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Richard Ackland
Plenty of activity, if not activism, coming from High Court justices
Will we start to hear the present High Court being denounced as ''activist''? After Wednesday's drowning of the ''Malaysian solution'', you'd think a fresh burst of ''j'accuse'' from the darker recesses of the commentariat or blogosphere can't be too far off.
Peter Hartcher
Nowhere to run from this burning building
As Julia Gillard's troops choked back rising panic yesterday, one of her lieutenants compared the government to a "house on fire". Indeed, there are fires in many rooms. The smouldering problem of the asylum seeker policy has now burst into a full conflagration.
The contributors More contributors
David Marr
The bottom line: it's Australia's responsibility
We can't get rid of them. That's the message the High Court has sent Canberra. It doesn't matter where we send the boat people who reach Australia, we remain responsible for seeing they are protected and their refugee claims are properly assessed. The subtext is: we might as well do it at home.
Andrew Bray
New laws toss energy jobs to the wind
It is a telling coincidence that Premier Ted Baillieu's new anti-wind farm laws have been sharing the headlines with Australia's manufacturing malaise.The Clean Energy Council estimates the laws will drive $3.6 billion of investment away from Victoria.
The bloggers More blogs
Rocco Fazzari
Mayhem, Disaster and Revolution?
7:26am In the parallet universe of Australian politics, two extremes battle it out on a daily basis.
Daniel Flitton
The danger in getting defensive
11:04am ''We must always be outgoing,'' Keating said. ''We must be alert, dextrous and positive...''
Mark Dreyfus
From apples to oil, Liberals get lost in afternoon light
The Liberal Party of Australia may need to change its name.
John Birmingham
Argument over boats reveals the worst of us
So, PM, how'd that dodgy refugee swap deal work out for you?
Features
Uneasy Truth
Steve Jobs's Apple legacy may not be so sweet at the core
Julian Lee: No sooner had Steve Jobs resigned than the process of his canonisation began. Genius, visionary, even revolutionary were some of the epithets used to describe the man who took Apple from the brink to the world's most valuable company.