Finding that Abbottabad was bin Laden’s haven is like finding out that he’d been hiding out in Queanbeyan, writes Shakira Hussein on The Stump.
Articles by Michael Vaughan 
Gillard may deny it, but Greens and ALP overlap in minds of voters
Julia Gillard might want to distance Labor from those “extremist” Greens but a large proportion of Labor voters are not having a bar of it, writes Hall Greenland, editor-in-chief of The Week.
Japan, a land where it’s pollen versus radiation
This is spring — the hay fever season with huge amounts of cedar pollen wafting on the air, writes Rick Tanaka from Tokyo
Poll-bound Canadians at sixes and sevens over coalition concept
Canadians head to the polls on May 2 for the fourth time in just seven years, writes Greg Barns and Randall White.
Japan earthquake: optimism through the nerve-jangling fear
From Japan, video editor and producer Paul Johannessen writes that, post-Japan earthquake, this is a phenomenal opportunity for humanity to realign itself, much like the planet literally just did.
Tarkine wilderness area … Heritage Council’s assessment at risk
Our natural heritage is too important to leave in the hands of politicians and a politicised bureaucracy, write Andrew Macintosh and Deb Wilkinson, from the ANU’s Australian Centre for Environmental Law.
Downloading Europe: copyright industry’s peculiar piracy report
A controversial report purporting to show the cost of music, movie and software downloading to the Australian economy has been revealed as the application of a discredited European report on piracy to Australian data. Copyright industry lobby group the Australian Content Industry Group commissioned the report and provided selected highlights from it to Fairfax, which […]
Simons: ABC journalists have some ‘explaining’ to do
The ABC is trying some new things in how it does journalism. But, I think, not enough.
Gaddafi Sovereign Wealth Fund shares frozen by UK company
A big UK company has frozen the shares and a dividend owned by the Libyan Investment Authority, the putative Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Gaddafi regime.
Villawood: asbestos still present despite government claims
Sydney’s Villawood detention centre contains asbestos years after the federal government claims it was managed, according to a whistle-blower working at the site.
Abbott should have known better — the Brasillach affair
Tony Abbott is i an intellectual — although for political reasons he hides it as carefully as Harold Macmillan did — and that is the standard by which he should be judged, writes Noel Turnbull.
Daily Proposition: Kick the fags, by going under
Life-time smoker Michael Vaughan was struggling with any more than four stairs. It was time to kick the fags. After a visit with Angelo, the hypnotist, he’s travelling beautifully.
Libs’ brothel policy: sex prices to rise in Sydney
S-x prices in Sydney are set to rise after the NSW election on March 26 due to a major reform of NSW brothel regulations if the Liberal Party wins government, writes Chris Seage, tax consultant, former ATO audit manager and former consultant to the legal brothel industry.
John Hartman … from insider trading to the hard cell
ASIC has finally claimed a scalp for its insider-trading mantelpiece.
Daily Proposition: Get some manners, young whippersnappers
What is it today with people? The only place they’d find the words ‘consideration’ or ‘courtesy’ is in the dictionary, and God knows most of them would only know there’s a dictionary at all because they saw it by mistake on a pull-down menu on their computer.
Daily Proposition: Drink a glass of history
Age is no barrier to occasionally enjoying the good things life has to offer. Michael Vaughan uncorks some history with a 1977 Taltarni cabernet sauvignon.
Westfield holds its hand out again to investors
You can certainly rely on the Lowy family’s Westfield Holdings to do two things in the stockmarket.
Letter from...: Letter from … Argentina, and a death that stopped the nation
Néstor Kirchner opened up an avenue of hope for Argentina, a country that has suffered so much, like all of its Latin American neighbours, writes Leo Codutti from Buenos Aires.
Packer’s formula for Channel Ten just not the One
The solid ratings yesterday on Ten’s sports channel One for the Formula One race from South Korea expose the nonsense at the heart of James Packer’s arguments that One should be closed and something cheaper broadcast.
Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: cue applause for Greens on Afghanistan … but what have we learned?
The debate on Afghanistan was long overdue and the Greens are to be congratulated for forcing it upon a reluctant Government. But it must be said that we have learned very little from it to date.
Australia needs real competition and Asia can provide it
It’s time for the Australian Olympic Committee to seriously consider the idea of joining the Asian Games, writes freelance journalist Ben Oliver
Unpicking myths about childhood vaccinations
The decision of the NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing today to revoke the Australian Vaccination Network’s charitable status will no doubt have a substantial impact, writes Dr Julie Leask, a senior lecturer in the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney.
Health-care professionals dudded by the no-pay Games
Unless our health professionals are paid to attend Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, the best personnel will stay at home writes Mark Alexander, a lecturer at La Trobe University and manager of the postgraduate master of sports physiotherapy program.
Now NSW police become the p-rn police
Now a police officer in NSW can make a snap decision about the classification of a film, simply based on its cover, that could see a shop assistant go to jail, writes Fiona Patten, convenor of the Australian Sex Party.
