Mike Baird's war on Sydney's working class

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To me this is just one more example of Mike Baird waging war on the city's working class.

Trump's women problem is so bad that he is breaking up relationships

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Trump is causing some couples to face hard truths.

Bashing of 'domestic violence industry' beyond the pale

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I think most of us would agree that mocking someone for their suffering and attendant misery is a cruel and abhorrent thing to do. Un-Australian even, given we like to think we are the kind of country that extends a hand to those who are down on their luck or who have suffered misfortune of any kind.

It's time feminists started using the other f-word

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Now that it is pretty much de rigeur for everyone to call herself (or himself) a feminist, we should consider what that actually means.

Trump's tirades are his best weapon

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If you think that with his recent attacks on a crying baby and the Muslim parents of a dead soldier or his apparent willingness to use nuclear weapons, or his use of details from a confidential security briefing, or even his outright refusal to endorse leading Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Arizona Senator John McCain, in their primary races, Donald Trump finally has gone too far and has blown his chances of becoming the next president of the US – think again.

The drama shaking up US politics

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If you thought the shenanigans at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland were the weirdest thing happening in America this week, you would be wrong.

Last frontier for women in power is in sight

There are plenty examples of women in power, but there's a far newer phenomenon that's starting to change how decisions are made.

Women are behind from the start

Is it coincidence or is it causal?  Is there a correlation between the number of women holding seats, or likely to win one next Saturday, and that federal parliamentary party's policy on women? At first glance, it would seem so.

Clinton's fight starts now and it won't end

Making history as the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major US political party will probably be the easiest part of Hillary Clinton's gruelling trek to the White House.