When science showed lead in petrol was causing damage to children’s growing brains, mothers and fathers worked to have it banned . Curbing the corrosive effects of social media is not only about enforcing take-down orders but must extend to their other deleterious aspects: people hiding behind aliases and posting hurtful and abusive material, and algorithms that foster dangerous personal behaviour. Parents, let your voices be heard.
We ceremoniously highlight Australia Day by granting Order of Australia awards to a handful of people, and we hold citizenship events involving only a tiny fraction of the nation. But Anzac Day brims with profound ceremony involving multitudes of Australians who are impelled to participate. This is the water board which says it is up to the task of servicing the Government’s ambitious new building program.”, April 23). A policy which very much appears “driven by an ideological opposition to renewables” by its very nature lacks substance. But Dutton’s clumsy attempt to throw a spanner into the works of Labor’s renewables projects has missed its mark and instead caused division within the Coalition’s own ranks.