• Editorial

The government owes taxpayers an honest explanation for the proposed naval expansion.

• Editorial

Holding refugees and asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru has cost about half a million dollars per person each year.

• Editorial

Attacking the budget as "big spending and big taxing" is silly. Australia has one of the smallest governments in the industrialised world.

It is unsurprising that one of the most ridiculous ideas to emanate from our lawmakers in recent times is spawn of one of the most enormous policy failures in history – the 50-year-old "war on drugs".

• Editorial

The soap opera of Trump's presidency has diminished the US as a world power.

• COMMENT

The way young people express themselves sexually has moved on. As a society we must keep pace.

• Editorial

The states should not have to do all the heavy lifting on public assets. It's not fair.

• Editorial

Rather than bold action, the Treasurer tinkers with the system to give illusion of housing relief.

If video conferencing technology is good enough for Government portals to allow regional Australians to discuss abdominal pain, gastroenteritis, skin conditions, whooping cough and diarrhea with health experts then surely it is up to the challenge of letting public servants interact with one another.

• Editorial

Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison should be pleased that his Victorian counterpart, Tim Pallas, is providing political cover for Mr Morrison’s belated embrace in recent days of funding infrastructure with debt.

Treasurer Scott Morrison has laid the foundations for more of that good debt in the federal budget next Tuesday and less of that bad stuff.

Happy people are more productive and creative. They are also healthier.

• Editorial

Many in the global scientific community feel that they and their work are under threat.

• Editorial

We remain of the view the US President lacks the necessary competence and judgment.

• Editorial

Refreshing that the government has taken sensible steps to end an absurd crisis in the gas market.

• Editorial

Refreshingly, Emmanuel Macron refuses to be placed on the traditional left-right scale.

• Editorial

Suggestions of a retrospective law to reclaim rorted expenses are, by any reckoning, excessive.

It is lamentable that while our fighting forces have so often protected the dignity and freedom of the downtrodden, our governments have for the past decade been demonising the downtrodden.

The politics of housing affordability is shifting rapidly underneath the Turnbull government.