Exercise
Exercise your mind and the body will follow - don't become a statistic
Damon Young 'Never go jogging,'' the proudly sedentary lady lectured me. ''It's bad for your knees.'' Yet another excuse to forgo exercise - and Australia's full of them.
Suicide can be an exercise of one's sovereignty
Colin Tatz At least six Australians commit suicide every day and possibly treble that number try it. It's an astounding figure in a lucky country, leaving aside some serious under-recording of suicide.
Music not to ears of everyone
BACKGROUND music in cafes, restaurants and clothing stores has been around ever since Major-General George O. Squier patented the idea back in the 1920s.
Indonesia's moral police a threat to democracy
Michael Bachelard When I wrote in March about the Indonesian religious affairs minister wanting to ban mini-skirts because he believed them ''pornographic,'' one comment on the Fairfax website stood out.
Fighting an outbreak of complacency
Tony Adams Australia is ill-prepared for a fast-moving public health emergency.
The PC crowd that's keeping the world of art mediocre
Elizabeth Farrelly The Australia Council is threatened, say some, with change beyond recognition. The question is, will it make any difference? Halfway up the godless bit of Regent Street between Central Station and...
Timing is everything to Fashion Week hype
Jayson Brunsdon Fashion is a seasonal industry. But unlike in the natural world, fashion's seasons move with the times.
The unkindest cut
Farrah Tomazin The Coalition may be cutting the ground out from under itself, writes Farrah Tomazin.
All diet customers are losing is their dignity, possums
Kasey Edwards It's hard not to laugh at Jenny Craig's latest attempt to convince us to buy its products.
Time to pull the pin on Swans din
Heckler ARE sponsored folded cardboard clappers issued free at sporting events the vuvuzelas of Australian sport?
A view with a room
Elizabeth Farrelly I once told an audience that I'd spent my life in search of the perfect room. At the end someone stood up and said she thought that was really sad.
Article an insult to doctors who diagnosed my cancer
Ian Gawler I've seen cancer sufferers recovering against the odds.
Bard of all time finds the globe is his theatre
Jonathan Bate "After God,'' said the 19th-century novelist Alexandre Dumas, ''Shakespeare has created most.'' Certainly no other writer has exercised such a universal appeal.
The weight-loss industry has no place in our schools
Nina Funnell Teenage girls are under great pressure to conform to a hyper-thin body ideal.
Quay to our city? What a load of bull
Elizabeth Farrelly Standing out from the art-insect crowd at this week's MCA press preview were a couple of wilted Brits in silver trackies. I thought they looked quite depressed.
Can News stop the stench spreading?
Kirsty Simpson The timing of this week's media probes into the decade-old claims about News Corp and the promotion of pay TV piracy could not be worse.
Scandal was always written in the stars
Mike Carlton THIS Lenten week of spiritual reflection has brought us a truly epic explosion of shock and horror, on all fronts.
Weighty question of the free gym pass
Heckler On my lunchtime stroll I have recently noticed a new kind of spruiker.
Breaking the cycle
Mary Crooks To keep quiet about sexism and verbal put-downs is to condone violence.
Mining's small change
Carey/Fargher Flaws in the mineral tax mean Australia may profit little from its resource wealth.
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