The health insurance con job
There's a great con job targeting younger Australians, and the government and insurance industry are in cahoots.
There's a great con job targeting younger Australians, and the government and insurance industry are in cahoots.
Comment: Is Sonia Kruger 'nice'? Who cares? This 'debate' - like any involving a celebrity - misses the point. Yet again.
Hanson's comeback is a political embarrassment for Australia and a source of shame for the politics that spawned her.
All statistics tell us the chances of getting caught up in a terrorist act are small, but that doesn't stop the anxiety that now accompanies such journeys.
Attacks by self-radicalised individuals using vehicles as weapons are a near-impossible threat for security agencies to identify beforehand – which means that we need to look at better defensive measures.
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.
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.
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.
Much has been written about Adrian Bayley, the devastation he wreaked and various failures to contain his random acts of violence.
If you wanna bring sexy back to your marriage: share.
This week will see the centenary of two horrific battles on the Western Front engaged in by Australian soldiers.
Dragging a party from certain devastating defeat to governing in your own right seems like an incredible achievement to me.
The government should be commended for recognising that it is time to embrace this new form of transport.
We are the first generation to have our midlife crisis smeared all over Facebook.
We're no longer pretending money doesn't matter, but looking to make sense of how deeply it does.
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.
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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