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The public discussion about gendered violence in the past week, triggered by the deaths of NSW woman Molly Ticehurst and Victorian woman Emma Bates,...
There is no greater psychological threat underpinning Sydney’s beach culture than the lurking fear of sharks, despite the fact the city has had only...
How many more women have to be beaten to a pulp, strangled, stabbed, shot, drowned or set fire to before Australia gets serious about confronting the...
“Gaza doctors save baby from womb of mother killed in Israeli airstrike,” said the headlines. The pictures on television showed the feeble newborn...
The Albanese government’s lukewarm support for Ukraine in its fight against the evil Russian President Vladimir Putin has been a source of...
Peter Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal Party leadership introduced a nuclear twist to the climate wars that have roiled Australian politics for the...
Peter Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal Party leadership introduced a nuclear twist to the climate wars that have roiled Australian politics for the...
Peter Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal Party leadership introduced a nuclear twist to the climate wars that have roiled Australian politics for the...
Peter Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal Party leadership introduced a nuclear twist to the climate wars that have roiled Australian politics for the...
A speech by NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey to be delivered today to the McKell Institute details how the shortfall in GST revenue allocated to NSW will...
Smell the air. Count the clouds. Kick a ball with the children. Call that friend you’ve been meaning to catch up with. Take the time to watch the...
The response of politicians to the growing repugnance to social media’s malign influence following the Sydney stabbings is big on rhetoric, but a...
Julian Assange has always polarised opinion. Now his long-running saga to avoid extradition to the US has triggered a renewed sense of pity over his...
The management of Sydney’s Star casino continues to labour under the delusion it can treat the authority charged with regulating the industry with...
The second violent attack to rattle our city in as many days – the knifing and ensuing riot at a western Sydney church – has cast a blasphemous...
On Saturday, as reports started emerging about the Bondi Junction mass stabbing, across Sydney people started phoning or texting to reassure loved...
Medical research in Australia plays a vital role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of the population and our track record is impressive. We can...
Just as the people in the electorate of Cook vote in Saturday’s byelection comes another reminder that Scott Morrison, the MHR who represented them...
For many Sydneysiders, renting or trying to rent is a brutal reminder of their true powerlessness in a society that values homeownership as shelter...
Reports that NSW public schools will have their budgets slashed by up to $148 million at first glance risks making a mockery of Premier Chris Minns’...
On the anniversary of one of Australia’s greatest war achievements, the Australian War Memorial has found that the most recognised of all the...
The ever-growing cluster of self-immolation surrounding the Lehrmann case has now remorselessly spread to journalism, thrusting it into the...
Many Australians have run out of money and sympathy for major supermarket chains but the first of an array of inquiries aimed at promoting competition...
Six months ago tomorrow, Hamas’ furtive and obscene October 7 attack, replete with murder, rape and kidnapping, prompted widespread sympathy for...
Hollywood may imitate life but occasionally, it can shine a light and illuminate a shadowy and unacknowledged world kept hidden by lawsuits, spin...
The announcement that businesswoman and women’s advocate Samantha Mostyn is to become Australia’s next governor-general is a further sign that...
The so-called Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) forces have chalked up some dubious triumphs in Sydney over the years. But there are few so ludicrous as the...
The possibility that federal politicians could be docked up to 5 per cent of their base salary for misbehaviour is a contentious but welcome piece of...
Well, wasn’t that totally predictable? Less than a fortnight after the appointment of a controversial Seven Network producer to an executive role at...
They are a reassuring presence in times of crisis, rising to the occasion when Australians are most in need. Whether it’s bushfires, floods or a...
With many empty-nesters staying put as their children leave home, possibly to join immigrants moving to greenfield suburbs, the population crush is...
The imposition of a two-week youth curfew in Alice Springs following an outbreak of violence has again exposed Australia’s dark heart ruined by the...
Each day, 391 people call Sydney their new home. It is a statistic that shows how Sydney is bursting at the seams – but it has also lost the title...
Beijing’s use of Chinese nationals to further its ambitions in the Pacific has received a setback by the revelation that their man in Suva is...
The arrival of a fleet of 60 Chinese-made diesel buses to ferry people between Sydenham and Bankstown when a busy railway line in Sydney’s...
Australians increasingly hold many members of parliament in subterranean regard thanks to their propensity to treat each other with contempt, but...
The redevelopment and relocation of the Sydney Fish Market is proving so troublesome the project has turned into a saga rivalling the Sydney Opera...
Convention and civility once required presidential candidates not to announce they would dump another nation’s ambassador, but the Republican Party...
Premier Chris Minns’ observation that it would be far better if young people did not take drugs before they went to music festivals feels to be a...
Redemption can be earned in a relatively short period of time, if the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal is to be believed. In 2021, prominent ear...
Sydney has Australia’s highest house prices and is the nation’s cocaine capital, two crowning achievements that should be matters of deep regret...
In an era where governments of all political persuasions think small and short-term, the proposal to sell Rosehill Racecourse and turn the area into a...
The chance to publish more complete HSC result lists, retention of the ATAR rating, the controversial NAPLAN aptitude tests and the gap that leaves...
The Albanese government’s planned changes to rules governing political donations are long-overdue reforms that should introduce more transparency...
There are several important lessons flowing from the appalling racial abuse which marred the NRL’s season opener in Las Vegas and has dogged the...
Sydney has become Australia’s most tolled city courtesy of road building programs that developed nearly a dozen toll roads without much regard to...
The rising cost of living is a grim reality and a growing political issue, but the disparity between incomes is turning Sydney into a tale of two...
In this era of bureaucracy and red tape, it’s hard to imagine the grassroots evolution of Sydney’s first domestic violence refuge being...
The Albanese government is scrambling to counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific but the people who control one of the most effective ways...