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We keep teaching wrong lessons in education

Letters and Short Takes, Wednesday, September 12

Newcastle Herald

Liberals to double debt, delay budget surplus

The Tasmanian Liberal government's 2024/25 budget has pushed back a projected surplus and forecast net debt to double in four years.

AAP

Push to outlaw price gouging as costs continue to soar

The federal Greens are hoping they can address the plight of Australians paying more at the check-out as the cost of living rises.

AAP

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‘They’re all desperate’: Clover Moore on defying News Corp, ageism and sexism to seek a record sixth term

Has the ‘Clover show’ run too long? After 20 years in the top job, the Sydney lord mayor says there’s still more to do

The Guardian - AU

Key gambling harm advocate ‘saddened’ by Albanese’s statements on betting ads

Tim Costello says the prime minister has ‘mindlessly’ followed gambling industry’s attempts to present him as a prohibitionist

The Guardian - AU

Labor bill proposes up to seven years’ jail for doxing but drops promised new hate speech laws

Legislation will be introduced on Thursday along with a children’s online privacy code and misinformation laws

The Guardian - AU

'Relief' Australia won't take high-level nuclear waste

Australia won't accept high-level nuclear waste from the US or UK under the AUKUS agreement, with Labor moving to change the proposed framework.

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Independent test for Labor in bid to hang on to power in Newcastle

'Stability' and 'experience' or 'time for change'?

Newcastle Herald

Child protection probe promise after pedophile arrest

The Queensland opposition has promised an inquiry into the state's child protection system if it wins government after a man was charged with multiple offences.

AAP

Labor claims Aukus nuclear waste dumping issue just a Greens scare campaign

Legislation before Australian parliament covers the way the country’s nuclear-powered submarine program will be regulated

The Guardian - AU

Alex Greenwich wins defamation case against Mark Latham, hopes it will end ‘Trump-style attacks’ in politics

Greenwich was awarded $140,000 in damages in the defamation action against Latham after the former federal Labor leader posted a tweet on 30 March 2023

The Guardian - AU

A region in the fast lane: meet the Maitland mayoral candidates

There are four candidates standing for the top job.

Newcastle Herald

Labor touts more support for apprentices as part of home-building push

Subsidies and payments part of pitch to trainees, apprentices.

The Canberra Times

'I knew I was going to be different': sun sets on mayor's remarkable career

For the first time in two decades, Kay Fraser will just be herself.

Newcastle Herald

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Miners dig 'best friend' Dutton with battlelines drawn

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has called for "a bit of common sense" from mining bosses, while Peter Dutton pledges to be their "best friend".

The Guardian - AU

Universities say they are being treated like ‘political footballs’ in scathing critique of Labor’s student cap

Decision to cap international enrolments the most ‘extraordinary intervention’ since 2021 Coalition vetoing of research grants, Universities Australia chair to say

The Guardian - AU

NSW town to ‘heal’ after it finally gets a high school eight years after John Barilaro promised it

The then deputy premier announced $71m Bungendore project in 2019 but it was found to breach crown land law. Now Labor is proceeding with its own

The Guardian - AU

Roads, rates, rubbish – and war? How foreign conflict could influence NSW’s local council elections

Two opposing activist groups, Better Council and We Vote for Palestine, are vying to sway voters on an international issue

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Labor toasts vote that reshaped parliament for 30 years

Three decades ago women welcomed a historic vote at the Labor National Conference, which Anthony Albanese and his federal caucus team celebrate to this day.

Newcastle Herald

'Angry and fed up': Hunter nurses strike in fight for fairer pay

'We are living on a 2008 wage in 2024.'

AAP

Sweeping changes for public service under CLP

The Country Liberal Party ministry has been sworn in ahead of sweeping changes to the Northern Territory public service.

The Guardian - AU

Why is Labor trying to reform the RBA and why is Peter Dutton opposing the changes?

The Coalition has indicated it won’t support the reforms, which it says could let Labor allies take control of interest rates

The Guardian - AU

Labor opens door to negotiating with Greens on RBA reforms after Coalition blocks proposal

Peter Dutton’s opposition also puts up new roadblocks to potential deal on government’s aged care reforms

AAP

Victoria spends $15 million to police anti-war protest

A Victorian MP will skip parliament to join a major anti-war protest, which the state's treasurer has confirmed will cost up to $15 million to police.

The Canberra Times

'We have had discussions with the NCA': War of words over new city stadium

Labor argues a stadium is not permitted on the proposed site.

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