Hogging the road Illustrator: Jim Pavlidis Read today's letters to the editor here
Sure, we don’t have enough houses, prices are astronomical and renters live in fear, but let’s add an extra 200,000 people per year into the demand queue for housing.
The quarter-acre dream in the cities is now an option only for the well-to-do. As noted by the Grattan Institute, the rest of us must accept higher-density living. This is the inevitable consequence of policies promoting a Big Australia.One of the major problems for young people today is probably the thought that they may never own their own home.
” : Instead of the buyer being the one who pays the stamp duty, why can’t it be shifted over a few years so that the seller pays it? Yet there is a multitude of high quality curriculum resources available, the sheer amount is overwhelming. The real problem is the organising, sharing and easy accessibility of these resources. Curriculum resources are not collected, curated and organised in a manner that is easily accessible for time-poor teachers. Much of it is known by individual teachers and lost whenever a teacher leaves the profession.
The school-leaving age has historically risen in times of high unemployment. It might now be time to cautiously reverse this trend given many jobs have been de-skilled. Any age reduction should be with one proviso: Should they later wish to return to formal education, early school leavers should be guaranteed an apprentice-style wage.
Such a consensus-based approach is likely to dramatically increase the chance of achieving important constitutional change. Perhaps it could begin by addressing the almost impossibly high bar set for constitutional change by the creaky old document we have at present.Geoffrey Robertson’s ideas and analysis are sound, but the application and execution are dodgy .
By all means wait until after the Queen’s funeral for further discussion, but then can we seriously consider an alternative to a head of state, with all its accompanying controversy, unneeded extra formality and ongoing expense?The huge crowds lining the streets in Edinburgh and the outpourings of grief from Scots genuinely affected by the Queen’s passing would indicate any talk of secession by Scotland from the union might be premature.
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