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Editorial
Pregnancy
Response to birth trauma inquiry must recognise changing face of motherhood
The NSW parliamentary inquiry risks becoming a case of midwives versus doctors. It must, instead, centre on modern mothers.
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Casinos
Sydney’s Star casino has had too much time to play latest hand of bluff poker
The Minns government must not accede to Star Casino’s demands to delay the conversion of poker machines and table games to card-only technology.
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Paris 2024
Gold for the record books and Australia’s Olympic future
Australia’s record number of gold medals is good news for future Olympics.
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Public transport
Trains running red lights is both nightmare and reality in Sydney
New figures show trains have run red lights eight times in the past two years on Sydney’s troubled rail network.
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Dominic Perrottet
Perrottet farewells politics, but he shouldn’t be lost to public life
The people of NSW will miss Dominic Perrottet’s ideas and energy.
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Crime
English riots, social media and the running sore of British politics
Young people attracted by social media to the thrill of violence rather than the social engineering and ideology have joined racist right-wingers to try and take over the streets of England.
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Paris 2024
Australia’s gold standard at Paris holds hope for more
Sport participants and supporters are burdened by many superstitions. One is not to crow too early.
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Education
New tune needed for music education
The days of class sets of recorders or xylophones have gone, with music now expected to be taught by general classroom teachers.
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Olympics
Boxing administrators’ rivalry on gender eligibility hurts fighters
The conflicting regimes of two rival boxing administrations over gender eligibility has boiled over into the Paris Olympics.
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Schools
A co-ed rebellion by Newington old boys is out of step and now over
A group aiming to stop girls being enrolled at Newington College has suffered a massive rejection and failed to win a seat on the alumni board.
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Aviation
Capital city failure must not threaten Rex Airlines’ regional services
The collapse of Rex Airlines will raise questions about monopolies in the aviation business, but regional Australia needs the carrier to keep flying.
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