• COMMENT
• John Birmingham

Twitter could suffer from extreme politicization of everything.

• Nicholas Stuart

This is perhaps one of the worst decisions to affect Defence in the past 20 years, because the structure is now askew.

• Jenna Price

Beware people who've been around politics a long time and who know how it all works. They can undo the best-laid plans of party head office.

• COMMENT
• Erin Stewart

The home is the most common location in Australia for injuries to occur.

• Raffaello Pantucci

The profile of what we consider a terrorist attack is increasingly hard to define.

• COMMENT
• Nicole Hemmer

"Just hold your nose." That was the advice I heard a Republican activist give another member of the party who was hesitant to support Donald Trump.

• COMMENT
• Jack Green

As one of an increasing number of young Catholic men who have decided to become a Catholic priest, I am in a privileged position to debunk some of the myths surrounding celibacy and to quell any fears that celibacy is a grave evil.

• COMMENT
• Tim Williams

I'm a big walker. Sadly, since I moved to Sydney five years ago, the decisive word in that sentence has become "big" not walker.

• Dave Zirin

The overwhelming news in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics has been about the rampant dysfunction of the host city, Rio de Janeiro, and for good reason. The stories are gruesome and sensationalistic, filled with the kinds of pulpy details that make a mental imprint deeply difficult to dismiss.

• COMMENT
• Peter Hartcher

Can a Liberal-National Coalition bring itself to nominate a former Labor prime minister?

• COMMENT
• Alpha Cheng

It is simplistic to link terrorism with all Muslims and it puts Australians at risk.

• COMMENT
• Andrew P Street

The election wasn't exactly a triumph for anyone - so who's going to be blamed the most?

• COMMENT
• Nicholas Kristof

I've looked back over more than 40 years of Donald Trump's career to see what the record says.

• COMMENT
• John Harrison

Which inquiry was a witch hunt? 

• COMMENT
• Adele Blair

On a daily basis we trust strangers we connect with.

• COMMENT
• Tim Dick

We might hope that merit gets someone into Parliament and onto the front bench, but it doesn't.

• COMMENT
• Tom Switzer

Donald Trump is raising several issues that go to the very heart of American politics in 2016. It would be a big mistake to say his growing appeal is simply due to racism and xenophobia.

• George Williams

The re-elected Turnbull government is determined to get moving on a same-sex marriage plebiscite. The greatest challenge is to gain Parliament's support to hold the vote.

• COMMENT
• Rodney Croome

Campaigners feel frustration as whatever happens final decision will still rest with those in parliament, writes Rodney Croome

• COMMENT
• Maher Mughrabi

Racism is about how we think of ourselves – and others.

• COMMENT
• Sigrid Thornton

The market offers a unique community hub that also draws state-wide, national and international admiration.

• COMMENT
• Leonid Bershidsky

The killers weren't members of any terror group, and they weren't acting on anyone's orders.

• COMMENT
• Kenneth Davidson

This is a tale of two cities – Melbourne and Sydney – and their policies concerning urban water supplies and the delivery of containerised cargo from the ports in each city to and from the outer suburbs where factories and warehouses are now mainly located.

• COMMENT
• Anne Summers

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.

• COMMENT
• Andrew P Street

First there was a picture book for kids about the Bays Precinct. What could be next?