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Angelina Jolie: breasts, celebrity and choice

The sense that she might actually be flesh and blood is simply beside the point – her career choice, as it were, was to mimic life rather than live it.

by Binoy Kampmark - 16/05/2013 - 7 comments

A hole in the greenie's holiness

Can any emotion be noble if it is has a role in our personal pursuit of happiness?

by Brian Holden - 16/05/2013 - 7 comments

The kids will be alright with a generational future fund

As the Boomers struggle with super and jobs, a generational war chest is needed for their kids.

by Malcolm King - 10/05/2013 - 10 comments

Converted to marriage

Same sex couples didn't want it then, so why now?

by Brendan O'Reilly - 8/05/2013 - 38 comments

In Ohio, next door was a world away

Will new technology, like Google glasses, make us more socially introverted, and less likely to notice what happens in our own locality?

by Mal Fletcher - 8/05/2013

How to make it as a female op-ed star

Women are underrepresented in the mainstream media - and when they write, it's often informed by lived experience

by Sarah Burnside - 1/05/2013 - 5 comments

Government's Experience+ program a fiasco - young to pay

Intergenerational tension looms as Government's older worker policy whithers on the vine.

by Malcolm King - 1/05/2013 - 3 comments

Killed for being the wrong gender

A Melbourne doctor has blown the whistle on parents who demanded an abortion - because they didn't want a girl.

by Bill Muehlenberg - 30/04/2013 - 79 comments

What does it mean to be 'Australian'?

Plainly Anzac Day is more important to us all than Australia Day, if attendances at Dawn services are anything to go by.

by Don Aitkin - 29/04/2013 - 9 comments

Why you shouldn't feel guilty for following the Boston Marathon bombings

Because it's racist or short-sighted to care about what is happening in America and not what is happening in Iraq, we actually shouldn't care about any of it?

by Brendan Lawley - 26/04/2013 - 11 comments

Defending without an attacker

Perhaps we should cater to another societal group in a similar way, and establish White Fear Day.

by Matt Elsbury - 26/04/2013 - 14 comments

War is hell for animals too

On Anzac Day let's commemorate the donkey while we think of Simpson.

by Lyn Bender - 24/04/2013 - 8 comments