Features
Crunch time for the Nationals
Peter van Onselen, Contributing editor THE rise of independents and decline of rural areas leave the Nats in a pickle.
Sons of Iraq left high and dry
Marie Colvin JUST down the street from Faisal's takeaway in Fallujah, an explosion shattered the sweltering morning heat last week, setting fire to an Iraqi army Humvee and a police car.
Cricket's cesspit of corruption
Rhys Blakely PAKISTAN is once again at the centre of match-fixing allegations.
Amir slips from hero to heartbreaker
Rhys Blakely WITH his good looks and seemingly boundless ability Mohammad Amir, 18, was always destined to become a heart-breaker.
Fears fester on the rural margins
Sally Neighbour TIMES are changing fast in the seat of Macarthur on the western outskirts of Sydney, and people are worried.
When conflict goes against the grain
Paul Cleary THE wheatbelts of Australia have rarely looked more verdant.
Rural voters favour feisty, can-do candidates
Paul Cleary THE big strong men from the Nationals who carried the torch for bush battlers are no more.
Gillard poised at a tipping point
Paul Kelly, Editor-At-Large THIS week Julia Gillard revealed her toughness in appeasement.
Mission MacKillop almost accomplished
Susan Chenery IN the rising heat of a Roman summer morning, a large Australian man stands before a fountain near St Peter's Basilica.
Mending Labor's broken heart
Tom Dusevic, National Chief Reporter JULIA Gillard flinched. A split second later, her security detail jolted into action.
How the AFP trapped the Bali Nine
Sally Neighbour WHEN Lee Rush learned in April 2005 that his son Scott was off to Bali, he felt sick.
Diggers treading a trigger wire
Brendan Nicholson AUSTRALIAN Diggers in Afghanistan are appalled and angered when they hear their main role in Afghanistan dismissed as just "training the Afghan army".
Rage against the machine
Jennifer Hewett, National Affairs Correspondent QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh denounces what she calls "the NSW disease that sees leadership as a revolving door".
The G-G's delicate judgment
Hedley Thomas, National chief correspondent FOR the best part of her adult life Quentin Bryce has taken on public roles and responsibilities which have demanded many skills.
Uncertainty rules, whoever wins
Peter van Onselen THE only certainty to come out of Saturday's election result is that uncertainty abounds.
How the Yanks saw the Digger
Greg Sheridan Resourceful, inventive fighters: that's what the US Army told its men about the Diggers
What joins terrorism and the rogue economy
Miriam Cosic An Italian economist follows the dirty money trail to uncover ties to al-Qa'ida
Complete idiots slide into jihad
Rebecca Weisser Chris Morris's film suggests Islamist terrorism attracts buffoons, not ideologues
Stuck in a cycle of spin
Anne Tiernan and Patrick Weller The rise of the 24-hour news sequence has put greater demands on politicians
Playing the risk card
Geoff Elliott and Simon Canning Whoever wins government today, the strategies will have been much the same in this extraordinary political year
Chipping away at cop culture
Tony Koch, Michael McKenna THE message from his workmates couldn't have been any clearer for the Gold Coast cop at last year's Christmas party: you are a dog, an informer.
Lessons from a Tory reformer
Peter Wilson, Europe Correspondent WHOEVER emerges from this weekend as Australia's prime minister can learn one powerful lesson from their British counterpart, David Cameron.
Pitiful response to catastrophe
PAKISTAN needs at least $US460 million ($515m) immediately if it is to avert a humanitarian disaster.
Pakistan's misery is just starting
Amanda Hodge, South Asia Correspondent BEFORE US senator John Kerry flew to Pakistan, he told reporters he hoped to help the world understand that the disaster was not just about floods.
Greens' high tax ambitions
Christian Kerr WHEN the new Senate sits after the election it is almost certain that the Australian Greens will control the balance of power.
The Nationals hold their first post-election meeting with leader Warren Truss, centre, at Parliament House. Picture: Ray Strange
Bob Brown is capable of blatant hypocrisy
THE end of the Greens' facade of independence was not the only significant revelation in yesterday's announcement of a formal Labor-Greens alliance.
Dumb and disgraced
ANY footballer who is so dumb that he cannot stay in the limits of the AFL's lenient three-strikes drug policy no longer deserves lenient treatment
Revisionist ruminations
FURTHER to Malcolm Fraser's performance on Q&A on Monday night (Cut&Paste, 1/9).
In praise of good patriots and reasonable people
Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor BARACK Obama deserves credit for wisely following the path laid by George W. Bush.
Pitchforks and pork are no way to run a country
Gary Johns A return to tariffs and protectionism mocks political trailblazers such as Bert Kelly, says Gary Johns.
Hung parliament in wartime was one of our best
Rodney Cavalier THE 1940 election was messy, but much would be achieved in the term that followed.
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