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Sam de Brito
The real hunger game: hard facts served cold
Sam de Brito Cheery fellow that I am, I like to play a game called ''Would I Eat This if it Was World War II?''
Heckler
Cold-blooded kids find no joy in woolies
Heckler I'M STUMPED. It's late winter and an icy cold snap has hit town. It's snowing in the mountains and the wind chill factor has sent temperature plummeting to record lows but both my boys are trotting...
Miranda Devine
Climate alarmists out in the cold
Miranda Devine As the wheels keep falling off the climate alarmist bandwagon, it's suddenly become fashionable to be a sceptic. Out of the woodwork have crawled all sorts of fair-weather friends.
Paul Daley
Anzac and the bravery after
Paul Daley The centenary of Australia's involvement in World War I is still a year and a half away. But politics - with its instinctive, reflexive appeal to national sentiment - is well and truly gearing up...
Surprise! Paper beats space rock
John Birmingham 'Asteroids are nature's way of asking, 'Hey, how's that space program working out?''' It sounds like a tweet but it was something a little more old school: words on a T-shirt.
John Birmingham
Close calls from outer space prove we need action from earthly heroes
John Birmingham A meteor and an asteroid. There was so much to love about the apocalyptic double-header.
Anita Sethi
Seeking a home away from home - and away from racism
Anita Sethi For a brown-skinned Brit, Melbourne is a very welcoming city - most of the time.
Martin McKenzie-Murray
Cult of celebrity feeds our hunger - and our gullibility
Martin McKenzie-Murray JFK, Tiger, Armstrong - you'd think we would have learnt our lesson by now.
Chris Berg
This doomsday endgame could last a long time
Chris Berg Apocalyptic preachers feed your anxieties. Just turn the sound off.
Gary Younge
Where the truth really lies: who knows anymore?
Gary Younge From Beyonce to Lance Armstrong, deception abounds. The danger is that we'll soon stop feeling outraged.
The Milky Bars, and joke, are on them
John Birmingham People with super big phones have always looked weird when using them as originally intended.
Petula Dvorak
Stained-glass windows shed light on future
Petula Dvorak Washington National Cathedral, a symbolic home of the US's collective soul, the place where presidents are inaugurated and eulogised and great achievements are celebrated, announced this week that it...
Sam de Brito
No strangers to fiction as we're busy doing nothing
Sam de Brito There's a saying that ''news is information other people don't want you to know''.
Tim Flannery
Rising temperatures make mockery of rising scepticism
Tim Flannery With record-breaking extreme weather causing havoc around the nation, it's important that Australians understand what climate scientists are saying about the climate in future.
Peter Hartcher
Things aren't as bad as they might seem
Peter Hartcher With most rich countries in economic difficulty and crises building in Iran and North Korea, human misery is surely on the rise.
Heckler
Something fishy about Yule appeals
Heckler It's that time of year again, the merry season, when my husband has more followers than Jesus.
Nick Dyrenfurth
Leunig, your provocative use of Nazi analogies is so tiresome
Nick Dyrenfurth The cartoonist's portrayal of 'Nazi Israel' is intellectually lazy.
Jen Vuk
Just a fine line divides haves and have-nots
Jen Vuk I admit it, this year I ummed and ahhed about putting a present under the Kmart Wishing Tree.
Keith Garner
Ongoing battle to keep this relaxing day for you and your family
Keith Garner There's no public holiday quite as relaxing as Boxing Day. The stress of Christmas Day and its family rituals is over.
Libby Brooks
Truth lies in the mirror
Libby Brooks It iS said that every era finds a mirror of its politics in the culture it generates. During the Depression, hungry Americans gorged on the hopeful escapism of Technicolor musicals.
