Parties ignore talent at their peril
We might hope that merit gets someone into Parliament and onto the front bench, but it doesn't.
Tim Dick is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald
We might hope that merit gets someone into Parliament and onto the front bench, but it doesn't.
If you live in inner Sydney, your vote for Lord Mayor this September will be worth half that of a business. A convenience store gets two votes; a bank gets two votes; an absent landowner gets two votes. Residents get one.
Animal cruelty isn't just a problem for the greyhound industry.
The election's big winners are those few who can't abide the gays being wed.
The weird belief that the ease of expression brings a duty to say something should be firmly dispatched. Of all the things we need to do, making speech more compulsory than free is not one of them.
The fear is coming from overseas politics, not our own, and it's unnerving.
I can't think of a more powerful case for letting victims of violent crime be heard when deciding an offender's punishment than the letter written by the Stanford rape survivor.
A century ago, Australia locked up far fewer people than we do today. In 1918, not a time famous for its progressive views on dealing with criminals, the imprisonment rate in Australia was less than 60 prisoners for every 100,000 adults. Today, it's more than 140.
Few things contribute less to the common good as sounding the horn, in a world already too loud, which is almost always done for no proper purpose. All it does is make the driver feel better, briefly, and everyone else worse.
Democracy is threatened in London, not because of war, terrorism or the referendum on Britain leaving the European Union, but apparently because the law stopped a newspaper telling the world about an old threesome.
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