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 |  | Book review: 'Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs' It is the Liberal Party that has changed, not Malcolm Fraser. By Peter Baume - 12/3/2010 | 11 | 7 mins ago |
| | Compassionate conservatism for welfare 'bludgers' It’s time for real debate about how people on government benefits can be supported in leading meaningful lives. By Sarah Burnside - 12/3/2010 | 28 | 24 hours ago |
| | Lara Bingle's privacy Right to privacy: there is no public interest whatsoever in publishing the photo of Lara Bingle in the shower. By Karen Abidi - 12/3/2010 | 18 | 28 hours ago |
| | ISP filtering policy is not evidence-based With broad opposition and an election looming, one wonders why the ISP-level filtering policy hasn't been scrapped. By Simon Wright - 12/3/2010 | 8 | 8 hours ago |
| | After two decades of delay, a chance to save bluefin tuna The obscenely profitable market for bluefin tuna in Japan has led to years of overfishing and left the world’s bluefin population badly depleted. By Carl Safina - 12/3/2010 | 4 | 22 hours ago |
| | Kevin, we need to talk about you If the first term of a Labor government is not to be a complete waste of time then serious conversations have to take place. By Gary Johns - 11/3/2010 | 13 | 2 days ago |
| | 'Refused Classification' - a classification black hole With 'Refused Classification' Australia has a category where the content is not illegal, but the government would prefer we thought it was. By Arved von Brasch - 11/3/2010 | 7 | 2 days ago |
| | Embracing Life An ethical mind takes seriously the question of the assertion of their will over the lives of others, including animals. By George Seymour - 11/3/2010 | 9 | 2 days ago |
| | Facebook’s new slut page: a monument to girl hatred Since when did it become OK to hate women and girls so publicly and to judge them so mercilessly? By Melinda Tankard Reist - 11/3/2010 | 45 | 15 mins ago |
| | Palestine - lots of talking but little listening While the international community continues talking - and not listening - both Jews and Arabs are set to endure more suffering. By David Singer - 11/3/2010 | 3 | 12 hours ago |
| | Sydney: choking in its own density Higher housing densities produce greater traffic congestion, higher levels of air pollution and greater public health risks. By Wendell Cox - 11/3/2010 | 4 | 3 days ago |
| | Why pay equalisation is bad news for women When a female applies for a job one thought going through an employer's mind is whether she could leave to have a family. By Kris Sayce - 10/3/2010 | 14 | 36 hours ago |
| | The sustainability of wilderness The financial value of goods and services humans derive from the natural environment is many tens of trillions of dollars every year. By Ralf Buckley - 10/3/2010 | 15 | 17 hours ago |
| | War without thought For those of us who lived through the dishonesty and frustration of the war in Vietnam, Afghanistan is shaping up as a passable re-creation. By Kellie Tranter and Bruce Haigh - 10/3/2010 | 5 | 2 days ago |
| | With self-belief, women can change the world International Women’s Day: women inspiring, enabling and empowering other women out of poverty. By Judy Cannon - 10/3/2010 | 5 | 3 days ago |
| | Wilderness in Western Australia The need to find the correct balance between economic and environmental imperatives is urgent. By Bernie Masters - 10/3/2010 | 1 | 3 days ago |
| | Manufacturing an Australian nation Australians are isolated and politically inactive, and perhaps as a result, we lack a unifying, national vision. By Georgia Lowe - 10/3/2010 | 5 | 4 days ago |
| | The questions we don’t ask: a review of the Australian Energy Resource Assessment Energy and oil: we are deluding ourselves into believing that business as usual can continue indefinitely. By Cameron Leckie - 9/3/2010 | 28 | 11 hours ago |
| | Is democracy terminally ill? Labor or Liberal? Sometimes it seems that changes in government are limited to changes in the official stationery. By John Töns - 9/3/2010 | 13 | 4 days ago |
