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The defenders of banks don't get capitalism. They're holding us back
Most of Australia's richest got there in industries subject to political favours, hardly any by inventing something new.
Most of Australia's richest got there in industries subject to political favours, hardly any by inventing something new.
Even with the controversies over doping, the Olympics are proving an uplifting spectacle, and one we needed this year.
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.
With limited space and limited resources, we can't slap "heritage" on every building erected since day dot.
Failure, as they say, is a great teacher.
The Herald urged people to fill in the census form fully and honestly. We noted the ABS's assurances that its systems were robust enough to protect our personal information from attack. That appears not to have been so. Trust is broken.
So, despite assurances that it couldn't possibly happen, the ABS census website crashed badly when called upon to 'do its part for Australia'. ("Malicious hackers behind website collapse", smh.com.au, August 10).
Sure, #censusfail was a humiliating disaster, but the Australian Bureau of Statistics can at least get some valuable data out of it.
Noongar woman Gina Williams was one of the first to take up the viral #indigenousdads campaign on Twitter. Here's why she did.
We need to sculpt ourselves. Forget Fat Bastard and sumo wrestlers; we can be even sexier.
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.
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.
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.
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?
With the conventions over and the general election now in full swing, Trump's free-media strategy has transformed from asset to albatross.
There are those who say that we shouldn't boycott the Census because it is too important. To them I say: bollocks.
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.
Placing rugby league stars in the same company as US foreign-policy elites would seem to many to be a long bow to draw.
Let's hope Australians manage to fill in their census form – online or on paper – without going the biff.
First it was dead birds, then noise. Now wind farms are being blamed for destroying the electricity market and pushing prices as high as $14,000 per megawatt hour.
It is time to dispense with a relic lingering at the core of our economy: the male breadwinner.
I had a dream. There was an election but it was incredibly long. And cold.
Welcome aboard everyone, and thanks for joining us on today's Big Bus Tour of Sydney's Most Over-Hyped and Over-Rated.
As a Leader of the Caucasian Australian Community, I would like to condemn in the most unambiguous terms the inflammatory and ill-informed statements of some of the people which I so officially represent.
It's time to stop viewing renters as second-class citizens. First up, the term "landlord" needs to get it in the neck.
We need a property market that facilitates people to move to housing that best suits them. That's why I'm up to my 20th home.
To say the knives have come out for him would be wrong. Some never put them away in the first place
All the pictures of Malcolm Turnbull looking glum since Saturday night tell us a story we already instinctively knew: he fears he has miscalculated again.
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