Pholeros the fearless architect
Elizabeth Farrelly 9:00 PM We who are left should make PP’s big-heart small-ego heroism the stuff of legend. We should teach our kids his sustaining insight, that architecture is our dance with nature.
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For voters, elite is a dirty word
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Paul Sheehan 11:15 PM Voter distrust towards the political class has become potent in the US, volatile in Europe and evident in Australia, where the electorate has dispatched ten major party leaders in just 12 years.
Asylum seekers on Nauru in a legal black hole
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George Williams 3:52 PM All this means that Australia's treatment of asylum seekers by way of offshore processing will now raise few legal questions. Instead, it will be governed by the politics of the day.
GST hike is a solution in search of a problem
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Peter Martin 12:00 AM We need a clear goal if the attempt to change the tax system is to succeed.
What we lose with the death of handwriting
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William McKeith 9:28 PM There is much more to handwriting than that which meets the eye. There is a culture. A tradition. A way of thinking. Yes, it has a cost, but maybe that’s a cost that a mature society should be prepared to bear.
Geneva peace talks must have long-term goal
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Joseph Camilleri 12:00 AM One thing is clear: both global and regional powers have much to answer for in the tragedy that is Syria.
Americans united by a single emotion: Anger
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Nicole Hemmer 12:30 AM Candidates in the presidential race are not promising hope, they’re chasing mad-as-hell voters who feel the system is rigged against them.
View from the Street
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Andrew P Street 7:22 PM Let's stop beating around the bush: how can hurting children be a sane and compassionate policy? Your news of the day, as a heartbroken rant.
Moral blight: kids paying for 'sins' of parents'
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7:37 PM So Australia's offshore detention regime at Nauru and Manus Island is legal, the High Court has ruled. But is it moral?
FEBRUARY 4
Letters to the Editor
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9:00 PM Paul Keating's sage advice is timely. Health and education, once the envy of other countries, have been so mismanaged by successive state governments that we are left with but a shell of what we had.
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9:00 PM "To answer Suzanne Wicks' 'Why paper bags?' query from the other day, in the US you cannot have nudity and sell alcohol in the same venue," we're told by Gerry Brooks, of Haberfield.
In the Herald: February 4, 1931
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Stephanie Bull 12:00 AM Queries over the Sydney Harbour Bridge tramway and concerns over unrest in Darwin.
Raising the GST to 15% is fiscal folly
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Paul Keating 1:42 AM If Australia goes down the path of increasing the GST to 15 per cent, it will be on the way to joining that collection of West European countries which are the highest taxed countries in the world.
Banks are using us to hedge their bets
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Ross Gittins We only need a tiny part of the financial services industry – the rest is just speculation and it doesn't stand up to close scrutiny.
Logic says Valizadeh shouldn't get a visa
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Tim Wilson In the past few days there have been increasing calls on the Federal Government to block the so-called "neo-masculinist" from entering Australia.
Your table manners suck: I want a divorce
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Alan Stokes If couples can't agree on never touching that cutlery until every single person at the table has been served, then no amount of sex, money or friendship will help.
Iowa sets scene for volatile presidential race
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Andrew Hammond This year's race is only in its infancy and remains potentially very volatile as it heads into the New Hampshire primary on February 9.
Why we need to fight domestic terrorism
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Jennie Hill This is why it's so important to speak out about groups like Return of Kings and Real Social Dynamics and others.
Let's take control of synthetic drugs
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Matt Noffs Prohibiting recreational drugs hasn't worked, so it's time to try regulating them.
View from the Street
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Andrew P Street Who's adorably pretending that they're bestest mates with Obama? Your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.
Voters deal Trump his first losing hand
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Has Mr Trump simply scared off too many people to be a viable candidate against the badly shaken Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton?
Malaysia's reputation sinking in scandal
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It's almost a year since Malaysia's highest court rejected former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's appeal against a dubious charge of sodomy to uphold his five year jail sentence.
FEBRUARY 3
Letters to the Editor
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The government's moves to send babies to Nauru are part of a repugnant and cruel saga.
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"I can testify for Barry Riley's sake (in your column of February 1) that the great singular pronouns still survive in the North of England," writes Thomas Keneally, who knows a thing or two about words.