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China’s dream of ruling the skies is problematic

An ambition 16 years in the making was finally realised last weekend when a large, domestically-built, Chinese passenger jet made its much-delayed...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

The Maroons lost three men in five minutes. This is how they found a way to win

Johnathan Thurston, who has claimed Origin wins with his arm falling off and celebrated them from a wheelchair, lost it. Just a little bit. “And...

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Dan Walsh

Why bankers aren’t popping champagne despite rising house prices

There are few corporate titans with more at stake in the Australian property market than the big four banks, which between them hold about $1.5...

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Clancy Yeates

Bought an NFT last year? The Tax Office wants to know

This article was originally published in The Chainsaw. The tax treatment of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are now on the radar of the Australian Tax...

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Nicole Buckler

Spectre of a killer looms over judgment day in defamation case without compare

Ben Roberts-Smith chose not to face his moment of destiny. Nearly every day during the trial he strode through the sliding doors at Queens Square...

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Harriet Alexander

Turkey’s election shows why Trump could win in 2024

“The totalitarian phenomenon,” French philosopher Jean-François Revel once noted, “is not to be understood without making an allowance for the...

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Bret Stephens

Ben Roberts-Smith took the fight to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald – it was a disastrous miscalculation

Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times has now been dismissed in its entirety,...

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Matt Collins

Keep clubs accountable: AFL player wages must become public

Harry McKay is the 427th rated player in the league this season, according to Champion Data. It’s an alarming ranking for the Carlton forward,...

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Kane Cornes

Women have the right to demand pay equality

Australian women are being delivered a shocking deal when it comes to their pay packets, with the gender wages gap persistently one of the widest...

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Kris Grant

Schizophrenia is not a crime, so why was my brother treated like a criminal?

Before the pandemic, my younger brother had been studying at high school, working at a restaurant, going to parties – trying the best he could to...

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Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn

China doesn’t want a war – it has better ways to achieve its goals

Building the case for Australia to significantly upgrade its defence capability, including the expensive acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines,...

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Colin Heseltine

Little niggle but Maroons show more fight than Blues in series opener

Nobody won the fight, mostly because there wasn’t one. Just some vigorous push-and-shove with Tom Gilbert’s face turning various shades of red....

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Andrew Webster

Time to leave shame at the bedroom door. Period.

Could a small piece of silicone be a ticket to more choice? More agency? More sex? Periods can be tedious at best: cramps, brain fog, a 3000 per...

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Katrina Marson

Taking the blood of your 17-year-old son? Anti-ageing has gone too far

One person’s hell is another’s person’s fun, so who am I to judge? Who are any of us to judge? US tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson’s idea of a...

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Sarah Berry

The AFL agreement does not mean this Hawthorn saga is over

Before the announcement on Tuesday evening, AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan briefed club presidents on the agreement reached between the league, the six...

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Peter Ryan

Dirty dozen: 12-man Maroons produce another Origin miracle in City of Churches

Like Adelaide, NSW started this year’s Origin series half an hour behind. By that stage Queensland had grabbed two tries, the initiative and a...

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Malcolm Knox

‘Money illusion’: America’s Faustian Pact with runaway debt is coming due

The Republicans have capitulated on the US debt ceiling. This averts the risk of abrupt fiscal tightening in a slowing economy that has yet to...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

‘You can’t hide’: Elon Musk’s latest move could see Twitter banned in Europe

Late last week Elon Musk withdrew Twitter from a European Union voluntary code of practice against disinformation. Twitter could soon face massive...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Lowe keeps his critics at bay in what could be his last Senate grilling

For what may have been his last parliamentary grilling, Reserve Bank governor Phil Lowe went out with more whimper than bang. Lowe, the punching...

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Shane Wright

How to save hundreds of dollars on your airfares

Travellers willing to be flexible in booking trips can save hundreds of dollars on airfares as international and domestic travel regains popularity...

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John Collett

Opera? It’s really just Home and Away with music

Think of splendid poetry. Think of great oratory. Think of deathless words that ring with profundity. Think of the Gettysburg Address. Then think...

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Anson Cameron

Moscow drone strike spells trouble in the air for Putin

Kyiv: It is not only Muscovites who would have been shocked by the large-scale drone strike on the Russian capital on Tuesday. Western observers...

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Jimmy Rushton

We lost our baby. I wasn’t sure how a man should deal with it

Our journey began with joy. We thought we were in the clear and excitedly awaited the arrival of our first child. But life had other plans. On...

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Matt Romania

Dark day for Dragons as Ryles rejects offer, sponsor walks away

Just before 9am on Wednesday, St George Illawarra CEO Ryan Webb was posing with a novelty cheque. “Jason is definitely in the mix,” Webb told...

