Canada PM defends Castro praise
Meanwhile, Twitter redeems itself as the home of trending #Trudeaueulogies.
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A teary farewell for Fidel
Loving a dictator from the safety of a distant democracy means you never have to say sorry.
We’ll meet again …
On the plus side, it turns out that death isn’t always the end it’s usually made out to be.
Don’t mention the (Lebanese) War
Inside the new tolerance, where what you say isn’t as important as that you don’t say it.
Welcome to the new journalism
Plus: Much ado about a sugar tax, but not everyone wants another government levy
It was the most racist of times
The R-word gets a workout as all sides fling about accusations of intolerance
Forget those $19 margaritas
Plus: Gillian Triggs the victim of a classic stitch-up, and Crikey clashes with the Christians.
There’s more to mansplaining
Also: In the twilight of her career at the AHRC, Gillian Triggs cops a serve from a peer.
Trump, rugby, thanks to Fairfax
You can connect just about anything to the US president-elect if you believe in yourself.
We don’t want Germans to 18C us
It’s the end of the road for Gillian Triggs as Human Rights Commissioner begins her long goodbye.
Thin-skinned straw man
Don’t like being called a sexist? What are you, some kind of misogynist or something?
Feelings win in Trump’s world
Election result still has many reeling, covering policy debate with hearts over heads
Trump’s ‘deplorables’ are here
Bill Shorten plays up to the new nationalism while the Nationals get steamrolled in NSW.
Did Plutarch predict Trumpism?
At the Human Rights Commission, staff must be drowning in an ocean of complaints.
Trump brings old foes together
And so long, Mr C, it’s time that we began to laugh and cry, cry and laugh about it all again.
Meltdown as Trump win confounds
The new journalism on show: Why talk to sources when you can scroll through Twitter?
Trump leaves world in a spin
Will Canada need to stop the canoes to block Americans fleeing across the northern border?
Triggs in she-said, she-said
In the face of attacks, won’t somebody think of the poor Human Rights Commission?
Outrage over 7-Eleven workers
Plus: A call for our skilled migration policy to give way to the politics of feelings.
He’s not a union heavy
And sometimes the CFMEU parlays the toiler’s trade into first-rate blue-collar poetry.
Call us old-fashioned
While the Courier-Mail profits from The Oz’s hard work, Bill Leak’s defenders grow louder.
Hazelwood: fretting for lost jobs
The Age scratches its head over connection between more prisoners, less crime.
Kevin Rudd fires a broadside
Just what exactly did they “will never be settled in Australia” mean, then?
Melbourne Cup: wowserism wins
Plus: Higher power prices, higher density, and a defence of the FBI’s James Comey.
Another Fairfax writer joins CAFE
Defending your right to say whatever you want … so long as you do it with profanity
Shorten lumps the PM with KKK
Halloween is racist cultural appropriation, or an opportunity to have a bit of fun
Outrage starlings circling
Not a naughty boy, Bill’s just ‘a very colourful, passionate Australian of enormous artistic ability’.
Tolerating disagreement
Plus: Americans riled up about the presidential race are going at it sledgehammer and tongs.
Fairfax columnist’s ‘refugee’ plea
Forget what you may have heard, they’re just like us. So long as they don’t vote One Nation.
Get me out of this wet suit!
The Age worries about Wonder Woman at the UN, but what about the Saudis?
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