Last updated: February 16, 2011

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Thursday, 28 October

Men made to feel like fiends

miranda devine

YOU can understand why men at a public pool in might be concerned about the presence of unsupervised boys.

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Friday, 15 October

Why Julia Gillard is facing her own ETS

WATER rights may become to the PM what the ETS was to Kevin Rudd - a political nightmare.

Thursday, 7 October

It's not V for victory - Aussies lose it twice

salute

WE CAME, we saw, and when we didn't conquer we just flipped them the bird, writes Mike Colman.

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Tuesday, 29 June

That's a fat lot of good

Overweight children

YOUNG Australians do have a problem with body image. But it's not what you think, writes Susie O'Brien.

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Tuesday, 22 June

Comment: Price of liberty paid in blood

WITH every step forward there is one step back.

Monday, 24 May

Providing value for money on poverty

WITH Australia preparing to double annual foreign aid to $8 billion by 2015 it's time to account for our spending

Wednesday, 28 April

The biggest lie of all found out - Bolt

sun

KEVIN Rudd's climate backfip begs the question was he lying then or now, writes Andrew Bolt.

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Saturday, 27 February

Kevin Rudd gives himself an upper cut... kind of

KEVIN Rudd is in an extraordinary frame of mind. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott might be bagging him around the country, but the Prime Minister is suddenly doing a pretty good job of criticising himself.

Monday, 18 January

'It's time for zero tolerance on suffering'

marijuana

TRACEY Spicer was too cowardly to help her mum, but as cancer kids suffer she says it's time to act.

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Wednesday, 13 January

Big city living 'getting uglier by the day'

City

"JUST when you think you've seen the nadir of ugliness, something new comes along," says editor.

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Tuesday, 8 December

Face up to real friends offline

Stress woman

KEEP your real friends close and your Facebook "friends" as far away as possible, writes Michelle Cazzulino.

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Tuesday, 1 December

No ordinary Joe

Joe Hockey

JOE Hockey has packaged himself to the Australian public as a family man first, politician second, writes Susie O'Brien.

Friday, 27 November

Brogden: My mental illness is no shame

John Brogden

WE'VE come a long way in our understanding of mental illness, writes John Brogden.

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Thursday, 26 November

A river of tears for children lost

Pool

KIDS don't understand that pools are dangerous - only that they are fun and offer respite from the heat, writes Dr Steve Walker.

Wednesday, 25 November

It's txting times for many parents

Text

ONE parent has found it is more effective to send an SMS than it is calling his children for dinner, writes Gemma Jones.

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Tuesday, 24 November

Vital issue is truth, not sex

Rann

Susie O'Brien says the details most important to the public surrounding Mike Rann's alleged affair has nothing to do with sex.

Strategy of News Corp, Microsoft link-up

Picture

NEWS Corp's strategy is to make use of Microsoft's desire to build an alternative to Google.

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Monday, 23 November

For Sale signs nailed to our Aussie icons

Uluru / AP

Tracey Spicer objects to the brave new world of McTourism where Aussie icons are sold to the highest American bidder.

Sunday, 22 November

Sophie, what is it that you do exactly?

Sophie Monk

BLOGGER Perez Hilton calls her "Z-list". Has Sophie Monk become our own Lindsay Lohan, asks Marie-Christine Sourris.

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Saturday, 21 November

Men yearn for a work-life balance too

Brett Lee

WHEN Brett Lee looked forward to a life after cricket, he spoke of more time to play with his son, writes Rodney Chester.

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Thursday, 19 November

How can we tackle binge-drinking?

Andrew Scipione

ALCOHOL abuse should be the entire community's responsibility, not just left to the police, says Andrew Scipione.

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Wednesday, 18 November

Kiss of life for cougar respectability

Demi Moore

COUGARS have gained street cred thanks to movies and TV giving them a whole new respectability, says Geoff Shearer.

Tuesday, 17 November

Going green? Ditch the dog

Poodle

EMISSIONS trading is one way to combat climate change but another way may be to eat your dog, writes Susie O'Brien.