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Adrian Proszenko

Why ‘perfect’ doesn’t exist in investment, but progress does

How do I overcome analysis paralysis? I have been trying to get myself to start investing for a while, and I am financially ready to invest. I have...

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Paridhi Jain

The real referendum question is ‘How smart do I want my country to be?’

On Monday morning, as I dropped our little girl off to preschool in Bulli on the NSW south coast, the teacher was addressing the kids holding my...

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Jack Manning Bancroft

What David Koch’s departure means for Australian TV’s breakfast wars

Welcome to the third decade of Australia’s own morning wars. In one corner: Today’s Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo. And in the other: Sunrise’s...

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Neil Mcmahon

Centres of excellence: Is the Blues’ most effective tactic still alive without Latrell?

“Well, we had a move called ‘Latrell’, so Stephen might adjust to that … but we might have to change the name,” Brad Fittler quipped at...

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Dan Walsh

Accountants were boring until the government paid them billions to do its job

As we watch the Albanese government and the Senate crossbench getting to the bottom of what’s become “The PwC Scandal”, it’s important to join...

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Ross Gittins

Minister warns insurers over ‘unfair’ premiums in disaster hotspots

Insurance giants are the latest big companies attracting unwanted government attention over some of their prices, hot on the heels of Labor’s...

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Clancy Yeates

Queensland will be slippery customers ... but I’m tipping Blues to rain supreme

The sense of anticipation before game one of a State of Origin series is like nothing all year, and the question on everyone’s lips is: will this...

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Andrew Johns

Should I take money from my super to pay off a high-interest loan?

I have $330,000 in my super in pension mode. I also receive a small age pension. I have a $40,000 loan with ANZ with an interest rate of nearly 9...

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Noel Whittaker

How competing superpowers can be an investor’s friend

Not since the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s has geopolitics occupied so much time and energy. From Eastern Europe to the Middle East...

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Cameron Gleeson

Why money isn’t always about dollars and sense

Recently, a client I’d worked with for almost 20 years passed away. Peter, who was 64 years old, was robbed of many well-earned retirement years,...

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Paul Benson

Is the age of bumper home loan cashbacks over?

Home loan customers have been in the box seat to demand a sharp interest rate from their bank in the past year, as lenders fought tooth and nail to...

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Clancy Yeates

Catch-22 squared: The RBA’s inflated dilemma over interest rates

Readers of Joseph Heller’s classic novel, Catch-22, understand the absurdity at the heart of the story. According to the Collins Dictionary, to be...

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Shane Wright

PwC had one product to sell. Turns out it wasn’t a good one

What does a professional services firm actually sell? Knowledge and specialist expertise, obviously, but ultimately its only assets are its people,...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Hammer blow of Latrell injury could turn into a knockout for NSW

Several weeks ago, the NSW coaching staff spent all day in the video room poring over recent Origin matches to find answers to two questions: who...

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Andrew Webster

Investors warned off AI ‘gold rush’ as Nvidia shares soar

US tech firm Nvidia, which makes advanced chips needed to train and run artificial intelligence (AI) networks, recently upgraded its revenue...

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John Collett

There are two games being played at Carlton. Here’s why it’s a problem

There are always two games being played at Carlton. One is ruthless and menacing, the players convinced of their own ability to finally deliver the...

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Michael Gleeson

‘We want to take games off those teams’: In danger of missing finals, Geelong have gone from hunted to hunter

Geelong are maintaining a positive outlook as they prepare for their tough run home in the second half of the season after falling out of the eight...

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Peter Ryan

Blackstone closer to closing books on Crown liabilities after hefty fine

Blackstone took a big gamble when it acquired Crown Resorts for $8.9 billion in cash last year, given the regulatory pressures the casino giant was...

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Colin Kruger

Reds livid over referee after Vest’s broken neck

How can Australia have any faith in New Zealander Brendon Pickerill going to the Rugby World Cup as a television match official after his actions...

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Wayne Smith

The Hillsong experiment is over. Christianity was never meant to be cool

There is a version of the Bible called The Message by Eugene Peterson. It translates ye olde King James verses like “Come to Me, all you who labor...

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Cherie Gilmour

One of COVID’s worst after-effects is the mullet epidemic

We’ve copped a lot of crap post-pandemic. From rising interest rates and rents, a cost-of-living crisis, mass burnout and the promise of other...

