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Double standards in medical care for offshore detainees
Labor's pledge to open up Australia's offshore detention centres to scrutiny is commendable.
Labor's pledge to open up Australia's offshore detention centres to scrutiny is commendable.
Every so often elections matter. The last one mattered big-time for carbon emissions.
A very special V from the S explains why all those stories about preference swapping deals between the parties are, to use a technical term, largely bullshit.
Middle-aged men and women are having conversations about a subject they dread: what to do about about the future care of their aged parents.
The deep divisions in British society go way beyond the question of EU membership, a fact British Prime Minister David Cameron has previously failed to recognise.
The issue of campaign photos is a complex one.
Do you delete all those photos that now make you cringe? Do you unfollow each other?
Can any restaurant really be judged the best in the world?
Domestic workers are among the most marginalised and exploited workers in the world today despite the crucial contribution they make to the global economy.
A Chicago woman came up with a style that was as durable as it was popular.
Secular ethics offer a path forward.
Most people who believe that they are wheat-sensitive, without medical confirmation, are probably not.
Janet Waldo acted in many popular TV shows.
Even before the Orlando shooting, Conrad Liveris would think about being gay in Perth everyday and the risks that go with it.
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is an integral part of the Australian health system, but is it working?
Barry Rodgers was a surf lifesaver, ironman and schoolgirl swimming tutor.
Australia has a disproportionate share of the world's billionaires.
Budget opera - or is it soap opera?
We need fewer union bosses, political apparatchiks and self-serving businessmen.
Illustrator Anatol Kovarsky's sense of the absurd made him a fixture at The New Yorker magazine.
And who is Australia set to accidentally elect to the senate in three weeks? Your election news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant
Nothing prepared me for the emotions that I have felt after the events of Orlando.
There has been plenty of conversation about whether this was an indiscriminate act of violence or a deliberate terrorist attack.
What might victory for the Iraqi and Syrian governments, as well as their external supporters, and defeat for IS, look like?
There's fires everywhere. In Sydney there would be a carefully guarded perimeter. Not here.
As a symbol of gender double standards, grey hair is up there with equal pay.
With the election campaign now into its second half, it is apparent there will be little in the offering for younger voters.
- Alan Attwood 13.06.2016
Both the Orlando and Paris atrocities were attacks on freedom itself.
It's not unusual for dozens of Americans to be killed by guns in a single day.