Turkey takes the goat by the horns in EU crisis
Boris Johnson Angela Merkel is cynically sucking up to Turkey's president and undermining free speech with her outrageous response to a silly joke.
Morrison needs a reality check on tax
Peter Martin 1:56 PM The government's theme for selling the budget reads like a Seinfeld script.
Calling a woman 'totty' is never a compliment
Bryony Gordon 11:45 AM They say sticks and stones break your bones but words never hurt you. This is rubbish. Words can demean and, in the case of "totty", they undermine too.
The job I wish I didn't have to do
Kate Jenkins 2:00 PM I thought we'd be there by now, but it's 2016 and we're still so far from equality.
60 Minutes: Who are the real victims in the abduction story?
Julie Szego 10:14 AM Two young children are caught in the contest between their Australian mother, Lebanese father, and a commercial TV program.
Banks still haven't got the message
Ross Gittins
10:58 PM
We must bring the banks to heel and a royal commission is a fine way to do that.
Anzac offers a new way to join Team Australia
Carolyn Holbrook 12:00 AM Anzac is now so potent it has become a means for marginalised groups to seek entry into the Australian mainstream.
More hits than misses for Mark Scott's ABC
Jonathan Holmes 12:54 AM The outgoing managing director handled the politicians well but blundered with News 24.
Is this the end of Catholic guilt?
Timothy Egan The Pope has lightened up on love and sex, for those who are still listening.
Big science requires bigger minds
Thomas Maschmeyer 9:00 PM Australia needs to stop the rhetoric and decide where we wish to innovate.
Swimmers have it tough after the glory
Darby-Perrin Larner 10:40 PM Swimming provides an identity for some of our most famous faces – a career that dominates athletes' adolescences and the rest of their lives.
Bernie Sanders breaks a taboo
Amin Saikal 11:45 PM The US Democrat presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has done it. He has broken a worldwide political taboo.
Rape culture: what makes a boy a man?
Steve Biddulph We need to change the mindset of boys and young men to put a stop to rape culture.
Depp and Heard: a celebrity apology how-to
Emily Yahr After seeing plenty of lame celebrity apologies over the years, this one was gold.
Australia is being courted by two superpowers, not caught between them
Peter Hartcher As rivalry between China and the US intensifies in the Pacific, must Australia choose between its biggest trading partner and its security ally?
Primary healthcare study needs urgent work
Grant Russell GPs are under pressure to provide better care, faster, at a lower cost, but the government has quietly dismantled almost all programs involved in primary healthcare research.
Clinton's task is to unify US Democrats
Nicole Hemmer She might win the nomination and even become president, but Clinton could also build a lasting Democrat legacy.
A drug-free world is an impossible dream
Greg Chipp The vision of a drug free world has faded. We are instead presented with a nightmare scenario where a multibillion-dollar black market funds both organised crime and terrorist organisations.
Undercurrents affecting submarine decision
Nicholas Stuart If the government chooses to build Japanese submarines, the move is being seen in Beijing as a proactive choice to trash the China relationship.
History keeps repeating in politics
Peter Reith Many MPs and media commentators have little grasp of Australia’s political past. That’s a pity because knowing the past can explain today.
Select politicians as randomly as jurists
Terrill Bouricius, David Schecter, Campbell Wallace and John Gastil Juries are already selected at random - why not legislatures?
Cuts to Office of Learning and Teaching
Jenna Price More broken promises, this time affecting thousands of students at university.
An avoidable Pistol to Boo's head
Justin Wastnage The incident of Johnny Depp's dogs should be the impetus Barnaby Joyce needs to put the topic of dedicated private jet quarantine screening back on the table.
Gen Y locked in a cultural padded cell
Michael Scammell Making mistakes is part of growing up but social gatekeepers have politicised every youthful indiscretion.
ANU cuts put Asia-Pacific scholarship at risk
Tearing down the ANU school of music made waves across the world. Destroying the school of culture, history and language repeats that mistake.
ABCC row a distraction from the main game
Aaron Lane The debate over the ABCC should not be the substitute for advancing a positive industrial relations policy.
Our fragile transport systems will continue to break
Tony Morton Victorian authorities continually fail to recognise that transport planning is a service that provides a public benefit.
We're ignoring our ageing population
Sarah Russell Aged-care homes require a highly skilled workforce plus robust regulation.
Vacancy tax could provide vital shelter
Tony Keenan Family violence victims and others could get access to the thousands of vacant properties in Melbourne.
Turnbull's circus act goes without a net
Nick Xenophon "Democracy" said satirist H L Mencken "is the art and science of running the circus cage". So, to prepare myself for Monday's special sitting of Parliament, I went to the circus.
Why dress codes can't stop sexual assault
Mikki Kendall It's time to stop blaming victims and telling women to change their attire and behaviour and focus on the real problem: people who commit sexual assault.
Stripping of citizenship: we lose
George Williams A Citizenship Loss Board has been created within the federal bureaucracy to enable dual nationals to be stripped of their Australian citizenship.
Women's empathy beats macho posturing
Judith Woods Women's empathy is not a weakness - it beats macho posturing at work
What has changed for Aboriginal people?
Tim Dick It's now been 24 years since what was called Australia's unutterable shame, the legacy of dispossession, degradation and devastation of Indigenous people.
It's curtains for Clive
Adam Gartrell Clive Palmer's political career is going down like the Titanic and his party is going the way of the dinosaurs.
A plebiscite on gay marriage is divisive
Dr Liz Short and Dr Sharon Dane When Federal Parliament returns tomorrow, it should abandon plans for a same-sex marriage plebiscite.
The cat who killed the rat who ate the egg
Andrew Masterson A killer is dead. But the native birds have little reason to celebrate.
White privilege and the 60 Minutes saga
Ruby Hamad A major news organisation has shown an extraordinary lapse in judgment by exploiting a mother's pain and taking part in a serious crime.
The last battleground
Wendy Squires Post traumatic stress disorder affects many who have served this country but little is being done to meet their needs.
It's about pride, passion and tradition
Martin Flanagan With respect, a meeting of tribes can be a time for celebrating our shared culture.
Ours will be remembered as the era of plastics
Faye Flam Unless recycling increases dramatically, our overuse of plastics will leave an indelible scar on the face of the Earth, affecting how we'll be remembered by future generations.
Highlights
Death in black and white
Imagine if a royal commission was held into a matter of national shame, and it spent tens of millions of dollars, produced a vast report, but the headline indicators of that shame actually went backwards.
Against the odds the stars line up for Labor
Increasing inequality has allowed Labor to start doing something it hasn't done for decades - articulate a worldview.
Better teachers? Better at what, exactly?
We all know it is bureaucratic procedures, lack of funding and poor pay rates that hold back educational standards, not bad teachers, by NED MANNING.
Beauty of science is in the unexpected moment
The CSIRO's pursuit of science will be hampered by the naked hunt for cash, by SURENDRA VERMA.
The sheer stupidity of Trump’s terrifying rise
How would such an ignorant amateur actually run the most powerful country in the world? By JANET DALEY
Gen Y frets over a looming bleak future
Good jobs, affordable homes and peace of mind appear increasingly out of reach for young Australians.
