If more than one in three Australians keep supporting parties other than the Coalition or Labor, the rules of political discourse and negotiation will have to be rewritten

The Immigration Minister did not just call out the minority "doing harm to Australians". He demeaned a whole community by association.

It is premature to introduce a sugar tax in Australia but it is also premature to write it off.

We have to talk about it so that victims feel they can too.

While the Herald recognises and shares concerns about the rise of extremists urged on by Mr Trump's election victory, his campaign pledges and the reality of being President-elect are diverging by the day.

• EDITORIAL

Universities will have to be more transparent about how they use ATARs and other criteria in admissions. That will rob them of a key - yet often misleading - marketing message: that high ATAR admissions equal prestige education.

Rather than playing the migration card, the Turnbull government's priority must be to better match the 457 visas with skills shortages, without disadvantaging Australians who are skilled to do the same jobs.

• COMMENT

Sydney can never be full. In a globalised economy, the city must invariably evolve and grow. The city's industrial composition will change. Demand for different types of housing will emerge. Powerful interests will fight to preserve privilege. New pockets of disadvantage will be created, and should be broken down. These are some of the dynamics that will inevitably shape the future of a city, like Sydney, beholden to the movements of trade, commerce and migration.

The Australian summer music festival season is about to ramp up. The risk to festival fans is ramping up too. For many young Australians drug taking is part of the festival experience, but with illicit drug manufacturers becoming ever more creative in their pursuit of unscrupulous profits the dangers have never been greater.

Mainstream media's "failure" is only part of the news story about Donald Trump.

The real issues are: whether the term "good faith" is too loose and ill-defined so as to make the defence difficult to predict and access; and whether the words "offend" and "insult" are so loose as to encourage relatively frivolous cases and as such impose an unjustifiable limit to free speech.

A new-found agility in planning can help Mike Baird carry his Parramatta Road plans to fruition.

When the Premier reversed the greyhound ban, he was tossing the Nationals leader under a bus.

While details are scant and timing uncertain, the potential benefits are enormous for Australia, the US and the detainees.

The childcare system is not working for parents and workers but big corporate operators are making healthy profits.

Voters will know how to punish the Baird government and the establishment in Macquarie Street. The Nationals and even Labor are running scared.

After a bloody war with outsiders, the establishment lost and must understand why.

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A Donald Trump victory no matter how narrow presents significant dangers for the US and allies like Australia.

Cheap politics is threatening lives.

Donald Trump is feeding hatred but we hope another angry core rises up against the Republican outsider candidate and what he represents.

Like many a relationship between close neighbours, Australia and Indonesia have had their ups and downs. More down than up, in the last few years.

It might feel better in the sort term. But eventually a new swamp will emerge with new pests.

Australian parliaments should champion change that allows women and men to balance their family and work responsibilities.

Disturbing discrepancies between reported and actual violence around Pyrmont require a rethink pending more accurate figures.

The Day case is particularly concerning given it involves deals with the government and taxpayer-funded schemes that could give rise to doubts about undue influence, not to mention constitutional breaches. Inevitably, that erodes public trust in government.

We deserve a much more detailed explanation about the deal to privatise Ausgrid

We unite to cheer on 24 nags, most from overseas and most worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and most owned by millionaires or billionaires. Why?

The Herald's report this week the Greater Sydney Commission will require new developments on rezoned land to include up to 10 per cent affordable housing is encouraging in multiple ways.

Ardent seems to have its remuneration priorities all wrong. Safety and transparency must rank above profit. In the long-term this will benefit everybody.