Media Sauce: Why is The Australian fixated on 18C?

3 Nov 2016 | There’s plenty of bigotry about and a lot of it flows from the pages of the News Corp media ...  

The 2016 Melbourne Cup — half empty: Where was Michelle Payne?

3 Nov 2016 | For Tess Lawrence, the 2016 Melbourne Cup is half empty after the disappointing treatment of ...  

Child protection myth: Bigger budgets 'save' families

2 Nov 2016 | Let's radically reduce child protection budgets so the focus is only on genuinely at-risk child ...  

Forget the plebiscite — let's just scrap the Marriage Act

2 Nov 2016 | To avoid the "Sex-Life Stasi" we should scrap the Marriage Act altogether and create private m ...  

What possible justification is there for Turnbull's new refugee ban? 

1 Nov 2016 | Where does the Turnbull Government's cruelty towards asylum seekers end? Asks Alex Reilly.  

Dear Ms Grace Collier

31 Oct 2016 | After losing sleep over Grace Collier's column in The Australian on freedom of speech, Dr Martin ...  

Unions, corporate self-regulation and safety: Is it a Dreamworld?

31 Oct 2016 | The Dreamworld deaths have shone a spotlight on systemic corporate negligence of safety issues ...  

The Coalition Government vs Gillian Triggs

25 Oct 2016 | It's hardly Gillian Triggs’ fault when the Australian government is the worst human rights ...  

Smashed avocado, housing and mental health

23 Oct 2016 | For young people, as the chances of owning a home continue to decrease, their vulnerability to ...  

The day of reckoning for the Children of Despair

20 Oct 2016 | This week has shown that the Australian public don't care about immigrant children being abused in ...  

Uninterrupted economic growth: Just don’t mention poverty or welfare

19 Oct 2016 | Despite 25 years of uninterrupted economic growth, poverty rates continue to soar, writes Michael ...  

Plebiscites, climate science denial and other Coalition diversions

18 Oct 2016 | John Quiggin discusses the Turnbull Government's regressive stance on reforms and the overarching ...  

The 'Neoz Cons' against same-sex marriage

17 Oct 2016 | Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence explores the nether regions of the anti same-sex ...  

Aboriginal suicide at crisis levels and the nation should weep

16 Oct 2016 | 'The nation should weep when six-year-olds contemplate suicide ... the disconnect is not with ...  

Evidence shows crimes committed by our government on Nauru and Manus

14 Oct 2016 | Evidence of crimes committed by Australia on Manus and Nauru is compelling, say Greg Barns and ...  

Robert Manne to Jim Molan: Oh, no Jim, no Jim, no Jim, no!

13 Oct 2016 | Jim Molan believes that no Australian should feel embarrassed about what we’re doing for the ...  

Social media abuse is a sign that the feminist project is still far from finished

12 Oct 2016 | Why do women seem to cop the worst of abuse on social media, asks Eva Cox.  

How DARE you? An open letter to Nauru border policy architect Jim Molan

11 Oct 2016 | An open letter to Jim Molan in response to his Q&A appearance in which he defended Nauru.