Our culture of separatism leads to a life of fear
Can a man be a feminist? A year 12 student asked me this recently for a school project, and I was thinking, duh.
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Pauline Hanson isn't a threat. She brings an opportunity
There's an easy way for Malcolm Turnbull to deal with the problems Pauline Hanson represents: he needs to look back at how John Howard responded the first time around.
Sydney's most over-rated destinations
Welcome aboard everyone, and thanks for joining us on today's Big Bus Tour of Sydney's Most Over-Hyped and Over-Rated.
'Outsider' Hanson is just part of the system now
There are many highlights in the forthcoming SBS documentary about Pauline Hanson, quite apart from the realisation that the heroine's '90s wardrobe is now being worn by the hipsters of inner city Sydney and Melbourne.
Some fatherhood advice for Mick Jagger: not at 72
Being father means "putting your shoulder to the wheel" of parenting. Richard Glover wonders if Jagger's shoulders will be able to bear the strain.
Here's some ideas for Baird's next picture book
First there was a picture book for kids about the Bays Precinct. What could be next?
The drama shaking up US politics
If you thought the shenanigans at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland were the weirdest thing happening in America this week, you would be wrong.
Charles Kinsey is one of the lucky ones - he didn't die
A lucky black man in the US seems like a contradiction in terms right now.
Life is dull. Wreck your marriage
I see several of my friends who are staying in marriages because of children and are desperately unhappy as a result.
An open letter to Sonia Kruger from a Muslim mother
From a very young age, I have had to learn that my life and my rights are not the same as everyone else.
Peace lies in the middle ground, not on the extremist edges
The atrocity in Nice on Bastille Day felt like the worst of all the recent atrocities. The most heartless, the most demented.
Donald Trump evokes Pauline Hanson and Brexit
His stirring speech developed a clear yet disturbingly bleak narrative, He claims to be uniting American but is more likely to divide it.
Renters at mercy of foreigners
A "revolution in renters' rights" will not be achieved while addressing one major element that has created "a system that divides people into haves and have-nots by property ownership" is persistently omitted ("We need a revolution in renters' rights", July 22). It's not only "Australians" who "speculate on property like it's a casino", and landlords are not exclusvely "a cottage industry of mum and dad investors and amateur speculators". An increasing proportion are foreign investors.
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Baird's popularity might be his undoing
Mike Baird is spending his political capital like a drunk in a casino exempt from the lockout laws
We need to save TAFE - for students and society
Everyone benefits from a high quality, publicly funded institution that educates the workforce.
The plebiscite is a reality. Now work out how to win it
Let's give the people what they want: a public vote in which they emphatically endorse marriage equality.
Healthcare costs money. Cutting healthcare costs much more
If I am dead next week, someone get in touch with Malcolm Turnbull, tell him that Medicare killed me and that I will be coming back to haunt him.
Give us your name on census night, it'll be safe
The Australian Statistician rejects concern about his decision to retain our names when the census goes digital
Erdogan vs the coup vs Turkish democracy
Days ago the people were rallying to save Turkey from a military coup; soon they may be trying to save their country from its elected President.
HSC overhaul step in right direction
I applaud the NSW government's latest proposed overhaul of the HSC ("Major changes to HSC syllabus, July 21.)
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.