Opinion
Wonky policies behind gas crisis
Judith SloanAn export industry and a well-supplied domestic market are not incompatible.
Senate reform without the pain
Peter Van OnselenAbbott is right but there are better ways to improve the system.
Saudi women risk all for rights
Caroline OveringtonWestern feminism requires no bravery but it’s very different in the Islamic world.
Dirty old man or revolutionary?
Kathy LetteWhat I discovered on my covert mission into the Playboy mansion.
Yes a plunge into the unknown
Gerard HendersonAustralia lacks a bill of rights to protect against attacks on fundamental freedoms.
Worried about nuclear war?
Rick MortonIn times of nuclear angst, a houseplant has a limp way of saying: forget geopolitical conflagration, I’m thirsty.
Better to dodge Melbourne mob
Padraig SmytheYou didn’t expect us to use our real name did you? Not in Melbourne. Not when you are tipping, you know … the other side.
Yanks rock the NRL
RICHARD FERGUSONA certain US super-diva was shaking up rugby league long before Macklemore arrived on the scene.
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And a disgraced British pollie graces the pages of The Australian Financial Review.
More renewables the solution
Alan KohlerThe reason Australia has a shortage of gas is that not enough renewable electricity generation has been built.
Exposing Dragan came at a price
Chris MerrittWar criminal lost his defamation case against The Australian but we were left to foot the bill.
Social media ripe for exploiting
Boer DengA growing body of evidence suggests the Kremlin used social media to sow civil discord in the US.
Australians all let us rejoice
Simon McLoughlinMaking like statues in the Crows’ silent version of the haka has drawn some flak.
Dog’s-eye view a page-turner
Stephen RomeiAs World Animal Day approaches, we can draw much joy — and many lessons — from books on the non-humans among us.
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Alan Howe
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Sydney Bureau, Australia
Alan Howe has been a senior journalist on London’s The Times and Sunday Times, and the New York Post. While editing the Sunday Herald Sun in Victoria it became the nation’s fastest growing title. He has also edited The Sunday Herald and The Weekend Australian Magazine and for a decade was executive editor of, and columnist for, Melbourne’s Herald Sun. View all our Columnists
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