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Twenty years ago this week Darwin man, Bob Dent, became the first person in the world to receive a legal, lethal voluntary injection under the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.

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Is road rage increasing or is there just more caught on video?

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If you're looking for a politician with courage, smarts and foresight, meet Paul Fletcher, Malcolm Turnbull's Urban Infrastructure Minister. He's so unlike your typical gutless pollie he reminds me of Paul Keating.

Ultimately, and remarkably, for all 10 Victorian teams to survive in their current form, the Giants need to be successful. The game needs to continue to grow. Australian football is not yet ingrained in Sydney's culture. In Sydney's west, it's not even close.

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Our adorable goof of an immigration minister sure says some silly things!

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NSW is spending millions of dollars for the dubious privilege of exposing disadvantaged youth to irreversible physical and psychological abuse.

Voters and even many candidates would be forgiven for believing that the expansion of the ACT Legislative Assembly from 17 to 25 will make for more diverse political representation. 

Every Australian should read Working Class Boy if they want to reduce domestic violence, child abuse, family dysfunction, substance abuse and suicide.

I wasn't surprised to read that a stockbroking firm employed a 'professional intuitive and energy healer' who said that a lot of traders look at astrology to create better outcomes ('The psychic, the stockbroker and the corporate collapse', September 20).  

For our democracy to function properly, it is essential that we are able to speak about how our government, its departments and agencies operate.

Likely it was the cumulation of climate change and Iraq and John Howard's treatment of Indigenous people and locking people up indefinitely without cause. The chasm between my politics and my values opened up.

Types of Christians

Mixing with the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, as well as Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, had all been wonderful.

Frances – psychologist, activist, poet and notable contributor to disability services – has died aged 69.

Member of the Society for Psychical Research, he terrified himself in the course of many investigations of hauntings by ghosts and poltergeists.

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ACT Health has told the managers at Canberra Hospital that they have to save $96 million over the next three years starting this year. Clearly they want to save money, but at what cost? Is the plan that services should be reduced or is it that staff should "simply" do more with less?

Seventeen years on: Looking back on the significance and some lessons from the East Timor Intervention.

Most chickens only live because we want to eat them: I'd prefer to make their lives as cruelty-free as we can.

The charges of flip-flopping and lying would damage rather than bolster a traditional candidate. But for Donald Trump, the lying and evasion is part of the appeal.

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How many exercise reminders can you stand?

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Organisations that don't have canon law, are not celibate and don't have confessionals, have still dealt with abusers in a similar way to the Catholic Church.

Visual arts students will be working in a society that values artworks, but often fails to value its artists.

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Julie Bishop is ready for her next assignment – the education of Donald Trump.

An open letter from a refugee on Nauru to the leaders of the UN's Summit for Refugees and Migrants.

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More and more senior men are coming out and saying the CEO gigs aren't all they are cracked up to be.

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There was a code we used when we were kids to talk about how far we'd gone.

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Paralympians provide us with tangible evidence of a determination to overcome adversity, disability and marginalisation.

Before we get to Russia, the angry "stunt" in New York, the US (and Australian) warplanes bombing during a supposed truce in Syria, take a moment to pause and remember the terrible massacre at Srebrenica.

What sets music apart is that it can bypass our rational centre to reach the human core.