Turnbull's election pitch stamped 'Made in China'
Peter Hartcher 8:02 PM Our economic 'transition' is central to Malcolm Turnbull's election campaign. And China is the key to that transition, happy to play up to the 'all powerful' image.
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Two family traumas show limits of will
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Jacqueline Maley 12:24 PM Two desperate mothers have made the news recently, but our reactions to their cases couldn't be more different.
Grant must stop being a law unto himself
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Sean Nicholls 12:15 AM Blistering attack from Bar Association raises the alarm on how justice policy is formulated in NSW.
Australia, why do you hate big ideas?
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Judith Ireland 12:21 PM It is a much-honoured national pastime to shoot down ideas and resist even the slightest hint of change. We might be surrounded by sea, but we are also girt by the status quo.
Ignorance is still rife about domestic violence
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Anne Summers 9:10 PM How I wish Rosie Batty had been on the Q&A panel on Monday.
World needs to go fish in South China Sea
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Marina Tsirbas 5:00 PM It's time to internationalise fisheries management in the South China Sea as fish stocks collapse looms.
Our future will be ruled by self-cleaning shirts
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Richard Glover 12:00 AM We've lost many of the day-to-day tasks that have traditionally kept humans occupied. Where to for the human race as machines take over menial tasks?
Australia's real China boom is over
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Jessica Irvine 12:31 AM Australia needs to invest in cities and education – not trade delegations – if we really want to fill the gap left by the mining boom.
APRIL 16
Letters to the Editor
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12:37 AM Farrelly's article, in highlighting the loss, degradation to Sydney's public space amenity poses the question: who is really looking after our urban public space ?
NRL should apologise to Hazem El Masri
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9:00 PM The Herald has raised concerns before about the tendency for Australians to rush to judgment.
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8:00 PM At Sydney's Central Station reader Steve Barrett spotted two passengers questioning a railway official simultaneously.
The myth of the multitasking mother
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Jessica Irvine 12:07 PM Stereotypes of the male domestic bumbler and the female domestic goddess are just that.
Against the odds the stars line up for Labor
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Waleed Aly Increasing inequality has allowed Labor to start doing something it hasn't done for decades - articulate a worldview.
Turnbull primed to shine in China
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Mark Kenny The Prime Minister has assembled a crack group of advisers for his China visit but they're playing to a tough audience.
Why parents kill their babies
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John Fitzgerald It's almost impossible to comprehend infanticide, but the root causes have a strong social component.
Turnbull must treat Xi Jinping with care
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Bates Gill Xi Jinping 's policy directions risk China's growth and the party's grip on power.
Premier throws down the gauntlet
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Moo Baulch A new and long overdue benchmark has been set in the fight to end domestic violence.
National justice targets will help tomorrow's Indigenous kids thrive
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Roxanne Moore Unpaid fines or drinking in public should never be a death sentence. Yet, for Indigenous people, this is still the case, a generation on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
View from the Street: Let's game this double dissolution thing out!
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Andrew P Street And what are the Treasurer and shadow treasurer yelling at each other about today? Your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.
Baird finds right solution on stadiums
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Further west is where most Sydneysiders, rugby league fans and clubs reside.
APRIL 15
Letters to the Editor
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Those of us who live on the Bankstown line will now have to take buses while this new rail line is built. But when it is finished will we be any better off?.
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Found on the Sydney Writers' Festival website: "Terms and conditions: Each pass includes one ticket per event, access to the private lounge for one person only, and a voucher for a complimentary beverage at The Hemingway Bar..."
In the Herald: April 15, 1961
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Stephanie Bull The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, returns to a hero's welcome while the ALP upholds the White Australia Policy.
Parks and trees make way for profit
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Elizabeth Farrelly Everywhere you look, beauty is being turned to ugliness, the gently daggy to the wildly unsustainable, public delight to private profit.
What does Australia do if Donald trumps?
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Dom Knight Australia needs to start thinking about how to deal with a man who combines Jacqui Lambie's maverick unpredictability with Kanye West's love of a Twitter outburst.
The Ultimo ultimatum: why we're leaving
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Janine Barrett The classic Sydney high school question is no longer private or public, but city or country?
Her majesty is an unnoteworthy feature
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Will Fowles Australia's new $5 note is a symbolic mess that retains relics of the past for no good reason.
Wi-Fi Bermuda Triangle in a suburb near you
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Andrew P Street How does one manage to accidentally fall off the grid in the middle of the city?
Beautiful story behind the new ugly $5 note
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Karen Skinner The new $5 note is actually beautiful and came about because of a frustrating Christmas present, technology and a teenager's campaigning spirit.
Eating disorders: it's a guy thing too
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Joel Feren Increasing numbers of males have eating disorders, made worse because they hide their condition.
Submarines: a more efficient solution
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Jon Stanford and Michael Keating The 2016 Defence white paper proposes a substantial increase in expenditure on major assets for the Australian Defence Force.submarines.
New money not so funny; designed to repulse
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David Hunt The Reserve Bank is proud to announce it has designed, possibly, the most hideous banknote in history.
View from the Street: going down like Titanic
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Andrew P Street And that 1991 Commission in Aboriginal Deaths in Custody probably fixed everything, surely? Your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.
Turnbull's delicate balancing act with China
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Frustration at diplomatic silence on pressing issues is understandable but Australia is in a bigger strategic game given the Defence white paper and the South China Sea islands disputes.
APRIL 14
Letters to the Editor
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Your front page story ("Baby boom puts the squeeze on schools", April 12) tells us that many schools are now facing severe overcrowding.
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The proposed $5 note depicts two birds and Putty's Terry O'Brien is sure one is an Eastern Spinebill but the feathered friend in the wattle down the middle of the bill has him stumped.
In the Herald: April 14, 1949
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Stephanie Bull Tooth and Co. and Tooheys decided to cut supplies of bulk beer from their breweries by 30 per cent in response to an overtime ban by their maintenance men.