Prospective home buyers need to be able to save more than $95,000 to achieve a 20 per cent deposit. Pretty tough going for a young family, writes Dylan Thorne.

Some people are able to cheerfully smash their way through any old cup of dirt. I wish I could be that indiscriminating but no, I'm a bit of a snob, says Marcel Currin.

Andrew Bonallack writes: If there's one thing the debacle with the Conservative Party has demonstrated, it's that politics is not a game for amateurs.

For a quick lesson in how to sabotage your own credibility see British biochemist Sir Tim Hunt has resigned from his position at University College London, writes Marcel Currin.

No one wants the new highway to become a race track for boy racers who will put other lives at risk, writes Amy Wiggins.

Not everyone has found the ambiguity of Lewis Road Creamery's breast milk labelling as funny as we did. In fact, breast feeding advocates have slammed it as "unacceptable".

Danielle Nicholson writes: While Lecretia Seales' High Court case was going on, I didn't broach the subject with friends although it was on my mind a lot.