Helen Razer
Writer and broadcaster @HelenRazer
Helen Razer is a writer whose work appears in The Saturday Paper, Daily Review, SBS Online and Frankie. She has previously worked as a columnist for The Age and The Australian.
Advertisers can sell a product to young people with relative ease, but the matter of selling them, or anyone, a message of morality is rather more complex, especially coming from government.
Elevating more women to cabinet positions does not actually improve the lot of women in Australia.
Was it the patronising misogyny face? The onion? The constant references to the Nazis? Here's how Tony came undone.
Abbott has managed the incredible feat of turning a serenade to the base and an act of unproductive war into significantly increased approval. God help us all.
A heart-wrenching photograph does not allow us to understand the Syrian conflict, because it is the result of a thousand bad, banal decisions, which is a truth we don't want to acknowledge.
Tony Abbott seems determined to bog Australia down in another war in the Middle East, even though it is bad for Australia and even bad for Abbott himself.
Horrific legislation still passes in an age when the public broadcaster does not air a tweet suggesting the Prime Minister has a fondness for buttsex. So stop clutching your damn pearls.
The tough-minded ladies who write romance fiction have to have a certain turn of phrase, but they also have to understand the real meaning of love.
What is the real difference between a self-indulgent Mark Latham column and a celebrity Instagram?
Affording equal legal status to all does not create or even promote equal social or economic status, and the deck would still be stacked against gay people even if they were legally allowed to spend days discussing bomboniere.
