Opinion: Professor Simon Chapman is a powerful advocate for anti-smoking legislation, gun control and the virtues of renewable energy | Peter_Fitz
Simon Chapman is emeritus professor in public health at the University of Sydney and a long-time advocate of gun control, stronger anti-smoking laws and the virtues of renewable energy. Today, his new booklooking at the forces trying to “medicalise” quitting tobacco, is published.
Justice Lucy McCallum, as part of her deliberations in the delaying of the Brittany Higgins alleged rape trial. And yes, thank you, I know. “She does not want to be a public figure. I think it is important to defend her right to privacy. Please don’t out someone against their will – it’s not right.”“It doesn’t make any sense to turn [the house] into another museum. It would be almost impossible to run it as a museum, having knowledge of what it costs to do this kind of thing. This house needs a family again. It would be lovely to think of a creative family but it would be enough if they loved it, and lived in it.
Teachers Federation president Angelo Gavrielatos as the state’s public school and Catholic school teachers got ready to stage an historic joint 24-hour strike. Gavrielatos said the NSW budget failed to address crippling workloads, and acting on uncompetitive salaries and unsustainable workloads was the only way to stop more teachers leaving and to attract people into the profession.
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