The transport rule you should never break
The only time you should speak in a lift is when it's stuck. I tested this rule on Friday night.
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Tim Dick
Tim Dick is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald
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.
Get up and leave when your work is done
Too many of us proudly spend longer at work than at home, assuming that long days guarantee advancement, worshipping the clock as a perverse measure of achievement.
We are living in the age of unreason and that's a fact
Hollow political bluster afflicts both the right and the left in Australia, but the right has a noticeable talent for it.
Moore triumphs despite shameful attempt to rig election
NSW has had six premiers and the nation six prime ministers in the time Sydney has had one lord mayor, writes Tim Dick.
Erosion of liberty a slippery slope
Australia's top spy thinks ASIO shouldn't have to bother convincing a judge to lock someone up for interrogation, someone who isn't doing or plotting anything bad but might know someone who is.
The problem Pauline Hanson should really be worried about
the decline of Christianity leaves us with bigger problems that what to do with empty churches. The decline of Christianity leaves a gap in public conversations and that should worry all of us.
Abbott is wrong: Australia isn't the best country
There is no better country in which to live than Australia. Tony Abbott, our failed former leader, said so in a speech on Friday and declared it to be self-evident.
In praise of a sensible U-turn
Leaders should turn when it's obvious they're driving in the wrong direction.
Take the spotlight off money and return the Olympic focus to sport and human camaraderie
When so much of the Olympics show is about money, it's difficult to criticise those, such as Telstra, who skip the expensive razzmatazz.
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