Enlightenment - that is what Islam truly needs
Paul Monk 12:00 AM The kind of reformation that Islam needs is one that frees it from the medieval traditions and muddled histories that plague it.
George Pell's no-show is farcical
Judy Courtin 12:00 AM The Catholic Church continues to harm sex abuse victims by its failure to acknowledge the extent to which it covered-up sex crimes against children.
Plenty to digest in greenhouse gas debate
Asa Wahlquist 8:06 PM It sounds so easy: stop eating red meat to lower greenhouse gas emissions. But nature is far more complicated than that.
Copyright protection or amateur art – choose
Michael Robotham 2:11 PM A daily Google search shows the extent of the piracy suffered by our authors and artists, but the demand for free art continues unabated.
Ugly truth about budget is what we need
Peter Martin 4:18 PM Brace yourself for some tough medicine after the mid-year economic update.
Travelling really does broaden the mind
Jenna Price 1:00 PM For years, I dreamt of what it would be like to have holidays where we didn't do all the cooking and cleaning.
Turnbull's dilemma: how to get the states on board
Peter Reith 9:11 PM Tax reform is vital medicine for Australia's economy, but it takes a lot of time to put together a pill that people will be willing to swallow.
Politics of exclusion must be rejected
Tim Dick The choice between the politics of the old and that of the new is not a choice only faced by Australia. It's faced by any developed country with a significant migrant population.
Should Turnbull just defect to Labor?
Andrew P Street Be honest: it'd solve so very many otherwise intractable-looking problems. Your news of the weekend, reduced to a snarky rant.
Menopause: let's not talk about it
Jane Shilling 12:52 PM No, women really shouldn't talk more about the menopause.
Nicholas Kristof: Take my quiz on religion
Nicholas Kristof 11:35 AM Let's not stereotype 1.6 billion Muslims because of their faith. What counts most is not the content of holy books, but the content of our hearts.
British linguists try to put happy face on 2015
Leonid Bershidsky 10:29 AM Choosing a happy-face emoji as their word of the year, the Oxford Dictionaries linguists are going against the flow in Europe, where terrorism and the refugee crisis dominates conversations.
Tolls: Melbourne congestion tax by stealth
Jason Dowling Melbourne's transport system can benefit from tolls on roads, but the fees should be applied with care.
External powers required to fix police culture
Greg Denham Police know better than any group how to exploit the accountability system and justify their actions.
A treaty would build a better foundation
George Williams Australia does not recognise the sovereignty of its first nations by way of a treaty, and the effects have been devastating.
PMs and the manner of their going
J.R. Nethercote It has often been the case that prime ministers also withdrew from parliamentary politics on leaving office.
Rational climate and energy policy
Ian Dunlop The first step in rational policy-making should be an honest assessment of the problem, yet this hasn't happened.
Port lease deal steals from future generations
Kenneth Davidson Deals are being done that will affect the bay, neighbouring communities and road networks.
Does it matter who runs detention centres?
Carly Gordyn Broadspectrum, formally known as Transfield, has been approached for a take-over by Madrid-based Ferrovial.
We need tax reform to prevent '80s return.
Jessica Irvine Australia must reform its tax system if we are to avoid a return of the 1980s.
Wee problem with credibility of studies
Peter Martin Perhaps the creepiest science experiment ever conducted took place in a lavatory.
In the anniversary is the remembering
Warwick McFadyen Anniversaries can be both public and private. They are a letting go and a remembering.
Alligator eats burglar - can you help but laugh?
Andrew Masterson Ah, the therapeutic value of a little schadenfreude.
This will end in tears
Michael Gordon The history of political defections in Australia is replete with unhappy endings.
Cool dude Deadly is no dummy
Martin Flanagan There's been a bit to worry about these past 12 months but my family life is no different to anyone else's.
Only casualties in the wasteful war on drugs
Wendy Squires Our society is awash in drugs and mixed messages, and people who use drugs would be safer if we acknowledged their ubiquity.
Highlights
Arch conservatives offer nothing but guff
Abbott and Trump are not intelligently discussing Islam, they’re just demonstrating that their brand of politics is fast collapsing.
Malcolm is an Abbott in Turnbull's clothing
There is largesse being extended to Malcolm Turnbull that would never have been granted to Tony Abbott.
Strong leadership can fix Victoria Police
Women are critical to an effective, contemporary police force, by ELIZABETH BRODERICK.
Tony Abbott reinforces white supremacists
Muslims do not need a Western cultural supremacist like Tony Abbott to tell them what Islam needs.
Triggs steps in from the cold
The end of her period as outcast is significant, not least because it reflects the end of the ascendancy of ideology over civility.
The End of History is nowhere to be seen
So much for predictions of an era of peace and stability under a new world order. It's just power politics as usual.
You can smash that glass ceiling by going shopping
It's all about the rise of the female dollar now.
