Bad for business
The Business Council of Australia is failing itself and the nation.
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Michael Short
Michael Short is The Age‘s chief editorial writer, as well as a columnist and opinion editor for The Sunday Age. In 2010, he created The Zone, an ideas and advocacy forum in The Age and across Fairfax Media’s online platforms. Across a broad range of areas including public policy, philanthropy, philosophy, culture, community, design and business, The Zone seeks to bring fresh thoughts into the free market for ideas. He is a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations, and is a frequent public speaker and moderator. He is generally bemused to the point of discombobulated, and is thus particularly grateful to his wife Sophie and their three children Edie, Tom and Clem for trying patiently and tenderly to help him through the whole thing. He quite likes open fires, walking his dog and sitting for long periods in the bath.
Blues, fUNk off
It can seem bloody hard to find reasons to be cheerful.
Stop the bastardry
There is now footage from inside Australia's offshore detention centres. It's as distressing as the NT images that triggered a royal commission.
Overrated duds
Credit rating agencies should be viewed with scepticism.
We'll be right...
Memo to new PM: It's not just the economy, stupid.
Stop the votes
A plebiscite on same-sex marriage risks being a national catastrophe.
For God's sake, stop
Our young people are being betrayed and harmed by religious ideologues.
No place like home
After a week during which Melbourne's City Square has been occupied by a camp of homeless people protesting about their treatment and their plight, young writer David Allegretti's account below tells but one of the human stories behind Australia's homelessness statistics.
Learning true value of teachers
Good teaching and well-resourced education underpin the fabric of our society, writes Michael Short.
Should we protect the Melbourne's livability by limiting population growth?
Here's your chance to have your say on whether Melbourne is growing too fast - you are welcome to join the conversation in the comments section
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