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Without more detail, it's premature to say voluntary assisted dying laws in Victoria are 'working well'

  • Written by: Courtney Hempton, Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University
Without more detail, it's premature to say voluntary assisted dying laws in Victoria are 'working well'Shutterstock

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has this week published a report detailing the first six months of the legislation in action in Victoria.

The report reveals 52 people legally ended their lives from the time voluntary assisted dying became legal on June 19 last year to the end of December.

While the Victorian government is...

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Australia, we need to talk about who governs our city-states

  • Written by: Benjamen Franklen Gussen, Lecturer in Law, Swinburne University of Technology
Australia, we need to talk about who governs our city-statesBenny Marty/Shutterstock

In 1971, a Time magazine article, titled “Should New York City Be the 51st State?”, observed:

States have not only short-changed and hamstrung their cities but are themselves the least creative and effective of the three levels of government.

Of course, the United States still doesn’t have a 51st state, but...

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who would win in a fight between the Black Mamba and the Inland Taipan?

  • Written by: Timothy N. W. Jackson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Venom Research Unit, University of Melbourne
who would win in a fight between the Black Mamba and the Inland Taipan?Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

This is an article from I’ve Always Wondered, a series where readers send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. Send your question to alwayswondered@theconversation.edu.au

Who would win in a fight between the Black Mamba and the Inland Taipan? – Biswajit Tripathy

Dear Biswajit,

What a...

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Albanese pledges Labor government would have 2050 carbon-neutral target

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Albanese pledges Labor government would have 2050 carbon-neutral targetoriginal

Anthony Albanese will commit a Labor government to adopting a target of zero net emissions by 2050, in a speech titled “Leadership in a New Climate” to be delivered on Friday.

The opposition leader’s embrace of this target, which the ALP also took to the last election, is in line with the policies of state and territory...

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