It's time for Turnbull to make nice
The common mantra is that if only the star of Q&A had embraced a "progressive" agenda he would have won a convincing majority. This is hogwash.
Cost of visiting a GP may overload hospitals
At the public hospital I'd have received X-rays and access to specialist opinion, all in the one place, at minimal cost but to my patience.
Brexit casts doubt on the wisdom of crowds
Smaller groups can actually make better decisions, particularly on complex issues.
The Coalition of the Willing to deceive
The depiction Howard offered to the Australian people was so odious that some former public servants are still contesting it a decade later.
Achieving the political middle ground
Contradictions abound in the world economy and the danger of the disenfranchised embracing simplistic solutions is great.
Next, we must end live export industry
Animal cruelty isn't just a problem for the greyhound industry.
Turnbull must learn his lesson this time
When the other side is using a sledgehammer on you, you have to pull one out and start swinging yourself, Malcolm Turnbull was told.
My son, his phone and the Apple of my eye
Josephine Cafagna, mugged by modernity, does some shocking shopping.
Coalition has zero in common with Hawthorn
Let's re-wind the clock. It's the Tuesday before polling day and Tony Nutt, Malcolm Turnbull's campaign director, rings his Labor counterpart with an offer George Wright could not refuse.
What a mess we've gotten ourselves into
We are on the brink of a breaking point between the way politics was done in the 20th century and the way it will be done in the 21st.
A much more optimistic vision of old age
I am not worried about my final years. I'm actually looking forward to them.
A plumbing lesson in for all of us
In both schools you learn stuff, you come out at the end, and you can be whatever you want to be.
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.
World's most liveable city should be ashamed
What a sad trend for the world's most liveable city to be leading.
The moral issues of the Iraq war remain
A policy of universal non-intervention won't solve the ethical dilemma when countries butcher their own people.
Not all deaf people want to be 'fixed'
Nobody should be treated differently because of how they communicate.
Two Australians, two takes on our identity
Samuel Davide Hains presented a contemporary embodiment of the Australian character for the world to see: modern, multifaceted and hard to read.
Lessons to be learnt
Both sides have lessons they can glean from the federal campaign.
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.
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 beaching court orders.
Boring or crazy? The choice is yours
Many voters seem to be flocking to tough, no-nonsense women who at least seem sensible.
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.
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.
Hanson's 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.
Think twice before posting that holiday snap
We have a unique responsibility to protect the physical as well as the digital safety of their children. We are custodians and curators of our child's digital adolescence.
Bedwetters need support, not humiliation
Who do people think they're impressing by using the term "bedwetter" as an insult?
Why I should have voted Liberal
I regret my vote: We should have voted decisively Liberal.
Does Australia even need a government?
Look around in Australia on the first business day after the country was supposedly rendered "ungovernable" by Saturday's election. On Monday the share market was up and so was the Australian dollar.
Turnbull's last shot with Abbott in the wings
If he just proceeds as if "jobs and growth" is enough, he won't last the parliamentary term.
Turnbull has only himself to blame
How can someone so well-read, well-informed and long untroubled by the need to make any more money keep making so many unnecessary mistakes?
Chaotic government is democracy at its best
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged Australians elect a "stable majority Coalition Government" rather than the "chaos" of a minority government during the election.
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.