• COMMENT
• Sean Nicholls

Among the best honoured rules of political combat is that while elected representatives are fair game, their families are not, without very, very good reason.

• COMMENT
• Dom Knight

JK Rowling has a disconcerting habit of tinkering with the world she's created.

• COMMENT
• Tim Soutphommasane

 Australia is often described as a multicultural success story. Yet our cultural diversity isn't yet reflected in the ranks of leadership within society. The ethnic and cultural default of leadership in Australia remains Anglo-Celtic. Unfortunately, we mightn't be making the most of our talents.

• COMMENT
• Julie Szego

For a case study in white privilege, look no further than the brats who this week booed a dignified Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia when he said the time had come to back Hillary Clinton for president.

• COMMENT
• Libby Sander

Looking back on the changes in office design over the past 30 years, it is easy to see why some employees feel as if they have been subjects in a giant ongoing experiment.

• COMMENT
• Stephen Stromberg

Melania Trump asked voters to take her word that her husband is an a good guy, while Bill Clinton provided detail after detail about his wife. But the speech still had a gaping hole.

• 1h ago

Do we just accept that this scandalous situation is part of modern sport and simply enjoy the Games like we always do?

• JULY 29

Without complaints by the alleged victims and witnesses, no story exists, yet Cardinal Pell refuses (at least publicly) to attack the credibility or veracity of those making sexual allegations against him. Am I missing something?

A banking senior executive stirs things up

• COMMENT
• Peter Martin

First it was dead birds, then noise. Now wind farms are being blamed for destroying the electricity market and pushing prices as high as $14,000 per megawatt hour.

• COMMENT
• Jeffrey Braithwaite

It is within routine success that the answer to systems failures may lie.

• COMMENT
• Tony Abbott

Former prime minister Tony Abbott puts Australia's war history in perspective and identifies what the heroic sacrifices can teach us about our battles today.

• COMMENT
• Andrew P Street

We know what happens when we don't hold people accountable. Let's stop doing that.

• COMMENT
• Sarah Gill

Manus – Australia's dirty policy deal finally comes unstuck

• COMMENT
• Graeme Kelly

Unable to walk, shower alone, dress myself, cook, drive or travel to work, I saw first-hand the challenges, difficulties and discrimination that so many Australians have to deal with daily.

• Catherine Ganter, Andrew B. Watkins, David Jones, Jonathan Pollock and Paul Gregory

If you live in southern Australia, you may have noticed it’s been a rather wet couple of months.

• COMMENT

Revealing Sulu to be gay is a soft way of introducing a gay character. In 2016 we should expect sexuality to no longer be a frontier in entertainment.

• COMMENT
• Leonid Bershidsky

Which nation will field the most doping-free team at the Rio Olympics, due to start on Aug. 5? Russia, the country that narrowly avoided a blanket ban from the games for drug abuse.

• COMMENT
• Melinda Henneberger

t was three of the less remarked-upon, non-primetime speakers, though, who highlighted some of the themes that I think will be crucial to a Hillary Clinton victory in November.

The new plan for Sydney's CBD strikes the right balance between seeking to grow the economy of central Sydney while preserving the amenity of public space and sunshine.