Tim Dick is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald
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.
Hollow political bluster afflicts both the right and the left in Australia, but the right has a noticeable talent for it.
NSW has had six premiers and the nation six prime ministers in the time Sydney has had one lord mayor, writes Tim Dick.
Australia's top spy thinks ASIO shouldn't have to bother convincing a judge to lock someone up for interrogation, someone who isn't doing or plotting anything bad but might know someone who is.
the decline of Christianity leaves us with bigger problems that what to do with empty churches. The decline of Christianity leaves a gap in public conversations and that should worry all of us.
There is no better country in which to live than Australia. Tony Abbott, our failed former leader, said so in a speech on Friday and declared it to be self-evident.
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