Opinion
Waiter – there is a quokka on our table
It's clear that tourists love the cute quokkas they encounter. But perhaps it's time to uninvite them to dinner.
- by Daile Cross
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Editorial
Closing the Gap can be realised
Tuesday is the 10th anniversary of one of the most cathartic and emotional events in our nation's history.
Letters
Refugees and asylum: We need a large measure of decency in our actions
How we treat those less fortunate speaks to our own decency, a reader says.
Opinion
Woden Town Centre's decline needs imagination and ambition to thrive again
We could fix Woden's unsightly problems with just a bit of vision.
- by Caroline Le Couteur
Opinion
Donald Trump's gusto disgusts Australians for good reason
It is as hard to imagine being a trump devotee as it is to imagine being a bunyip.
- by Ian Warden
COMMENT
Opinion
The 'ladychip' did exactly what it was designed to do: manufacture outrage
The company knew that the ladychip thought bubble would get its product all over the media.
- by Matt Holden
COMMENT
Opinion
Maybe men and women really are different, deep down
The other night over green olives and pasta my friend was animatedly telling us about a failed friendship/romance. "He just drove me around!" she exclaimed, in response to our scepticism. "We didn't ever touch. We just hung out all the time. You know, he was down the road. He used to pick me up from places."
- by Claire Thurstans
COMMENT
Opinion
Royal Commission has been a major crisis for the Catholic church leadership
The bond of trust between the laity and their bishops has been severely impaired.
- by Neil Ormerod
COMMENT
Opinion
Recycling crisis: True goal is zero waste going to landfill
After years of doing the right thing by separating our garbage Victorians are now being told that all that recycling could be, well, a waste of time.
- by Richard Fine
COMMENT
Opinion
Shorten says one thing one day, another the next
Back in the Hawke/Keating years it was clear Labor had worked out that if they kept behaving like economic terrorists blasting the economy to bits they would only ever have short stints in government.
COMMENT
Opinion
An Australian republic: 150 years in the waiting
How do we tell our children they can aspire to be anything except our head of state?
- by Benjamin T. Jones