Desmond Tutu on euthanasia: 'I have prepared for my death'
As I turn 85, with my life closer to its end than its beginning. I have prepared for my death and have made it clear that I do not wish to be kept alive at all costs.
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Bill Mollison obituary: Lecturer's studies in Tasmanian forests led to the worldwide permaculture movement
Bruce Charles Mollison, agrarian rebel, creative practitioner, teacher, writer, ecologist and co-originator of permaculture, has died aged 88 in Hobart.
Most of us are unsurprised by skullduggery in the church, but this is low
Most Australians are as unsurprised by skulduggery in the church as by double-dealing in government. It's almost like they expect it. Yet even that low bar has stumped the church of late.
Forget the Canberra bubble: we need to pay attention to the wider world
The world looks scary right now, it's true. We are surrounded by change: some of it exciting, much of it terrifying.
Retiring magistrate offers no apologies for caring
The departing judge defends judicial discretion against the encroachment of politicians.
Australia's great shame is the result of policy failure, not silence
Mundine misfired, badly. The real targets of his ire should have been a political and justice system that has comprehensively failed to meet this and other challenges in Aboriginal affairs for decades.
Politicians pulling funny faces as winds change
After 16 months of inaction the first of two new wind farms have just been commissioned as a result of the ACT's 100 per cent renewable energy target.
Tony Soprano would love the ACT
The ACT government needs far more than just an anti-corruption commission.
Do you have to take a drug test at work?
If your boss wants you to take a drug test do you have to do it? And if your test is positive, can your employment be terminated?
Why not sell the Sydney Opera House while we're at it?
As it stands, the Victorian senator is showing himself up to be the very definition of a philistine.
The Budgie Nine prove that Australian manhood is in desperate need of an update
It is unfair to level a charge of cultural insensitivity against the so-called Budgie Nine, who were under arrest for inflicting their personal brand of privileged homoerotic loutishness on the people of Malaysia.
School of Music here to stay, with everybody's support
Canberra needs the ANU School of Music. And the School of Music needs the support of Canberra.
Make Gonski work for the good of all children
If we are ever to get past the politics of inequity, then our best chance is to make Gonski work.
What I learnt after my cancer diagnosis
Would living longer really improve our lives?
Thank God I met Hazy
I never attended a single lecture or tutorial he gave, but Pete Hay was the academic who most touched my life in four years at university.
'I am very afraid I will die tonight': the girl tweeting a war while we do nothing
Our excuse for failing to respond to mass atrocities used to be that we didn't fully appreciate the horrors until it was too late. "If only we had known," became one refrain, along with, "Never again!"
The budgie nine: underpants and geopolitics
Let us give thanks for the Budgie Nine.
Actor in Polanski's Macbeth and Life of Brian
Terence Bayler, the actor, who has died aged 86, appeared in small but pivotal parts in a number of films and television programmes noted for the passionate devotion of their fans.
How on earth did sharks become the new dolphin?
If you love sharks more than people then you must be a little flaky.
Down to odds and sods, and the tram
Malcolm Turnbull's failure to mention the tram at the Canberra Liberals' campaign launch, and Richard Farmer's promise of a $100,000 advertising blitz in his bid to oust Labor added a tinge of shock and surprise to an otherwise muted ACT election week.
Ministers must stop the renewable energy bashing
Australia cannot afford to dally.
Heed the warnings or lose it all
Everywhere we look are reminders that our position of wealth is fragile.
I never got bitten by the travel bug
You don't want to go to markets, you don't want to buy souvenirs, you don't want to spend half-an-hour haggling with some little old lady over a cheap crappy trinket.
How can Canberra be cool?
Last year, Andrew Barr said that he wanted us to become the world's 'coolest little capital'. A week out from the election, it's time to look at how we're travelling.
Child-on-child abuse. Why no one wants to talk about it
A culture of silence is failing both victims and the children responsible for this abuse.
Like cheap toasters? Then hope free trade is here to stay
From a "Trump Tariff", to Brexit, to One Nation, the tide is turning on free trade. It's time for economists to clearly state the benefits.
A rotten hatred of women
Concern about "our girls" is the Trojan horse that delivers anti-women rhetoric blaming women like Kim K, not late capitalism itself, for harming young women's self-esteem.
Baird's overexposure hints at a bigger problem
Once the nation's most popular politician, Baird is now in a jam over, of all things, the racing of greyhounds.
TAB no place to promote good intent
We need more sports stars showing that they too are affected by society's real issues. It's just a shame that this opportunity was confused by the connection with gambling.
Setting the record straight on the Ford closure
The notion that these were cosseted companies, protected from competition, is nonsense.