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July 1, 2020
Political Roundup: The Greens’ Zeitgeist poverty and tax action plan

Political Roundup: The Greens’ Zeitgeist poverty and tax action plan

The Greens have shaken up the election campaign with the announcement of their radical poverty and action plan to reform welfare provision and introduce a new wealth tax for millionaires. It’s a big-thinking, controversial policy and has generated a lot of disagreement over how radical it is, whether it could work, and what it might …

June 29, 2020
Graham Adams: A euthanasia referendum in a pandemic

Graham Adams: A euthanasia referendum in a pandemic

No one could have predicted when David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill was passed by Parliament last November that the referendum required to bring the legislation into force would be held against the backdrop of a deadly global pandemic. Since then, the mounting tally of casualties around the world has thrust death and dying …

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