A new year's resolution that could save your life
Here's a question you're guaranteed to be asked at tonight's New Year's Eve party over a glass of wine and a snack – or several: "Made any new year's resolutions?"
Here's a question you're guaranteed to be asked at tonight's New Year's Eve party over a glass of wine and a snack – or several: "Made any new year's resolutions?"
Here's a question you're guaranteed to be asked at tonight's New Year's Eve party over a glass of wine and a snack – or several: "Made any new year's resolutions?"
When Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States in January 2017, he set the tone for what has emerged as a chaotic year for global politics, upending accepted norms on discourse and diplomacy.
A bill of rights would run into the problem that rights inevitably clash.
There are many reasons why a Sydney magistrate was wrong to excuse a man for not voting in the last federal election.
Any Republican attempt to end the Mueller investigation would result in a constitutional crisis more serious than any seen since Watergate.
Once upon a time, nothing vied for our sporting attention against the powerful one-two punch of the Boxing Day Test and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. But it doesn't begin and end there, at least not any more.
Are we there yet? The eternal cry from the back seat could apply just as well to the rush before Christmas as it does to the long, hot drive to the holidays that follow. The answer – reliable only in never being very reassuring – is usually the same too: not long now.
Ice sheets frozen for centuries are melting, and changing the world. This government, and Australia, must change, too.
The messy part of the PM's reshuffle is confined to the National Party, where the management of change has been clumsy.
Traditionally, there are two Australian summer sports. One is cricket, and the other is criticising the selectors of the Australian cricket team.
Nothing was going to overshadow the result in the Bennelong byelection for Malcolm Turnbull – not the swing against the government, not his re-elected member's questionable attempt at humour, nothing.
The extreme cruelty by Myanmar's armed forces, local militia and even Buddhist monks is almost beyond comprehension, but believe it we must. The deliberate killing of a specific ethnic group has gone far beyond a mere humanitarian crisis.
Education, knowledge, training and personal responsibility can all combine to reduce the number of drownings.
The voices we most need to hear in response to the child abuse royal commission's final report are those that have been silenced forever.
The Coalition must accept that climate change makes other change inevitable.
The government must go after the appalling exploiters, who are also unfairly driving small businesses out of the market.
If Sam Dastyari had dealt with his role in the promulgation of Chinese influence openly and contritely, he might have survived.
In the two months since The New York Times published its groundbreaking expose of Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, dozens of high-profile men across the world have been outed as alleged sexual predators.
Slavery is the world's second-biggest illicit market. In the past, slaves were shackled in metal chains. Today, they are exploited in supply chains.
Visit Manly cemetery and history of the region unfolds as you wander from grave to grave.
The applause that erupted on Thursday from MPs on both sides in the House of Representatives after the same-sex marriage bill was passed came like a cloudburst after a long drought.
Donald Trump breaks the presidential mould so often that the usual questions about decision-making hardly apply.
Return and Earn is the most important practical measure to improve our environment since Bob Carr expanded national parks.
As guns are in the United States, gambling in this country is woven into the culture.
Even by the exhausting standards of the Trump administration, the past week has been tumultuous for the president.
Malcolm Turnbull is admirable at a number of levels. His drive, his personal ambition, his self-belief, even his sense of destiny. Together, these harden him against the tide of self-doubt that would inundate lesser figures.
The picture of Eric Whittaker in our newspaper today is a harrowing one.
Malcolm Turnbull right now should be on a high. He has set up a royal commission into banking which, even though he has been opposed to the idea, is a popular move across the nation in city and country alike.
Senator Sam Dastyari cannot be trusted to observe his own party's policy, let alone to respect Australia's national interest.
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