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Kate Fitz-Gibbon

Time to act - provocation must be rejected as an excuse for murder

Kate Fitz-Gibbon On Wednesday, the Select Committee of the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into the partial defence of provocation will release its final report recommending reform to a law that has long animated debate...

David Marr

Gillard's bizarre act of faith leaves vulnerable unprotected

David Marr I hesitate to say this but the Prime Minister is living in sin. I don't give a damn. Nor do most Australians. But that sort of thing bothers religious leaders.

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Michelle Grattan

Swan avoids risking too much with juggling act

Michelle Grattan The government has done what it had to do. It has kept its budget numbers in the black, in a fiscal exercise driven by the imperative of preserving its political credibility rather than by economic...

Rob Casamento

School open day spin just a classroom act

Rob Casamento Parents can learn more about schools if they do their homework first.

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Ross Gittins

Reform is a delicate act of balance

Ross Gittins A lot of the problems the nation struggles with and argues over boil down to the considerable potential for conflict between what economists summarise as ''equity'' and ''efficiency''.

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Janine Perrett

High wire act between the US and China

Janine Perrett Confused about the political posturing over our new best friend China and our old ally the US? Well, no need to be.

Richard Ackland

Hanged, drawn and quartered - and that's just the Bail Act

Richard Ackland Who would have picked the hard-line Christian warrior Attorney-General, Greg Smith, as a ''leftie masquerading as a conservative''.

Abbott's own act to blame for the lack of criminal charges

Phillip Coorey TONY ABBOTT'S frustration that the Fair Work Australia investigation into the Health Services Union has not paved the way explicitly for criminal charges in part stems from legislation he introduced...

Call for referendum for ACT electoral deadlock

ACT voters could be asked to vote in a referendum next year in an effort to break a nine-year deadlock between the territory's warring politicians.

ACT Govt starts solar farm process

The process to choose a company to build a large solar-farm to generate electricity for the ACT has begun.

ACT Greens' funding keeps growing

The ACT Greens received an unprecedented half a million dollars in donations, loans and election funding in the past financial year, the biggest in the local party's history.

Ben Wadham

Defence Force's great battle within: cleaning up its own act

Ben Wadham Breaking down entrenched military culture is central to fixing problems.

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ACT to sign border deal

The ACT will gain a greater say in developments in the surrounding region under a major cross-border agreement with NSW to be signed today.

ACT's $1b blowout

Big spending by the ACT Labor Government on water security projects and other capital works has contributed to a serious weakening in the ACT's long-term financial positions.

Labor should push for G20 in ACT

Canberra Liberal Senator Gary Humphries has accused the ACT's federal Labor representatives of going quiet on the idea of Canberra hosting the G20 summit in 2014.