Sydney can afford to dream large with Sydney Modern or, more to the point, can't afford not to. We need a contemporary cultural precinct to compete for tourism visitors not just with Melbourne and Hobart but also with London, Paris and New York.
Australia has lost myriad opportunities, thanks to carbon tax scare campaigns and political self-interest.
Mr Trump may be vulnerable to the charge of obstruction of justice. It's likely to be just another step on the path to a political demise which seems more than ever inevitable,
Since Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975, its post-colonial relationship with Australia has had its ups and downs, but it remains strong.
The woman they had called the accidental prime minister after she seemed to fall into the job when all the other candidates dropped out may have engineered her last political accident.
Anyone who threatens, assaults or harasses their fellow citizen should be punished according to the law. There should be no exceptions or cover-ups for students or incidents that occur on campus.
It is hard decisions more than hard rocks, oil and gas that explain our "miracle economy", but we don't kid ourselves growth is now permanent.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian's move to strip Eddie Obeid and his one-time colleague Ian Macdonald of their ongoing parliamentary entitlements may yet turn out to be the single most popular act of her time in office.
The West will not bow to terrorism, yet it inevitably changes our lives. The authorities simply cannot monitor every person on the terror watch list – in Australia's case, numbering 200 – all the time.
It is no fun to stand on the street in the cold wind or the hot sun and have a bus zoom past you, especially if it appears to have plenty of room for more passengers. It's also frustrating to pack your kids off to school in plenty of time and then have to explain why they were late - the buses, again.
Australia wastes a shocking amount of food while hundreds of thousands go hungry.
Toxic State shows that governments and anti-pollution agencies need to do better to protect the people who pay their salaries.
A Paris Accord without the US will set back global efforts to limit temperature rises and is likely to inflame leadership tensions in the Turnbull government.
Any political threat to hold the public broadcaster to ransom and threaten its independence undermines confidence in the parliament and democracy. It is especially hypocritical when One Nation was behaving in a manner not unlike the apocryphal swamp-inhabiting political insiders the party claims to despise.
The Uluru statement is a historic breakthrough and a powerful working tool towards constitutional recognition of Australia's first peoples.
We salute the people of Kiama, Orange and Gulgong; and a big call-out to the good burghers of Tuggeranong, Wollongong and especially Old Bar near Taree. Seven out of the 17-strong Blues squad were born outside Sydney in towns and suburbs that don't always have the best facilities but they usually have the best sense of community and family.
By now many of us have had the dismaying experience of being shut out of a favourite piece of park because it has been hired out for the day or the week for private use. That will keep happening until a sustainable way is found to pay for maintaining and improving our parks.
For some of the thousands of people who at any given time are renovating a home, the discovery of asbestos comes as a nasty shock. Possums in the roof or termites in the floor might be preferable. The thought of having lived with such a toxic substance is only slightly less disconcerting than the sudden urgent need to dispose of it
Every nation needs to review and upgrade anti-terrorism measures. We all need to accept this will be costly to taxpayers and to social cohesion. We also need to recognise that the enemy is not the vast majority of Muslims who decry violence;
The community rightly expects high standards of behaviour and governance from taxpayer-funded politicians, advisers and political parties.
While pokie numbers in NSW are falling, the amount spent on them is soaring, Sean Nicholls writes.
Even the welcome admission of mistakes by police and a commitment to review procedures will never set things right.
Scandal after scandal has made the need for a national sports integrity commission only too obvious.
The turmoil in Washington is following the US President on his global sojourn.
There are times when the law provides a tidy resolution to a messy human drama. More often than not, it is as imperfect as the human behaviour it seeks to govern.
Research has found that about half of all child restraints are being used incorrectly.
Did people have to die in the Lindt cafe siege? We await an answer to that question this week when NSW coroner Michael Barnes hands down his report of the inquest into the deaths of barrister Katrina Dawson, cafe manager Tori Johnston and serial criminal Man Haron Monis, two and a half years after they were killed when Monis terrorised the Lindt chocolate cafe in Martin Place.Â
People with a mental illness, the disabled, children and the aged: all need our support.
With money as plentiful as relatively cheap drugs, and so many athletes just kids in men's bodies, what could possibly go wrong?
Before they protest too much over the new tax, the big banks should consider how much worse things could be.
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