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Clean house WORKING ORDER According to CNN, Joe Biden will today sign a presidential memorandum to “reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expanded by the Trump administration” specifically he will be rescinding a ban on government funding for foreign nonprofits that perform or promote abortions, aka the “Mexico City Policy”. Biden will also sign orders to reopen federal marketplaces selling Affordable Care Act health plans, and lower recent barriers to joining Medicaid, Democrats also reintroduced legislation to bring America’s hourly minimum wage from a miserly US$7.25 to $15 incrementally, mind you, with a final date of 2025, after which the wage would be tied with indexation (or, y’know, Republicans take the White House and nix it entirely) while Biden will tomorrow sign orders expanding refugee intakes from Trump’s historically-low figures and establish a taskforce to reunite migrant familie ....
Parkin, a Quandamooka man whose customary home turf is North Stradbroke island, says the debate is “important to people and we can’t wish it away” but that it will remain “until we deal with it in a real and substantive way”. That, he says, will require the country to “reimagine itself with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, heritage and cultures at the core of a much fuller national identity”. Advertisement Others take the approach of IndigenousX media group chief executive Luke Pearson, who was originally a driving force behind the “Change the Date” movement on social media but has now disavowed the slogan, saying it’s the nation itself that needs to change. ....
What about Victorians who were further afield? January 3, 2021 10.00pm Normal text size What about Victorians who were further afield? When the Victorian border closure with NSW was announced late in the afternoon on New Year’s Eve it appears that there was no consideration given all of the Victorians like us who had driven to Queensland before Christmas for a long-awaited reunion with loved ones. We met many couples like us on the way who were headed to various locations in Queensland. When the announcement was made, we had virtually no hope of being able to get to the border in time. It would have meant packing up and leaving immediately and trying to condense a three-day drive into 24 hours of non-stop driving with little chance of finding accommodation on the way. We are seniors and such a prospect was just too difficult as well as very dangerous. ....