Features Australia
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?
Stop ringing me!
How does Australia benefit from foreign call centres using Australia as a source of income totalling billions?
Putting the ‘your’ into the ABC
Those who like the public broadcaster should be the ones to fund it
2014 won’t be like 1914
Don’t assume China’s aggressive territorial claims will lead to an all-out war in east Asia
On the Contrary
It is welcome news that the government might consider tightening the means test around the seniors’ health card. The card…
We’ll still be a melting pot
The scare campaigns on race should not deter Tony Abbott over Section 18C
A knife blade on the skyline
Downtown Melbourne embraces skinny buildings more than three decades since they littered Manhattan
More British than Britain
In the interests of a more civilised world, let the Commonwealth leaders trump democratic values
Black armband
The first ever footy-playing Australian of the Year is ashamed to be an Australian
Here we go again
The upcoming senate election in Western Australia shows Paul Keating was right: the upper house is unrepresentative swill
Satirising anti-Semitism
Are some subjects too absurd to be made fun of?
Indonesia should grow up
The country’s ability to conduct itself as a mature regional power is increasingly in doubt
Notes of a diplomat
New York. One of the best overseas postings in Australia’s Foreign Affairs portfolio. So yet another politician is to enliven…
