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Nine signs you need to invest in your lifestyle
Investing in your lifestyle may have traditionally been a clear signal to rush out and buy your dream boat or spending endless hours a a Day Spa.
The reality is that Trump's bravado camouflages inadequacy
In the short term, this is a personal humiliation for him. In the long term, it could wreck the conservative movement.
Clamshell computer paved the way for the laptop
John Ellenby was a British-born computer engineer who played a critical role in developing the laptop computer.
Feminist, activist and councillor recognised for outstanding contributions to community life
Monica Hayes was long-term and proud Labor Party member and office holder, she was also an active campaigner for refugee rights
Donald Trump, Groper in Chief
Jill Harth's first concern with Donald Trump's hands wasn't that they were small. It's that they were everywhere.
We are suffering from a massive empathy deficit
I walked past a man sitting on a bench in an inner-city park on Thursday. He was clearly drunk, clutching a precious longneck, and yelling his stuff.
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Millions mourn Pope Pius
Why Donald Trump and Billy Bush's leaked conversation is so awful
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The dumbest thing people say about drug addicts
I spent much of 2015 hanging out in a drug house. I knew it when it was a cozy man-pad in north Brisbane, where my son had lived for five years.
What if the banks were forced to treat us like everyone else?
Australia's bank chiefs could be forgiven for thinking they've survived the worst, says Peter Martin.
Election crucial for housing supply
It is important the next government has a strategy to support the growth of new housing supply in both infill and greenfield locations.
The issues with Fifita are wider than his friendships
As if you didn't know, an extraordinary defence of the footballer Andrew Fifita was launched by Senator David Leyonhjelm this week, decrying the fact that the Cronulla forward was left out of the Australian team, despite being undoubtedly the best player in his position.
Goodbye to a country that once built cars
To my mates and me, the acrid fumes from the automotive paint and subsequent baking booths merely provided enough cover for our most daring stunt yet – smoking cigarettes right under the nose of one of our most reviled and authoritarian teachers.
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.
Strategy deserves genuine debate
Politics was supposed to have been removed from urban planning. Dream on, writes Farrah Tomazin.
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.
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.
Our policiticians are in promise overdrive
I am not sure which is worse – when politicians deliver on their election promises, or when they don't.
Education disadvantage: the forgotten election topic
Education disadvantage is the forgotten issue in the ACT election campaign despite its importance to the Territory's social well-being and economic prosperity.
The invisible victim in the greyhound racing ban
In almost all media reporting on the greyhound racing ban in NSW, and social media for that matter, the discussion quickly drifts away from the horrific treatment of greyhounds to almost any other issue.
Toxic workplaces are doing too much harm to ignore
Almost half of us will experience bullying in our working lives, even if we don't give it that label.
Churches aren't business and they still deserve a tax break
Religion and money have surely made, at times, for an unsavoury mix. So in an age when government and public space is self-consciously secular, do tax breaks for churches and other faith-based organisations still make any sense?
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.
Labor's stand on gay marriage is hypocritical
Normally when the other side of politics makes a big boo-boo there's a touch of schadenfreude tingling around.
Here's a fact: an opinion is not the same as a fact
I don't think there's ever been another time in history when people have been so enamoured of their own opinions.
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.
Tackling poverty and inequality should matter to every voter
A deep vein of disadvantage is being nurtured under our wealthy facade and the upcoming ACT election is your chance to do something about it.