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We've been asleep at the wheel on child safety
Kurrajong independent MLA Thomas Emerson’s actions forced the release of documents related to children’s safety in early childhood centres. Photo: Supplied. CONTENT WARNING: This article contains references to child abuse. Almost all of the respondents to my recent survey on early childhood sector reforms – 98 per cent of them – agreed or strongly agreed that reform is needed to ensure children’s safety always comes first in the ACT.
My journey to billions (hopefully)
The wonder of chatGPT is that it answers my questions with haste, reason and true and deep thought on the subject. Today I asked it one question: “I am 16 years old, have £30 to my name, and a weekly income of £4. How can I make my millions.” The circle of doom and thinking spun as my youthful brain thought ahead 40 years to me sitting in my yacht with my billions — no TRILLIONS next to me. I completely understand that money doesn’t create happiness, although does it create sadness?
Opinion: What is a 'party of independents'?
Written by Independents for Canberra leader Thomas Emerson. We’re just days away from the 2024 ACT Election, where we’ll receive a verdict from our community about who is best placed to represent us for the next four years. It’s tempting to use this column to tell you all the reasons I think you should vote independent. But I’ll resist that temptation and explain, instead, what Independents for Canberra – ‘a party of independents’ – actually is. We haven’t elected an independent in 26 years.
Opinion: Why we need a Future Generations Act
The ACT has been self-governed for a decade longer than Wales. But Wales is a decade ahead of the ACT in introducing legislation to safeguard the wellbeing of future generations. This week, candidates running under the Independents for Canberra banner are announcing our shared commitment to introducing a Future Generations Act modelled on the Welsh Well-being of Future Generations Act 2015.
Thomas Emerson: What I learned working for David Pocock
I met David Pocock through my movement studio, Praksis, which I established after graduating with a philosophy degree at ANU in 2017. He came in for a private session with me and showed up ego-free, completely open to learning. You wouldn’t have guessed he was captaining the Wallabies at the time. Four years later, I was sitting in his parliamentary office, shortly after the 2022 federal election, asking for a job.
When did we give up on fairness?
It’s time for an honest conversation about disadvantage in Canberra. This city is an incredible place to live. I honestly believe there’s no place better. If you can afford it. If you can’t, you’re in trouble. In many ways, facing economic, social or cultural disadvantage is worse for you in the ACT than in any other jurisdiction. The inequity starts in childhood.
Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists
American Journal of Archaeology | The Journal of the Archaeological Institute of America
Havana Tradition Platform Pipe Production and Disposition: Implications for Interpreting Regional Variation in Midwestern Hopewell Ceremonialism
From the onset of antiquarian endeavors in America, practitioners, lacking chronological and often contextual controls, sought to define patterned human behavior manifested within the material assemblages, mortuary remains, and monumental constructions they encountered.
Restoring a lost heritage
Illinois State Archaeological Survey director Thomas Emerson leads an effort to restore ancient mounds in Robert Allerton Park. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Delete Edit embedded media in the Files Tab and re-insert as needed. PIATT COUNTY, Ill. — It is a gray and overcast day as we make our way to the mounds at Robert Allerton Park. We use golf carts to get to the mounds, bumping our way over hills and bends along a trail.
Projectile Points and the Illinois Landscape: People, Time and Place by Series Editor Thomas Emerson - Signed First Edition - 2017 - from JMT Collectibles LLC (SKU: 721010019)
Projectile Points and the Illinois Landscape: People, Time and Place by Thomas Emerson, Series Editor Used hardcover Signed First Condition See description ISBN 10 1930487436 ISBN 13 9781930487437 Seller 30-Day Return Guarantee Payment Methods Accepted Visa Mastercard American Express Discover Paypal About This Item Reviews About This Item 11.5X8.5 Photographic Hard Covers, no d/j. Limited edition copy 37/45 with signature plate showing all 8 authors.
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The case against the effects test
If Barnaby Joyce supports an effects test you know it's anti-competitive. Small-business organisations also support the government's effects test because they want protection from competition. That's understandable from their perspective. But the objective of competition law should be to benefit consumers by protecting competition – not competitors. Anti-competitive behaviour by businesses with substantial market power should not be tolerated. That's why Australia has competition laws.
A case for a royal commission into tax avoidance
In the post-war era, Australia has held 49 royal commissions, including one into Aboriginal land rights, two into drugs, several into our national security agencies, five into trade unions and none into tax avoidance – well, not a planned one, anyway. One of the five trade union royal commissions – into the Painters and Dockers Union in the early 1980s – uncovered rampant tax avoidance implemented through the notorious bottom of the harbour schemes.
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