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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.
The backflips. The exaggeration. The tiny hands.
Cheaper goods and better services are just some of the reasons it can pay to reveal ourselves online.
What should we think of the massive upgrade of Australia's most famous building asks architect Philip Drew.
Two years ago then Prime Minister Tony Abbott was unequivocal in his rejection of the need for a federal version of NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Why have those with the ultimate responsibility for the slaying of 1400 Timorese never been brought to justice?
Journalist Stan Grant explains his love of literature adn why he doesn't want to go into politics.
Fairness in the budget context is tricky. Australians are willing to tolerate financial pain as long as it spread reasonably.
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, in which case the three pictures on the front page of the Herald are alone worth the entire day's edition.
More bondage and discipline
Imagine the world as seen by a peasant in the year 1016. Let us call him Alfred.
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.
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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