Despite a majority of MLAs supporting a voluntary assisted dying law, the NT Country Liberal Party Chief Minister had to be dragged to support it, and then she ensured that two restrictive clauses were added. Suzanne James reports.
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Suzanne James caught up with Melbourne singer-songwriter Les Thomas, who is back in Australia after a highly successful British tour that took his music from London clubs and Oxford’s Blackwell’s bookshop to the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorset.
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A voluntary assisted dying bill has finally been re-introduced to Northern Territory parliament, after years of campaigning. But as Suzanne James reports, the Country Liberal Party is intent on making it unnecessarily restrictive.
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The Northern Territory is once again set to debate a voluntary assisted dying bill, 30 years after being robbed of its world-first assisted law. Suzanne James reports.
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The new aged care law was promoted as the sector’s most significant reform in a generation. But, as Suzanne James writes, relying on a market-based system means that complex human needs come second.
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Suzanne James sat down with Melbourne musician Les Thomas and got a history lesson in colonialism, feminism, trade unionism and making music in defense of the working class.
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Australia loses $31 billion each year to gambling and children continue to be stalked in ever-inventive ways by sports betting vultures. But, as Suzanne James writes, Labor has squibbed on bringing in real reforms.
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Northern Territory Labor has won back the progressive seat of Nightcliff. Suzanne James reports it is under pressure to support the push for a voluntary assisted dying law in the NT.
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Public money must come with public obligations, argues Suzanne James. If publicly funded institutions are to serve a diverse population, they must operate on civic principles that apply equally to all.
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The Australian Council of Social Services warns the latest rise would disproportionately affect lower-income households, many of whom already spend a larger share of their income on essential costs. Suzanne James reports.
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After years of frustration and major inquiries recommending voluntary assisted dying for the Northern Territory, Suzanne James writes that the campaign to force the Country Liberal Party to introduce a bill is looking promising.
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Few things impact the human experience more than living with a disability. The creation of the NDIS was a welcome relief, argues Suzanne James, but now its architects are planning to hand “choice and control” to an algorithm without human oversight and no right of appeal.