Deja vu as PM's style mirrors king of chaos
Peter Hartcher 1:57 AM There are striking similarities emerging between the prime-ministerial ways of Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd, according to a Labor campaign veteran.
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How selfies hijacked our sense of self
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Judith Ireland Congratulations, world. We have reached peak stupid. This week, a man hijacked a plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo and forced it to land in Cyprus.
Why Donald Trump has done women a favour
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Jacqueline Maley Donald Trump's run at the presidential nomination has been one giant, ego-saturated piece of performance art.
Malcolm Turnbull's challenge: be like Mike
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Sean Nicholls As NSW Premier Mike Baird's experience so clearly demonstrates, sometimes the most difficult decisions are easiest to make in a crisis.
Republican circus rockets Obama's ratings
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Anne Summers As the rest of the world looks on in disbelief and growing fear, Americans are taking a second look at the man who is currently in the White House.
Research confirms you're not an automaton
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Cass R. Sunstein While governments and private institutions can nudge us towards certain behaviours, people are free to choose as they will.
Turnbull's problematic ideas fall on deaf ears
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The biggest blow may prove to be his forced deferral until early next year of a decision on education funding.
Brazil's rough political game on road to Rio
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Spare a thought for the people whose job is to co-ordinate the biggest planned event of 2016, the Rio Olympics. It's customary for the nation's head of state to declare the games open, but whose name to put on the invitation?
APRIL 2
Righting wrongs to aid healing
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1:39 AM Thank you Waleed Aly for articulating how I feel about the blind spot we Australians have concerning Indigenous history.
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We have a wonderful solution to hand for the vexing question of the etiquette of divvying up an odd number of prawns between two people (Column 8, Thursday).
Turnbull starts pulling the big policy levers
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Mark Kenny The cautious approach was a bad look for the PM. That's why bold policy ideas are now tumbling out.
Turnbull's most foolish investment decision
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Jessica Irvine It's fair to say Malcolm Turnbull knows a thing or two about making a buck.
Why we should care about bribery in oil
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Daniel Flitton The huge wealth of the industrialised West cannot be divorced from its history of exploitation, nor its modern day form of colonialism - corruption.
Why you don't need health insurance
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Marcus Strom Every year people rail against private health insurance companies hiking up their premiums. Not me - I couldn't care less.
Second divorce shouldn't be source of shame
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Flic Everett Anyone who's been through divorce once will have been bitten hard enough to know marrying again on a whim would be madness.
Think laterally about how to accept refugees
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Jane McAdam Scholarships? Family reunions? Families sponsoring individual refugees? These are alternatives to resettling refugees that are worth investigating.
Compensation changes will hurt victims
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Philip Bates The NSW Government has just announced its intention to overhaul compensation for innocent victims of motor vehicle accidents.
Turnbull must fight scourge of foreign bribery
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Australia's response has been particularly flawed, creating losers across the spectrum.
APRIL 1
Turnbull tax idea dismantles Federation
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Either we have federal leadership for the good of the whole country or we ditch the whole idea and break apart.
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"I've noticed something strange during my daily commute," reports Matt Petersen, of Randwick. "If I drive behind a hire car – the ones with the black and white HC plates – and have my headlights on, those plates magically turn white, so the numbers cannot be seen."
In the Herald : April 1, 1936
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Ellen Fitzgerald The Captain Cook, the oldest pilot steamer in commission in the world, was nearing the end of an epic career, the Herald reported on this day in 1936.