• Peter FitzSimons

Pokemon Go? No clue. The whole Pokemon thing confused me when my boys got into it nigh on a couple of decades ago, and it still confuses me now, but, as explained to me by my eldest, it's something like this.

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• Mark Kenny

And so, after a tremulous, difficult birth, the Turnbull government begins anew, for the first time under its own electoral steam.

• Peter Martin

What if the prime minister sacked the treasurer and promised to govern for everyone, not just those near the top?

• Michael Short

Credit rating agencies should be viewed with scepticism.

A poor country landlocked in the middle of Africa balances on the edge of civil war, in which ancient tribal rivalries, thinly disguised beneath a veneer of post-colonial politics, erupt in horrifying bouts of rape and massacre.

Malcolm Turnbull's concern about the use of taxpayers' money is ringing a bit hollow.

• Elizabeth Farrelly

We need to talk about Kevin. We face a choice; wildly inexperienced but bumptious and bullying male versus wise and experienced female, accomplished, respected, fit for purpose. And we act like this is even a contest?

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• Garry Linnell

The issue of animal rights has highlighted a growing warping of human values, a reluctance to acknowledge that we humans are truly exceptional.

• Julia Baird

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.

• Jacqueline Maley

In the selfie-driven, life-curation-for-social-media-age we inhabit, failure is as unspeakable as a bad smell in a small space.

• Richard Glover

Barack Obama is a pinnacle of dietary restraint, while Richard Glover cannot help but listen to the throaty calls of a bottle of Barossa shiraz.

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• Petula Dvorak

What really sets off the haters is when women do things that men have traditionally done.

• Tim Colebatch

It's not only Labor whose primary vote is at historic lows, writes Tim Colebatch. And there's no mystery about why.

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• Martin Flanagan

America is an idea in a way that Australia never has been.

In the Australian cinema classic Muriel's Wedding, BIll Hunter plays an unscrupulous local councillor in the fictional town of Porpoise Spit.

In an alternate reality where Packer's gambling interests extended to greyhounds, the dogs would still be running.

In case you are planning to BBQ sausages this weekend ...

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• Sean Nicholls

There is more than one industry you could argue has lost its "social licence" to operate.

• Emma Jane

It is astounding that we must explain the basics of genital exposure etiquette to grown human men. Yet the notion that one really shouldn't share NSFW photos unless asked seems a struggle for many men.

• Ruth Spielman

Outer suburbs are still too much of an afterthought. We run the risk of divided cities – the haves in the inner city and have-nots in the outer suburbs.