| | What a difference a GFC and recession can make China was the world’s factory, India was its call centre and services provider: the financial crisis changed all that. By Leon Gettler - 9/3/2010 | 1 | 4 days ago |
| | Mind the gap? Should we care about the earnings gap between city professionals and the men and women who clean their offices? By Andrew Leigh - 9/3/2010 | 39 | 2 days ago |
| | Anti-immigration backlash roils ties between Australia and India - part I Despite being a nation built by immigrants, Australia faces fresh challenges in dealing with new arrivals, particularly from India. By Robin Jeffrey - 9/3/2010 | 17 | 2 days ago |
| | The downward spiral of hasty population growth Population growth is a virtually insurmountable challenge, becoming ever more costly as resources are spread thinner. By Jane O'Sullivan - 8/3/2010 | 73 | 65 mins ago |
| | Patient-centred health reform Healthcare: it's not who pays that's important, it's about getting more value and better service. By Katie Lahey - 8/3/2010 | 8 | 5 days ago |
| | Parents behaving badly Chief Justice Diana Bryant has showed leadership in stepping up to the plate to protect children where the government has so far failed to do so. By Barbara Biggs - 8/3/2010 | 33 | 6 hours ago |
| | The luxury of people One of the distinguishing traits of human beings is our devotion to continually increasing consumption and increasing profits. By Christine Goonrey - 8/3/2010 | 13 | 21 hours ago |
| | New world order without a hegemon: compete and co-operate Can trading partners also be strategic adversaries? By Dilip Hiro - 8/3/2010 | 2 | 6 days ago |
| | Something's in the water at the ABC Is the ABC’s 'Australian Story' in the business of public interest storytelling or political advocacy? By Mark Poynter - 5/3/2010 | 52 | 30 hours ago |
| | The politics of contrition There’s no doubt some politicians are insincere some of the time. But it’s a worry if, led by our media, we believe them to be hypocritical all the time. By Jennifer Wilson - 5/3/2010 | 14 | 7 days ago |
| | The Biggest Bully: TV show a loser for weight loss Why do we insist on giving fat people a bad time and why do fat people continue to put up with such treatment? By Lydia Turner - 5/3/2010 | 18 | 3 days ago |
| | Wilderness: its not the name, its the management that counts Wilderness is a political and an urban concept; more about ideas and ideology than about what happens on the ground. By Roger Underwood - 5/3/2010 | 16 | 4 days ago |
| | The United States of weirdness? From the Birthers to the Oath Keepers From the founding of the nation through to the latest Hollywood film, Americans have been excellent myth makers. By Brendon O'Connor - 5/3/2010 | 6 | 7 days ago |
| | It's snow news It'd be nice if TV news spent as much time discussing significant issues as it does delivering semi-accurate weather reports. By Walt Brasch - 5/3/2010 | 1 | 6 days ago |
| | The consequences of filtering The technological issues associated with the government's proposed Internet filtering are minor compared to the political and civil liberties issues. By Arved von Brasch - 4/3/2010 | 20 | 6 days ago |
| | Have the ‘terrorists’ got what they want? One thing terrorists have achieved hands down is they have made it harder to be freely Muslim in today’s world. By Melati Lum - 4/3/2010 | 35 | 3 days ago |
| | Ending drug prohibition If the government is serious about crime and substance overuse it must abandon the policy of arbitrary drug prohibition. By Evert Rauwendaal - 4/3/2010 | 62 | 3 days ago |
| | Decoding our vampire obsession The incredible success of Stephanie Meyer’s 'Twilight' series has had a snowball effect on the publishing and movie industries. By Kirsten Oakley - 4/3/2010 | 8 | 26 hours ago |
| | There are no spirits in the new wilderness Each succeeding generation has become more disconnected from Mother Earth than the one before it. By Brian Holden - 4/3/2010 | 24 | 8 days ago |
