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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Overall the big four banks and their shareholders will pocket a fair share of the rate cut as profit.

Some mistakes are inevitable, but it is the health minister's responsibility to ensure the system runs in a way that minimises the chance of grave errors.

Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities need to feel confidence in the commission or its potential benefits will be eroded.

The sky's the limit if the Democrat can shed her insider image and get supporters out to vote.

The decision should have been above politics. The rebuff raises questions about the Prime Minister's judgement.

How much the campaigns raise from the general public is in itself an expression of public opinion.

Do we just accept that this scandalous situation is part of modern sport and simply enjoy the Games like we always do?

The new plan for Sydney's CBD strikes the right balance between seeking to grow the economy of central Sydney while preserving the amenity of public space and sunshine.

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Let's not pretend that politicians, public servants and many Northern Territorians did not know that illegal abuse of children was occurring in detention centres. It's just that too few people cared enough to stop it.

The Herald reluctantly accepts that indefinite sentencing for the most dangerous convicted terrorists may be needed to protect the community.

The stand-off and final compromise to keep Kim Carr on the frontbench with the support of Bill Shorten's Right colleagues shows that Labor's structures are still broken.

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His stirring speech developed a clear yet disturbingly bleak narrative, He claims to be uniting American but is more likely to divide it.

NSW MPs from across the political spectrum who have banded together to organise next month's Harm Minimisation Summit are to be congratulated.

Days ago the people were rallying to save Turkey from a military coup; soon they may be trying to save their country from its elected President.

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The drop in basic skills among NSW students has been identified in a thorough process that offers a pathway to improvement.

"Is it ignorance, malice or bigotry that persists in conflating Islam as a whole and Muslims in general with the outlying radical fringe of Muslim extremist groups such as Islamic State?"

With such a slim mandate, the Prime Minister has to juggle internal critics and a disparate Senate crossbench.

A poor country landlocked in the middle of Africa balances on the edge of civil war, in which ancient tribal rivalries, thinly disguised beneath a veneer of post-colonial politics, erupt in horrifying bouts of rape and massacre.

In the Australian cinema classic Muriel's Wedding, BIll Hunter plays an unscrupulous local councillor in the fictional town of Porpoise Spit.

Win or lose, the key is vengeance. If NSW win, sweet revenge for so many losses and vindication for skipper Paul Gallen in his last origin game. If NSW lose, then the vengeance thing weakens further because we never win.