• EDITORIAL

The warming showing up in the averages at home and abroad is worrying enough.

• Editorial

In the lead-up to the July 2016 federal election, Malcolm Turnbull suggested that Labor's proposals on rolling back some of the tax breaks available to property investors were like a "big sledgehammer" aimed at the value of the family home. It is clear now that the utensil the Prime Minister was using when he framed those comments was a "big egg-beater".

• Editorial

​Public transport is the lifeblood of any large city, and Sydney is no exception. The health of our train, bus and ferry system is one of our city's vital signs. So it is worrying that, over the past month, some serious glitches have disrupted the circulation of the city's trains.

• Editorial

By now, voters have become accustomed to privatisation and public-private partnerships.

Gladys Berejiklian should lower the cost of a train fare to Sydney Airport.

• COMMENT

Should Australia be worried if the Trump administration has not appointed its ambassador to Canberra?

• EDITORIAL

Even if the ayatollahs manage to suppress this latest rising, the dream of a more democratic Iran will only be deferred, never extinguished.

• Editorial

Among the chief pleasures of the holiday season is the freedom to travel to the places we love, along with the people who matter to us most.

• Editorial

The dawn of a new year has brought a new ripple of commentary on the Australian republic.

• Editorial

Here's a suggestion for our nation's parliamentarians that should sustain them for the full 12 months ahead: make this the year Canberra slaps a tax on sugar.

• Editorial

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?"

• Editorial

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.

• Editorial

A bill of rights would run into the problem that rights inevitably clash.

• Editorial

There are many reasons why a Sydney magistrate was wrong to excuse a man for not voting in the last federal election.

• COMMENT

Any Republican attempt to end the Mueller investigation would result in a constitutional crisis more serious than any seen since Watergate.

• COMMENT

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.

• Editorial

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.

• EDITORIAL

Ice sheets frozen for centuries are melting, and changing the world. This government, and Australia, must change, too.

• EDITORIAL

The messy part of the PM's reshuffle is confined to the National Party, where the management of change has been clumsy.

• Editorial

Traditionally, there are two Australian summer sports. One is cricket, and the other is criticising the selectors of the Australian cricket team.

• Editorial

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.

• Editorial

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.

• EDITORIAL

Education, knowledge, training and personal responsibility can all combine to reduce the number of drownings.

• Editorial

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.

• EDITORIAL

The Coalition must accept that climate change makes other change inevitable.

• EDITORIAL

The government must go after the appalling exploiters, who are also unfairly driving small businesses out of the market.

• Editorial

If Sam Dastyari had dealt with his role in the promulgation of Chinese influence openly and contritely, he might have survived.

• Editorial

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.

• Editorial

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.