Union gravy train is terminating
Cosy deals between bosses and the labour movement milk employee entitlements.
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Abe must rewrite constitution
The pacifist wording of Japan’s constitution is a hindrance to global peacekeeping.
Do these genes really fit?
Future generations may prove the most agreeable ever born but vanilla natures might come at a price.
Joyce goes, along with stability
Malcolm Turnbull must restore a sense of calm and purpose.
Pressure is on Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull’s mathematical nightmare is not confined to the floor of parliament.
This vandalism needed stopping
Tony Windsor and Justin Gleeson have done the nation a great service.
Trans activists masking reality
The transgender cause is pitched as the civil rights movement of the 21st century. It is no such thing.
Not the same as in Marx’s time
There was an argument for workers to have improved rights in Karl Marx’s 19th century but it holds less water now.
China direct flights pay off
Overseas students and their holidaying parents explain much of our surge in foreign numbers.
Social media ruins politics
What kind of government and educational leadership can we expect in a generation’s time?
Sorry, wrong number
More bureaucracy will fix everything, according to the Productivity Commission.
Weinsteins lurk in the workplace
Surely men must realise by now that they cannot get away with sexually harassing female colleagues.
Labor’s appeal to asset owners
The Coalition can’t rely on old assumptions that it will be seen as the better economic manager.
Not business as usual
This is everything Malcolm Turnbull promised ‘business of government’ wouldn’t be when he became PM.
Labor ready to wreak havoc
Amid talk of a vote that could drive Malcolm Turnbull out of the PM’s office, Labor only has a small window to strike.
Research favoured over teaching
The government must resolve the impasse between deregulation and uncapping university places.
Hard questions of recognition
Malcolm Turnbull made a pragmatic political decision .
How it all blew up for Cash
There is one organisation that can say who donated what to whom and when.
The boring generation
With seemingly nothing to rebel against, the millennials, those born between 1980 and 2000, have lost their edge.
Remembrance of traumas past
Dissociative identity disorder is the modern equivalent of demonic possession.
Put Lateline out of its misery
The terminal decline of the ABC’s Lateline was evident for all to see last night, assuming anyone bothered to watch.
Bitter end to shocking week
The Prime Minister is under huge pressure to assure voters he can ensure stable government amid the catastrophic loss of two cabinet ministers.
Volume of chaos turned up to 11
The High Court has taken a chunk out of the PM’s hind leg and he is bleeding in the water. Christmas looks a long way away.
Tuesday heroes, Friday zeroes
Malcolm Turnbull is like Wile E. Coyote, chasing his opponents and failing, leaving him battered and smeared in cordite.
Readers take aim at union
When federal police officers raided AWU offices this week, it was a cue for thunder and lightning from The Australian’s readers.
We don’t need another review
The people who brought us the collapse of TAFE now have ideas for universities.
Rich get richer in Xi’s China
Xi Jinping, the leader offended by Winnie the Pooh memes, has asserted his undisputed authority over China.
NBN disaster: the lowdown
We wanted a broadband network the private sector would not build.
Rivals are good for one another
Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten have demonstrated again that they are the best thing going for each other.
Pull the other one, minister
Michaelia Cash has left an already confused press gallery truly stunned.
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