1 minute ago I just Googled "alcohol-fuelled violence" and got 1.5 million results. Yep, 1.5 million.
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1 minute ago This year, Australia prepares to commemorate the Anzac centenary.
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Spare a thought for the ladies, the seemingly invisible 51 per cent of our population.
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What sort of madness is this? A weak conservative government suddenly lurches awake like a ...
There's a lot more to think about on Australia Day than the shopping list for booze and which songs ...
The bushfire threat to 1 million homes comes from the rickety, failure-prone power poles and ...
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Take a walk down the main strip of Kings Cross at midnight on a Saturday and you will not see many ...
If you thought the politics of the paid parental leave scheme were complicated, just wait until you ...
Proud days for Australia this week as the Prime Minister strode like a colossus across the global ...
Behind the counter at the Narrabeen Butchery counter he was decked out in dinky-di regalia - cap, ...
For my 23 years, I thought I knew what it meant to be an Australian on Australia Day.
Before you attend that Australia Day event, it's important that you know how to speak Australian. ...
Even in a city as expensive as Sydney, it's not unreasonable to expect that $600,000 would buy you ...
Obama's State of the Union will focus on inequality, but is anyone paying attention?
The breaking of the traditional amnesty on political sledging while on the global stage as Prime ...
Australia Day is a welcome chance to celebrate what unites us. What we've got right as a nation: ...
We must thank the listeners of 2UE, and particularly the station's new morning announcer, Angela ...
Last Friday, NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell promised a ''four-pronged'' plan to combat alcohol-related ...
We have become the globe's adolescents; we want others to take care of the details, then rage about ...
If the Big Day Out was a band, it would probably be deep in its ''extended hiatus'' period by now, ...
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The NSW government's tough measures to tackle alcohol-fuelled assaults are only the first step in a ...
If doctors, psychologists and other groups succeed in convincing the Prime Minister to call a ...
One day, when we were City aldermen trying in vain to modernise the joint, the Town Clerk proudly ...
In recent weeks the Herald has reported and editorialised extensively about drunken ...
Mandatory eight-year jail terms for intoxicated ''single-punch killers'' announced by the O'Farrell ...
Patriotism has its ugly side. But Australia Day offers genuine opportunities to celebrate success ...
Winning isn't everything. What matters is picking yourself back up off the floor when you lose.
The PM's move not only to alter the constitution, but to complete it is understandable but ...
The O'Farrell government's initiative on drunken violence should finally assist in three long ...
Australia needs to reshape its welfare system to make the cost sustainable. Implicit is that we all ...