Stop the votes
Michael Short A plebiscite on same-sex marriage risks being a national catastrophe.
The lie that diminishes us all
Peter Martin We tell ourselves we are compassionate to the people and creatures in our care. But that's not true.
Liberals are already dividing the spoils
Mark Kenny The polls point to a narrow Coalition victory but either side could yet crash and burn.
Politics in a social media world
Annabel Crabb The thumbs-up, thumbs-down voting system doesn't work in politics, because politics is never that simple.
Malcolm in the dock
Michael Gordon Turnbull's return to Q&A; might be his most daring move in this risk-averse campaign to retain government.
COMMENT
Exposing the ridiculous slur of 'radical Islam'
Daniel Flitton The trap is choice of language. How to best describe the terrorist threat, and by extension, how to craft a policy to extinguish it.
Mystery man's song defined 1970s Australia
Martin Flanagan Gypsy Queen is a song of the road no less than the poem Walt Whitman wrote a century earlier.
Finally, women's football comes of age
Jude Davies Hurray for all those who let girls be just as spirited, passionate and robust as their brothers.
I'm a Scorsese nut, geddit?
Danny Katz Scorsese is such a sweet, gentle man, dedicated to treasuring and preserving world cinema, and yet he's made so many disturbingly violent films...
Gay rights could defeat Islamic State
Jacqueline Maley It's only a hunch. But I am pretty sure that if you did up a Venn diagram of those who hate gay people and those who hate Muslims, there would be such significant cross-over it would resemble a near-eclipse.
Threats will not deter us from reporting
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Michael Bachelard The US FBI and Department of Justice, the UK Serious Fraud Office and the AFP have been running a major corruption probe into Monaco company, Unaoil.
End of life choices vital, but not cut and dried
Fiona Patten As a community we need to be prolonging life ... not death.
Thank you, Australia, for making people safe
Aubrey Perry Thank you, Australia, for doing the job the United States can't: making its people safe.
Public hearings in the fight against corruption
Stephen Charles Removing powers would be a backward step.
A gluten-free diet? It's nonsense
Peter H.R. Green and Rory Jones Most people who believe that they are wheat-sensitive, without medical confirmation, are probably not.
The surprising agreement on climate change
Peter Martin Every so often elections matter. The last one mattered big-time for carbon emissions.
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.
