Turnbull insists on doing it his way
MICHELLE GRATTAN ANALYSIS Malcolm Turnbull may or may not have become reconciled to his likely fate for next year.
Lives lost after rescue plea denied
Natalie O'BrienEXCLUSIVE Australian authorities refused to co-ordinate the search and rescue for the asylum seeker boat known as the Barokah, which sank in December killing about 200 people, despite pleas for help from Indonesia.
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Jill Stark
Conflict claim on binge drink probe
A federal government agency set up to investigate binge drinking is breaching World Health Organisation standards by having alcohol industry representatives on its advisory committee, an expert has claimed.
Dylan Welch
Top gun or money pit?
Given the astronomical cost of the Joint Strike Fighter acquisition, it is worrying that many experts have expressed concerns about the project's progress, and even its efficacy amid the new strategic realities facing Australia
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Michael Gordon
NT's tough love: helping hand or a heavy hand?
If "tough love" reforms are implemented with the sensitivity of the police in Yuendumu, they will, in the words of Fraser government Aboriginal affairs minister Ian Viner, represent a reversion to the old and failed policies.
Peter Hartcher
Who says our MPs can't agree?
Federal politicians have just pocketed a generous pay rise, but by historical standards their rewards are not excessive.
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Adele Horin
Nothing sacred about celibacy
As the reputation of the Catholic Church sinks further into the mire with the latest allegations of sex abuse and cover-up, it is worth raising again the subject of priestly celibacy.
Martin Flanagan
Chapter and verse: atheism becomes a dog's breakfast
The whippet has great taste in literature. The first of my books he ate was one of my favourites, Basho's The Narrow Road To The Deep North.
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Rocco Fazzari
Hey Hey It's Carbon Tax Week!
First week of the carbon tax and the show is in full swing.
Tony Abbott is prophesying, Julia Gillard is selling, Craig Emerson is singing and Alan Jones is in meltdown.
While the ...
Marc Moncrief
Transparency and the meta-Twitterverse
Governments have demanded more information from Twitter so far this year than they did during all of 2011.
Warwick MacFadyen
Conscience's nemesis
Every year an average of two bullets for every person on this planet is produced. With so few global rules governing the arms trade, no one really knows where all those bullets will end up – or whose lives they will tear apart.
Dick Gross
My grandfather the illegal boat person
Grandpa was an illegal who used identity theft to unlawfully enter this country. I look at the eyes of those boat people whom we have not drowned and I see my family.
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Uneasy Truth
Bad sex scenes aside, Fifty Shades signals new era for women
Clem Bastow: E. L. James' bestseller will not set feminism back 100 years.