Jumping off the hamster wheel
Peter Hartcher 9:02 PM Not all politicians think in sound bites as the latest crop of books by Labor and Liberal MPs show.
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Julia Baird on getting the cancer diagnosis
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Julia Baird Your world narrows to a slit when facing a diagnosis like that; suddenly very little matters. I told my family and some close friends, then went into lock down.
Bungled suspension exposes Anthony Roberts
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Sean Nicholls 1:25 AM The senior Nationals MP Thomas George got the fright of his life at the March election.
Time for Australia to tackle the refugee crisis
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Anne Summers 9:00 PM Like the dozens of Austrians who waited to greet Syrian refugees at a Vienna railway station this week, there are many Australians who have rolled out the welcome mat to desperate new arrivals to this country from Vietnam and other countries.
POW! plans to oust Warringah's absentee MP
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Wendy Harmer 9:00 PM When Tony Abbott last appeared on Q&A; on August 16, 2010, a middle-aged man in striped shirt and silver tie stood to pose a question.
Shame on the daddy shamers
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Stephanie Peatling 9:00 PM Daddy shaming is just successful at reinforcing traditional roles as ads suggesting girls shouldn't play with Lego or boys shouldn't wear pink.
In praise of dad jokes
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Michael Jensen 9:00 PM 'Dad, can I leave the table?' 'Where are you going to leave it?'
Father's Day gifts you already have
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Richard Glover 11:45 PM In celebration of the challenges - and perks - of being a father.
Economy neither wonderful nor woeful
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Ross Gittins Searchers after truth rather than headlines don't take quarterly changes in GDP too literally. This graph shows why we shouldn't lose our bundle over the economy.
Hayne proves there is life beyond the NRL
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Malcolm Knox 7:07 PM Rugby league is the greatest game of all - but it's under threat from within and without.
An independent voice for all people
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11:45 PM We refuse to put news and views through an ideological or commercial filter. We do not start with an assumption that the coalition or Labor must be right and then backfill it with convenient rhetoric or selective facts.
September 5
Letters to the Editor
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9:00 PM I wept on Thursday night when I saw the image of the small boy lying face down in the water on a Turkish beach and was reminded of the photo of the napalm victim Kim Phuc, which galvanised my generation to come together to act against the war in Vietnam.
Column 8
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9:00 PM "When I read in Thursday's Herald that the thick fleece of the sheep found near Canberra 'could prevent him from going to the bathroom'," writes Peter Russell, "I was convinced that we are nearer to linguistic oblivion by euphemistic."
China trade deal is the PM's greatest success
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Mark Kenny Abbott finds himself standing with the sensible centre now that the trade deal has become partisan.
Yesterday's choices leave the cupboard bare
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Jessica Irvine When times were good, Australia chose the path of individualism. It's a path that successive governments have followed, and now Australians are likely to pay the price.
The things you can't unsee, and shouldn't
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Sam de Brito A picture of a dead little boy can move the conversation from "we have to stop them coming here" to "what the hell are we doing as a race?" That's why we need to see it.
Distinction glossed over in China trade deal
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Bob Kinnaird and Bob Birrell Beijing has list of target investment sectors and countries, including commodity investments in Australia.
EU divided as migrants pour in
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Gwynne Dyer The refugee crisis is testing the European Union. The advance of climate change will test it further.
View from the Street
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Andrew P Street And Peter Dutton's still cranky at the media, bless him. It's your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.
Shorten's risky post-Heydon gambit
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Shorten risks becoming known as the former union boss who entered Parliament, was shown that unions are the problem, but then failed to clean up them or the Labor Party.
SEPTEMBER 4
Letters to the Editor
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The economy would be much worse if the Senate had not blocked budget cuts.
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"You know that spring has arrived when the first ducklings are sighted," reports Patricia Farrar, of Concord.
In the Herald: September 4, 1894
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Ellen Fitzgerald Sickness in Randwick and a gaol break are in the news in 1894.