• Editorial

In the end, the West Australian Liberal Party could not quite bring itself to promote WAxit. That was sensible.

• Editorial

As most prepare to vote on the issue which our politicians seem unable to resolve themselves, it is right to ask how a "yes" vote would impact on family life.

• Editorial

The arguments against moving the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta are many and growing.

• Editorial

The Herald is lending its support to raising funds for cancer research and to support cancer sufferers, survivors and their families.

• Editorial

It seems that nothing the West can do will persuade North Korea's leaders to reverse direction. Its latest missile test, which breached Japanese airspace, is yet another provocation, yet another needling of the United States, yet another step towards possible conflict.

• Editorial

The United States Weather Service, normally not an agency prone to colourful language, issued an extraordinary statement on Sunday regarding hurricane Harvey, saying, "This event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown beyond anything experienced". It is now predicted the storm could eventually drop over 150 centimetres of rain in some areas, more than any other in the region's history.

• Editorial

If the leader can't lead, who will show his followers the way? That awkward question has gripped the Coalition, and more particularly the Liberal Party, on too many issues since Malcolm Turnbull took over from Tony Abbott and then failed to triumph at the 2016 election.

After all the children and their teachers have left for the day, thousands of cleaners around the state get to work in vacant classrooms emptying bins, vacuuming carpets and bleaching toilets. For the first time in more than two decades, the state government is changing the way these hard-working cleaners are paid.

• Editorial

Australian voters will be looking askance at the remarkable effect an appearance before the High Court can have on our politicians. Where some have no qualms about being less than candid when the audience is only the voting public, in front of the judges of the highest court in the land they – or their legal representatives – raise their standards quite quickly.

• Editorial

By chumming up to President Duterte publicly, the head of ASIS appears to risk both negating the government's justified stance against Mr Duterte's domestic policies, and complicating the campaign against Islamist terrorism.

• Editorial

When Liberal politicians start talking up a major infrastructure project, which is not a new road, we should all take notice.

• Editorial

Afghanistan remains essentially unchanged: lawless, tribal, not a state in any useful sense.

• Editorial

History itself is written mostly by those who win the battles – but not always. And tension between different versions of the past fosters differences in the present.

• Editorial

The issue is not whether the internal combustion engine is set for extinction, but how fast and how well the transition to electricity happens.

• Editorial

The exorbitant price of property in Sydney has many ramifications for young and old. Perhaps more notably for the young.

• Editorial

Parliament rose on Thursday and won't sit again for two weeks. What a relief! Let us hope our politicians' performance improves when they return.

• Editorial

The National Disability Insurance Scheme, or NDIS, has itself been labouring under something of a disability of its own: lack of money.

• Editorial

What a surprise – another traffic jam.

• Editorial

At the White House on Monday, Donald Trump finally, and apparently reluctantly, addressed the racist cause of the violence that led to the deaths of three people during the so-called "Unite the Right" rally in the town of Charlottesville, Virginia.

• Editorial

MPs and citizenship: it's a question of common sense.

• EDITORIAL

The debate over voluntary assisted dying has a renewed focus across the country.

• EDITORIAL

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.  

• Editorial

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.

• Editorial

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.

• Editorial

Neither state nor federal governments are stepping up to provide the strong, enduring leadership the issue of homelessness demands

• Editorial

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.

• EDITORIAL

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.

• Editorial

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?

• Editorial

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.