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Sterling Sigrid
The legendary Australian actor triumphs in Streetcar
An extravagant entitlement
Abbott’s Paid Parental Leave? A self-inflicted disaster
The fall and rise of Anglo-Australia
A heraldic honours system feels more like this nation in the 19th century, not the Asian century
Exercise your right to be a bigot and pay the price
The uproar over the Los Angeles Clippers owner shows why we don’t need laws to admonish racists
Repeal section 18C
I am a person of Aboriginal descent, and I have a strong personal view on section 18C of the Racial…
In praise of Big Coal
Through its coal-digging antics, Oz has made itself the midwife of a new era of progress around the world
Aunty’s deep cultural confusion
Why is a public broadcaster allowed to use tax dollarsto promote a commercial success like Peppa Pig?
Why we love the Cambridges
The visiting Royals are more like film stars than royalty, following the template set by the Duke’s late mother
Bob’s your writer
The former foreign minister is being attacked for being a quirky, witty and irreverent diarist
Climate change, the movie
The latest IPCC trilogy has taken lessons from Hollywood
The slow death of free speech
How the Left, here and abroad, is trying to shut down debate — from Islam and Israel to global warming and gay marriage
Ditch the Union Jack
There is no groundswell of support in favour of a new flag, so why does New Zealand’s centre-right PM support change?
Windswept in Wellington
If only the media would give us something, anything, which provides a glimpse of the real Kate’s personality
A strange evening of classic local theatre
Robyn Nevin shines in Neighbourhood Watch
Labor pain
Memo to my old party: ditch the carbon tax and keep faith in the Hawke free-market reforms
Labour ages
With the long anticipated Royal Commission, the ALP should jettison the moribund trade unions
The PM rushes in where angels fear to tread
Tony Abbott’s decision to reinstate knights and dames has provoked outrage from the usual suspects — but it is fully justified
A culture war on whaling
Australia’s successful international block on Japan’s business represents the nanny state gone global
The Tony Abbott I know and admire
My one-time nemesis continues to confound his critics, but there is a danger he will try to accommodate them
Key to defeat
New Zealand’s PM is overwhelmingly popular, yet he stands to lose this year thanks to a shocking electoral system
On the Contrary
Dame Gina Rinehart — for services to coal transportation, journalistic freedom and family law, we confer upon you this country’s…
The new cultural cringe
Our film industry, in its insecurity, is underselling itself
The devilish problem of Tasmania
Trace the rot in the island state to Canberra’s interventionism in the early 1980s
On the contrary
I was on the edge of a rather hairy deadline when disaster struck. Tired of being cooped up in an…
Under the house with Hergé
Could my signed copy of a famous adventure comic book be worth a king’s ransom?
