fringe of our major cities. In recent times we have witnessed alarmist reports from various bodies, such as the University of Technology Sydney, warning that Sydney

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Via Goittiboff: I have been in touch with two of the top five non-apartment builders in Australia and neither realised that the Royal Commission was threatening to go after the banks over unfair lending practices if they keep lending to homebuyers on the basis of false living expense estimates. …Both builders explained that the majority

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By Leith van Onselen Last week, I published an article on the diminishing value of having a university degree, whereby due to exploding student numbers on the back of the uncapping of Australian university places, the economy has become massively oversupplied with university graduates: Leading to poor employment outcomes, despite the massive cost to the Budget

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