Burgeoning promises cut down to size
IT'S official: little is the new big. Rumours have abounded for
days about the sheer size and ambition of the Coalition's health
policy, writes Annabel Crabb.
No surrender now police have found the force
It is axiomatic that coppers, security agencies and other arms of law and order will always ask for more power and invariably end up abusing it, writes Richard Ackland.
Howard's instinct let him down
John Howard has blown his best chance to turn around his failing
election campaign, writes Peter Hartcher.
The bumpy road to HSC perfection
It is that time of year again. The HSC is over, unfettered weeks lie ahead, and there is little to worry about, until Christmas week, when the HSC results will be published, writes Roslyn Arnold.
Imagine a world with no cartoons
My young sons and I were having a chat about how Europeans came to
be in Australia. The five-year-old wanted to know who had the worst
time of it: convicts or indigenous people, writes Catharine Lumby.
End of the road for my Kombi is like a death in the family
Heckler: THIS week I farewelled a stalwart, battle-weary old friend. In doing so, I also farewelled a community, a kinship of a kind.
Room for prices to rise in Brisbane, Melbourne
It All Adds Up: If all the houses in Sydney were lined up
according to their value - from the most expensive harbour-front
mansions to the cheapest fibro places on the urban fringe - the
house in the very middle would fetch about $550,000.
Bedside manner can be a bit grim
Half-Truths: Scene: The Health Minister's office with sweeping harbour views. The Minister, Reba Meagher, is sitting at an enormous desk. She is the image of tough, competent, new-wave feminist technocrat leadership, her power suit impeccable, hair swept into a French roll, teeth agleam after a thorough polish, eyebrows and nostril hairs expensively micromanaged to telegenic perfection. The phone rings.
