Gladys major or Gladys minor
Michael Daley’s week from hell means the NSW poll is a contest between Coalition majority and minority.
Opinion
Turnbull shows support for Libs
Football cheerleaders become the next grouping to succumb to political correctness.
Be afraid of locust-free plague
Is insectageddon imminent? Not yet. But precautions are needed.
Labor enters with wrecking ball
It’s curious how Labor, which launched the $50 billion NBN, is so opposed to improving two stadiums in Sydney.
Aussie dream lives on in UK
In the cutthroat realm of reality TV, Wanted Down Under is a survivor.
‘Democracy you can eat’
However much the military junta has stacked the decks in its favour, Thais are champing at the bit to have their at the polls this weekend.
Let’s agree to disagree better
Tearing down opponents instead of debating different viewpoints produces heat but not light.
Defining our national brand
Australians have vast potential to step up in the world.
Winding clock back to the future
An ambitious Bill Shorten is raising voter expectations.
‘Aly’s rant based on rumour’
It appears the TV host and academic believes his views, based on undocumented hearsay, are more significant than those of the PM.
Who’ll be poll’s biggest loser?
Betting markets show a cliffhanger, but tomorrow may offer the rarest of election results: the one you don’t want to win.
Waleed ‘outwitted, outplayed’
Your say on the ScoMo-Waleed Aly stoush, the negative gearing apocalypse, and why we need Bill Shorten in the Lodge.
Cleaning up our complex lives
Globalisation has brought great benefits but its sheer intricacy is turning people against it.
She’s right … why’s that wrong?
Gladys Berejiklian is on the cusp of making gender-based history. So why has there hardly been a reference to this on the ABC?
A ‘living wage’ will kill jobs
Only tax cuts and more freedom for business will increase take-home pay.
Daley’s campaign an own goal
While Gladys Berejiklian’s Liberals are building big new rail, Labor’s Michael Daley is finishing the campaign a train wreck.
Berejiklian fires up aggression
In a close election race, the winner is almost always the one finishing strongly.
Erdogan trying to deflect attention
Recep Tayyip Erdogan should take Bill Clinton’s simple, direct advice: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’.
How Libs impinged on seat I held
Struggling in overcrowded trams, voters will catch a glimpse of a gleaming new $729 million stadium.
Never a time to suppress debate
The Christchurch tragedy has sent many in search of a cause in anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Intelligence better than censorship
Jacinda Ardern’s call for the mosque killer’s name not to be used has moral force but does nothing to keep us all safer.
They’ve always been brothers
It’s not simply that violence breeds violence. A more sinister symbiosis is at work. Neo-Nazis are not the jihadis’ opposite, they are twins.
Coalition is best option for state
Gladys Berejiklian is the sensible leader NSW needs now.
Anger but change not a given
There is plenty for voters to be unhappy about but has Labor done enough to return?
Causational goose of the week
Would it be too much to expect the usual postulators to hold off attributing blame for the Christchurch tragedy?
Brain freeze in ordinary display
Michael Daley needed to make sure there were no mistakes in the Sky News People’s Forum. He slipped — and it was a shocker.
Don’t let gangs control drugs
The choice is simple. We can hand control to governments or to criminal organisations. There is no third way.
Strategy is yet to work miracles
The Reserve Bank would be wise to follow the US lead and review its game plan.
Erdogan sees votes in hate
Turkey’s president is dancing to the terrorist’s tune and playing the nationalist card during an election. Our PM is right to be angry.
Daley finds himself in a pickle
The NSW Labor leader joins John Howard and Geoffrey Blainey in a ‘rogues gallery’.
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