| | It's time to take local government seriously Local governments deserve full constitutional recognition coupled with fair treatment and fair funding mechanisms. By Jieh-Yung Lo - 3/3/2010 | 6 | 6 days ago |
| | The IPCC needs to change, but the science remains sound A few errors by the IPCC doesn't mean climate change is an illusion or that CO2 emissions don't need to be cut. By Robert Watson - 3/3/2010 | 65 | 3 days ago |
| | Major change is needed if the IPCC hopes to survive Well before recent controversies, the work of the IPCC was marred by an unwillingness to listen to dissenting points of view. By Roger Pielke - 3/3/2010 | 18 | 6 days ago |
| | China-free, March 10 It's a struggle to find a complete set of clothes NOT made in China for the 'Free Tibet' march on March 10. By Tenpa Dugdak - 3/3/2010 | 1 | 11 days ago |
| | NSW red gum logging defies Federal environment law The river red gum wetland forests along the Murray River provide a perfect illustration of why protected areas are so important. By Lindsay Hesketh - 3/3/2010 | 12 | 2 days ago |
| | Tragedy of humanity's unspoken epidemic That a psychiatrist can receive the Australian of the Year award is proof the stigma associated with mental health has improved. By Tanveer Ahmed - 3/3/2010 | 2 | 10 days ago |
| | Behind China's growing belligerence The Chinese Communist Party appears to see the world revolving around China and its needs, rather than China being part of a global community. By Arthur Thomas - 2/3/2010 | 8 | 5 days ago |
| | Why I’m having an abortion Abortion doesn’t have to be justified and it doesn’t have to fit your neighbour’s or co-worker’s opinions of a 'good enough reason'. By Angie Jackson - 2/3/2010 | 83 | 5 days ago |
| | Can’t see the game for the pixels There is a lack of sophistication with our current classification scheme: the debate over videogaming is off-target! By Taimor Hazou - 2/3/2010 | 1 | 12 days ago |
| | Istanbul and the East and West puzzle Fear of the return of political Islam has always been well rooted in the psyche of the Western-oriented part of Turkey's population. By Alice Aslan - 2/3/2010 | 7 | 5 days ago |
| | Twelve reasons why Australia needs a Conservative Party Political parties of both Right and Left have ignored society for a century in their obsession with the market and the state. By Vern Hughes - 2/3/2010 | 9 | 6 days ago |
| | Christianity and politics: a problematic mix The tenets of Christianity do not neatly conform to any party-political agenda. By Roy Williams - 1/3/2010 | 26 | 10 days ago |
| | Wilderness is not protected Wilderness, the ultimate self sustaining system, can provide the inspiration for an ecologically sustainable society. By Keith Muir - 1/3/2010 | 29 | 6 days ago |
| | Not another transport plan There is a tendency for states to have large s*xy transport projects to capture the public's imagination. By Richard Allsop - 1/3/2010 | 4 | 11 days ago |
| | Carbon dioxide, mass extinction of species and climate change Humans can not argue with the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere. By Andrew Glikson - 1/3/2010 | 55 | 7 days ago |
| | Higher inflation targets would not be a good idea Lessons for economic policy-makers from the recent financial crisis and global recession. By Saul Eslake - 1/3/2010 | 1 | 13 days ago |
| | The radicalisation of gentle men and women Kevin Rudd has mastered the art of talking and saying nothing, using the media to gain maximum impact and the art of spin. By Bruce Haigh - 26/2/2010 | 31 | 13 days ago |
| | The changing nature of advertising It's not about freedom of speech: the kind of freedom the advertising industry cares about is the freedom to consume. By Sarah Burnside - 26/2/2010 | 31 | 6 days ago |
| | What's marriage really got to do with commitment Marriage: the state should not be telling me or you that my or your relationship is less legitimate than another. By Shane Ogden - 26/2/2010 | 50 | 11 days ago |
| | Northeast India: boiling pot of international rivalry - part II The border disputes between India and China are about recognition not land. By Bertil Lintner - 26/2/2010 | 2 | 12 days ago |
