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One parent of a child said they were alarmed to receive a message titled “Unexplained student absence” regarding the child they had dropped off at...
Build the man a statue, and rename the E.W. Copeland Trophy in honour of Collingwood’s greatest player – Scott Pendlebury.
If the budget got you fired up this last week, I suggest going for a walk and counting all the things your taxes have paid for.
The tech billionaire lost his attempt to neuter OpenAI - and that’s probably a good thing for the entire artificial intelligence complex, including...
Perhaps the greatest football mind the Premier League has known will bid farewell to the blue half on Manchester this weekend.
US President Donald Trump went to Beijing in a weakened state. China’s President Xi Jinping took full advantage.
The property market is swinging in favour of buyers, but it’s not as simple as buyers being able to pick any property they like.
Given how fast artificial intelligence is improving, it would be rash to dismiss fears of widespread job destruction. Governments should lay a safety...
There’s a quiet, very confident counter-movement happening in living rooms and on sofas everywhere. And I’m all in.
NSW’s carefully stage-managed State of Origin launch got off to a rocky start, with a technical glitch, delayed flights, Reddit banter and a...
Taylor’s campaign on a new “death tax” is disingenuous, and he knows it. It smacks of opportunism from a party trailing both Labor and One...
Both Origin coaches have picked their squads with speed and mobility in mind, so at the very least the spectacle will have a fresh look this year.
The political shift in the UK is significant and real. The recent local elections, followed by a large weekend protest in the capital, show it’s not...
Donald Trump came home from his trip to China without the main thing markets wanted.
De facto couples have the same rights and support as married ones. Why would citizenship be different?
A series of primary election results in red states shows that among Republicans, Donald Trump remains as potent a political force as he has ever been.
On top of a weakening economy and an energy crisis, banking giants now face a softer market in their most important type of lending: mortgages.
There is a changing of the guard at NSW not seen since Brad Fittler ushered in 11 new faces for the ‘Baby Blues’ back in 2018. It needed to happen.
Like Bob Hawke and Paul Keating before them, the prime minister and the treasurer cannot now relinquish the responsibility they have taken on.
China glossed over the issues that Donald Trump had wanted to discuss with Xi Jinping. Now the US president has to scramble to prevent a bigger...
What can the government ever really rule out or in now that it has broken its election pledges? The test is if people really care.
Andrew Johns’ advice for Nathan Cleary and his next deal, plus Perth’s travel wish list, and the partying Cowboys.
The answer is not as simple as send an extraordinary singer and equip her with an extraordinary song. Even after a decade in the competition, we...
Heart of Midlothian’s bid to break Scottish football’s ‘Old Firm’ duopoly ended with a brutal 3-1 defeat – and a pitch invasion, in which...
The excellent performances of Teddy Wilson and Jack Bowen in NSW’s win in Fiji raised the obvious question: why did it take so long to start them?
After decades of dismissing liberal arts as useless, the tech world is coming around to the idea that learning about human nature could be a valuable...
I used to think of it as a suburb you drove through rather than lived in. Now it’s all about microbreweries, specialist coffee roasters and gyms.
Family, love and new success will take precedence over money when Penrith superstar Nathan Cleary weighs up his footballing future.
With the tax system changing and house prices likely to fall as a result, other investment types might now become much more appealing.
Jennifer Robinson is an internationally renowned human rights lawyer. Her documentary, Silenced, will open the Sydney Film Festival next month.
The unique health challenges of boys and men are worthy of attention from governments. But we need to be careful to get the facts straight, so we know...
From taxation to welfare for non-citizens, the lines are starkly drawn.
The popular online gaming platform is using hidden gambling-like tricks and scams that exploit children.
When an invitation to return to the budget for a second year came up, I didn’t hesitate. Here’s what it was really like.
Fred Hollows was a true mentor and teacher. Following his example, on April 29, Australia finally defeated the world’s leading infectious cause of...
Last week’s budget came with a lot of talk about shifting wealth from older Australians. But for many retirees, very little will change at all.
A harrowing week at Princes Park finished with a drought-breaking win for the Blues, largely, but not solely, because of their captain.
Spare a thought for those who think it necessary to risk their lives.
Kevin Rudd implied that Gina Cass-Gottlieb would be a patsy for the corporate world she had represented as a lawyer when she came to the ACCC. The...
In 500 years from now, what will they say about us? Did we dare to choose courage over silence?
There will be a predictably gloomy reaction if the Reds, and Brumbies, are knocked out before the semi-finals. Here’s why it won’t matter to the...
Death is how mortals do things, yet how often do you broach the topic?
In using technology to reveal what the human eye missed, video refereeing creates conditions for romance to die, not live. In this, it is the...
After a more than 1000-day delay, the prime minister has tackled only a handful of the recommendations made in the gambling harm report led by late...
A six-man bench, the increase in set-restarts and some key injury questions mean there are more variables than ever this year. These are the big calls...
With both government and opposition pitching serious proposals for change, our political system is actually offering hope.
These five core beliefs form the operating system most ambitious, driven people are running on, often without realising it.
Every time the rules change, we find the new angles and smarter structures. And after the budget, a few specific ones come into focus.
Labor’s 5 per cent deposit scheme spurred an influx of aspiring first home buyers who are now set to be punished by next year’s taxation changes.
Eager to announce “wins” from his Beijing visit, Donald Trump said “some fantastic trade deals” had been struck, as he touted his strong...