David Pope
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How can I stand here and speak to the idea of our place in an indissoluble commonwealth when this week my people have been reminded that our place is so often behind this nation's bars.
The only winners from Malcolm Turnbull's Rudd decision are the bitter haters in the Liberal Party.
What a nasty, but not unexpected, surprise given the track record of our now thoroughly discredited Lilliputian government ("Last drinks safe in the city", July28, p1).
What I was not expecting was that it would add a sweet new dimension to my relationship with my kids, especially my seven-year-old boy.
Kevin Rudd has suffered many setbacks in his public life, as politicians frequently do.
Rather than pine for someone warmer or more charismatic, the Clinton campaign has decided to be proud of the candidate it has.
One of the great joys of living in Canberra is its setting.
The Productivity Commission is criticising the Trans Pacific Partnership, the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is criticising privatisation, and the electricity industry is worried that competition from renewables might deliver lower prices to consumers. What on earth is happening to the Neo-liberal 'agenda'?
Yet again Indonesia showed its most brutal and ugly face to the world.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's new proposals to deal with people convicted of terrorism offences undermine our criminal justice system.
The commission, however searching, is destined to be an expensive distraction and waste of time.
Isil's war in Europe will evolve in unpredictable and erratic ways, because the generals do not command the troops.
We will watch the Games in Rio, we will cheer the athletes, we may even buy the t-shirts. But the dismal truth is that we now put question marks over exceptional achievements, where once we only felt joy.
Here's the official transcript of Thursday's cabinet meeting that was meant to decide if Australia would support Kevin Rudd's bid for the top UN job. Please burn after reading.
The shocking brutalisation of youth in the NT's Don Dale Detention Centre proves that a whole new system of cultural and philosophical change is required in dealing with the disaffected youth.
The wife of a former president should definitely be the next leader of the United States. It's just a pity the wrong woman is running for election.
Among the 50-odd portraits in this year's Archibald, two are stand-out, although not in a good way. Both depict sitting politicians but together they reveal us, or what is embarrassingly close to becoming an Australian world-attitude: dominate, exploit, go. Eat, shoot, leave (the rubbish).
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Job security is becoming a major issue in Australia.
For 227 years, the presidency has been associated with stereotypically male qualities – strength, resolve, fearlessness – and the embodiment of power in a deeply patriarchal political system.
Is there anything better than a good downfall story? Harriet Wran's tale has it all – drugs, murder, mental illness and the essential binding ingredient of sex.
The bank has failed to see the humanity of the person, and has failed to treat them with dignity.
I was pleased to see the ACT Human Rights Commissioner Dr Helen Watchirs sound a warning about a proposed law requiring ACT public servants to dob in their colleagues if they criticise the government (‘‘Watchdog says ACT gagging plan goes too far’’, July 25, p7).
Surely assisted suicide heads the topics we should be debating given our ageing population and the increasing number of slow and lingering deaths that will result.
Australia's $2 trillion pool of superannuation money is looking for a home. So are renters.
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.
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!
It's no exaggeration to assert that Hillary Clinton is among America's most unloved politicians. Nonetheless, at least half of the country's population will have reason to cheer her when she formally accepts the Democratic Party nomination for president on Friday.
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.
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.
Responsibility for ACT election comment is taken by The Canberra Times editor Grant Newton, of 9 Pirie Street, Fyshwick.
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