Election 2016: less Michael Bay, more arthouse
Adam Gartrell Not so long ago federal election campaigns were like Hollywood blockbusters: big budget extravaganzas where people didn't have time to pick up on all the glaring inconsistencies.
Killing us softly with crackpot cures
Andrew Masterson The vain pursuit of unproven medical 'treatments' harms the gullible.
How to help prevent sexual abuse in schools
John Whelen It's time to re-examine and broaden teachers' duty of care.
Culture
Colour outside the lines - or draw your own
Susan Neiman Colouring-in books for adults prove how infantile we've become, so ignore all distractions and start thinking for yourself.
Multiculturalism: not an ideal, but a reality
Martin Flanagan We need to create human societies from people of many different backgrounds.
Parental bleating drowns out cries for help
Wendy Squires Fears about doctors prescribing the pill to children in schools are masking bigger issues that the program could remedy.
Ensnared by a siren and her song of seduction
Danny Katz It was a slow night in front of the TV, but somehow the off-button proved elusive.
MPs must decriminalise abortion
Anne Summers Surely the vast majority who want women to have access to legal abortion override a minority of MPs?
Paying tax doesn't make you more important
Jacqueline Maley The great hero/villain of the campaign this week was the non-politician Duncan Storrar, the 45-year-old audience member on the ABC's Q&A.
Forgotten voters could decide this election
Katie Acheson At the last federal election, hundreds of thousands of young Australians were not enrolled to vote.
Friday the 13th isn't a big deal, is it?
Andrew P Street The date does carry a lot of cultural baggage. After all, the hockey mask-sporting Jason Voorhees wouldn't have become the pop-culture figure he has if the film were called Wednesday the 5th.
NDIS generosity a fiscal time bomb
Mikayla Novak Troubles with the National Disability Insurance Scheme's affordability are uncannily reflective of Australia's fiscal management problems as a whole.
Can Trudeau see the forest fire for the trees?
Andrew Nikiforuk The wildfire that is consuming large swathes ofAlberta has broken Canadian records for calamities fuelled by climate change.
Campaign brings promises on the never-never
Mark Kenny Both sides are promising to boost the economy - but do the maths and the figures look increasingly rubbery
Returns from better education are hard to beat
Jessica Irvine Don't look now, but this election is being fought on actual policy grounds.
Albo's toughest battle
George Morgan The line between the inner and outer cities now increasingly marks out the plate tectonics of Australian political life.
Highlights
Khan's London a symbol of a working democracy
If Donald Trump is elected US president, London's new mayor would be barred from entering the country because he's a Muslim, writes WALEED ALY.
Gold Logie is more than a win for diversity
The bigots who struggle with Waleed Aly's success fail to understand it has nothing to do with religion.
The biggest issue
Population growth must be addressed to ensure future prosperity and health, writes FARRAH TOMAZIN.
The fight China will take to the brink of war
The world's two greatest powers are competing for military dominance of the western Pacific Ocean and the contest is about to intensify, by PETER HARTCHER.
Surgeons trained on living animals save lives
In emergencies, surgeons, whose training has been as realistic as possible, can make the difference between life and death, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM.
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.
