The biggest question facing Asia isn't the South China Sea
The big winners will be China, Russia and North Korea if Donald Trump is victorious: they will be freer to use sheer force against their neighbours to get their way.
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Why private schools deserve public funding
Significant energy is expended in trying to create division in Australia's education system. It's the wrong approach.
I'm sorry about Sonia Kruger's stupid comments
As a Leader of the Caucasian Australian Community, I would like to condemn in the most unambiguous terms the inflammatory and ill-informed statements of some of the people which I so officially represent.
Prepare to live for 100 years
A life well lived requires careful planning in order to balance the financial and the non-financial, the economic and the psychological, the rational and the emotional.
Well done, Poms, on the EU exit
Britain has dodged a silver bullet to its economic heart by leaving the European Union.
Tour de France is uniquely vulnerable to terrorism
The Tour is uniquely vulnerable - to terrorists, to protesters, to drunk fans and to idiots.
Want more sex? Share the chores
If you wanna bring sexy back to your marriage: share.
The American predicament on gun reform
Where old laws have created a society awash with guns, beyond any hope of confiscation, it is hard to dismiss the argument that reforms now would only disarm the law-abiding citizens – not the criminals and terrorists.
Turkey's coup attempt: can Erdogan bridge the national divide?
The coup attempt in Turkey has failed, but the event underlined some serious currents of instability that have beset the country.
Malcolm Turnbull's complex climate of compromise
With such a slim mandate, the Prime Minister has to juggle internal critics and a disparate Senate crossbench.
Turnbull demonstrates super reverse skills
Has there ever been a more agile backflipper of a prime minister than Malcolm Turnbull?
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Encounters with animals
Business shouldn't get a vote in any fair election
If you live in inner Sydney, your vote for Lord Mayor this September will be worth half that of a business. A convenience store gets two votes; a bank gets two votes; an absent landowner gets two votes. Residents get one.
The SCG means more to Sydney than just a home for sport
The stories of the SCG are etched into the memories of the city.
This is what a midlife crisis looks like - for Gen X
We are the first generation to have our midlife crisis smeared all over Facebook.
Turnbull saved the Coalition from an election wipe-out
Dragging a party from certain devastating defeat to governing in your own right and with a more manageable Senate seems like an incredible achievement to me.
You won't win. So why go to a casino?
We're no longer pretending money doesn't matter, but looking to make sense of how deeply it does.
Don't add fuel to the terrorism fire
We all need a sense of belonging and cells or gangs are one way young men can experience brotherhood. Throw in a cause like religion and the wrongs done to its followers and you will have young men anxious to redeem themselves from murky pasts by giving their own lives and at the same time bumping off infidels.
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The reality of young people's obsession with devices ...
It's a video game, only different
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.
Liberals place all their hopes in Turnbull
And so, after a tremulous, difficult birth, the Turnbull government begins anew, for the first time under its own electoral steam.
Highlights
Why I decided to rent my suburban dream
We need a property market that facilitates people to move to housing that best suits them. That's why I'm up to my 20th home.
Turnbull's potentially deadly moment
To say the knives have come out for him would be wrong. Some never put them away in the first place
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.
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.
Why we won't see marriage equality for ages
The election's big winners are those few who can't abide the gays being wed.
Two messages drew blood in the campaign
The underlying struggle was for the Liberals to build public trust in Turnbull, and for Labor to damage it.
Plebiscite could be Turnbull's Brexit
Two international events of the last week highlight just how disappointing Australia's approach to same-sex marriage has been.
We must follow Britain to the exit
Who saw Bill Shorten being interviewed by Leigh Sales on 7.30 on Thursday evening?
'Marriage reform' disaster waiting to happen
On same-sex marriage, a potentially weakened Malcolm Turnbull is sitting on a powder keg.