• COMMENT
• Peter Hartcher

Malcolm Turnbull had only just been sworn in as the newly re-elected Prime Minister when Robert Menzies offered him a piece of advice.

• COMMENT
• Garry Linnell

Enough with the tales of hardship and this drivel about personal best performances. We, your bosses, expect results.

• COMMENT
• Anne Summers

If you think that with his recent attacks on a crying baby and the Muslim parents of a dead soldier or his apparent willingness to use nuclear weapons, or his use of details from a confidential security briefing, or even his outright refusal to endorse leading Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Arizona Senator John McCain, in their primary races, Donald Trump finally has gone too far and has blown his chances of becoming the next president of the US – think again.

• COMMENT
• Wendy Squires

While there is no doubt the lockout laws have reduced crime and drunken violence in Sydney, there is also no doubt these laws have seriously damaged the city's reputation as a world-class entertainment destination.

• COMMENT
• Daniel Flitton

Back-to-back summits offer Turnbull an important chance to redefine the tarnished view of him as a leader. Just watch out for Kevin.

• COMMENT
• Andrew P Street

It's so very, very, very easy to be cynical about the Coalition's commitment to addressing climate change.

• COMMENT
• Tim Singleton Norton

I'm simply not willing to jeopardise or sacrifice the collective benefit of such a wealth of statistical information that is so vital to an understanding of our own populace.

It's time to look past the controversy and enjoy the greatness of the competitors from all nations.

• AUGUST 6

So "370,000 Australians think about ending their life every year", and " one in three of the deaths of people aged 15 to 19 is due to suicide"?

Taking stock

• COMMENT
• Sean Nicholls

Malcolm Turnbull appears determined to maintain his silence on whether he contributed more than $2 million to the Liberal Party to help his re-election effort. But if it is true, it has exposed him as a hypocrite.

• COMMENT
• Andrew P Street

Good thing that election absolutely, definitely, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die had nothing to do with cleaning out the crossbench, eh Mal?

• Saakshi Koul

Saakshi Koul won the Whitlam Institute’s writing competition with this imagined tale of a family affected by terrorism.

The Whitlam Institute's What Matters? competition received a record 3754 entries this year. Here are the winners and runners up.

• Leonid Bershidsky

People who might turn out to be quite attractive on a real-world date don't even get a chance to go out with anyone because their picture on a dating app is not particularly flashy.

• COMMENT
• Francis Wilkinson

Melania Trump's husband says she is a 10. Would Donald Trump marry a woman who wasn't? The question answers itself. But when she was younger, apparently working as a model in New York, the question is whether the former Melania Knauss was associated with another number -- an H-1B or a B1 or B2 visa, or perhaps some other designation that enabled a single Eastern European woman to earn a living in the U.S.

• COMMENT
• Ron Deibert

News of the alleged Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee's computers has riveted the world. But for many, this kind of behaviour is a daily reality.

• AUGUST 5

Those of us who worked on earlier censuses had to make three calls back to collect from every house, account for every visitor and help every homeless person fill in a form.

Too often we lose young Australians like Stuart Kelly. But there is hope.

A word of warning if you transit in Hong Kong