Will the real Turnbull ever stand up?
Adam Gartrell 12:00 PM After an election win the real Malcolm Turnbull will emerge from his conservative chrysalis like a beautiful socially-progressive butterfly, right? Don't be so sure.
Hey, Aussies, cut the forelock-tugging
Ian Rose 12:00 PM The Queen's Birthday public holiday is a national disgrace, argues Ian Rose.
Deadly truths you need to know
Rodney Syme 12:00 PM A Victorian parliamentary committee recommends legalising physician-assisted death. Dr Rodney Syme helps explain why.
Why you should all give a political damn
Mark Triffitt 12:00 PM If you don't like what's going on, do something about it, urges Mark Triffitt.
Whose plan is better? Don't ask an economist
Michael Gordon The battle over the final the weeks of the campaign will be as much for the hearts as the minds of the undecided.
Are we really prepared to let the Reef die?
Geoff Cousins All over the world, the Great Barrier Reef is making front page news. The world is watching how Australia exercises its duty of care over this most loved international icon.
Who was I before I was I?
Martin Flanagan Where am I in the photo? I'm not there. I'm not born yet, I don't exist.
Child-free and happy
Wendy Squires What is also being foolishly overlooked is the proportion of single-occupant households in this country, people who are left to pay the bills alone.
The swirling buffet of life's flavours.
Danny Katz Soup is a mystery to me, it makes no sense, it doesn't even know what it is.
Don't turn Ali into a sanitised caricature
Waleed Aly We're left with a man of courage who made some awful mistakes, was sincere enough to admit them, but prepared to pay the price of his convictions.
Safety is everyone's business
Emma Buckley Lennox Like most women, I'm used to men taking away my right to feel safe in the moment.
What the Stanford rape case can teach our sons
Rex Huppke I'll tell my boys that only cowards blame rape on alcohol or promiscuity.
Hillary's win is historic but underwhelming
Allison Pearson Do we really want the first woman president to have been a president's wife?
Why Trump will win the White House
Ben Boychuk Donald Trump will win the 2016 presidential election.
It's question time for Daniel Andrews
Josh Gordon On Tuesday Matthew Guy used the legal cover of State Parliament to air an unsubstantiated rumour doing the rounds.
The Coalition's promising things it can't afford
Peter Martin Labor ought to consider reversioning the old 1980's AIDS slogan: "I like sex, but I'm not prepared to die for it."
Highlights
Less Michael Bay, more Swedish arthouse
Federal election campaigns used to be like Hollywood blockbusters, moving at such a cracking pace, people missed on all the glaring inconsistencies, writes ADAM GARTRELL.
Multiculturalism: not an ideal, but a reality
We need to create human societies from people of many different backgrounds, writes MARTIN FLANAGAN.
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.
