Anne Summers is a Fairfax Media columnist.
The NSW government was prepared to shut down Sydney nightlife because of the shocking and tragic death of two boys but seems unwilling to step up on anything like a similar scale when it comes to the far higher toll of domestic violence.
The dream of a woman finally reaching the Oval Office and becoming President of the United States has had to be deferred, heaven knows for how long.
If Hillary Clinton wins on November 8 she will have forged a remarkable and unprecedented political trail: the first woman in more than 200 years of American democracy to win the Presidency, and the first former First Lady to become Commander-in-chief.
Self-proclaimed women-protectors are slithering back to their pit.
To me this is just one more example of Mike Baird waging war on the city's working class.
Trump is causing some couples to face hard truths.
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.
Now that it is pretty much de rigeur for everyone to call herself (or himself) a feminist, we should consider what that actually means.
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.
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.
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