Energy
Jerril Rechter
Call time on dangerous energy drinks
Jerril Rechter Why do alcohol companies continue to make high-potency alcopops that are marketed to appeal to those at most risk - young people?
John Fitzgerald
Distillers must take responsibility for their boozy energy drinks
John Fitzgerald The lines between big tobacco and alcohol are beginning to blur.
The Fitz Files
Give Fred an inch, he'll end up Sen Nile
Peter FitzSimons On the subject of last week's item about the Reverend Fred Nile wanting the NSW Legislative Council to officially be known as the State Senate, meaning he would have the title of Senator Nile, a...
Paul Sheehan
Concussion a concern from elite to schools
Paul Sheehan Greg Williams was the Diesel. He was slow, he was short, not good for an elite Australian Rules player.
Ted Hopkins
Of dopes and dopers
Ted Hopkins Ignorance is a blight on sport, and moral panic won't solve it.
Marcia Langton
New generation ripe with promise
Marcia Langton Australia's mining wealth has had varied impacts on our economy and the incomes of Australians. It is clear the result has increased income levels for a large majority.
Marcia Langton
Romantic ideas fail the green test
Marcia Langton I had been searching for the quintessential statement by a wilderness campaigner in opposition to Aboriginal interests to illustrate the problem that I have referred to in earlier lectures: the...
The Loaded Dog
Now that the election has been called, what do Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott have to do to win your vote? What is the most important national issue in your household?
Elizabeth Farrelly
Cool in the tube: the terrace house stands the test of time
Elizabeth Farrelly The terrace house gives a whole new meaning to the idea of the London tube. London's standout characteristic, as you trek in by taxi or train, is neither its veiled beauty nor its vile weather,...
Jonathan Horn
Lance's shades of grey
Jonathan Horn Outrage is obscuring the fact that Armstrong is a mass of contradictions - like the rest of us.
Anthony Ackroyd
Catholic brand appears Pell's priority
Anthony Ackroyd I write from my sun-drenched garden, seated on a banana lounge next to a metre-high statue of Saint Francis of Assisi.
John Birmingham
Just shooting out for some groceries
John Birmingham It was surely a misunderstanding, that bloke being shot in the leg by the driver of a shiny black Beemer in Melbourne this week.
How British media fan flames with falsehoods
Germaine Greer You wouldn't want to be an Australian trying to understand the Australian fire situation as reported by British media.
Wendy Squires
Don't waste fury on bozos and boobs
Wendy Squires I prefer to sweat the big stuff and frankly, Kochie's comments were small fry.
John Spooner
Sceptics weather the storm to put their case on climate
John Spooner Well, so much for the 2012 apocalypse. If the ancient Mayans ever knew anything about the future, they made a serious miscalculation.
Wendy Harmer
Funny how we can't agree on comedy
Wendy Harmer As a nation, we are in more and more furious disagreement about what's funny and what's not. There's now a long roll-call of public personages who have put their foot in it with a dodgy gag.
Neelima Choahan
Bollywood's stereotypes play leading role in India's problems
Neelima Choahan I was a 10-year-old when I first experienced sexual harassment on the streets of Delhi. As sexual harassment goes it wasn't much - just a wink from an older man.
Paul McGeough
The road to democracy was ever thus
Paul McGeough What was going down at the Jones's over Christmas?
Roy Robins-Browne
Spooner's views on climate change are far from weathertight
Roy Robins-Browne John Spooner's opinion article 'Sceptics weather the storm to put their case on climate' published in The Age on December 29, 2012 confirms that he is not qualified to comment on global warming.
Heckler
Let's strike for right to work
LIKE thousands of other Australian workers, I was forced to use up scarce annual leave entitlements and take time off during the Christmas-New Year period.
