Turnbull can't lead a centre-right party with centre-left instincts
The Turnbull government is said to have had its best fortnight yet but its three cited achievements were all capitulations to someone else.
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Andrew Barr belatedly sees the virtues of integrity commissions
As with so many ACT government deals, the problem is the look of the thing, rather than the thing itself.
Climate change deniers, listen up: your end is nigh
Bring it in tight. Those of us who are climate change deniers need to be singing from the same hymn sheet.
Labor loses a leader who outlasted many
In the time that Australia has had four prime ministers, the Labor Party's organisation has had just one leader.
Go Gogs! Never too young to take sides
That was the first word of the little bloke that I heard. Gogs. Meaning dogs.
In the case of Trump v Clinton, who's the real outsider?
Trump's arrival presages possibly the biggest and most traumatic upheaval to the global power balance since the Second World War.
Religions should lose their tax-exempt status
And so it came to pass that in the Year of our Lord, 1921, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the galaxies were flying apart. Behold, he said, the universe was expanding. And so the Unbelievers declared that science was capable of explaining everything and that God - if not dead - was surely suffering a terminal illness.
Giving young tennis stars a serve
It's a slippery slope, this growing old. I realised it this week when I celebrated a birthday. Oh, all right, 58 since you asked.
Welcome to peak crazy, where truth is elusive
Captain Fantastic, the new Viggo Mortensen release, may be the year's best cast and scripted film. It's also the worst named.
The narcissists are winning in the arms race of outrage
Times are tough for narcissists on the public stage – the ascension of The Donald has created so much noise and bedazzlement that you have to work a lot harder to get noticed.
Climate change is driving dangerous and unpredictable weather
Something strange is going on with the weather. It might be spring, but that hasn't stopped snow falling in the ACT.
Assimilation won't happen overnight but it will happen, just like Pantene
Give migrants a break. They'll be speaking lazy Strine with an upward inflection in no time.
This debate has gone on for too long and done us no good
There's a reason Australia's policies are applauded by some very unsavory people around the world.
When school is over for children, what happens to their parents?
Following the supervision of 120 hours of driving (there are still 100 to go) a license will mean the end of our duty as taxi driver, for him anyway. Curfews will be a thing of the past. So, too, sobriety (I assume), at least when he's not driving.
Real-life version of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
Plan to poison SS officers with bread painted with arsenic
Bored on the train? Check out your neighbour's texts
We found a tiny standing-spot, squished between a wall and a man with an enormous Tontine-pillow arse - yielding yet firm.
Aged-care industry in a downward spiral
The signs are there for all to see. The handsomely government-subsidised aged-care industry model is set on a trajectory of decline.
The booming industry that accounts for 1 in 8 jobs
We're on the cusp of a global care boom and Australia has a lot to offer.
Comment: Why you should boycott CUB beers tomorrow
This industrial dispute carries a warning for many Australians.
A lack of leadership is to blame for Australia's malaise
The people are driving America's malaise. The same can't be said in Australia.
Trump's women problem is so bad that he is breaking up relationships
Trump is causing some couples to face hard truths.
The reckless ballad of the Wyatt Colonial Roy
Because nothing says "courage" or "responsible adulthood" like being a tourist in an active warzone just for kicks.
No Brangelina excuses in Australian divorce law
Their increasingly bitter split is sadly nothing unique – more than 46,000 Australian couples will also go their separate ways this year.
Upsizing a little Maccas love
It happens to me a little bit in this little old town we live in. You look really familiar people will say.
Hanson and Trump live in a fantasy world when it comes to religion
Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson both fail the tests of logic and history when they call for bans on Muslim immigration.
Community must be put first in planning
We need to act now to avoid traffic congestion and pollution in the future as the population rises.
There's no such thing as gambling responsibly
The term "gamble responsibly" is "essentially a cover for dishonesty and blame-shifting".
Can Mike Baird's brand be rehabilitated?
It's no secret that his government is in a rut.
Conservative MPs need to stand up to bigotry
Will adopting the mantras of the far-right help centre-right parties in the long term?
Renewable energy isn't to blame for blackouts - coal is
The Deputy Prime Minister would blame the death of Elvis Presley on renewable energy if it helped competitors in the big polluting fossil fuel industries.