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No support from PM for an Australian under siege January 7, 2021 — 12.05am Normal text size Credit: Julian Assange has been offered consular assistance which in reality has meant no assistance at all ("PM won't seek US pardon for publisher", January 6). Our record in helping stranded Australians has not been good. Did consular assistance help David Hicks, the Bali nine, Mamdouh Habib – all Australian citizens who were abandoned by our government? Assange's crime: exposing the truth about Americans gunning down innocent journalists and seriously wounding two children in Iraq. Like John ...

Top-end tax cuts encourage exasperation, not aspiration Top-end tax cuts encourage exasperation, not aspiration December 22, 2020 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Advertisement International research has only confirmed our opinion of the Morrison government’s tax cuts (‘‘Top-end tax cuts fail economy and boost inequality: studies’’, December 21). This government has always favoured the top end of town and always will. It’s time voters stopped falling for the nonsense. Frydenberg claimed the tax cuts would reward effort and ‘‘encourage aspirationâ€...