Opinions
Archive
February 2013
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“Amateur players need to beware of long term effects of concussion”
27 February 2013
While it’s important to recognise the risk of brain injury in our elite hockey, rugby, AFL, rugby union, etc players – it’s also critically important to recognise these same injuries can be happening to our kids every weekend, with much more serious resul
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“'As a matter of fact, I’ve got it now’: alcohol advertising and sport”
27 February 2013
Sport is generally a healthy activity that transmits important societal values, such as fairness, perseverance, and teamwork. Unfortunately, it’s also the primary vehicle for marketing alcohol to the general population.
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“Class size, Gonski and schools funding: what are the facts?”
26 February 2013
The Gonski reforms to school funding are front and centre in this election year. But despite their prominence, much of the plan – including who will pay – is yet to be decided.
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“The end of the ALP/Green alliance is all sound and fury”
26 February 2013
The termination of the ALP/Green alliance has been characterised by some sections of themedia and the commentariat as a “divorce”.
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“Youth face snakes and ladders on the path to full-time employment”
25 February 2013
Getting a job is a major concern for young Australians. Last year’s National Survey of Young Australians showed a large rise in the proportion of young people valuing getting a job, from 16 per in 2010 to 22.7 per cent in 2011.
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“Swim stars must look to Talbot era”
22 February 2013
Reviving the Australian swimming team to the heights of the golden era under Don Talbot's reign will take years and significant corporate and government money.
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“Karate kids: should we be worried about martial arts in pre-schools?”
21 February 2013
When you think of martial arts, you probably think of bare fists and bloodied faces, not a four year-old in a child care centre.
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“Government didn’t walk away from the Greens, but Milne needed to ditch Labor”
20 February 2013
Greens leader Christine Milne’s announcement yesterday that the alliance between the Greens and Labor was over had more symbolic than practical implications for Australian politics.
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“Religious instruction has no place in our public schools”
20 February 2013
The policy of Special Religious Instruction or Special Religious Education currently enacted through differing state education statutes across Australia, is an outdated and flawed model of segregated, unaccountable and unprofessional religious instruction
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“The Melbourne microcosm: how one seat may define the Green v Labor fight”
15 February 2013
The battle for the seat of Melbourne at this year’s federal election will be nothing short of a bruising affair. Melbourne is of enormous symbolic importance to both Labor and the Green Party.
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“Private land is an important piece of the conservation jigsaw”
14 February 2013
There is general agreement that the Commonwealth and state governments lack the commitment, and hence funding, to preserve Australia’s biodiversity.
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“Carbon capture can’t rely on fine-tuning old technologies”
13 February 2013
In reality, there are only marginal improvements to be made to the conventional carbon capture technologies favoured by the power generation industry. A new approach is required.
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“Doping, gambling and sport: integrity begins at home”
12 February 2013
The Australian Crime Commission’s report on organised crime and drugs in sport has unleashed a storm amongst sports fans, particularly those who follow the clubs or codes so far implicated.
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“Widespread illicit drug use no surprise in win-at-all costs ‘game’”
11 February 2013
“Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing”. This win-at-all costs sports creed, adopted by the Americans, has now crept into the psyche of Australian sport.
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“Tornadoes in Australia? They’re more common than you think”
7 February 2013
There is a long-standing myth that Australia doesn’t get tornadoes. This simply isn’t true.
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“Journalists McKenzie and Baker go unshielded before demands to reveal sources”
5 February 2013
Fairfax investigative journalists Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker had a small win in a Melbourne court yesterday.
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“PMS is real and denying its existence harms women”
1 February 2013
A recent opinion piece in the Fairfax papers – based on a Conversation article – discussed “the theory that (PMS) is all in women’s minds as opposed to their endocrinology."
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