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Hannah Vanderheide

Canva, ‘chaos’ and Crisafulli: The LNP’s plans (so far) for Queensland

In late 2020, a former TV journalist and Townsville deputy mayor-turned Gold Coast MP took the helm of the LNP’s shrinking parliamentary team, after...

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Matt Dennien

The five lessons from Suncorp blunderfest Blues must heed in Adelaide

The post-match headlines were dominated by the flying fists of Dane Gagai and Matt Burton, the concussions in the opening minutes and Ben Hunt’s...

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Adam Pengilly

Forget the debt ceiling, the entire roof’s collapsing on America

The dismantling of the US as a normal, functional nation-state continues. America’s gun neuralgia continues to worsen, and now we see new...

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Peter Hartcher

The US will pay a heavy price for its damaging game of chicken

The House Republicans gambled with the fate of the US financial system and economy, and potentially the global financial system and economy, for...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Gilding the budget lily: Labor brings in the creative accountants

This month’s budget is not as profligate as its critics claim, but nor is it the deficit-disappearing, penny-pinching budget it was tricked up to...

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Ross Gittins

Boom box boys: why left might be right for Crichton, among his Panther pals

When Brad Fittler and Greg Alexander sat down to muster their team for the opening game of last year’s State of Origin series, there was one name...

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Adam Pengilly

Why billionaires’ dreams of green energy exports will never work

Billionaires are not known for doing things by half. When Elon Musk set up a battery plant, he billed it a “Gigafactory” and made unfulfilled...

monday 1

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David Fickling

What do I eat when no one else is watching? Two-minute Mi Goreng

In this age of Instagram, people have tons of photos of their meals on their phones. I have no doubt this is the most documented generation that...

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Maida Pineda

I’m a Melburnian but also a realist – Sydney is by far the better city

The news last week that 15,000 of the globe’s residents chose Sydney as the best place in the world to live has stirred up a predictable mix of...

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Bunny Banyai

Why do betting ads prey on men and not my women-only gambling group?

Why do blokes get all the fun on gambling apps? I want gender equity in all facets of life. And if that means equal opportunity to become a...

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Lizzy Hoo

PwC horror show claims fresh casualties, with more damage on cards

If PwC thought it could this week take back control of the rolling public relations horror show that is its tax leaks scandal, it will be...

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Sarah Danckert

Stop clutching your pearls over NSW’s dark blue Origin jumper — it’s silly

For as long as anyone can remember, we’ve been told that NSW doesn’t “get” State of Origin. Doesn’t pick Origin players. Doesn’t prepare...

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Andrew Webster

Super Rugby gap between NZ and Australia is only widening

A tough few weeks for Australian sides in trans-Tasman clashes means they will fall short of last year’s seven victories against New Zealand sides...

monday 1

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Paul Cully

Ending native forest logging is right call but will not be an easy path

The Victorian government’s announcement last week that it will end native forest logging in the state next year has accelerated debate about the...

monday 1

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The Age&x27S View

Calling all parents: Let’s opt out of the teenage smartphone revolution

As a teacher, I have seen the classroom transform in the past decade. Before computers were ever-present, teaching was like a dance between the...

monday 1

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Jacqui Wan

The $25 billion pokies giant gambling on tech

Aristocrat Leisure is the big name behind the headlines when talk turns to Australia’s addiction to poker machines. “Aristocrat, with its 50 per...

monday 1

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Colin Kruger

I’m not dope sick, I’m dying. So don’t make me doctor-shop for pain relief

I had difficulty getting a prescription for morphine when I went to my medical centre a while ago. My regular GP was unavailable, and the young...

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John O&x27Brien

Albanese said we can and can’t stand in someone else’s shoes. Which is it?

Two months ago, announcing the provisions Australians would vote on at a referendum, Anthony Albanese made a statement that is more interesting now...

monday 1

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Sean Kelly

The war won’t be over if Ukraine wins

At the London Defence Conference last week, a mood of optimism prevailed about the likelihood of Ukraine’s ultimate success in its war against...

monday 1

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George Brandis

AI fakes and Twitter’s lack of control are a dangerous combination

Twitter’s widely criticised reinvention of its verification program, combined with a new generation of synthetic media powered by generative AI,...

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Tim Biggs

Four Points: Hawks and Sicily make statement in round of statements; push-in-the-back rule; falling Cats in rare ground

This was a very upsetting round of football. It was an awful round for tipping and a brilliant round for watching. In a round of statement...

28.05.2023 1

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Michael Gleeson

‘Beautiful life’: The religious festival that celebrates ice cream

Shavuot is a Jewish dairy festival that celebrates the giving of the Torah. Why dairy? Because, before receiving the Torah, the Jewish people had...

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Nomi Kaltmann

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