English
Caroline Milburn
Industry's learning difficulty
When a federal Coalition MP says a group of public employees deserve to have their wages more than doubled to a top rate of $150,000, listeners are bound to wonder if their hearing is faulty.
Germaine Greer
Macquarie's mitts all over our supposed Strine
Germaine Greer Australian academics have been laying down the law about my mother-tongue — oops, I mean, of course, mother tongue.
Heckler
War of the words is being lost
THE campaign for clear English is obviously in the doldrums. What our transport authorities, police and media do to our language is enough to make anyone wake up screaming in the night.
Ben Jellis
Olympics a test for England's grey unpleasant land
Ben Jellis A stifling urge to control and prevent misfortune shows the Old Dart is not confident.
Geoff Strong
What's mined is yours ... sort of
Geoff Strong From a country that once believed its prosperity rode on the back of a sheep, we have transformed into one that rides on the top of a mineral conveyor belt.
Peter FitzSimons
Mysteries of anarchy in the US
Peter FitzSimons My first contact with US soil for a couple of years saw me right in the middle of a protest.
Ken Gelder
Why Australian literature is alive and well and living in our universities
Ken Gelder In the Sunday Age and elsewhere over the past few months, universities have been accused of failing to teach enough Australian literature.
Philip Clark
Idea of a fair go lost at altar of politics
Philip Clark I WAS walking though Queen Street Mall in Brisbane recently when I came across a gathering of hundreds of disabled people and their carers all clad in bright red T-shirts listening politely to music,...
Danny Katz
If I may put in a good word for the mother tongue, can I say bunion?
Danny Katz There was some study done by somebody somewhere, some time recently - I know about it because I am a professional and meticulously researched journalist.
Stephanie Peatling
Why are women hell bent on destroying each other?
Stephanie Peatling Parenting websites and mothers' groups are the next generation of high school where everything people say is judged, discussed and used in evidence against them as factions take shape and shift.
Damon Young
We interrupt this program for an important message on relating
Damon Young Aliens slyly observing Australia might be baffled by our dinners. Not the stir-fried or the lasagne but the not-so-silent partner at most Australians' meals: the television.
Chloe Angyal
Snow job that's the unfairest of them all
Chloe Angyal Fairytales are forever. Last week, we saw the release of the first of two Snow White movies this year.
Paul Sheehan
Successful brothel bid would be a stiletto to inner-Sydney's heart
Paul Sheehan Jerry Hall, the former model and ex-wife of Mick Jagger, once infamously said that a woman should be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.
Julie Szego
War of words in 'the Toyota way' leaves clarity mortally wounded
Julie Szego Barely 24 hours after Toyota's retrenchment of 262 workers, the regrettable allusions to World War II began flying about.
Mike Carlton
Scandal was always written in the stars
Mike Carlton THIS Lenten week of spiritual reflection has brought us a truly epic explosion of shock and horror, on all fronts.
Jamila Hussain
Equity, not equality, at heart of rules
Jamila Hussain Today, most people assume parents will treat sons and daughters equally when they make a will, unless there is some special reason, such as disability, to give a greater share to one of the children.
Annabel Crabb
A word to the witless: don't let your fingers do the talking
Annabel Crabb Why are famous men and social media such an explosively bad mix?
Annabel Crabb
Men: all thumbs and no subtext
Annabel Crabb It is one of the great paradoxes of our time that men,are more likely to be busted for over-sharing via text message.
Robin Poke
Different strokes for different folks - rowing's not elitist
Robin Poke When expatriate Australian Trenton Oldfield sabotaged Britain's annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race by swimming into the path of the eights, the apparently disgruntled activist and former Sydney...
Julian Lee
Time for Google to help local content
Julian Lee The top 20 most-watched programs in the past five years on free-to-air television are consistently Australian, which suggests quotas that demand 55 per cent of content is Australian are both a...
