• COMMENT

We recognise the need to attract more women into skilled, technical roles, but we are not doing anything to encourage men into female-dominated industries and jobs.

• Peter Martin

What's the best thing to do when you are faced with one of those gut-wrenching decisions like whether to quit your job or have a baby or end a relationship?

• Farrah Tomazin

When the political going gets tough, politicians get tough on crime, sighs Farrah Tomazin.

• Julia Baird

The distress of a talented woman who could no longer bear the load of teaching our littlest kids should make all of us stop and think.

• COMMENT
• Peter FitzSimons

The New York Times ran an editorial this week calling on Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence to convince Trump to stand down

• COMMENT
• Annabel Crabb

Nobody died here, to our knowledge. If you did die, please backdate your new census form accordingly.

• COMMENT
• Elizabeth Farrelly

For decades, belief in The Market as divine presence – guaranteeing fairness and quality and providing a universal template for everything. Now, at last, this is starting to reverse.

• Dina Brawer

Clinton. May. Merkel. Young girls today can point to role models at the highest levels of leadership in politics. But in the religious sphere, women's leadership remains contentious.

• Sean Nicholls

Two years ago then Prime Minister Tony Abbott was unequivocal in his rejection of the need for a federal ICAC.

• COMMENT
• Kim Arlington

The backflips. The exaggeration. The tiny hands.

• Andrew P Street

Badly behaved children are ruining our international reputation and our human rights record: one runs NT, the other is our Immigration Minister

• Greg Weller

Copyright infringements are not just limited to music and film.

• Garry Linnell

On Sydney's streets the fuel of choice is testosterone and the rules are set by the stupid and psychotic.To survive, you must become one of them.

• Michael Short

It can seem bloody hard to find reasons to be cheerful.

• COMMENT
• Paul Malone

Taking on Australia's big banks is no easy matter and here's why.

• COMMENT
• Jack Waterford

To say that statements by Reserve Bank officials are usually delphic is a cliche, even among those who know very little either of Greek antiquities or of Brewer's dictionary of phrase and allusion.

• COMMENT
• Richard Denniss

It is not just the census website that doesn't work as promised, the whole idea that outsourcing tasks to "the market" has not lived up to expectations.

• COMMENT
• Frank Brennan, Tim Costello, Robert Manne, John Menadue

There is a way for Australia to escape the asylum-seeker impasse.

• COMMENT
• Jane McAdam

The ill-treatment of refugees on Nauru is not only morally wrong, but it violates countless principles of international law.

• Dr Joe Kosterich

Because of Pokmeon's success there will be more games that combine apps and virtual reality with being active in the real world

• COMMENT
• Martin Flanagan

In the wake of Australian swimmer Mack Horton's altercation with Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, China's state-owned tabloid newspaper, the Global Times (circulation 2 million), had plenty to say.

• COMMENT
• Jessica Irvine

Cheaper goods and better services are just some of the reasons it can pay to reveal ourselves online.

• COMMENT
• Crispin Hull

The new voting system was supposed to prevent senators being elected on very small percentages of the primary vote. So did Hercules Turnbull clean out the unrepresentative swill in the Augean stables? No.

• Karen Hardy

I slept very well this week knowing that Donald Trump was now the champion of working mothers.

• Stan Grant

Journalist Stan Grant explains his love of literature adn why he doesn't want to go into politics.