• 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.

• Alan Stokes

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

• COMMENT
• Lynda Voltz

We have come a long way on women's sport, and our Olympic sportswomen have always punched above their weight, but now is the time to invest in it.

• COMMENT
• Simon Morris

It's never healthy for coverage of any event to be be restricted to one source, but the IOC is increasingly walling off the Olympics.

• August 10

I'm less concerned about the information requested by the census than I am about governments appearing to ignore it once they have it.

The nation has corruption and drug problems. The way the new President is behaving, it is rapidly gaining a government one as well.

• 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
• 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
• Anna Johnston

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

• AUGUST 9

Mack Horton seems to be from the same mould as Shane Warne.

By sitting down to be counted and filling in the census form on Tuesday, you are standing up not just for decision-making based on evidence but for important values which keep our democracy strong.

• Tom Switzer

Placing rugby league stars in the same company as US foreign-policy elites would seem to many to be a long bow to draw.

• COMMENT
• Chris Henning

Let's hope Australians manage to fill in their census form – online or on paper – without going the biff.

• COMMENT
• George Williams

Aboriginal people are calling for a broader resolution to their grievances, including by way of a treaty.

• AUGUST 8

There has been much speculation about the fitness of Brazil to hold the Olympics but by promoting reafforestation in these games Brazil has inspired us.

With the process of compensating taxi licence holders now in train, it is important the government becomes still more transparent about the process on which it is embarking.

• COMMENT
• Mark Kenny

All the signs are that an enlarged right-wing cross bench will create new tensions, dragging Turnbull's party in unhelpful directions, and emboldening hardline conservatives to re-litigate the case to scrap section 18c, and argue about climate change science.

• COMMENT
• Matt Wade

Whether it is takeaway pizza, nannies or a once-a-fortnight cleaner, working couples have turned to the market in droves to get the chores done and keep their households functioning.

• COMMENT
• Peter FitzSimons

You blokes started in Sydney, four decades ago. So finish in Sydney. One last concert. At the SCG, before Chrissie.

In theory, the communal model offers women the opportunity to share their experiences with others in the same situation, but in reality this may not happen and the disadvantages.outweigh the benefts.