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The bold plan for super companies to become landlords
Australia's $2 trillion pool of superannuation money is looking for a home. So are renters.
Our leaders don't reflect who we are
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.
Winter sunlight, Birregurra, Saturday 3pm
The wind from the west was cold and cutting. Rain fell in big slow drops, each a mini-ice bucket. What was I doing, I asked myself, going to a football match on such an unfriendly day. And then I beheld the Birregurra oval!
The personal cost of a ferocious lockout law debate
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.
NT juvenile justice system rotten from the top down
The tragedy of this week's Four Corners program is that the damage done to young people in Northern Territory detention centres was largely already on the record.
Proposed changes to the laws governing ACT public servants are draconian
It seems almost trite to highlight the virtues of free speech.
FRANCE-ANALYSIS: Isil knows its priorities - and attacking Christians is one of them
Isil's war in Europe will evolve in unpredictable and erratic ways, because the generals do not command the troops.
In the Herald: July 29, 1954
Daylight Express 'jumped'
Open-plan offices are bad for workers and bosses
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.
JK Rowling, please leave Harry Potter alone
JK Rowling has a disconcerting habit of tinkering with the world she's created.
What was missing in Bill's speech about Hillary
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.
Juvenile justice disgrace shows it's time to take back the Territory
It's an image that should stay with us forever. Here in Australia, where we have the best of everything, a child is strapped to a bare restraint chair.
Comparing Donald Trump to Hitler isn't as far-fetched as it sounds
To any serious student of Hitler's frightening and unforeseen rise to power in Germany, the recurring echoes in Trump's speeches, interviews and his underlying thinking have become too blatant to overlook.
Pay no attention to big coal. Wind power is doing just fine
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.
Clinton is copping the same sexist rubbish as Gillard
At the Republican Convention, attendees had the chance to wear their sexist derision for the Hillary Clinton: stickers proclaiming "Life's a bitch, don't vote for one."
Australians on the Western Front still offer a lesson to us today
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.
Finding scapegoats won't make healthcare safer
It is within routine success that the answer to systems failures may lie.
We must demand to know what is happening on our behalf
We know what happens when we don't hold people accountable. Let's stop doing that.
In the Herald: July 28, 1937
No invasion of women
Australia's dirty policy deal finally comes unstuck
Manus – Australia's dirty policy deal finally comes unstuck
Russia will be the cleanest team in Rio
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.
Let's get fine defaulters out of our jails
Reporting of Andrew Leigh's reappointment as shadow assistant treasurer has been dominated by the strange decision to reduce his salary.
Sick of traffic jams? There is a solution
It's free. It's good for the planet and it's good for you.
Maintain your rage at these 'routine atrocities'
I couldn't watch the Four Corners expose of the abuse of children in the Northern Territory, it was just too much to bear. Especially after having just watched Australian Story, about a schoolgirl wasting away in detention after having fled Iran in fear of her life.
A case study in white privilege
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.