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The online world was the last place I expected to be inspired by compassion, certainly not during a week in which its ugliness has been laid bare....
It's been a terrible year for women in this country. Utterly appalling. Just last month, three women were murdered over the course of a few...
His raffish outfit caught our eye as he placed his wares outside his shop. A floral shirt worn under a rust coloured vest. Paisley scarf tied loosely...
The premeditated put-down of Jacqui Lambie and her health issue is the most tasteless, vulgar and vicious political snipe I've seen. Subscribe...
For more than a month, I'd kept a casual eye on happenings back home. Through the prism of distance, it all seemed like business as usual, apart...
Helen Haines's electorate office is in Murphy Street, Wangaratta's main street. Most members of Parliament have their electorate offices in...
I was just a baby reporter when John Newman was murdered in 1994. Such a baby that when I first met the man who reportedly organised the killing of...
The terrible news of an attack on the federal MP, Dr Helen Haines, has saddened a nation. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
A few years ago, I accidentally stole a barbecue chicken. Not intentionally. I'm not living some secret life of rotisserie crime. I had simply...
Australia is now seeing perhaps the starkest example in recent history of how tax changes affect human behaviour and the economy as a whole. Subscribe...
For a week, we'd soaked up the history. We'd taken in the grand monuments, palaces and broad boulevards of Paris. The Eiffel Tower, the...
Education ministers will soon receive advice on the findings of a national review of the maths curriculum for the first three years of school. It may...
I was in a sublime concert of choral music the other Sunday, cantatas written by the supreme master of sublime music, Johann Sebastian Bach. Subscribe...
Autobiographies of the political variety do quite well and have become de rigueur for major figures. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...
Jeremy Rockliff was never the right-wing populist; he took the high road. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading He...
Sometimes you need a thick skin in life. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Politicians have always required one....
The ins and outs of some of the seemingly endless fights over the Albanese government's budget measures are often arcane or difficult for many...
There once was a jaded old man who couldn't remember the last time he'd experienced goosebumps. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...
I have given truckloads of advice to women who are abused online. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Depending...
The independent MP Monique Ryan was very dismissive recently of One Nation and the Liberals' tough stance on immigration. Subscribe now for...
Recent data showed that the federal government's tax take has hit a 20-year high. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
There is an obscure opera about a woman who has eternal life (fellow opera nuts will recognise The Makropulos Case by Janacek). The plot involves...
Last week's depraved proposal to live stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of fatally shooting 13 unarmed US soldiers at the...
Let me be a little self-indulgent for a moment. At the end of the week, the paper I work for will celebrate its hundredth birthday so it's time...
Already, the deeper story of the next federal election is written - tattooed, as it were, on the distended abdomen of our body-politic. Subscribe now...
Politicians often complain that people have lost faith in institutions. Governments lament declining trust. Public servants scratch their heads over...
Australia, we need to talk about revenue. Thanks to the business lobby, "tax reform" in Australia has become synonymous with cutting taxes,...
Being just old enough to remember the furore over the execution of Ronald Ryan, the last person to be hanged in this country, in 1967 I have always...
What do you think of when you hear there is a local council election coming up? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
For the White House, the midterm elections are always agony. They are always a referendum on the president. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
There is something badly missing from the increasingly heated debate about feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park. Subscribe now for unlimited...
When, way back, the opposition started talking about cutting immigration it would have thought, on the basis of polling, that it was tapping into a...
Filthy stinking rich. That's me. I'm loaded, baby. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Sixty-million...
I have had very little to do with AI - at least not in a way I recognise. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading If...
Surcharges on paying with a card are very annoying. I don't quite know why but I feel as though I'm being ripped off when I see those extra...
Does it strike you as odd that the much-loved statement "All men are created equal" was written in the USA when they most certainly were...
May Jeffrey Archer rest in peace. His novels are not my cup of tea but they have their devotees. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Is Anthony Albanese the worst prime minister in living memory? Certainly a few days ago someone called Steve Price thought so: "Albo is our worst...
One of Australia's leading pollsters and repositories of knowledge about what and how Australians are thinking gave us some very encouraging...
Since the Iran-US military conflict began earlier this year, disrupting global oil markets, Australia's electric vehicle (EV) market has...
Artificial intelligence has suffered the worst advance publicity campaign in the history of human invention. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
It is one of the more scathing critiques of the ALP even if it is six decades old. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
Too often our elected leaders talk of accountability and yet fail when put to the test. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
In the Palace Electric this weekend, a film with a boring title about a dead, straightlaced politician who once led a distant country is playing. The...
Two schools, same age range, same catchment area. At school A, the kids asked me questions of depth and perception. At the end of my workshop every...
The Albanese government must stop gaslighting Australians about the state of the economy, public finances and the dire implications for future...
It was a stay of execution. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading For more than two months the fate of the dominant...
Having a "Pre-COP" meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu is one of those initiatives that seemed a good idea at the time. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Ever had déjà vu, that unsettling feeling you've experienced something before? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
As I've said many times before, I am so glad I am not a parent to young children right now. The stress would destroy me. Subscribe now for...