United States
Lenore Taylor
Toughened times in the United States of Tony
Lenore Taylor In the discontinued television series United States of Tara, Toni Collette played a woman who displayed different personalities when under stress.
When the numbers don't add up, Swan is surplus to requirements
Chris Berg They say every political career ends in failure. But some more than others. All the evidence suggests Wayne Swan's sixth budget, released last Tuesday, will be his last.
Softer tone, but China wariness remains
John Garnaut The Rudd government's defence white paper of 2009 exploded like a bomb beneath the China relationship.
Comment
Seven deadly signs of naivety expose Defence
Hugh White The first assumption is that America and China are going to get along fine.
Comment
Politics of transport delivers only gridlock
Tim Colebatch Only a diverse, timely and merit-based set of transport solutions can meet the needs of fast-growing cities.
Howard fails in his defence of road to war
Malcolm Jorgensen John Howard's decision to commit Australia to the 2003 Iraq war remains as indefensible as it was 10 years ago.
Say whatever you like about Thatcher, but keep it civil
John Warhurst The judgments of Thatcher in death have been as diverse and as spirited as they were in life.
Australia and Japan are perfect Pacific partners
Ramesh Thakur Does the US pivot to the Pacific represent a necessary rebalancing, overbalancing or counter-balancing against China's growing wealth, power and assertiveness? Few third countries have a bigger stake...
Abbott, not Gillard, is the true 'class warrior'
Nicholas Reece Look at the policies: the Coalition wants to take from the poor and give to the rich.
Revenue collapse hits the budget: the Gillard speech in full
Julia Gillard Julia Gillard outlines the problems that have cut a $12 billion hole in the federal budget.
See what public thinks on same-sex marriage
Gerard Henderson The media in Australia is obsessed with same-sex marriage. It is far from clear, however, that this is a priority for many Australians living in the suburbs and regional centres - far away from the...
Beyond the fringe
Tom Chivers The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner is an opportunity for the President to try out a bit of self-deprecation.
Gillard's diplomatic triumphs have come all too late
Mark Kenny The PM didn't relish a foreign affairs role, but she has excelled as a stateswoman.
How the world saw the big issues
Richard Klass The common reaction to North Korea is to laugh away its threats, along the lines of, ''They'll never do it … have you seen the guy?''
Fortune favours the not-so-brave Abbott
Mike Carlton Tony Abbott is coasting to The Lodge on a dream run, first class up the pointy end. No federal opposition leader has had it so easy since 1941, when Labor's John Curtin gained government after the...
Foster ties with China, but do so in broad context
Gerard Henderson Perhaps the most compelling of the paintings in the 2013 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW is Xu Wang's Self-portrait (interviewing Maoist victims).
Gillard's quest for front row seat before the music stops
Laurie Pearcey It is surely one of history's great ironies that Richard Milhous Nixon, champion of the McCarthy era and fierce anti-communist, is remembered with great fondness and nostalgia in China as America's...
Anne Summers
It's a woman's right to choose, not a man's to try to control
Anne Summers If Tony Abbott was hoping he could tiptoe to an election win without having to take a stand on abortion, he was wrong.
Anne Summers
It's a woman's right to choose
Anne Summers If Tony Abbott was hoping he could tiptoe to an election win without having to take a stand on abortion, he was wrong.
