University admissions systems are – and should be – a topic of discussion. They should be fit-for-purpose so that students who are admitted have the right attributes for success in their degree. And the systems should have integrity.
When an adult redhead is in on the joke, and can return in kind without distress, then perhaps sending up rangas is fine. But red-headed kids still get bullied.
Smoking may have declined dramatically among some groups, but not all.
In less than a decade and at a price we can afford, a high-speed link could transform the nation, if only politicians weren't so lily-livered.
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Obituary: In one man's long but unassuming life there is a century of Italo-Australian history.
The Sports Minister has never demonstrated why the preference of the majority of Sydney rugby league clubs would be so terrible.
Meir Dagan was an Israeli soldier and spymaster who was widely credited with setting back Iran's nuclear program through covert and daring operations as the director of the Mossad intelligence agency from 2002 to 2011.
Canberra might be waiting for the wrong train, at the wrong station. But in some ways it just might be on the right track
And how's the government going to sidestep that messy royal commission thing? Your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.
Around the world politicians are raising issues of fairness, equality and social values – so why have Australians gone quiet?
If governments make laws about marriage, they must define what marriage is.
Housing Minister calls for bipartisan commitment to maintaining and renewing public housing stock in the ACT.
The revelations about offshore accounts contained in the so-called Panama Papers are sensational, but they are unlikely to put an end to these tax havens favoured by the world's rich and powerful.
SATIRE: The Prime Minister has announced a new high speed rail policy that will connect the country’s two largest cities once every three years.
It's got nothing to do with "better teachers". It's got everything to do with "protecting our children from politicians".
It's difficult to work out if the City of Sydney is genuine in developing a late-night economic policy which reinforces Sydney's status as a global city catering for interstate and overseas visitors.
South Brisbane crushes as much potential into as small a space as possible. So what went wrong at West End?
The Liberals' "Transport Future" policy offers relief from the debate over how many public transport users should switch from buses to trams.
I hate exercising with a passion. Yes, yes, I know it's good for me. And I know it will extend my life. It will improve my sex life. It will make travelling more fun. What's not to love?
We all know it is bureaucratic procedures, lack of funding and poor pay rates that hold back educational standards, not bad teachers.
Joseph Medicine Crow was the last living war chief of the Crow tribe of Montana.
Medical indifference in childhood to his profound deafness and autism, meant Lindsay was never able to properly communicate with the world.
Doubts about the motivations of the new tech titans are piling up, writes Kelsey Munro.
And the VFT is back, for a bit! Your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.
If Bill Shorten was seriously wanting a Royal Commission into the banks, he could have voted for it last year when the Greens put up the idea. But he didn't. So when he changed his mind and called for an RC last week, he exposed nothing more than a stunt for the election. He couldn't even dream up a terms of reference and he has no answer to the fact that existing agencies like APRA, the RBA and ASIC have between them as many powers as a royal commission. It would cost more and take longer than existing agencies.
The CSIRO's pursuit of science will be hampered by the naked hunt for cash.
The use of undigested percentages or proportions when discussing incarceration rates is not merely useless, it is actively misleading.
Knowledge – in the sense of a true understanding of the way the world works – is a difficult thing to grab hold of.
Two West Australian men could not have had a clearer-cut case of 'welcome to the real world' after their brush with death last week in New Orleans.