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Craig Fry
Bring truth into play by saying yes to drugs in sport
Craig Fry Bans on performance enhancers don't make elite competition fairer.
Ross Garnaut
To a morning sunrise of raised expectation and lowered fear
Ross Gittins When we wake up tomorrow, Australia will have carbon pricing. How will its effects compare with those expected?
Jessica Irvine
To market, to market for the ultimate mates' rates
Jessica Irvine This week we enjoyed a glimpse of a largely invisible and previously poorly understood part of the universe. No, not the Higgs boson. The LIBOR.
Sean Nicholls
Keneally dash fails to draw out Liberals
Sean Nicholls Kristina Keneally beat a hasty retreat from the NSW Parliament. There was a carefully constructed announcement through a sympathetic media outlet, followed by a resignation statement and a media...
Michael Duffy
Revolutions in 140 characters
Michael Duffy ''Some dictators are more afraid of tweets than they are of opposing armies,'' the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, says.
Chris Berg
Schools might as well tell students who to vote for
Chris Berg The draft shape of the National Curriculum's ''civics and citizenship'' subject was released last month. It is blatantly ideological.
The Loaded Dog
Do all Australians in trouble abroad, including Julian Assange, get the same high-level government assistance afforded lawyer Melinda Taylor, who was detained in Libya?
Chris Berg
Blatant bias in national curriculum could damage our democracy
Chris Berg The draft shape of the national curriculum's ''civics and citizenship'' subject was released last month. It is blatantly ideological.
Bruce Guthrie
GetUp, fall down - it's the natural reaction to talkshow stress
Bruce Guthrie Simon Sheikh simply did what many have felt like doing on Q&A.
Cameron Nolan
To stub out smoking, ban cigarette sales to anyone born this century
Cameron Nolan Imagine cigarettes did not exist. Now imagine that some plucky upstart - let's call him Philip Morris - invented them and asked regulators for approval to sell his product.
Tim Colebatch
Productivity: we're winning half the battle
Tim Colebatch Part of the slowdown in Australia is real, but the other part is a mirage.
Cameron Nolan
Imagine prohibiting cigarette sales to people born after 2000
Cameron Nolan Phasing out tobacco will stop the next generation taking up smoking.
Bob Brown
Last woman standing
Bob Brown Both Labor and Liberal have abandoned voters in the Melbourne by-election.
Heckler
Right spirit but spare the paper bags
Heckler DROPPING into the bottle shop of a local pub, I bought a bottle of wine. I paid and the young man serving reached for a paper bag in which to place my purchase.
Peter Mares
Danger zone: planning the city's future must include consultation
Peter Mares Planning Minister Matthew Guy has an admirable aspiration, but it will be realised only if residents are engaged in working out the detail.
The Loaded Dog
Should Olympians be paid according to performance?
Should our Olympic athletes be paid according to their performances in the Games in London next month or should members of a team be paid a team rate?
Michael Buxton
Planning for disaster
Michael Buxton Hopes have faded that the Baillieu government would continue the moderate approach to land use of former premier Sir Rupert Hamer. Instead this is government in the Jeff Kennett style.
Daniel Flitton
Does Abbott have a plan for managing China in a changing world?
Daniel Flitton A trip to Beijing gives the Liberal leader a chance to outline his foreign policy.
Ian Porter
Staying on the assembly line
Ian Porter Don't be too quick to begrudge our struggling car industry its millions in government assistance - the benefits are felt throughout the entire economy.
Amitabh Mattoo, Christopher Kremmer
Hoping for an Indian summer
Amitabh Mattoo, Christopher Kremmer Until decisive steps are taken to strengthen ties between Australia and India, the relationship will remain brittle and vulnerable to being easily derailed, write Amitabh Mattoo and Christopher...
