Issue 2015 May 23
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Supreme Court argument goes to heart of marriage
The United States Supreme Court has been discussing the problems, concerns and harms with same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court of the United States Its open discussions stand in stark contrast to rulings by lower courts that there is no rational basis for defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman only. Whereas in Australia marriage is a federal issue, in…
CANBERRA OBSERVED Mixed budget: ‘Battlers’ put on the backburner
The Abbott Government has clearly learnt a lot since its ill-fated first blitzkrieg budget that was designed to run over as many groups as possible in one go in a bid to fast-track a return to budget surplus in its first term of government. Joe Hockey Joe Hockey’s second budget could not have been more different. By contrast to its harsh predecessor, it is designed…
