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Imagine this script. Rome is burning. In the suburbs, a grandfather kills a balaclava-clad intruder. Others check the locks on their front door,...
It started as a genuine research project, and has ended as an obsession. Sunday nights are for staying at home. Mondays and Tuesdays too. And any...
Imagine your boss picking up the tab for a 1.9kg steak, with a price tag of $361. And a side serve of prawn toast worth $48. And not a single question...
A litany of scandals and a lack of transparency have stolen the trust we’ve placed in big organisations for decades. The big banks, for example, and...
Today, in Australia, five people will die from drug use. And this year, if it’s like any other, that number will climb to more than 2200. It’s a...
The fact that it is the Perfect Princess, not that runaway American, who has plunged the British royals into mayhem and maelstrom simply headlines the...
In a week where International Women’s Day is recognised at breakfasts, lunches and evening toasts, one story told us so much. Zoe McKenzie, the MP...
Jesse Baird. Luke Davies. Samantha Murphy. Names that would have passed without an iota of recognition from almost all of us, until earlier this...
Snus. Zyn. Upper decky lip pillow. Heard any of those words before? Because they pose an insidious threat to our children. In short, they are words...
Snus. Zyn. Upper decky lip pillow. Heard any of those words before? Because they pose an insidious threat to our children. In short, they are words...
King Charles’ relevance to Australia is routinely behind the push by republicans here to have him ousted as head of state. But this week, he dished...
C’mon Australia! Surely we can do better than the loutish behaviour we’re seeing courtside at the tennis this week? This is tennis, not a game of...
Is Woolworths’ decision to dump Australia Day merchandise this year a woke decision that will draw the ire of customers? Or is it a sensible call in...
Today across Australia, 100 people will be taken to hospital with injuries sustained in a road accident. And this month – January 2024 – we’ll...
Would you use an Apple AirTag to monitor your child? Under what circumstances? What about a smartphone app like Life360? Would you tell them they were...
Four decades is a long time to wait for justice to be served. But that’s the gift soapie star Madeleine West is cherishing this Christmas. West, a...
Just when we believed that 80 was the new 60 and 60 was the new 40 and 40 was the new 30, Jimmy Barnes goes under the knife. He’s 67, and uses...
… Ready For It? Or Is it Over Now? There are so many ways we could use Taylor Swift’s songs to opine on news she is Time’s Person of the Year....
What could you buy for $100 million? A mega mansion in Hollywood? A Vincent van Gogh original? A trip into space? Perhaps you’d prefer to bankroll...
Sometimes it’s worth considering stealing a page from someone else’s playbook. And Iceland this week should give every woman in Australia an idea...
They’d seen a peak of a real-time war, developing on their smartphones, and could only guess at the impact on the minds of the young children they...
RIP the high heel. The court shoe. The three-inch velvet heel. The killer boot. Gone. And replaced, it seems, with outrageously expensive flat shoes...
Leadership comes almost always with two exit doors. One is the front door, where the incumbent walks out at the time of their own choosing. The other...
If your 11-year-old son was challenged to an ice-cream eating competition one afternoon after school, would he say ‘no’? What if he was...
My name is Madonna King and, for a decade or so, I was a member of the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge. Writing those words seems almost like revealing a...
What might Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales, former prime minister Scott Morrison and outgoing reserve bank governor Philip Lowe...