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As Scott Morrison often repeats, we all have a “clear choice” with our vote. In this, at last he has spoken the truth.

No doubt it gave Scott Morrison a sense of authority by conducting his “guessing game” about the date of the election, but the electorate deserves better.

What more do climate change deniers and those responsible for enabling change need to accept the truth?

There is nothing wrong with being loud and boisterous and enthusiastic, as long as you are not also rude, insulting and, worst of all, unsportsmanlike.

Our history is us: we have way more to lose than facts We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 27, 2021 — 12.05am Normal text size Credit:Fairfax Media In order for a country to progress, we constantly need to refer to our past to light our path (“Fears nation risks memory loss as cuts run deep in National Archives”, April 26). If we allow our heritage, culture and history to disappear, valuing only those memories relating to war and con...

Carbon reduction cash is tiny next to coal subsidy We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 22, 2021 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Credit: The Prime Minister’s pledge to spend $500 million on carbon reduction schemes over an unspecified period contrasts with the billions of dollars every year in subsidies to the coal industry (“PM promises $500m hydrogen, carbon fund”, April 21). Adding insult to injury, nearly half ...

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What’s being commemorated can no longer be celebrated We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 26, 2021 — 12.10am Save Normal text size Credit:Sydney Morning Herald When I was a kid, it was standard fare on January 26 for a boatload of men in old-fashioned military uniforms to row a boat ashore at Farm Cove. They’d disembark and chase a bunch of Indigenous natives carrying spears. They were all actors re-enacting the landing...