• Editorial

It is brave that Jess Hodak, a young woman who has Dissociative Identity Disorder, allows us to tell her remarkable story.

• Editorial

The US National Rifle Association (slogan: "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands") has relented on one small issue of gun control.

• Editorial

The Prime Minister's new anti-terror measures infringe significantly on civil liberties and curtail traditional freedoms.

• Editorial

There are good reasons why some states and territories have clamped down on fracking.

• Editorial

Even before the full scale of the slaughter was known, the US gun lobby was swinging into action.

• Editorial

No one who has watched a loved relative die of a smoking-induced disease will have much sympathy for the tobacco industry. To see someone with emphysema fighting for every breath, or to watch the painful decline of someone with lung cancer – these are harsh lessons that change lives. Smoking doesn't just kill; it kills with pain, horror and indignity. Many people will thus understand and sympathise immediately with Andrew Forrest's new anti-smoking campaign, intended to cut youth smoking and make the industry pay for some of the damage it causes. But are they right? Is this the most effective way to reduce smoking, and the harm it causes, to the minimum possible?

• Editorial

The Prime Minister has long been accused of lacking clear thinking on the issue of meeting this country's future energy requirements. It is an opinion unlikely to be diminished over the last few rollercoaster weeks where the joint issues of electricity generation and gas supply have been high on the news agenda.

• Editorial

As the campaign surrounding the same-sex marriage survey has rolled on, what has been remarkable is the energy which both sides have brought to it.

• Editorial

The rainfall statistics in the Bureau of Meteorology website make for disturbing reading.

• Editorial

In their day, the Family Law Act and no-fault divorce were major social advances, but they need updating.

• Editorial

It may surprise some readers to know Australia has a space industry. What the industry lacks is a coherent strategy to ensure its services are secure.

• Editorial

The shape-shifting nature of modern terrorism requires constant innovation in response to a continuously morphing threat.

• Editorial

Most observers across the world will be congratulating the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, on her fourth straight victory in national elections on Saturday, and breathing a provisional sigh of relief.

• Editorial

Transparency and accountability underpin effective and efficient public policy, political probity and good corporate governance – all of which are involved in the government's proposed overhaul of political influence laws, a response primarily to concerns about clandestine meddling in Australia by the Chinese Communist Party.

• Editorial

Countless people in aged care are being harmed through neglect born of profit-driven cost-cutting and a failure to properly regulate an industry trusted by some of the most vulnerable people and their families.

• Editorial

Every driver knows the feeling. Stuck in a traffic jam with no sign of movement: it is hard to stay patient. Tempers flare easily.

• Editorial

In his speech to the UN General Assembly this week, President Donald Trump used the word we 77 times. But who exactly was he referring to?

• Editorial

The disproportionate representation of Aboriginal people in our jails is a symptom of a wider disconnect, which no court process can fix.

• Editorial

Sydney's traditional spring property trading season is well under way but there are signs the city's five-year housing boom is losing steam.

• Editorial

Parents taking a child to school for the first time will not know it, but they are entering a battleground. The war being fought here amid the desks and books and blackboards is not physical but intellectual and professional – over the best way to teach reading.

• Editorial

When is a water catchment not a water catchment? The answer, to judge by this week's news, is: when it sits on a coal mine.

• Editorial

Revelations that inexperienced truck drivers are being let loose on our roads after "grubby short courses" offering inadequate training makes for disturbing reading. The "potential for loss of life and serious injury is very real", according to the peak body for driver trainers, the Australian Drivers Association.

• Editorial

No wonder voters are cynical about politicians, government and the way the system operates.

• Editorial

Senator Derryn Hinch will have struck a nerve in the electorate with his continuing campaign in Parliament for convicted paedophiles to be publicly named.

• Editorial

Hillary Clinton's new book on her loss of the 2016 election is part confessional, part jeremiad. It is a necessarily partisan view that will rightly prompt debate about the weaknesses in Clinton's campaign that allowed a demonstrably unqualified man to become the president of the United States.

• Editorial

A Senate committee of inquiry has prudently recommended banning a type of flammable cladding used in countless Australian buildings.

• Editorial

Malcolm Turnbull has not turned the corner. Indeed, it looks quite possible we are not even at the corner yet.

• Editorial

Our system and our politics are failing a very large group of moderate and centrist voters.

• Editorial

The phoney war on same-sex marriage is over, and the real contest starts now.