Labor has continued to back Kevin Rudd to remain as US ambassador if Donald Trump becomes president again, despite calls from conservatives for him to go.
CLIVE WILLIAMS continues on from his last Whimsy column with another intriguing aspect of English pronunciation – the influence of regional dialects and accents.
COLIN STEELE reviews an entertaining and informative book that explores the role of love as a psychoactive agent of history and art through essays on 50 objects.
"What worries me is the decision of our own former PM Scott Morrison to join the Trump motorcade with his new boss, Michael Pompeo, a weird believer in the 'Rapture'," writes The gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Gratitude is the first step to kindness, because the inevitable result is, despite your efforts – happiness." ANTONIO DI DIO continues his Short History of Kindness series. This column sprung from a book of Italian poems.
Donald Trump has made derogatory comments about Australia's 26th prime minister, warning Kevin Rudd may not be the nation's ambassador in Washington for long.
The search for the remains of slain mother Samantha Murphy has been narrowed to an area 11km from her home town of Ballarat as police act on fresh intelligence.