Mr Doyle has spoken in support of 'New York style' no-tolerance policies where 'vandals' are imprisoned for up to a year and police have the power to issue multiple charges for each piece of graffiti. So it seems more that a bit rich for him to now be welcoming the world's most famous street artist to Federation Square with such open arms.
Malcolm Turnbull's cowardice has further tainted the plebiscite proposal with bad faith and it deserves to be voted down in the Senate. His persistent appeasement of the religious lobby undermined the integrity of the plebiscite concept.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that money matters to everyone except those who don't have it.
Two weeks ago in Sydney I gave a speech entitled the "Case for Openness", in which I argued that openness to trade and immigration has been vital to our economic success over the last quarter of a century and is going to be equally important to keeping our economic growth story going into the future.
Campaigning is such hard work and raising your profile is such an elusive thing to do that every election candidate out there attempting to do it deserves congratulations.
Ever since having seen my late mother suffer so much when all she wanted was to slip away peacefully, I have been a strong public advocate, for others and for myself, of Dying with Dignity.
Women are often enlisted to humanise their parents on the campaign trail - but Ivanka's task is something much bigger.
Why my vote, should club members ever get one, is for the club to change its name to the Perth Eagles.
The Prime Minister explains that when it comes to refugees, we have to be cruel to be kind. And also leave out the "kind" bit.
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.
Payments on the three Metro Trains Melbourne contracts have grown well ahead of inflation, and, in 2015, cost at least $1.1 billion in tax dollars and fare revenue. Public reporting on this billion-dollar annual expenditure should make the government blush with shame.
Gender equality is currently a hot topic in Canberra, partly due to the Australian Government's stated commitment to removing barriers which may be impeding women's progress in the Australian Public Service. Views on how best to achieve this, however, differ.
By corralling mathematics and science as (male) subjects for the unimaginative and the arts as (female) subjects of expression, we commit educational crimes.
Williams was at home in the corridors of Canberra, in his surgery or on his surfboard
'In Harry Potter the Devil acts in a crafty and covert manner, under the guise of extraordinary powers, magic spells and curses.'
Eclipse of the sun
It's little wonder why the Islamic State is praying for a Trump victory.
Every Australian should read Working Class Boy if they want to reduce domestic violence, child abuse, family dysfunction, substance abuse and suicide.
Since Donald Trump finally abandoned the birther nonsense he had long indulged, the big question has been whether he will apologize to Barack Obama.
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.
Is road rage increasing or is there just more caught on video?
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.
Our adorable goof of an immigration minister sure says some silly things!
NSW is spending millions of dollars for the dubious privilege of exposing disadvantaged youth to irreversible physical and psychological abuse.
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.