As Malcolm Turnbull visits India, the world's fastest growing economy is looking beyond its regional neighbours and old colonial relationships to become a global power in its own right, seeking international recognition on its way to being the world's third largest economy.

No matter how you measure it, against income or the size of the Australian economy, we are at the highest levels of household debt in our history but it's not only debt that is threatening the housing market, writes Ian Verrender.

The tone of political discussion around issues like Islam in Australia is making reasonable discussion almost impossible, writes the executive producer and creator of Q&A Peter McEvoy.

For nearly three years the international system has been aware of evidence that the Syrian President may not have declared all of his chemical weapons stockpiles — and these strikes highlight the dilemma about what to do now, writes Middle East correspondent Matt Brown.

The Arab Spring offered Syrians hope for political change, but something went horribly wrong, Stan Grant writes.