No reason to celebrate cheaper drugs
The Sunday Age reported that sixty commonly prescribed drugs will now be cheaper for patients and that those who take simvastatin to help lower cholesterol will save almost $15 on the drug.
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The ‘precariat’
‘It’s a global phenomenon so widespread that a new name has been coined for it: the precariat,’ wrote workplace editor Clay Lucas in The Age, 21 March. Precariat is a term describing the millions of people who finding themselves without job security are forced to take insecure, poorly paid and precarious jobs.
On the subject of abortion
If you dare to question abortion rights be prepared to be denied the support of mainstream feminism.
Fair Cop – Christine Nixon spits the dummy
In July 2010, Christine Nixon resigned as chair of Victoria’s Bushfire Recovery and Reconstruction Authority, effectively retiring from public life. But this week the former Victorian chief police commissioner is well and truly back in the media spotlight.
Coal seam gas mining is a social and environmental nightmare
While scientists and environmentalists blame cattle for the rising levels of methane, there’s another culprit and that’s coal seam gas mining.
Is it the end of shopping?
As the Federal Government readies itself to announce the details of the long – deliberated carbon tax, the Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet reassures the voters that the government remains addicted to strong economic growth.
But is business as usual really possible in our post-carbon world?
Seed savers or seed poachers
Beyond public gaze and frozen in the arctic frost lie 500,000 of the worlds’ seeds.
Parliamentary Democracy
Should we legitimize Julia Gillard’s caretaker position and turn her into our elected Prime Minister? What will it mean for us – the public? Will we get our concerns heard? Voting in Australian elections is compulsory for those of us over 18 years of age.We are compelled to vote in federal, state and local elections but are our voices heard.
Australia’s latest coup d’etat
Does it matter if our Prime Minister is Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd or the next power hungry politician who stabs his colleague in the back when real power belongs to corpulent multinationals companies.
