Community violence


Did Miranda Devine incite violence?

There is a smell of blood in the air as well as smoke, as communities, individuals and the media look to find someone to blame for the Victorian bushfires, writes Greg Barns.

Sydney nightlife: plastic cups and no shots after midnight

The plastic cup rules are part of a new wave of nanny state regulations around drinking recently introduced by embattled new Premier Nathan Rees, writes Nicholas Pickard.

Booze is not just a black issue

I do not agree with what the PM has done in the Territory’s Aboriginal communities, nor did most of the Aboriginal health workers I was with last week in western NSW, writes Dr Rod MacQueen, an addiction medicine physician who works in indigenous communities.