| | Listen to the heroes of Israel Violence has failed to achieve Israel’s ends and has produced worldwide revulsion. By John Pilger - 26/2/2010 | 25 | 8 days ago |
| | Terror laid bare The risk of airline terrorism will never be zero. But let's try not to panic. By Chris Berg - 25/2/2010 | 8 | 13 days ago |
| | Stark raven Barnaby Joyce According to Joe Hockey, Barnaby Joyce is 'real' while Kevin Rudd and Lindsay Tanner are 'not real' ... By Brian Matthews - 25/2/2010 | 38 | 2 days ago |
| | $250m TV gift needs to be rechannelled Stephen Conroy's $250 million gift does not require free-to-air broadcasters to do anything extra to support the creation and delivery of Australian TV content. By Simon Whipp - 25/2/2010 | 3 | 16 days ago |
| | Can GM crops feed the hungry? GM crops were supposed to rescue the world's one billion undernourished people. But will they ever curb hunger? By Carol Campbell - 25/2/2010 | 7 | 15 days ago |
| | Northeast India: boiling pot of international rivalry - part I Northeast India - seven Indian states with three international borders - has always been a boiling pot of emotions and grievances. By Bertil Lintner - 25/2/2010 | 6 | 14 days ago |
| | Leave it to Beaver? Is television’s Golden Age out of touch with as many people as our PM thinks, or is his Labor Party? By Ben-Peter Terpstra - 25/2/2010 | 13 | 16 days ago |
| | Green Loans in limbo You would think Peter Garrett would be trying to stem the tide of scandals unfolding from his portfolio. By Aaron Nielsen - 24/2/2010 | 10 | 12 days ago |
| | Unions and Labor: is Dean Mighell right? After the ACTU campaign to bring down Howard one would have thought unions would have more influence under Rudd Labor. By Tristan Ewins - 24/2/2010 | 26 | 6 days ago |
| | Ponzi scheme Governments in the west are running mind-boggling budget deficits and printing money like there is no tomorrow. By Puru Saxena - 24/2/2010 | 11 | 10 days ago |
| | China and its domestic 'issues' On February 18 US President Barack Obama finally met the Dalai Lama, in spite of the protests of the Chinese Government. By Chin Jin - 24/2/2010 | 2 | 17 days ago |
| | Army of well-paid advisers keep Pacific poor Taxpayers should be concerned that egregiously high salaries are paid to aid-funded advisers in the Pacific region. By Helen Hughes - 24/2/2010 | 8 | 13 days ago |
| | Abdullah abdicates rationality on West Bank nationality Historical facts become important when looking for solutions to sovereignty in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. By David Singer - 24/2/2010 | 30 | 11 days ago |
| | China's looming property bubble Time spent inspecting China's property market reveals the sheer extent of vacant buildings and gleaming, empty, floor space. By Arthur Thomas - 23/2/2010 | 10 | 17 days ago |
| | Refugee policy: new solutions? Asylum seekers: by employing language such as 'force' and 'deter' Tony Abbott is echoing Howard’s rhetoric. By Evan Wallace - 23/2/2010 | 21 | 17 days ago |
| | Ballyhoo and balloons: political elections Why can’t television ads and advertising agencies be ruled out of electoral expenses? By Valerie Yule - 23/2/2010 | 3 | 6 days ago |
| | The blame for Haiti's child trafficking rests with us Blaming Haiti for its problem with trafficking of children and child s*xual slavery ignores the root causes. By Melati Lum - 23/2/2010 | 16 | 17 days ago |
| | How can community democracy be strengthened in your local area? To foster community democracy we need to create physical and social environments that encourage people to interact with one another. By Kellie Tranter - 23/2/2010 | 11 | 11 days ago |
| | Globalisation in trouble - part II Will tough economic times make developed nations shy away from globalisation? By David Dapice - 23/2/2010 | 6 | 11 days ago |
| | If Norway can prosper with a stable population, why can’t Australia? Population growth is no guarantee of economic prosperity: conversely a stable population does not doom a country to economic failure. By Charles Berger - 22/2/2010 | 54 | 6 days ago |
