The Herald's View
Since the Herald was first published in 1831, the editorial team has believed it important to express a considered view on the issues of the day for readers, always putting the public interest first.
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Transport for NSW
Transurban knows for whom the tolls bell
With toll revenues surging by an eye-watering 26 per cent last financial year, Transurban, the behemoth controlling Sydney’s toll roads, must surely be crying all the way to the bank. For motorists, there can be only tears of rage.
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Matildas
One game at a time: Go Matildas
No national team has fused hopes and dreams so magically as the Matildas.
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Indigenous Voice
Western Sydney may prove decisive in referendum result
Ever expanding western Sydney has exerted a huge influence in changing Australia society for at least three decades, and now it is shaping up to play a pivotal role in determining the outcome of the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament.
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Liberal backbencher owns what others in his party don’t: a spine
Keith Wolahan has delivered a speech rare in both its honesty and its intellectual framing.
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Smoking & vaping
Momentum to curb the ‘menace’ of vaping must be maintained
The number of daily cigarette smokers has halved in three decades, but clearly it is better to educate the public in the first place.
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FIFA Women's World Cup
The Matildas’ moment has arrived. Be sure to enjoy it
There is little doubt the Matildas believe in their ability to go all the way. It’s an attitude and conviction that has rubbed off on the nation.
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Private schools
The Kings School goes for a row over headmaster’s jaunt
The idea of headmaster and his wife swanning off for tea and scones at Henley-on-Thames sits awkwardly beside sacrifices most parents make to send their children to the private school system.
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Courts
Myths and stereotypes alive and well in NSW sexual assault trials
A new report has laid bare the trauma many sex assault victims feel in NSW courtrooms.
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Stuart Robert
Robert should face anti-corruption body over scrapped $191m software deal
Former cabinet minister Stuart Robert held multiple meetings with a tech company that won lucrative contracts to build a government payment system.
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The Higgins-Lehrmann case may now spawn an investigation into the investigation into the investigation
The ACT government has come out of the legal fiasco looking like some small-time shire council unable to run a criminal justice system.
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Abolition of NSW public service salary cap now looks a hollow promise
Premier Chris Minns’ key election promise to scrap the public service wage cap has come back to bite him with unions rejecting his government’s pay offer as little more than a variation on the Coalition’s controversial wages cap and an insulting breach of trust.
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