• Editorial

For this country, sport-mad though it may be, the Winter Olympics have a place only on the outer edge of national consciousness.

• Editorial

How much of the row over the key link in the WestConnex project is real and how much is theatre – a pantomime to enable the various stakeholders, especially Sydney Airport, to extract the maximum out of the government and the taxpayer?

• Editorial

For most of us, the recent summer holiday season was a time of fun and relaxation with family and friends. But for the families of the 28 victims of the holiday road toll -- twice the number killed during the same period the previous year -- it was a time of inestimable tragedy and loss.

• Editorial

The work of researcher Stephen Duckett should embolden those wanting to lift the "veil of secrecy" that surrounds public and private hospitals, clinicians and our own personal health data.

• Editorial

At the end of last week the price of bitcoin sat at just over $US9000, half its high of $US20,000 in December: that's a huge drop in value in a short space of time; January was the virtual currency's worst month since February 2014.

• Editorial

In fighting terrorism we are fighting oppression; we should not let our own laws do what the terrorists cannot.

• Editorial

The Prime Minister's speech, intended to set the tone as the next poll approaches, was as familiar as an old pair of shoes.

• Editorial

For all the good ideas, Bill Shorten is marching Labor into the future facing backwards.

• Editorial

Foreign entities, from China and elsewhere, continue to shovel cash into our political parties' coffers.

• Editorial

The arms trade, it goes without saying, is not like other forms of trade. Its main customers are states and its transactions don't merely reinforce the world order, they can reshape it - at times violently.

• Editorial

The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has declared war on plastic waste. In a recent speech, Mrs May said she hoped to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste in England within 25 years.

• Editorial

It is interesting, and encouraging too, that the Australians of the Year in three out of four categories this year are engaged in some way in intellectual pursuits.

• Editorial

A groundswell of belated anger such as the #MeToo movement risks producing a result opposite to the one intended.

• Editorial

Trade deals take a long time to negotiate – particularly multilateral ones like the Trans Pacific Partnership. Even so, they are only temporary measures until the nations of the world can negotiate the real thing – a comprehensive global trade agreement. Talks towards such an all-inclusive trade pact stalled long ago, and there seems little prospect they will be revived soon.

• Editorial

The exasperation expressed by Mark Butler as president of the ALP about the activities of factional bosses in his party is perfectly understandable.

• Editorial

The United States government has shut down, at least in part, again. Many onlookers are eagerly blaming President Donald Trump.

• Editorial

As Australians this week ponder whether to celebrate or mourn January 26, it's also a good time to consider the state of our environment.

• COMMENT

We, the people of Australia, are the collective custodians of this land and its future.

Symbols are powerful. They are our collective shorthand, a way of encapsulating an idea, a message, a movement, an event, an identity.

• Editorial

The arc of emissions must start bending lower soon, and certainly more sharply than current policies would point it.

• Editorial

A city of more than five million people is going to be brought to its knees for 24 hours on January 29.

• Editorial

When the school-by-school breakdown of the annual HSC results is released, one thing that remains fairly consistent is the domination enjoyed by the state's selective schools. In 2017, as in the previous year, there were eight selectives among the top 10 performing high schools.

• editorial

James Ricketson, Australian documentary maker, has been languishing in a rat- and mosquito-infested jail outside the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, for seven months. Authorities are holding the 68-year-old on suspicion of so-called "espionage", but have so far provided no details of the charges against him, nor told him what the specific allegations are.

• Editorial

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

What lessons has Labor learned from the last time it was in government and from its seven years in Opposition?

• 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.