In The Australian today
Like every great tragedy, it is all about fate, but fate in the sense of the Greek word ananke, a force even more powerful and pitiless than the gods. Yet as the referendum that will decide Greece’s future looms, any ultimate resolution of the euro’s drama seems as remote and uncertain as ever.

In The Australian today:
Merely hours after the managing director of the ABC claimed Zaky Mallah had the same right to ­appear on Q&A as Charlie Hebdo had to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the Islamists showed the world exactly how much use they have for freedom of expression.

Today in The Australian :
That Cleanevent and the EastLink consortium did very well out of their agreements with the AWU is beyond question.

In The Australian today:
"There’s an old Yiddish joke about a man whose job is to stand at the city gates and wait for the Messiah: it’s dull and badly paid, he explains, but at least it’s steady work."

Today in The Australian:

You have to feel for Joe Hockey. He was simply stating a truism: if the price of houses in Sydney is rising, it’s because people are buying them. As abundant demand chases scarce supply, he suggested, it doesn’t seem sensible to call Sydney’s housing “unaffordable”.

In The Australian today:

In the cartoons, before machines explode they start shaking violently, their shudders presaging the approaching conflagration.