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How Serial is challenging the justice system
Last week, a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge delivered a bombshell development to the case of Adnan Syed, who was convicted in 2000 of strangling his ex-girlfriend and classmate, Hae Min Lee. The judge vacated the conviction of Syed, ordering a new trial due to a failure of his attorney to challenge unreliable evidence.
Not all deaf people want to be 'fixed'
Nobody should be treated differently because of how they communicate.
Are driverless cars the end of the driver's licence?
Today, a simple question: Should the state require you to have a licence for something you don't do? Of course not. Maybe.
The contradiction that has split the Liberal Party
If we were starting our political parties today, from scratch, we simply wouldn't have Labor and the Coalition.
The campaign's other big lie
There's no evidence that South Australia or any other state will "benefit enormously from the free trade agreements the Coalition has signed", in large part because the Coalition has ensured there isn't.
Mediscare could have unintended consequences
The Coalition may now accept the legitimacy of universal healthcare, but it vigorously opposed Medicare's introduction.
Madonna King: Consider Pauline our payback
Queensland's message to Malcolm Turnbull last Saturday was simple: TURN off the BULL.
Proposal an overreach
The right of association is one of the most basic concepts of freedom and the rule of law.
The one reason Baird's grand urban plan won't work
Property developers, would you believe, are angry at the Baird government. How could this be?
Election re-run would be pushing the envelope
The current uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the July 2 election has sparked speculation of a possible re-run later this year to resolve what appears to be a looming deadlock. This would take Australia into uncharted territory.
Lessons to be learnt
Both sides have lessons they can glean from the federal campaign.
Should Derryn Hinch really be a senator?
Victorians now have as one of their 12 representatives in the Senate a man who has over the past 30 years been to jail twice and fined $100,000 for breaching court orders.
Is the handwriting on the wall for outsourcing letters?
If anyone could introduce the word doormat into a poem, Wordsworth could.
So, when do you reckon we'll next have a government?
And Cory Bernardi is closer to victory over the Liberals! Your post-election news of the day, expressed as a snarky rant.
Crisis talk unwarranted and unhelpful
Talk of a potential constitutional and/or political crisis following this federal election result is at best premature.
Younger citizens' votes should be worth more
Younger people should be allowed to cast more votes during elections, because they have much more at stake than someone who is already retired.
Boring or crazy? The choice is yours
Many voters seem to be flocking to tough, no-nonsense women who at least seem sensible.
Remembering Rod Tiley: shared birthdays, golf balls and vegemite tea
I'll never forget Rod Tiley's reaction when I tried to take a day off last year from my Sunday radio spot on account of it being my birthday.
Uber replaces one monopoly with another
When Uber isn’t wrapping itself in cloaks of communal good, it is busy trying to institute a monopoly on ride-hailing.
Pauline Hanson is wrong about Hurstville
There is also no point inviting Pauline Hanson to Hurstville to experience the real Australia. Racism isn't cured with good meal.
Pauline Hanson is right, sort of
It is a great paradox of Hanson's politics that she cannot see that the people she claims to represent and the people she maligns in order to give them voice, may have much in common.
Turnbull's journey to nowhere in bus with no wheels
The wheels didn't fall off. They were stolen.
Hanson might be back, but Australia has moved on
The politics of Hansonism haven't changed during the past two decades. By contrast, Australian society has moved on.
How Turnbull was set up for his downfall
All the pictures of Malcolm Turnbull looking glum since Saturday night tell us a story we already instinctively knew: he fears he has miscalculated again.
Meet Sydney's angriest voters
Plenty of Australians are mad as hell. You know who you are. But Coalition strategists don't.
Coalition putting the 'stab' in 'stability'!
And the senate - oh dear god, the senate… Your news of the election aftermath, reduced to a snarky rant.
Politics of discontent throws up Hanson, again
For the politics of discontent not to take wider root, the established parties must begin explaining why resolving social and economic problems is never clear-cut or easy.
Future of Civic pool
I. Davies and A. Forsythe (Letters, July 2) ask what was the consultation on building a stadium on the Civic Pool site.
Despair made voters opt for Brexit, even if they didn't think it would help
It is a basic principle of economics that human beings choose things that benefit them. But last week, as the results of Britain's referendum on membership in the European Union came in, it quickly became clear that this principle was being overturned.
The real winners of the Mediscare campaign
The success of Labor's Mediscare in this election is worrying - but not for the reason you may imagine.
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