• COMMENT
• Ross Gittins

Luck plays such an important role in success, why do the successful so often want to deny it?

• COMMENT
• Michael Scammell

Nearly everybody loves a construction site.

• COMMENT
• Bill O'Chee

The vocal republican activists in Australia have become unusually quiet of late. Could it possibly be out of embarrassment at what is going on in the US? Most certainly so.

• COMMENT
• Adam Morton

Malcolm Turnbull likes to quote a John Howard maxim: that politics is relentlessly driven by the laws of arithmetic. It's usually pretty hard to argue with, given the relentlessly faithless way parliamentarians tend to respond to bad polling data.

• COMMENT
• Gina Williams

Noongar woman Gina Williams was one of the first to take up the viral #indigenousdads campaign on Twitter. Here's why she did.

• COMMENT
• Ross Fitzgerald

Australia could learn a lot from the fact that a number of American cities are successfully reducing the role of criminalisation in their drug policies.

• Alan Stokes

We need to sculpt ourselves. Forget Fat Bastard and sumo wrestlers; we can be even sexier.

• COMMENT
• Madeline White

Maybe The Bachelor really is the perfect way to find Happily Ever After.

• COMMENT
• Michael McCormack

The data you give tonight is your chance to shape the best possible future for you, your family, your friends and your community.

• Brian Yatman

Richard Nixon bows out.

• Jenna Price

"Please advise. Should I fill out my religion accurately on my census form & then forever fear what happened to my grandparents? #CensusFail"

• John Birmingham

Thanks Australian Bureau of Statistics, you've ruined everything.

• COMMENT
• Peter Hartcher

North Korea is a deeply troubling rogue state, but we already knew that. The new and disturbing source of regional bullying is a much bigger and more serious power - China.

• COMMENT
• Lucy Mangan

PHOTOS:

• COMMENT
• Nicole Hemmer

With the conventions over and the general election now in full swing, Trump's free-media strategy has transformed from asset to albatross.

• COMMENT
• Lindsay Wegener

The controversy surrounding the Northern Territory's Don Dale Detention Centre reminds me of the frog in the saucepan story, the one that compares what happens to the frog when the water in the saucepan is left to slowly simmer with what happens when the heat is suddenly turned up high.

• Nicholas Stuart

Declaring war has become far too important to be left to politicians.

• Andrew P Street

Which is the Australian parliament's most misleading new policy?

• COMMENT
• Anna Johnston

There are those who say that we shouldn't boycott the Census because it is too important. To them I say: bollocks.

• COMMENT
• BROOKS BARNES

Backed by a meticulously executed marketing campaign, "Suicide Squad" pushed through abysmal reviews to set box office records for Warner Bros. over the weekend.

• COMMENT
• Steven Munchenberg

Labor's demand for a royal commission into banks is a popular call. But what does Labor actually want to achieve with a royal commission? What is the problem it is supposed to fix?

• COMMENT
• Jonathan Liew

Muhammad takes the traditional stereotypes of Muslim women and slashes them to bits.

• Stephanie Coontz

Older generations always seem to fret about the sexual behaviour and romantic lives of the younger crowd. In the 1920s, there was alarm when boys stopped visiting in the parlour and started driving girls around in what one newspaper called "a house of prostitution on wheels." This worry paled in comparison to the panic evoked by the rowdy sexual revolution that began in the late 1960s.

• COMMENT
• Karalee Katsambanis

Some column topics are too important not to be re-visited and should jog the public's conscience to try and ensure that that history hopefully does not ever get a chance to repeat itself.

• COMMENT
• John Harrison

Senator-elect arrived with a bang and a puff of smoke.