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Targeted solutions needed for unaffordable housing

Home ownership is out of reach for increasing numbers of city dwellers.

The steps taken now should be closely tuned to fairness and equity, to help the people who'll have trouble buying a place of their own even if the median Sydney house price stalls at the current level of more than $1.1 million.

Trump strikes at Assad and Putin

Syrian President Bashar al Assad and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

Should these air-strikes lead Moscow to the negotiating table and force it to accept a solution for Syria without Bashar al Assad's involvement, then the US could claim a victory. However, last year Donald Trump warned that attacking Mr Assad risked starting "World War III" with Russia.

Still not happy, Malcolm

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull needs the May budget to  revive his leadership.

Some voters will forgive the Prime Minister because he's been preoccupied with shoring up his job. But it's time to offer more.

Nine key questions for new ABC chairman

New ABC chairman Justin Milne will help managing director Michelle Guthrie ring in the changes at the national broadcaster.

Does Justin Milne agree that the ABC is merely "one of" our most trusted and respected institutions and, if so, how does he intend to make it the most trusted and respected?

Terror strikes at the heart of democracy

British Tory MP Tobias Ellwood, centre, helps paramedics try to revive the stabbed officer.

Muslim extremism is being reformed as we speak into two even less predictable threats: a guerrilla warfare outfit that focuses more on western nations, drawing on returning fighters as lone wolves.

Three provisos for same-sex marriage by post

Malcolm Turnbull and Peter Dutton.

On the face of it a postal vote without the need for legislation might settle the issue more quickly and cheaply than fighting for a free vote or traditional in-person plebiscite.

We should talk about the four-day work week

Greens leader Senator Richard Di Natale addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra.

Ah, the four-day work week. It's a bit like the paperless office, or world peace. Many agree it's a great idea, and we should do it, but somehow we never get there.

House price shock: governments get serious

Malcolm Turnbull is reconsidering housing affordability options but the property market might beat him to it.

This belated yet welcome effort to make housing more affordable might be for nought, at least if increasing worries about a property market crash become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Defenders needed urgently for the reef at risk

Sun-Herald editorial dinkus.

The tension between development and environmental preservation is a contest of the fast and the slow. Port Douglas, the once thriving Queensland tourist mecca, is facing a slow decline as the Great Barrier Reef, formerly its big attraction, quietly dies beneath the waters to its east and north.