| | Thanks Pauline, but Australia is still a great country One of Pauline Hanson’s parting shots, that Australia is not the land of opportunity, is simply not true. By Dilan Thampapillai - 22/2/2010 | 7 | 19 days ago |
| | Tony Abbott: not a serious man It doesn’t take genius to see Abbott’s modus operandi. He makes far-out statements in the hope that some mud will stick. By Jennifer Wilson - 22/2/2010 | 40 | 2 days ago |
| | The blow-ins from the 'burbs For a variety of reasons our inner city CBDs are increasingly perceived as late night danger zones. By Anna Daniel - 22/2/2010 | 16 | 16 days ago |
| | Fair Work Australia: the powerful regulator Labor would be served long term by encouraging hard line unionists to leave their ranks. By Corin McCarthy - 22/2/2010 | 23 | 15 days ago |
| | Globalisation in trouble - part I The lack of equitable burden-sharing in today's NATO and the US-Japan alliance could undermine free trade. By Bernard Gordon - 22/2/2010 | 2 | 19 days ago |
| | Stepping up the fight against childhood s*xualisation Championing new initiatives to combat the s*xualisation of children in consumer culture. By Elizabeth Willmott Harrop - 19/2/2010 | 31 | 14 days ago |
| | God is a human invention The entire structure of our society, in addition to technology and language, is all a consequence of human inventions. By David Fisher - 19/2/2010 | 80 | 14 days ago |
| | Mr Swan’s preoccupation with superannuation Facts, balance and perspective have been trampled with the campaign to cut and reshape the tax concessions for superannuation. By Robert Carling - 19/2/2010 | 1 | 22 days ago |
| | Would Mary send Jesus to Xavier? The way church schools spend their money shows where they stand in relation to the poor and the Gospel. By Alan Matheson - 19/2/2010 | 24 | 17 days ago |
| | Government’s 'gift' to commercial TV The government's planned rebate of TV licence fees is a great way to line the pockets of foreign equity investors and Australian media moguls. By Vincent O'Donnell - 19/2/2010 | 10 | 20 days ago |
| | Gastric banding and the obesity 'industry' Promoting gastric banding to 14-year-olds means malnutrition and maintenance on the menu. By Sarah McMahon - 19/2/2010 | 10 | 13 days ago |
| | Stern Hu a pawn in China’s great game We have become too reliant on China’s appetite for raw materials to fuel its economic expansion. By Graham Cooke - 18/2/2010 | 11 | 10 days ago |
| | A ‘fair go’ for Australian students If every teacher is a teacher of English, then all teachers across all disciplines must be able to teach English language skills. By Elizabeth Grant and Fiona Mueller - 18/2/2010 | 5 | 20 days ago |
| | Religion and science: avoiding false choices 'The Clergy Letter Project': continuing to allow the promotion of an artificial battle between religion and science is bad for both. By Michael Zimmerman - 18/2/2010 | 84 | 13 days ago |
| | Localisation and the middle class Capitalism is in decline and this is putting the middle classes into crisis. By Chris James - 18/2/2010 | 11 | 13 days ago |
| | Two women who were out of control In the 1920s and 30s there were almost no women voluntarily performing physical feats which demanded maximum mental stamina. By Brian Holden - 18/2/2010 | 58 | 11 days ago |
| | Degenerate maths and the mystery of the disappearing report It is a fact that Australian students are extremely weak at maths compared to those in many other countries. By John Ridd - 17/2/2010 | 7 | 10 days ago |
| | Don't be rattled by the baby guilt trip Why do we, and Kevin Rudd, assume it is the obligation of all women to reproduce? By Nina Funnell - 17/2/2010 | 27 | 23 days ago |
| | Land of opportunity, but not for monoculturalists While young Muslim Australians can positively appreciate Australia as a land of opportunity, Ms Pauline Hanson cannot. By Rachel Woodlock - 17/2/2010 | 202 | 7 hours ago |
| | The cost of a green economy Developed countries have benefited from China's cheap solar panels and insulation but at what cost to the environment? By Arthur Thomas - 17/2/2010 | 14 | 20 days ago |
