Adele Horin

Adele Horin is a columnist and reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald who has been a correspondent in New York, Washington and London for the original, hard-copy National Times, and won a Walkley award for a series on Australiansâ€™ sex lives before they were so commonly exposed. She is also the recipient of an Australian Human Rights Commission media award.

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For richer and poorer, the battle goes on

Adele Horin The chief executive officer of ANZ bank, Mike Smith, whose annual salary converts to about $27,400 a day, thinks people on unemployment benefits of $34 a day get too much.

Power play 'disingenuous'

Adele Horin States not to blame for rising energy prices, says expert advising the federal government.

Blame game on electricity prices 'ignores poverty crisis'

Adele Horin A MEMBER of the expert group advising the federal government on energy policy has contradicted the Prime Minister's assertion that the states are to blame for skyrocketing energy prices as she...

Speak up for those crushed by the din

Adele Horin My favourite episode of the television series Seinfeld is called The Puffy Shirt but I always think of it as The Whisperer.

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Pain and shame behind the silence

Adele Horin I'm taking my sons to see Death of a Salesman tonight. If any play inspires a love of theatre, it is surely the Arthur Miller classic.

Call for free abortions as needy women priced out of procedure

Adele Horin GROWING numbers of women in desperate financial straits cannot afford abortions, say women's health advocates who are running out of funds to help them.

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Measuring failure, tooth by tooth

Adele Horin I am of an age when young men stand up for me on buses and young women listen to my advice without telling me to rack off. So, why is it in the dentist's chair I feel like a child?

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A good death should be the norm

Adele Horin If your elderly parent or beloved spouse became so seriously ill she was unlikely to recover, where would you like her to spend her last weeks or days?

Child support scheme 'too complex'

Adele Horin Only a handful of experts can understand the rules, according to a study of support recipients.

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Solo mothers down to the wire

Adele Horin Surely the hardest working people in Australia are sole parents with young children and jobs. Other working parents juggle but these sole parents walk the high wire, their lives in perilous balance.

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Out-of-step excuse is no defence

Adele Horin It should not have taken the brutal killing of Manpreet Kaur at the hands of her husband to prompt an inquiry into the use of provocation as a partial defence in NSW murder trials.

Focus on family planning as Carr doubles foreign aid

Adele Horin AS WORLD leaders convene for a major family planning summit in London, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, said Australia would double its overseas aid for family planning programs to more than...

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Nothing sacred about celibacy

Adele Horin As the reputation of the Catholic Church sinks further into the mire with the latest allegations of sex abuse and cover-up, it is worth raising again the subject of priestly celibacy.

Tough conversation worth having

Adele Horin It was my mother's 84th birthday last week, and we gave her an unusual gift: the opportunity to talk to us about her end-of-life medical treatment.

Beware the rise of worthless training

Adele Horin People who went to university and whose children go, or are destined to go, to university usually have little interest in the plebeian matters of skills training or the fate of TAFE, an institution...

Great roll of China no solution

Adele Horin Sydney doesn't need a second casino. Australia's tourist industry won't be saved by a second casino.

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Hard heart tarnishes El Dorado

Adele Horin From all quarters I hear the cry: ''Go west and seek your fortune.'' Why linger in the eastern seaboard slow lane when El Dorado lies across the Nullarbor? To those attracted by the lure of filthy...

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Study shows nation's economic resilience

Adele Horin MOST Australians were better off after the global financial crisis than they had been before it, a new study shows.

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Risks in court of common opinion

Adele Horin Children's voices need to be heard loud and clear in cases where separating parents are fighting over them. But rarely do children in Australia get to meet the judge who is deciding their fate.