Criminal offence


In Alice Springs, glue is the new petrol

Alice Springs has recently been hit by an outbreak of glue-sniffing, with between twelve and twenty kids from the town-camps falling victim to the practice, writes Graham Ring.

Electoral process: of recounts and conspiracy theories

There will be a recount of the result in former small business minister Fran Bailey’s Victorian seat of McEwen after her six-vote loss. Which brings us to other matters electoral, writes Christian Kerr.

70% say jail Pratt. I like him, says the PM

ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel argues that price fixing offences should attract a criminal penalty, being a “form of theft and little different from classes of corporate crime that already attract criminal sentences”. It seems that the majority of Australian agree, writes Jonathan Green.