The relief in cafes across Sydney will be palpable today: the avocado is innocent. The lumpy green fruit has not been stopping the millennial generation from buying a house. That is the conclusion from the figures we report today on the price and availability of avocado meals. Â
We can't bring back those hefty Saturday papers any more than we can turn back time, but we can move forward with the times, and that's what the media reform package is all about.
The least Mr Billson can do to make amends for his mistake is to donate the $75,000 to charity. And the least our Federal MPs can do is to get fair dinkum about establishing a National Integrity Commission.
Neither state nor federal governments are stepping up to provide the strong, enduring leadership the issue of homelessness demands
With scandal after scandal, the call for a banking royal commission gets stronger. The Commonwealth Bank's alleged failures hindered law enforcement and exposed the community to "serious and ongoing financial crime", Austrac says.
There is much to trouble Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten in the findings of focus groups conducted for Fairfax Media in recent days, but more for their dispirited constituency.
That loving gay couples should be able to declare a lifetime commitment to each other before the law with the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual couples do is now mainstream thinking. So when will it happen, and why not now?
The question troubling economic policymakers now is whether record low wages growth is cyclical, so likely to revert to past patterns, or structural, so here to stay.
Calls have been made to lower the age at which a child can obtain a minor's gun permit. The Sporting Shooters Association of Australia backed by the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party would like to see the age reduced to 10.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.Â
Considering the controversies over definitions of photography and portraiture, an award for "photographic portraiture" is asking for trouble.
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.
It's high time the parliament took a reformist shine to the state's mining act.
"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.
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.
It's a simple message, but in a complicated world, the simple messages might be the more important.
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.
The healthcare failure suggests that the problems of the Republican Party and the Trump administration run far broader than the Russia scandal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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