| | 'Smile or die': positive ideology and its discontents In 'Smile or Die' author Barbara Ehrenreich charts a cultural history of the positive thinking phenomenon in the US. By Timothy Watson - 17/2/2010 | 2 | 23 days ago |
| | KISS - the taxation system The tens of thousands of pages of taxation rules and regulations demanding compliance are an abomination. By John McRobert - 17/2/2010 | 6 | 24 days ago |
| | Two years on, the ‘great moral challenge’ just leaves people in the cold Global warming won't again be the winner for the government that it was in 2007. By Graham Young - 16/2/2010 | 44 | 16 days ago |
| | Why the Oscars are a con This year’s Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. By John Pilger - 16/2/2010 | 11 | 17 days ago |
| | A bastion against democracy? The Australian Senate is a mystery to many citizens. Not many have a clear idea of its role, activities or membership. By Sylvia Marchant - 16/2/2010 | 10 | 17 days ago |
| | The market is eating our children Time for government to set standards for broadcasters, publishers, advertisers, retailers and manufacturers to prevent child sexualisation. By Emma Rush - 16/2/2010 | 13 | 25 days ago |
| | Do we really need R18+ computer games? An R18+ classification will allow computer games with more extreme content to be sold and hired out. By Barbara Biggins - 16/2/2010 | 32 | 14 days ago |
| | In the Mountains of the Moon, a trek to Africa’s last glaciers The ice cap atop Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s most famous glacier. But Africa has other glaciers which are fast disappearing. By Tom Knudson - 16/2/2010 | 5 | 25 days ago |
| | Hen’s night bunny feminism Female chauvinist pigs or sexual self expression: Playboy offers women an entry to the core feminist ideal of sexual self determination. By Katie Ellis - 15/2/2010 | 28 | 21 days ago |
| | Green jobs: environmental red tape cancels out job creation The definition of a green job is highly subjective and can depend on fads and fashions and political correctness. By Ben Lieberman - 15/2/2010 | 9 | 26 days ago |
| | Work until you drop Baby boomers' meagre superannuation savings mean more work and less play - time to hit the gym! By Helen Lobato - 15/2/2010 | 3 | 26 days ago |
| | Demonising China: pundits get its role in Africa wrong China's faults are the same as those of the neo-liberal world. By Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong - 15/2/2010 | 8 | 25 days ago |
| | Discrimination as usual for Australia’s Indigenous policy Indigenous Australians need the government to fulfill its international human rights obligations. By Robyn Seth-Purdie - 15/2/2010 | 8 | 17 days ago |
| | Abdullah bristles as Palestine fizzles Jordan’s King Abdullah must show leadership and negotiate with Israel on the sovereignty of the West Bank. By David Singer - 15/2/2010 | 26 | 23 days ago |
| | St Valentine’s Day as the ultimate cliché? Is St Valentine's Day simply a cop-out; a day reserved for Disney, Hallmark and Cadbury? By Joel Bevin - 12/2/2010 | 9 | 28 days ago |
| | Dog-whistle politics and déjà vu Dog-whistling is different from labelling and stereotyping; it is covert and designed to activate concealed prejudices. By Ken Macnab - 12/2/2010 | 19 | 24 days ago |
| | The allegory of the iCave: social media, political campaigns and Obama How does a candidate elected on a wave of popularity achieve anything in office, when their political mandate is built around a few slogans? By Hugh Jorgensen - 12/2/2010 | 13 | 26 days ago |
| | A changing climate for the IPCC The publication of false claims by the IPCC has been compounded by its imperious attitude. By Mike Hulme - 12/2/2010 | 34 | 22 days ago |
| | Surrogacy: who needs a mother, anyway? By what authority does any government permit adults to deny a child a mother AND a father? By David van Gend - 12/2/2010 | 16 | 27 days ago |
| | Haiti and holocausts Why can't we galvanise the same level of empathy to aid not only the victims of natural disasters but of genocide? By Carla Garapedian - 12/2/2010 | 4 | 29 days ago |