An inconvenient youth ... but Extinction Rebellion will become heroes

It’s inconvenient, getting caught up in an Extinction Rebellion protest. I was stranded on the Riverside Expressway a month or so back, jammed up...

John Birmingham

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The criminal on the PM's plane and other absurdities of a secretive democracy

Kevin Rudd’s plane had taken an unusual detour on the return journey from the 2008 APEC meeting in Chile, going via Hawaii rather than Auckland....

Chris Uhlmann

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Assault with a deadly chicken

He's gonna build a wall! "It’s all been too much," thinks Adrian Connelly of Springwood. "I’d certainly build Adrian’s Wall to keep out anyone...

Wa Today

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Why it's OK to feel sorry for Meghan Markle

Is empathy a finite resource? Meghan Markle was criticised for the way she held her baby. Credit:AP If you feel it for a starving orphan, or a...

Kate Hedley

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There are some rules to protect racehorses, but they're easily evaded

This weekend saw protests at Caulfield Racecourse, following a shocking report last week on the ABC’s 7:30 program on the fate of thousands of...

Kate Fenner And Michelle Lenore Hyde

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Take it from me, media freedom is too precious to take for granted

As a refugee from Afghanistan, media freedom is not a topic I would have expected to be something to be discussed in the way that it has been in...

Abdullah Ali Khil

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Taking the piss: Right to party not animal rights comes first for racegoers

Most Saturday mornings in spring I’ll overhear exchanges like this. “Hurry up, I really needa piss.” “Just go behind that car you pussy.”...

Brandon Jack

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Arteries quake in the presence of the mighty poutine

While the Dutch delicacy of mayo on chips (C8) is well known, thanks no doubt to John Travolta’s Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, the preferred...

Wa Today

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PM has unfinished business in reckoning with church abuse

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has two questions to answer after failing to respond to a US news report that he sought to have Hillsong church...

Joanne Mccarthy

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What high achievers are missing as ideal teachers

I stopped teaching over a decade ago after 18 years at the coalface yet the comments still come. I have lost count of how many people I hardly know...

Paul O’Shannassy

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Press freedom under threat from national security law spree

Australia has long been described as a liberal democracy. But we have a press freedom problem that raises genuine questions about whether we...

Jennifer Robinson

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With greater powers must come greater accountability

“If you see something, say something,” the bright yellow bus stop sign urged. In 2014 the prominent terrorism awareness campaign saw these...

Alice Drury

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Don't silence our Voice, minister: Uluru leaders condemn backward step

The Indigenous recognition process has a very clear trajectory from the days of the Republic referendum in 1999, to the expert panel in 2011, the...

Pat Anderson

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I'm boycotting horseracing because it's lethal

Horseracing, far from being a "sport" in which all players involved participates willingly, feeds on the exploitation of the beings it supposedly...

Dj Tigerlily

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Are high achievers the answer to teaching's poor reputation?

I stopped teaching over a decade ago after 18 years at the coalface yet the comments still come. I have lost count of how many people I hardly know...