Claire Coleman Journalist Profile

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Electricity providers need to do better, the consumer counsel says.

Nov 26, 2023 | ctpost.com | Claire Coleman

UI workers repair downed lines on High Street in Fairfield in 2018. Cathy Zuraw/Hearst Connecticut Media Recently, United Illuminating continued its public relations blitz against the August final decision of its regulator, the Public Utility Regulatory Authority, that granted UI a smaller increase to its revenues, and to customer bills, than it sought.
Electricity providers need to do better, the consumer counsel says.

Nov 26, 2023 | greenwichtime.com | Claire Coleman

Recently, United Illuminating continued its public relations blitz against the August final decision of its regulator, the Public Utility Regulatory Authority, that granted UI a smaller increase to its revenues, and to customer bills, than it sought.
Latest health updates on the Voice. Plus, how many health organisations are supporting a Yes vote?

Oct 9, 2023 | croakey.org | Claire Coleman |Melissa Sweet

Croakey is now well established as compulsory reading for influencers and observers in health and medicine in Australia and internationally – and rightly so. As a blog, it gives voice to people who support or oppose government health and social policy. It allows people to express their views and opinions openly, passionately, and freely – from all perspectives.
White walls taken Blak: The art of Reko Rennie

Sep 28, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Claire Coleman |Bob Connolly |Quentin Sprague |Megan Davis

The Kamilaroi multi-disciplinary artist’s spectacular works bridge contemporary and ancient traditions When you think of Indigenous art, what comes to mind? Is it beautiful cultural mindscapes in acrylic paint on Belgian linen, or a canvas painted on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of what is now known as South Australia?
No camp’s strategy: fear over fact

Sep 11, 2023 | inkl.com | Claire Coleman

Speaking of recordings… it turns out Queensland cops who made “horrific” racist comments while working in a Brisbane watch house didn’t even get disciplined, as Guardian Australia reports. Instead they were given some “areas for improvement”, despite talking about an Indigenous colleague giving oral sex, about burying and beating Sudanese people, saying they hoped “Ebola works”, calling Nigerians “jigaboos” and talking about Muslim “outbreeding”. Dismal.
The case for returning crown land

Jan 26, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Ruby Jones |Claire Coleman

Author and Noongar woman, Claire G. Coleman on the case for returning crown land. It’s been over 30 years since the high court acknowledged that terra nullius was a lie, that this country was not empty – that Indigenous Australians had an ongoing claim to the land beneath our feet. But still today, officially, large swathes of Australia are held as what’s called ‘crown land’. What is it? And what do the assumptions about crown land say about the attitude to land ownership in modern Australia?