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Debate to rename statues heats up
Those arguing for the outright removal of a name or of a statue have a point. Let's listen respectfully.
- by John Warhurst
Aboriginal people paying for boom in Canberra's property prices
Chief Minister's offer to Aboriginal people echoes Marie-Antoinette's "let them eat cake".
- by Julie Tongs
The eight signs you're becoming a Midlife Bore
You may know this already. There's a list of forbidden topics when you get to our age – by which I mean old enough to have children who vote. You must not bring up these subjects in conversation because they are the gateway drugs to Midlife Dull.
- by Shane Watson
The appalling mathematics of offshore detention
Trading human lives for human misery is a difficult balancing act.
- by Peter Martin
Selfie culture causing angst with teenage girls
It's a quest for the teenage girl to craft the perfect shot. It starts with a simple selfie. Apply a little make-up, caress the hair into position, lean forward to elevate the developing cleavage, put on some smoking eyes, pout the lips and click. Perfecting the self-portrait is done with a filter, some editing, then to Instagram it goes for critique and peer review with several hashtags to round out the post.
- by Peter Sutton
Yes, you are happiest in your 20s – and it goes downhill from there
"This is the worst day of my life," Bart Simpson complains at one point in The Simpsons Movie.
- by Christopher Ingraham
Defeated by high legal costs: the terrible injustice most of us could face
We're all supposed to be equal before the law, but you ain't anything like equal if they can afford a lawyer and you can't.
- by Ross Gittins
Asbestos: ongoing risk from home renovations
While the big cases make the news, many of us may be at risk in our own homes and more should be done to protect us.
- by Tanya Segelov
When 'bipartisan' means bereft of ideas, especially on defence policy
Labor's become the "do nothing" party, coasting to victory, unwilling to let any policy idea get in the way of a vote
- by Nicholas Stuart
