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If there's one thing that the recent election campaign and its outcome demonstrated, it's the depth of the divisions that exist in our Australian community.
Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
What does it mean to be an Australian in times like these? What are the values that unite us?
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Rather one-sided. West Papua if given independence would like East Timor, PNG and other states to our North quickly deteriorate to "failed state" status. The problem needing a soluton is how to stop this happening.
Whether West Papua can survive as an Independent state is a secondary issue. What we must NOT ignore are the (proven to be legitimate) claims of torture & persecution by the 43 asylum seekers who got here by boat. If we applied your concerns, Peter Bashford, would we have ignored calls for asylum from East Timorese on the grounds that their country could not manage Independence?
Eureka Street supports the efforts of a rival online publication to encourage political parties to make policy that moves beyond political expediency and 'what's in it for me?'
What's behind the decline of State of Origin football in the northern states? Can the vitality the competition enjoyed in the 1970's ever be recaptured?