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Page Text: It’s more important to know the impact of your policies than to know economic figures off-hand Greg Jericho If there’s ever a moment where the PM needs to know the exact unemployment rate without looking at the internet, we’re all truly stuffed I can’t eat childcare or lower taxes. Australians in poverty have been thrown to the wolves by both parties Melissa Fisher No one cares about us until the economy needs to be stimulated. We are used to do it then abandoned again Low wage growth in Australia didn’t happen by accident – it’s the system working as intended Richard Denniss Workers have a role to play in demanding higher pay, but the Coalition has spent years condemning ‘weak-kneed’ employers who offer good wages

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Comment is free Australia Opinion Columnists Voice for Change Cartoons Indigenous Australia Guardian Labs The Aussie Winemaker Just Making One Style of Wine – And Winning Awards for It The Simple Lemon-Juicing Hack That Will Give You Pip-Free Juice in a Just Few Seconds Seven Curry Recipes – for Any Mood – to Make This Winter World view  It’s more important to know the impact of your policies than to know economic figures off-hand   I can’t eat childcare or lower taxes. Australians in poverty have been thrown to the wolves by both parties   Low wage growth in Australia didn’t happen by accident – it’s the system working as intended   Reconciliation action plans let settlers take up more space, not relinquish it   The election motivated Australia’s release of refugees like me, not human rights obligations   It’s so frustrating when an election brings funding to north Queensland after years of neglect   Racism in Australia is about the structures that ensure non-white people don’t get a fair go  Greg Jericho It’s more important to know the impact of your policies than to know economic figures off-hand  Brigid Delaney Letting go: the decluttering obsession moves into the mind  Jason Wilson Dragging Russia’s invasion into Australia’s culture war is as unimaginative as it is amoral  Van Badham Today’s ‘woman’ is supposed to people-please yet also be an empowered ‘girlboss’ – why?  Ranjana Srivastava This healthcare practice robs many seniors of vitality and life in their twilight years  Paul Daley ‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?  Katharine Murphy Australia live news election updates: Scott Morrison backs Warringah’s Katherine Deves amid Liberal revolt; 35 Covid deaths recorded  Peter Lewis Anthony Albanese is taking the weight of Scott Morrison’s shortcomings and deploying these against him  Jeff Sparrow Is battling back-to-back disasters distracting us from fighting the climate crisis?   A tiny group of wealthy people refuse to stop making more money in order to save the planet   As tuberculosis resurges in the Asia Pacific, what lessons from Covid can save Australia?   Police interactions with Aboriginal people are scarred by Australia’s violent frontier history   Australia’s history of massacres should be no surprise, but many have to be dragged to the truth   Reporting on Indigenous issues is still woeful but we will keep making noise and keep showing up   Australia needs a seventh state so north Queensland gets its fair share   Martin Rowson on the Impenitent Thief – cartoon   The Guardian view on ending rape in war: endemic but largely unpunished   The Guardian view on returning a Sámi shaman’s drum: a sign of hope   Johnson to stay because of Ukraine? Nonsense. The war makes it more urgent that he go   Scott Morrison refuses to budge on a federal Icac. But the dam of reality will have to burst   If we can farm metal from plants, what else can we learn from life on Earth?   Russia’s mass rapes in Ukraine are a war crime. Its military leaders must face prosecution   No sleep, little care, no medication: my 80-hour A&E ordeal   Herd immunity now seems impossible. Welcome to the age of Covid reinfection   Rich Britain sending refugees to Rwanda isn’t ‘burden-sharing’. It’s shameful exploitation   The New York subway attack is horrifying. But more police power is not the answer 

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