Why can’t car designers accommodate safety constraints and still create varied and interesting forms?

“Governments need to get back to the agenda of investing in things that work for children rather than locking them up,” says Australia’s new National Children’s Commissioner.

“It's a case study in attacking the low hanging fruit, with a few notable exceptions… This isn't big reform.”

“The gymnast is now almost seven. She has lost several teeth, but gained a distinctive vocabulary, a level of independence and, crucially for this profile, an elegant cartwheel.”

"Australians often seem rather uneasy about attempting to examine the range and depth of their religious beliefs," writes Barry Jones. “Like most people, other than fundamentalists, I feel shifty and inconclusive, because of a deep uncertainty.”

"Voters around the world want change,” writes Richard Denniss. “Voters want governments to make their lives better and they have lost patience with waiting for the benefits of other people’s pay rises to trickle down to them."

“The right to work, the right to a job, the right to an income have been confused for a long time,” writes Barry Jones. “They cannot be confused any longer.”

The Senate’s year-long inquiry into university governance exposed bullying allegations, conflicts of interest, excessive executive pay, consultant blowouts and systemic underpayment of staff, writes Tim Moore.

Anthony Albanese accepts that Murdoch media won't back Labor, and often treats it with hostility, writes Jason Koutsoukis. But, he argues, that hostility isn't always ideological – it's frequently commercial.

“I think, unequivocally, the greatest defence this country has had against a mass casualty terrorism attack has been our firearms laws,” says former AFP counterterrorism officer Carrick Ryan.

The three judges of the appeal court concluded that Bruce Lehrmann knew exactly what he was doing that Canberra night. Brushing aside the range of implausible reasons he offered as to why he needed to go back to Parliament House at 1.45 in the morning.

Labor insiders open up about their party's relationship with Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp:

Two particular witness appearances at the Senate’s inquiry into university governance stood out, writes Tim Moore. These were a tale of two testimonies, which taken together provide insights into directions the sector needs to move.

“Suddenly, the debates that had consumed us in recent weeks – about politicians’ travel entitlements, inflation and cost-of-living pressures – seemed irrelevant…”

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“It’s been one thing after another, from schools being defaced, synagogues being torched, to people being attacked and vilified in the streets, to a riot in Caulfield. And the feeling, the consensus, is that we were not taken seriously.”

The number of youth offenders is not rising, says Australia’s new National Children’s Commissioner. “The nature of what young people are engaging in, in terms of crime, has changed, with more chronic, repeat offending.”

Labor’s 94-seat victory looked like a mandate for bold reform. But political scientists warn it was a broad, shallow landslide — built on preferences and a historically low primary vote.

Members of Brittany Higgins’s circle point out that her powerful and emotionally raw description of what happened to her in Linda Reynolds’ cabinet office on the night of the assault lies at the heart of this second court victory against Bruce Lehrmann.

Anthony Albanese says he will work across the parliament for the broadest possible support for the new laws, giving unprecedented powers to ministers and security agencies, writes Paul Bongiorno.