Why is there still such a profound gender wage gap?
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    When I heard the recent statistics on this it really just took my breath away and illustrates how far women have to go to be empowered and valued.

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    Shelley Matulick
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    What would inspire you to be more altruistic in the way that you spend your money?
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    I believe that we are moving toward a world where altruism is not just a nicety, but a necessity. I’m interested to know what it is that makes people want to help. Is it a case of not knowing that you’re helping? Or is it a more conscious act?

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    TED
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    Why has the world still not taken action on climate change?
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    Despite knowing about the risks of climate change since the 1960s and after 25 years of UN climate negotiations, emissions have continued to rise. With the impacts now clearly visible around the world, why are governments still failing to act?

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    James Clark
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    When will the psychiatric regime end?
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    When humanity becomes humane, starts listening to people, rather than propaganda, regimes that torture and control will be exposed and stopped. The psychiatric regime has been going on for over 200 in various countries, enabling genital mutilation on women who opposed their husbands, LSD testing in the 1960s, and various torturous procedures.
    The people forcefully tested with insulin shock and LSD, haven’t received compensation, because our government declares the medical profession were allowed to torture people that way in the 1960s & 70s.
    The people who are being currently subjected to torture by the psychiatric regime, are also unlikely to receive compensation, unless there is wide-spread condemnation for the psychiatric procedures forcefully done in our government’s name on innocent people as young as two and as old as people can be. Electroshock used on 4 year olds, pills fed daily to tranquilise two year olds. Not to mention what they do to people in their prime.
    It is physically obvious what psychiatric torture does to people. It must be stopped.
    How dare anyone think our country is a democracy when this is going on. How dare the organisations of festivals censor psychiatric survivors who speak out because of sponsorship deals. How dare the Australian people be so unaware of what is happening to their citizens.
    The question is when? The answer should be now.

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    @initiallyno
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    Is theology ever more important than democracy?
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    Oh, come now: 99 problems, & getting hitched still 1…!?!

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    @davidorlaura
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    Will there be havens created for those who can’t stand spam drones?
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    New technologies bring banal, transforming side-effects worth visualising.

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    @willbrodiecom
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    How do first generation Australians or recent migrants to Australia justify supporting highly restrictive migration policies?
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    The sheer number of culturally diverse members of our community who show up to anti-Islam and anti-migration rallies flies in the face of the notion that such movements are only supported by those identifying as Anglo Australian.

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    Liz Bitar
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    If a mansplainer is manspreading at the same time, is he a manspleader or a mansprainer?
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    @reallykazcooke
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    Why does anything exist, rather than nothing at all?
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    Although I was raised as a strict Irish-style Roman Catholic, after many years of deep thought, I am now an atheist, humanist, rationalist and sceptic, and have come to the conclusion that this is the most important unanswered philosophical question. I do not believe there is any need to postulate a creator, because belief in a creator god leads to the obvious next questions of who or what made god, and who or what made who or what made god, and so on indefinitely.

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    Rosemary Sceats
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    What is your most dangerous idea?
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    Answers are almost always too safe.

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    Matthew
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    What happens if we don’t wake George up before we go go?
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    George seems a little paranoid about being left behind.

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    @@MyfanwyMcDonald
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    Is there a country in the world that considers its women more highly than its men, and if not, why not?
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    It matters to me because I am 70 years old and have spent my entire life struggling to make Australia and the world a better place for women. We have made some gains but it still seems a long way to go.

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    @McKay_Kath
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    What or who are the offspring of Capitalism and Oligarchy?
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    Because of the question being posed to Y Varoufakis. It seems to be happening in Russia, so it may be important to us all ‘down the road’!

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    @ntbay
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