Opinion
Consumers gain as online retailing rises
Is the epochal rise of online retailing cause for concern or optimism? Well, both, and in different measures, depending on your interest.
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Social media
We must ban mobiles from school playgrounds to stop cyber bullying
Cyber bullying is taking young lives but the tragic deaths are preventable.
- by Shelley Hancock
Opinion
Fear: a very human frailty
How far away are we really from the Unites States of disharmony?
- by Cath Moore
Letters
Tax cuts: For reforms, the thinking needs to be sophisticated
Proposing tax cuts for corporations has drawn ire from readers.
Opinion
Lyneham Tennis Centre grass courts leave a lot to be desired
Grass is a fine thing in its place but not when it is used as a surface for tennis.
- by Ian Warden
Education
It's worth getting a degree even if what you learn is useless
There's a case against education, and it's surprisingly persuasive.
- by Peter Martin
Editorial
The US and guns: collective insanity
There is an indisputable link between death by guns and gun ownership.
COMMENT
Opinion
Complexity cursing the chances of corporate tax cuts
Neither side of politics has been effective recently in getting any complex reform to stick.
- by Simon Cowan
Opinion
An ode to nurses: hospital stay highlights immense compassion and skill
In hospital this week after surgery, I learnt some things I already half knew. That I don't cope well with pain, that time slows down in the middle of the night, (I swear I saw the hands of the clock in ICU move backwards sometime after 3am) and that nurses are a most precious resource, more valuable to our nation than iron ore and more deserving of recognition and celebration than our Test cricket team. Then I read the Herald's warnings about a long-term recruitment crisis in nursing and was disturbed by the news that nurses were virtually priced out of certain areas of Sydney due to house prices. We ignore these warnings at our peril.
- by John Watkins
COMMENT
Opinion
We need relief from Barnaby Joyce's public, not private, self
Gossip is as important as fact in how one's political reflexes work.
- by Jack Waterford
COMMENT
Opinion
Banking royal commission: be thankful our banks were better than the rest of the West's
Our big four refrained from making the many foolish loans that wiped our countries' finances.
- by Crispin Hull