There will be an urgent need for engineers in regional areas post-pandemic

As the country moves out of emergency mode and into recovery mode, what does a post-pandemic Australia look like? One thing is certain -...

Chris Stoltz

2 latest

We need smarter politicians. These aren't up to scratch

David Littleproud, Federal Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, being interviewed on ABC Radio National on October 22, twice...

Letters To The Editor

3 latest

Why don't we stop trading with China? Because it's not that easy

Whether it's Australia's exports, imports, tourists, migrants, international students or investment, it seems like all roads lead to China. China...

Adam Triggs

4 latest

My son died of a drug overdose. Our drug laws hold some of the blame

A lot can happen in a quarter of a century. When I look back on the quarter-century before my son died from a heroin overdose, I think about his...

Marion Mcconnell

3 latest

A better housing system could be the silver lining to COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that Australia's housing system is not fit for purpose. In the early days of Australia's pandemic...

Joel Dignam

3 latest

The family ties that come in footy colours

Voice of Real Australia is a regular newsletter from ACM, which has journalists in every state and territory. Sign up here to get it by email, or...

Janine Graham

3 yesterday

How are people coping with climate grief?

Everyone copes with disaster and loss differently. But this year, as we near the anniversary of the deadly Black Summer bushfires and prepare for...

Sandra Croaker

4 yesterday

Deluded conservatives should think outside the square

Joey Francis of Fadden (Letters, October 20) believes the Liberals' failure in the ACT election was the result of a poorly run campaign and an...

Letters To The Editor

3 yesterday

How good is political spin?

Scott Morrison is an ad man - and he's far more skilled at it than most. Picture: Getty Images It's the rhetoric game, a simple skill but one that...

Nicholas Stuart

5 yesterday

The Australian Senate is rigged. Here's how to fix it

Earlier this month, the Senate passed legislation implementing the Morrison government's higher education funding legislation, known as the...

Malcolm Mackerras

4 yesterday

Why the fight for regional media impacts every one of us

Did you know a US media company you've never heard of and a bloke called Donald Trump have more to do with your local council meetings than you...

Glynn Greensmith

5 previous day

Electric scooter usage needs to be monitored very closely

Regarding the article: "How to safely scoot in the ACT" (October 22, p12). It would appear the police and roads traffic officials have carried out...

Letters To The Editor

3 previous day

The dictionary is the thinking person's astrology

Just in time to be a welcome distraction from the horror movie of US politics up pops a new website, the Time Traveller Tool. There fun-loving...

Ian Warden

4 previous day

I'll always be a worrier thanks to the trauma of my own blundering childhood

I don't know where I am or how I got here. It's dark, dank. I'm on a bench seat, in the company of other males. I can smell them, feel them, their...

B. R. Doherty

3 previous day

COVID-19 didn't kill the school reunion. Social media did

If you finished high school in 1990, it is likely you would have this year weighed up the pros and cons of pausing your regular Saturday night with...

Gary Martin

4 previous day

Donald Trump is simply running out of time

The neckties gave everything away. The President in Republican red; former vice-president Joe Biden in Democratic blue. No cross-dressing. Total...

Bruce Wolpe

5 saturday

Trump is simply running out of time

The neckties gave everything away. The President in Republican red; former vice-president Joe Biden in Democratic blue. No cross-dressing. Total...

Bruce Wolpe

4 saturday

Why we must make social distancing a way of life

As coronavirus continues to change the way we live, Australia is in the fortunate position where case numbers have dropped significantly in all...

Naomi Williams

7 saturday

I'm having a bad hair month, and it's all my own fault

I've joined another movement, jumped on another bandwagon, and now I'm getting on another soapbox. Better make that some other kind of box, because...

Michelle Haines Thomas

6 saturday

PM's Australia Post rant was a masterclass in hypocrisy

The Prime Minister's confected outrage over the presentation of Cartier watches to senior executives at Australia Post for jobs well done in...

Letters To The Editor

6 saturday

How the Greens swept through Canberra

For four long and hard years, Shane Rattenbury served as the only Green in the Legislative Assembly. He served an important role, the sole member...

Daniella White

6 saturday

Think the US is a shambles? It's our judicial appointments process that needs fixing

To anyone outside the United States (and even some within), the confirmation hearing for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett has...

Ray Steinwall

1 saturday

Morrison's promised integrity commission can't hide behind COVID-19 much longer - can it?

The government can act super-fast on integrity issues when it wants. On Thursday a Senate estimates committee was told the government-owned...

Michelle Grattan

7 saturday

What's really behind Rudd's call for a Murdoch royal commission?

More than 350,000 people have now signed a petition launched by Kevin Rudd calling for a royal commission into media ownership. Of course there are...

Simon Cowan

1 saturday

Our corrupted system does far more damage than any foreign agent

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong The director general of ASIO, Mike Burgess, is proposing to write a letter to all...

Jack Waterford

6 saturday

North by Northwest: a thriller fit for Queensland

Voice of Real Australia is a regular newsletter from ACM, which has journalists in every state and territory. Sign up here to get it by email, or...

Derek Barry

5 23.10.2020

Berejiklian's sympathy tour may still yet work

Revealing the intimate details of politicians' romantic lives is usually justified as being in the public interest. The public, the reasoning goes,...

Dan Dixon

1 23.10.2020

Berejiklian's sympathy tour may yet prove successful

Revealing the intimate details of politicians' romantic lives is usually justified as being in the public interest. The public, the reasoning goes,...

Dan Dixon

1 23.10.2020

Don't tar the whole APS with the same Cartier brush

"Would you say there is a culture problem in the public sector under your watch?" Prime Minister Scott Morrison was asked during a press conference...

Elliot Williams

2 23.10.2020

Tragic infatuation a universal curse

Even Germaine Greer is not immune to the intoxication of love. Picture: Getty Images The tragic love-plight of New South Wales premier Gladys...

Ian Warden

4 23.10.2020

Two-faced Labor risks falling between stools

Labor in Australia had better watch out. The Greens are coming for them. The results of last weekend's ACT and New Zealand elections illustrate the...