Trump's tweets are no longer quirky
In terms of their potential to cause severe and lasting damage, the US President's tweets are more like nuclear warheads.
Anne Summers is a Fairfax Media columnist.
In terms of their potential to cause severe and lasting damage, the US President's tweets are more like nuclear warheads.
The notion Ariana Grande and her fans would be punished for being "dangerous women", is totally intolerable, writes Anne Summers.
This man does not need the money, but what he does need is for us to continue to respect him. And we need him.
Ivanka Trump has expanded her portfolio from defending Planned Parenthood to bombing Syria.
With the numbers so high – our suicide rate far exceeds the road toll – and rising, it is time to stop tiptoeing around this ultra-sensitive topic and start a frank, and realistic, national conversation about why this is happening.
When a Prime Minister goes on television and promises he will provide "leadership", as Malcolm Turnbull did on Wednesday over the supposed crisis in gas and other energy supplies, you have to wonder what he thinks his job is if not to lead. All the time.
It really is scarcely believable that pay inequality between women and men is still an issue in 2017.
The attacks on some of our most vulnerable people are hard to fathom.
It has the potential to become as potent an international symbol of protest and resistance as the iconic 1960 Alberto Korda photograph of Che Guevara that has for decades adorned millions of t-shirts, or the early emblem of the women's liberation movement: the clenched fist inside the symbol for women.
As we all wait in fear and trepidation to see what the new US President Donald Trump will do, to his country and to the world, including our region, it is utterly dispiriting to realise how ill-equipped our own political leaders are.
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