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Sydney and its nightlife are far from dead
Sydney, boring! The conclusion that 'sin city' is stuffed because you can't buy a drink in the wee hours is overblown.
Tim Dick is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney, boring! The conclusion that 'sin city' is stuffed because you can't buy a drink in the wee hours is overblown.
It is difficult not to see Tyrone Unsworth's death as entirely preventable, as a horrific example of the toll intolerance and hatred wreak.
If there's one thing we don't need right now, it's more jerks, those who revel in treating others badly, particularly those entitled well-to-do jerks, those of the asset-and-tax break generation, and those who grow more successful in spite of their jerkiness.
The only solution for 2016 is for it to end, allowing no further casualties other than the EU and the US.
That the Queen is so good at being the Queen obscures the outrage that in 2016 we still have a queen at all.
That one of the wealthiest societies the world has ever seen cannot find the will and means to allow its Indigenous people the freedom of self-determination, the freedom from mass incarceration, the freedom from systemic discrimination, is to our great, collective, continuing shame.
A minority party is holding Australia to ransom. It has few supporters, fringe views, a religious constitution, and a clown for a leader.
The only time you should speak in a lift is when it's stuck. I tested this rule on Friday night.
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.
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.
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