Too close for comfort
SHARING air traffic controllers poses a heightened risk to aircraft safety.
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An outsider’s chance
JOKO Widodo raises hopes of true democracy in Indonesia.
Scots tae think again
700 years after Robert the Bruce comes a less bloody question.
Moscow’s clear choice
RUSSIA must cease supplying and training Ukraine’s criminal rebels.
It’s time to stand tall
IF the battle for civilisation is going to be waged between soft-voiced apologists and barbarians, then the barbarians will win.
Day of reckoning close for ALP
LABOR’S negativity is a successful tactic but it lacks a viable strategy.
Goodbye, Mr Tomlinson
PUBLIC-private schooling debate misses the point.
Sex and the sexagenarian
SINGLE again at 60, Monica Porter rediscovered her mojo – with a series of much, much younger lovers.
Newman, Abbott face a flogging
STATE polls will be a test for the federal scene, and it looks bad for the Liberals.
Gazans’ real enemy is Hamas, not Israel
ITS leaders provoke Israel, then use Gaza’s civilians as human shields.
Stones, unturned
ANGUS and Julia Stone, the sibling darlings of the Australian indie folk scene, have reunited with a new outlook on music.
Still the lucky country
MELDED by migration and forged by feminism, Australia has been transformed in half a century.
Blown away
AS the 40th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy approaches, a new book revisits the day a city disappeared.
Palmer and Fraser must think of victims
IN today’s political discourse, exaggeration is in danger of supplanting considered expression.
Keeping it real
WHAT separates the good reality talent shows from the bad is highlighting humanity, not humiliation.
Class warfare
ABUSED in the classroom, defamed online, bullied by parents… Who’d be a teacher?
Big, bad Barrie
BARRIE Kosky is feted in Europe as opera’s redeemer, but he still has strong opinions about his homeland and its culture.
Quality of teaching at heart of problem
THERE’S no point in reviews unless recommendations are implemented.
Carbon war not over
YESTERDAY’S vote in the Senate ended a five-year quest to axe the carbon tax but political risks remain.
Fear returns to Israel
EVERYONE has wasted the opportunities for peace that emerged in recent years.
Murderer’s life of lies
NOTHING was as it seemed behind the doors of the Baden-Clay marriage.
A make or break gamble
RUPERT Murdoch knew the major challenges in publishing a national daily were technology and logistics.
Terror back on our doorstep
THIS October, Australians will solemnly commemorate 12 years since the Bali bombings.
Iggy’s big rap
HOW did a girl from country NSW become the hottest thing in American hip-hop?
The show’s over
FOR six decades he played the lovable larrikin but in private he was anything but funny. How did he get away with it for so long?
Savagery up-ends Israelis’ conviction
THE horrific murder of an Arab boy has Jews questioning what is right.
Unholy foot soldiers in a foreign fight
AUSTRALIAN jihadists secretly travel to take part in the violent conflict ripping apart Syria and Iraq: the battle for Islam.
Jokowi a reasonably safe bet for us
JOKOWI represents an authentic triumph of democracy and liberalism.
War stories
FOR Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, the cultural divide was vast.
No guarantees amid turmoil
IN an exclusive interview, the Reserve Bank governor ponders the future.
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