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Education
We need to provide alternative to onslaught of negativity that is harming our children
In young people in particular, ‘sad crying’ is one way we reach out when we are frightened, anxious, or stressed, and need support. Crying activates the body in a healthy way. It is definitely not the moment to reject the person crying, to call on them to ‘toughen up’, or ‘to be a man’.
- by William McKeith
Editorial
US public wants end of insane gun laws
Young people and adults around the country are rising up.
COMMENT
Opinion
The powerful, and dangerous, tale of the frugal home owners
We need narratives that are honest; that are more than neat justifications for avarice.
- by Damon Young
Opinion
Loved and lost: Mourning a favourite garment
A notice posted along a bicycle path brings back memories of loss
- by Gabriella Coslovich
Opinion
Cancer
Samantha Armytage's advice on mammograms was misguided
By the time Armytage received her false positive result - an all-clear after being called back for more tests when an area of concern was found on her right breast - she was moving beyond BreastScreen’s targeted call for women to start mammograms at 50, by suggesting women start at 40 instead. But her misguided advice on breast screening ignores vast amounts of independent medical research about the downsides of cancer screening tests.
- by Alexandra Barratt
Letters
Just how big is too big for a liveable Sydney?
It is time we are asked how big is too big for a liveable Sydney. Or has that time already passed?
Editorial
Barnaby hits the weatherboard
Who would blame Malcolm Turnbull if he had felt relieved as the wheels of his jet rose from the tarmac en route for Washington?
COMMENT
Opinion
Why Australia's business community only cares about budget deficits sometimes
Big business doesn't care whether there's a surplus. It just wants tax cuts and other direct aid.
- by Richard Denniss
Opinion
US equivalent of Australian GetUp! could bolster calls for tighter gun controls
In Australia and more so in the US, money drives politics. Enter an Australian political phenomenon.
- by Crispin Hull
Opinion
Richard Glover: Life on hold and other mysteries
Like most Sydneysiders, I feel my life now involves a series of mysteries, to which I can only guess the answers.
- by Richard Glover