Opinion
18C billboards trap Turnbull
DAVID CROWEThe conservatives need to compromise, adopt the ‘pub test’ and then move on.
Changes while no one watches
REBECCA WEISSERPrivate sector discipline is welcome at the ABC, but let’s look more broadly for creative input
Truth on 18C finally revealed
TIM WILSONDefenders of Emperor Section 18C have argued it has three sets of new clothes, but the naked truth is clear.
Don’t overlook school radicals
GREG BARTONFrench lessons for Australia as disengaged youths are targeted by cult of victimhood.
Pauline’s wicked week in the west
And WA Labor star Alannah MacTiernan has Hanson-like views on vaccines.
Ignorance isn’t bliss, Pauline
Graham RichardsonThe air of decay blankets the Barnett government in WA, and now One Nation is in all manner of strife.
Eye of beholder
James JeffreyKate Ellis’s press conference announcing her plan to leave politics for the sake of family was going so smoothly.
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Letters published in The Australian newspaper will appear here.Pauline’s wicked week in the west
And WA Labor star Alannah MacTiernan has Hanson-like views on vaccines.
Call me ‘white’, I’ll be offended
Chris MerrittA reader has been sending me abusive emails about 18C. The moral vanity underpinning her thinking deserves a response.
ABC ‘diversity of opinion’ bypass
Chris KennyFor International Women’s Day, those troglodytes at the ABC gave the blokes the day off. How very retro.
China to praise Trump, not bury him
Rowan CallickChina’s Foreign Minister says common interests with US outweigh any differences.
Why Australia is ideal for testing
Alok KulkarniWhat do Citibank, AOL, and Germany’s Priori Data all have in common? They’ve successfully used Australia as a test market for a tech product or service.
The death and taxes list
Patrick SmithJot these points down right there next to death and taxes. Essendon circa 2012 and Dustin Martin and his contract.
Orwell or Huxley?
Stephen RomeiIn light of the Trump ‘alternative facts’ era, which dystopian got it right - George Orwell or Aldous Huxley? GRAPHIC
Overcoming tyranny of distance
BRIDGET MCKENZIEFor the past 20 years, politicians, educators, community leaders and others have recognised the need to close the gap between urban and regional students
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Alan Howe has been a senior journalist on London’s The Times and Sunday Times, and the New York Post. While editing the Sunday Herald Sun in Victoria it became the nation’s fastest growing title. He has also edited The Sunday Herald and The Weekend Australian Magazine and for a decade was executive editor of, and columnist for, Melbourne’s Herald Sun. View all our Columnists
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