Monday, 16 November

Australia's filling up by accident

Population

AUSTRALIA needs to develop a population policy so we can make smart decisions for the future, writes Alan Howe.

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Sunday, 15 November

Time for us to lift our game in Tigertown

Tiger Woods

MELBOURNE celebrates its title as the sports capital of the world by witnessing The Tiger in action, writes Eddie McGuire.

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Saturday, 14 November

Can't we keep anything to ourselves?

Whisper

EVERYONE from unknowns to A-list stars are blurting out their minute-by-minute thoughts and deeds, writes Linda Kelser.

Friday, 13 November

Get some respect with the right address

Names

NO adding bits or taking them off. No rhymes or jokes. Real-life name calling will help us connect, writes Jane Fynes-Clinton.

Thursday, 12 November

Celebrity depression is the new black

Wayne Carey

CELEBRITY depression can now be cited as the cause of randiness, boozing and drug taking, writes Patrick Carlyon.

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Wednesday, 11 November

At last I've been singled out by the PM

Andrew Bolt

KEVEN Rudd has criticised News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt, trying to shame his as a 'climate change skeptic'.

Monday, 9 November

How freedom arrived in one surreal night

Berlin Wall

"THE border is open - they are all coming in. The wall is coming down." Myrto Schaefer recalls that night in Berlin 20 years ago.

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Sunday, 8 November

Turnbull plans to be an inaction man

Malcolm Turnbull

MALCOLM Turnbull avoids attempts to say what he would do differently to the PM on asylum seekers, says Glenn Milne.

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Saturday, 7 November

'Answer the bloody question, Kevin'

Kevin Rudd

LAURIE Oaks finds himself shouting at a radio as Kevin Rudd appears shocked and isolated by the issue of asylum seekers.

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Friday, 6 November

Plug in, log on ... and take care

Internet

TOO many treat the net like the Wild West and publish whatever they please about whoever they want, writes Jane Fynes-Clinton.

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Thursday, 5 November

Look at what's behind the moustache

Moustache

NOTHING stereotypes a man better than a moustache, no matter what shape or size it comes in, writes Warren Brown.

Punching above their weight

Newspaper

IT seem incredibly brutish that in the 21st century an argument over writing would be settled with fisticuffs, writes Joe Hilderbrand.

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Wednesday, 4 November

Take a look what's behind the moustache

Movember

NOVEMBER brings our greatest race, but it also starts the longest - the annual hairfest known as Movember, writes Warren Brown.

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Monday, 2 November

No rhyme or reason to picking cup winner

Melbourne cup

EVERYONE seem to have their own system that's guaranteed to pick the winner at the Melbourne Cup, writes Joe Hildebrand.

Sunday, 1 November

Rock on, art lovers with this big thing

Art

THE judges of Sculpture By The Sea understand that there is a great danger for mass-market art, writes Claire Harvey.

Friday, 30 October

Supermarket racism takes the biscuit

Coles

THE blood libel of a snack has alerted Joe Hildebrand to the off-the-shelf segregation happening amongst our groceries.

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Thursday, 29 October

Footy's day of disgrace

Neil Mitchell

ONE can be a healthy young man who likes beer and women, but is also entirely decent, writes Neil Mitchell.

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Elation in Egypt

Egpytian revolution

CRIES of "Egypt is free" rang out and fireworks lit up the sky as Egypt celebrated the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.

Unrest in Egypt

Mideast Egypt

Anit-government protestors in Egypt have reacted with outrage to news President Hosni Mubarak will not step down.

Egyptian protests reach flashpoint

egypt thumb

Violence spreads to the streets of Egypt's capital as anti-government and pro-government protestors clash

The Sony World Photography Awards 2011

Citizens of Despair

SEE the professional finalists in this year's Sony World Photography Awards.

A Prime Minister's tears

Julia Gillard

PM Julia Gillard breaks down while paying tribute to Australia's disaster zone heroes in Federal Parliament

Bushfire in Perth's northeast

bushfire

Massive bushfire forces evacuations in Perth's northeast

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