LIBERATED BY LACK OF FAITH
Ex-Muslims are the most oppressed people on earth, facing prison and death, so why is the West so wary of giving them a voice?
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FEAR OF A BASHIR BACKLASH
Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s pardon for the extremist cleric dismays all sides.
TOO LATE TO NIP IN THE BUD
As Australia debates drugs, legal cannabis is raising health fears in the US.
CRUSHING CYCLE OF TRAGEDY
There’s a terrible sense of deja vu in the suicides of young indigenous Australians.
BATTLE FOR BRITAIN: PEOPLE V COMMONS Battle for Britain pits the people against a parliament resisting the popular will
A soft Brexit would be worse than remaining in the EU or crashing out.
How to get ahead in politics the George Costanza way
Here are 10 missteps Scott Morrison could have avoided if only he’d adopted the George Costanza approach.
We need to care, and pay the cost
Australians are world champions at providing a poor service at a criminally high price. Brace yourselves for a brutal reality check.
From misbehaving boys to violent men: the poisoning of male identity
The corrosive effect of the war against masculinity is not simply confined to the world of boys and young men. We all suffer.
Saudis cast a long shadow but we can curtail their impunity
While dragging women back to face medieval treatment, Saudi Arabia is spiriting away men accused of crimes abroad.
Democracy on a razor’s edge
Gillette’s sharpest insight was to demonstrate the chronic divide between so-called elites and the mainstream.
All our tomorrows hinge on outcome of aged-care inquiry All our tomorrows hinge on aged-care inquiry’s outcome
Consumers will refuse to pay more for services without visible improvements in the quality of aged care.
BLOWING UP WESTMINSTER
Where Guy Fawkes failed, Brexit is succeeding in blowing up the mother of all parliaments.
Postwar migrant who fled communist rule gave much to his adopted home
Milan Kantor was a ‘Renaissance man with a big heart’ who brought a touch of Bohemia to his life in Australia.
Report’s sensationalist claim of ‘climate breakdown’ is catchy but untrue
An alarming report claims “catastrophic warming” will make last year’s natural disasters look like a picnic. There’s just one problem.
trump hits THE halfway mark
For all the chaos of his presidency, few could accuse Donald Trump of abandoning his election promises.
Progressive fads promote cultural illiteracy in schools
A liberal education based on the virtues of Western civilisation – not progressive fads – is the best remedy for the ills of education.
Raise a voice for Hakeem
Hakeem al-Araibi’s extradition to Bahrain would be a travesty and Australia should be working harder to prevent it.
Our only instability is an infatuation with independents
Australia is relatively stable, despite the current influence of — and infatuation with — independents in Canberra.
DISPUTED RETURNS
Steffi Graf still loves tennis, Andre Agassi less so, and their kids don’t even play. In a rare and candid interview, they reveal why.
Birmingham strays into China-Canada crossfire
A Huawei executive arrested in Vancouver at Washington’s request has become our problem.
HOW VEXED A MAN CAN GET
The early response to Gillette’s extraordinary take on “toxic masculinity” in the #MeToo age shows it may backfire at the checkout.
SMARTPHONE LIFE ON HOLD
The last rites are being given to the device that changed our lives, as era of smartphone supremacy begins to wane.
DISHARMONY IN THE AIR
Airlines complain it’s hard to keep up as airport charges soar.
TRUMP FOE, FEMINIST FRIEND
Stormy Daniels has gone from porn star to feminist icon. Just like Monica Lewinsky 20 years earlier, her story has been co-opted by both sides of politics.
ECONOMIC STORM WARNING
Financial markets have been behaving as if the world economy were Wile E. Coyote, defying the inevitable plunge into the canyon below.
The nation’s worst health disaster sailed in as the Great War drew to a close
First it wreaked havoc across Europe, then it reached our shores.
BORDER WALL STONEWALL
To understand just how much politics is being played over Trump’s border wall, you need only to look back to 2006.
THERE’S NOTHING SUPER ABOUT ALP’S TAX PLANS
The opposition says it will introduce four new taxes on retirement savings if it wins office.
If surplus is wiped out, Coalition could go the same way
The conservative edge in economic management is an advantage Scott Morrison can’t afford to lose.
May these forces not be with you
It seems we are set, as Australians, to continue our streak of legendary self-sabotage in 2019.
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