Theresa May is a woman with a plan, but it is a very different plan to the one Malcolm Turnbull presented to the people over an eight-week election campaign that ended in one of the least emphatic victories in more than half a century.
In middle age, there are so many things one is not permitted to do, and dancing in public is one of them. I'm doing it anyway.
America is an idea in a way that Australia never has been.
In a real estate culture, investing in making money takes precedent over investing in people.
Ever wonder how professional TV Footy Commentators can communicate with "irritating raspy shoutyness", then shift effortlessly into a more subtle "irksome raspy yelliness"?
Well this is getting a bit embarrassing. While Hillary Clinton is making a serious and unprecedented bid for the White House, more and more Americans are asking questions about the experiences of Julia Gillard.
In the selfie-driven, life-curation-for-social-media-age we inhabit, failure is as unspeakable as a bad smell in a small space.
For too many years we have provided temporary solutions to people's problems without adequately addressing the structural causes and investing in lasting solutions.
The impression one gets is that Legal Aid buckled to community sentiment.
If your parents are raging racists with guns and an inability to learn from their mistakes, at what point do you stop loving them?
The idea of "wellness" eating is taking me to my unhappy place, where meals are made from processed ingredients, not actual food.
Women are called on to lead when division is too bitter and men are prone to turning every discussion into a contest of wills.
Sometimes it feels like there are two Pauline Hansons. The first is the actual person. The second is a political symbol.
What if budgets, and candidates for office, told the truth?
It's a word that's been used to belittle women since ancient times.
It would be easy to forget that Pokemon GO and augmented reality games aren't even the most significant cultural shift taking place thanks to mobile phones right now.
I am not a mother, but the last time I checked, my opinion was just as valid as my ovaries.
The plain fact is that the mainstream politicians have forfeited our trust and lost our respect.
The election may be decided, but voter discontent seems unlikely to be eased.
Housing is essential to basic living standards. We don't have the right to purchase property at any price, we have a right to affordable housing.
Theresa May made it clear that she intends to unite party and country, while disuniting Europe. Brexit may not have been her choice, but she will get the job done.
Surely we don't want to spend our days chasing digital phantoms around city streets?
While the email investigation has not blocked Clinton's road to the White House, it does threaten to cripple her ability to govern if elected.
Last week, we saw the convergence of three of America's great unsolved problems. But Australia isn't immune.
Even if America and Britain had drawn up the most elaborate, skilful and lavishly funded plan in history, Iraq today would probably look much the same as it does now.
If the Andrews government is serious about its intention to outlaw crueal breeding practices, it should put its money where its mouth is and extend that ban to greyhound racing.
Tthis is a call for our political leaders to build a new road that Melbourne desperately needs before I need a walking stick.
It's time Turnbull reached out to conservatives. 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.
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.
Smaller groups can actually make better decisions, particularly on complex issues.
The depiction Howard offered to the Australian people was so odious that some former public servants are still contesting it a decade later.
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.
We need to create human societies from people of many different backgrounds, writes MARTIN FLANAGAN.
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.
The bigots who struggle with Waleed Aly's success fail to understand it has nothing to do with religion.
Population growth must be addressed to ensure future prosperity and health, writes FARRAH TOMAZIN.
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.
In emergencies, surgeons, whose training has been as realistic as possible, can make the difference between life and death, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM.
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.
Increasing inequality has allowed Labor to start doing something it hasn't done for decades - articulate a worldview.
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