• Editorial

It is shocking indeed that in Australia, where we enjoy one of the best healthcare systems in the world, people with a serious mental illness die younger on average than the general population by between 14 and 23 years.

• Editorial

We trust it all comes out in the wash of reviews of investigations, but non-compliance should not become an excuse to abandon the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

• Editorial

The onus is on universities to change culture on campus and in residential colleges where unacceptable sexual behaviour has for too long been tolerated as part of university life, to be preferably ignored or if necessary covered up.

• EDITORIAL

Premier Gladys Berejiklian needs to ensure for Sydney's sake, as well as her own, that her biggest strength over the next two years remains just that – a strength.

• Editorial

Every family involved with a school knows that up close there are brilliant success stories every day. At a system level, though, things aren't going so well.

• Editorial

The backdown on local council mergers is a humiliating defeat for Premier Gladys Berejiklian and local government minister Gabrielle Upton, their predecessors Mike Baird and Paul Toole, and the NSW government as a whole.

• EDITORIAL

It is perhaps the greatest practical and symbolic transition from childhood to adulthood. That moment when a newly licensed teenager hops behind the wheel of a car and drives away. 

• Editorial

Considering the controversies over definitions of photography and portraiture, an award for "photographic portraiture" is asking for trouble.

• Editorial

A four-year fixed parliamentary term will always look pretty good to the incumbents and pretty bad to the challengers. That's one reason this important constitutional reform for Australia has been so long talked about but never achieved.

• EDITORIAL

It's high time the parliament took a reformist shine to the state's mining act.

• EDITORIAL

"Follow the money" has become a celebrated motto since Deep Throat uttered his famous tip about where to look for clues in the film adaptation of the Watergate break-in, All the President's Men.

• Editorial, July 24

The revelations from an ancient campsite in Kakadu should deepen our nation's respect for Indigenous Australians. On the evidence, though, that respect is in short supply, so a discovery that should be a cause for national pride is instead another reminder of our national shame.

• EDITORIAL

It's a simple message, but in a complicated world, the simple messages might be the more important.

• Editorial

Masked soldiers were in the frame to convey that there's a new normal, and it's not safe, and that's why we need the blitz on national security arrangements which the Prime Minister prosecuted with vigour this fourth week of the parliamentary winter break.

• Editorial

The healthcare failure suggests that the problems of the Republican Party and the Trump administration run far broader than the Russia scandal.

• Editorial

Despite what they may say, our politicians care a lot more for the feelings of the people who already own houses because they greatly outnumber the ones who don't.

• Editorial

Scott Ludlam has made an honest, though extremely careless and costly mistake.When governments rely on the narrowest of margins to get their legislation passed, we can expect the validity of every vote to be scrutinised.

• Editorial

The story of Liu Xiaobo gives the lie to the comforting platitude that democratic freedoms will inevitably follow China's economic liberalisation.

Anyone watching the nightly broadcasts of the Tour de France knows cycling takes courage.

• Editorial

Who knows for sure why anything goes viral on the internet. There's a bright future for the person who can figure that out. Surely, though, the reason ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann's assessment of Donald Trump's performance at the G20 meeting took off was that it showed Americans from the perspective of an informed outsider just how far and fast the reputation of not just the US Presidency but of the US itself is falling under Trump.

• Editorial

Proof of the health harms from tobacco smoking emerged decades after it became a common habit. E-cigarettes have been around for only 10 years.

• EDITORIAL

A serious commitment to lessening the harm caused by the 95,000-odd poker machines in the state would be welcome.

• Editorial

With much of the city in ruins, thousands of lives lost and more than a million people displaced from their homes, there will be limits to celebrations of the liberation of the Iraqi city of Mosul. The situation remains complex and dangerous even in "peace".

• COMMENT

With the focus on the power struggle between the US, Russia and China, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was always going to take a back seat at the G20 meeting.

• Editorial

Despite early dire predictions for a chaotic parliament after he failed to gain a decisive majority in the "own goal" double dissolution election last July, Mr Turnbull's government has avoided parliamentary disasters so far.

Nobody should have to pull an unconscious child out of a pool.

• Editorial

Cricket is a lucrative enterprise, but does the fight for a share of the spoils have to be so graceless, and so public?

• Editorial

The F6 freeway extension has been on the books for more than a decade. There is no excuse for sacrificing good process in a rush now.

• Editorial

A military strike to wipe out or at least set back North Korea's nuclear capabilities risks retaliation, escalation and carnage on a scale unseen since the last Korean war.