Dolly Downer goes to London

18 Feb 2014 | The Abbott Government hands out more jobs for the boys, with Alexander Downer being appointed ...  

The Murdoch trials and the Australian media airbrush

14 Feb 2014 | The mainstream media in Australia has given little attention to the Murdoch trials in London. ...  

'Boat people' and the nation that lost its way

13 Feb 2014 | Why are we, as a nation, so disdainful and cruel to vulnerable asylum seekers? Arrin Chapman ...  

Food waste and hunger side-by-side

10 Feb 2014 | Up to half of all the food produced in the world each year never makes it to a plate, but ends up ...  

Murdoch at the crossroads

10 Feb 2014 | Accounts surfacing of an ex-wife assaulting Rupert Murdoch is suggestive of a series a planned ...  

Screen Themes: Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman

7 Feb 2014 | Entertainment editor John Turnbull reviews the glittering career of a vastly talented actor whose ...  

A plea for an Australian Republic from Prime Minister Tony Abbott

6 Feb 2014 | The strongest argument Michael~John Shea has heard recently for an Australian republic was, he ...  

The grapes of Rupert

6 Feb 2014 | Rupert Murdoch has bought a small winery in California, where he is wandering the vines and ...  

The Great Barrier Reef and rethinking national interest

4 Feb 2014 | James Wight says we urgently need governments to rethink their outmoded concepts of “national ...  

The ABC of ending embarrassing questions

31 Jan 2014 | PM Abbott’s assault on the ABC is all about stopping it from reporting news that is inconvenient ...  

Filling the Fukushima radiation credibility gap

29 Jan 2014 | A citizen scientist project on North America’s West Coast hopes to fill the void in credible ...  

Abbott’s Davos disaster

25 Jan 2014 | What has the world learned about Australia from Abbott’s keynote address to the World Economic ...  

$7.30 BREAKING NEWS: Indonesian Navy invades Australian territorial waters

22 Jan 2014 | $7.30's Lee Sails interviews Tony Abbott over reports three Indonesian Naval vessels have entered ...  

Australia in The Hague

22 Jan 2014 | A secret document relating to an Australian international court case in The Hague has washed up on ...  

The inadvertent Abbott Government’s Indonesian crisis

18 Jan 2014 | So, you think relations with Indonesia couldn’t get any worse under the new Government? Well ...  

Morrison’s pirates

16 Jan 2014 | So, guns were fired near children on a leaky boat we turned back to Indonesia, which did not want ...  

OECD: Australia worst greenhouse gas emitter per person

15 Jan 2014 | The club of the world's richest countries says its members are failing to prevent dangerous ...  

Obscene wealth and grinding poverty side by side

14 Jan 2014 | The incredible and increasing income disparity between the super-rich and the very poor is beco ...