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Nearly everybody loves a construction site.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

Richard Nixon bows out.

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

Emeritus Professor David Bradley died just short of his 91st birthday. One of the four founding members of the Department of English at Monash University.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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?

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

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.

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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.

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

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Leaders should turn when it's obvious they're driving in the wrong direction.

Accidents, offences, etc

There are, at elections, the things people believe they're voting for, the things they are actually voting for but don't realise at the time, and the stories we all tell about it afterwards.

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