People & Ideas
Sloppy reporting on mental health study continues to fail women with mental ill health
Helen Razer August 29, 2017 11 Comments
With a recent study about women's mental health problems sending the media into a tizzy, we need to understand when mental health problems are internally or externally engendered.
Stan Grant and the monumental turn towards a living history
Christopher Warren August 28, 2017 2 Comments
Stan Grant has been pilloried for suggesting that we modify our historical monuments to more accurately reflect our complicated past. But for some commentators Australia's Anglo-centric history is obstinately set in stone.
Rundle: Australian iconoclasm and the decaying edifices of the right
Guy Rundle August 28, 2017 12 Comments
Following the US movement toppling statues commemorating controversial historical figures, Guy Rundle, argues that our own Australian iconoclasm exposes the right's lack of imagination outside of their ossified Anglo-Celtic past.
Behind the scenes at one halal of an evening with Sam Dastyari and Gillian Triggs
Irfan Yusuf August 25, 2017 2 Comments
Sam Dastyari and Gillian Triggs got together for an interesting conversation at the University of Sydney. Irfan Yusuf takes us through the highlights of the event.
Razer on Greenwald: make journalism muckraking again
Helen Razer August 25, 2017 3 Comments
In her final piece on infamous journalist Glenn Greenwald, Helen Razer calls for a journalism that can elucidate systems rather than merely be a product of them.
Why are we not talking about domestic violence when we talk about Tanja Ebert’s disappearance?
Crikey August 24, 2017 12 Comments
It seems increasingly likely that Tanja Ebert was murdered by her husband Michael Burdon, who then took his own life. However, instead of framing this as a most extreme act of domestic violence it has been portrayed more like a preordained romantic tragedy, writes Elke Wakefield.
Kids are staying indoors more than ever, but is that necessarily a bad thing?
Alan Davies August 23, 2017 10 Comments
Generational differences often obsess us. With children staying at home more Alan Davies asks why, and then remembers that in his day differences didn't necessitate deficiencies.
The Oz continues to confuse pontificating for news
David Salter August 22, 2017 6 Comments
Once again the Oz has run commentary without appropriately distinguishing it from news.
Rundle: why change on Australia Day needs to come at a national level
Guy Rundle August 22, 2017 34 Comments
While the Yarra and Darebin councils' decision to stop honouring Australia Day has the best intentions at heart, encouraging councils to act unilaterally could ultimately backfire on the campaign for an indigenous treaty.
Vale Paul Bendat: anti-pokies activist, philanthropist, friend
Stephen Mayne August 21, 2017 3 Comments
Paul Bendat was a successful businessman, but more importantly he was passionately moral and generous. Stephen Mayne reflects on a life devoted to pokies reform, philanthropy and endeavour towards a better world.