April 20, 2013 What would I do? I ask myself each time I hear about another racist rant on a train or a bus somewhere in our country. Would I stand by complicitly or, as more and more people seem to be doing, would I take on the ranter?

April 20, 2013 Tony Abbott has been forced to demote his director of policy, Mark Roberts, after the top-level staffer threatened to use his position in a future Abbott government to ensure a cut in funding to an indigenous education body.

April 20, 2013 With the Gallipoli centenary approaching, the nation should remember the words of our last Anzac Alec Campbell, who pleaded on his death bed: ''For god's sake, don't glorify Gallipoli - it was a terrible fiasco, a total failure and best forgotten''.

April 20, 2013 The battle provided a foundation story for modern Turkey.

April 20, 2013 In the bowels of the MCG, football coaches use whiteboards to plan their wins, but metres away in one of the stadium’s kitchens, Deniz Karaca uses another whiteboard to plot the sweetest victory.

April 19, 2013 The nation's leading welfare body, the Australian Council of Social Service, has called for a curbing of middle-class welfare to help fund an increase in dole payments.

April 19, 2013 Prime Minister Julia Gillard has failed to reach a breakthrough on school funding reforms in her talks with state and territory leaders.

April 19, 2013 Boston bombing suspect captured after standoff with police.

April 19, 2013 Blanchett, Upton, Griffiths, Taylor, Seidler, Mordant: big names contribute to Australia's 2015 Venice Biennale pavilion

April 19, 2013 On 27 January 2013 Fairfax Media websites published articles that made statements concerning Rocky Tassone, including that he had been sacked by Woolworths. The websites accept that such statements were false and apologise to Rocky Tassone for the hurt and embarrassment caused by the articles.