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Michael Shmith
Memo ABC: it's not all about you
Michael Shmith My late maternal grandmother, who with the merest sigh could cause ice to form on skirting boards, was acerbic to the point of oxidisation.
Gerard Henderson
ABC needs to rein in the rise of abuse posing as analysis
Gerard Henderson The attempted killing of United States Democrat congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, allegedly by 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, has sparked a blame game as to who is responsible for the murders and...
Hamish McDonald
The choice is as simple as ABC
Hamish McDonald The great and good of our veteran foreign correspondents gathered at the ABC headquarters in Ultimo a week ago to honour a man who kept their careers and, in many cases, themselves alive in the most...
Gerard Henderson
Your ABC's growth strategy: take more of your money
Gerard Henderson Tonight is the ABC's annual soiree in Canberra, when the ABC management team and the public broadcaster's leading presenters and producers socialise with politicians in Parliament House.
Paul Sheehan
The ABC of seduction: how Mr Darcy depends on damsels
Paul Sheehan The seduction of Annabel Crabb was a civilised affair.
Gerard Henderson
Talk of dual-citizen disloyalty in Zygier affair simply irresponsible
Gerard Henderson The concept of dual loyalties in Australia has an unpleasant connotation since it invariably implies disloyalty. A century ago, some sectarians labelled Catholics as possessing a dual loyalty.
John Watson
Damning of sport sounds alarm on law
John Watson We should beware the spread of powers that weaken the rule of law.
Peter FitzSimons
Too many nutters spoil political broth
Peter FitzSimons But who is to take the mantle now that One Nation has imploded?
Richard Ackland
Obeid case's eye-popping details have potential to draw blank
Richard Ackland It was just a matter of time before Stuart Littlemore would, once again, be the subject of speculative misunderstanding.
Lucas Walsh
Racism demands action from all of us
Lucas Walsh Last week we saw another high-profile incident of racism, this time involving ABC journalist Jeremy Fernandez, who allegedly received a tirade of defamatory and racist abuse from a Caucasian woman...
Ryan Harvey
Do we change ourselves or 'the other'?
Ryan Harvey The recent ''Rosa Parks moment'' of Malaysian-born ABC TV News presenter Jeremy Fernandez exposes how difficult it will be for policymakers to reconcile the aspirations of an Asian Century white...
Andrew Darby
Bushfire tweets rival traditional warnings
Andrew Darby Tweets by ordinary Tasmanians provided some of the best graphic early warnings. So what does that mean for emergency warning systems?
Jeremy Sammut
Coal hoax fails to dig deep without a martyr to the cause
Jeremy Sammut It used to be joked that if you gave them the chance, martyrs would climb up on to the cross and yell for the man with the nails to hurry up.
Mike Carlton
No theory, just a real conspiracy
Mike Carlton Justice Steven Rares of the Federal Court is no stranger to political rough and tumble. I recall him fondly as junior counsel on my defence team when Neville Wran sued me for defamation -...
Lisa Mullins
Let's pause and get to know 'gentle'
Lisa Mullins SHE was the cutest little kid in a pretty pink-and-green dress with a swishy skirt. She wore a pink cardigan and a little yellow backpack. Her brown hair was in a ponytail.
Tim Barlass
Don't let Christmas repeat on you
Tim Barlass Reading this will save you precious time this Christmas.
Gerard Henderson
Turns out Mayans weren't alone in getting carried away about 2012
Gerard Henderson WITH Mayan followers foretelling the end of the world before Christmas, it was to be expected 2012 would be replete with hyperbole, prophecy and odd behaviour.
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.
