Living in the day of the deadbolt
In a simpler and more innocent time, you could leave your door open, day and night. Now Queensland leads the nation in buying cameras, alarms and fortress-like security.
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Nelson leaves war memorial in better shape
Brendan Nelson secured $500 million for the biggest expansion at the Australian War Memorial since it was built in 1941 — but that’s not considered his most significant achievement during seven years as director.
Woodstock destined to never be repeated
The planned festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock has been canned — and that’s probably for the best, writes Phil Brown.
The One Nation MP who’s also a tribal chief
He represents a huge swath of mining and farming land in the State Parliament, but the member for Mirani has been elevated to a leadership role of a very different kind in an island country far from home.
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Labor vindicated by royal commission evidence
EVIDENCE before the Haynes royal commission shows that something is rotten in the banking world, and to suggest the Government didn’t know is a joke, writes Dennis Atkins.
Wolves are circling the US President
FORMER FBI chief James Comey’s book and the Mueller investigation are driving President Trump into fits of anxiety and fierce anger, writes Dennis Atkins.
Stakes are high as world leaders convene
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s attendance at the CHOGM summit in London comes against a backdrop of global instability and uncertainty.
Hard hats and hi-vis don’t cut it any more
THERE are few more dangerous places to stand than between a politician and an infrastructure announcement, but voters are starting to see through them, writes Steven Wardill.
How Games will change the Goldy
BRISBANE was different in the eyes of the world, and its own eyes, after the 1982 Commonwealth Games. The same will happen with the Gold Coast, writes Sallyanne Atkinson.
Tensions run high over soaring road bill
AS commuters cry out for a fix on the M1, our politicians can’t work out who pay, writes Michael Wray.
How Barnaby went from popular to pariah
IT’S hard to remember a more comprehensive destruction of politician’s previously sound and valuable brand than what’s happened to Barnaby Joyce over the past three months, writes Dennis Atkins.
‘My husband’s Tinder dates came to my house’
IN our technologically savvy world, it’s never been easier to cheat on your partner. But it’s also never been harder to keep a secret, as one man discovered, writes Kylie Lang.
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