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.
Won't someone think of the children! Kids use smartphones because we let them. Perhaps try parenting, instead of buying another app to limit your kid's screen time.
Abbott has again decided to kick an institution many Australians strongly support -- dubious as the United Nations may be ...
Mark Latham has declared mental illness to be a largely imagined problem of the bored middle class. He is right that some socioeconomic groups are more likely to be affected, but the finer details escape him.
It is time to give up the Australian Dream of home ownership. Not only are houses sometimes a bad investment, but the emphasis on owning is bad for everyone.
The government's reaction to the Forgotten Children report is pure vaudeville -- and Gillian Triggs is the villain.
You've done nothing wrong, you say? Bollocks, says Helen Razer. George Brandis wants to throw you in jail.
The definition of "child pornography", like the definition of "metadata" seems very elastic. And the government's new data retention proposals will ensnare devotees of The Simpsons, not child rapists.
Disappointingly, the new film is not as terrible as everyone had hoped.
Despite Bolt's bile, Abbott has only one person to blame for his government's ongoing strife -- himself.
Don't fall for the label on the can -- no matter who's in charge, the Liberal Party's unjust equations will hurt us all.
