Police to monitor MCG protest
Police to closely monitor planned Boxing Day protest outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Roxon says her dept did not help Perrett
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says her department did not advise the Queensland Labor MP who's asked the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to investigate senior Liberal figures over the Peter Slipper harassment case..
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Reach out this Christmas: PM
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has reflected on her childhood to deliver her annual Christmas message.
Barney Zwartz
Church messages support refugees and abuse victims
Far too many people are choosing between rent or gifts, electricity bills or food, a version of Christmas far from the preparations that consume so much energy, according to Victorian Uniting Church head Isabel Thomas Dobson.
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Andrew Darby
We snooze, while Britain stamps its boot on Antarctica
It might be funny if it wasn't serious. Britain has stamped oversize boots on Antarctica, to the fury of others.
Katharine Murphy
Don't blink, but from a toxic mire the idea is on the march
Ideas are on the way back. This is a bold call given post-truth politics is meant to have triumphed, and I've been deeply pessimistic for most of this year. But I reckon substance is creeping up on us, furtively. In an election year, our leaders must connect with us on a deeper level.
The contributors More Society & Culture
Jen Vuk
Just a fine line divides haves and have-nots
I admit it, this year I ummed and ahhed about putting a present under the Kmart Wishing Tree.
George Monbiot
For whom do we cry?
Drone warfare leaves the US President with the blood of the innocent on his hands.
The bloggers More Blogs
Dick Gross
Christmas is a time for ...
The God of Sun, not the Son of God, is the heart of Christmas.
Rocco Fazzari
Showtime! 2012 in review
2012 could be best remembered as the year Prime Minister Julia Gillard redefined the meaning of calamity.
Features
Uneasy Truth
Best Chrissie song? Let Fairytale be true
'It's Christmas Eve, babe'' - in five sleeps, actually, but who's counting?
Verbatim
Mr Abbott's carelessness also feeds into the government line that he is not good on detail.
Global Opinion
The Times of India
End violence against women
Los Angeles Times
Hamas' hard line
