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The prime minister has described this year’s referendum to create an Indigenous Voice to parliament as a unifying moment for the nation....
Surely four Royal Randwick winners and a nostril defeat confirm there is no better sportsperson in Australia currently than James McDonald. Once...
My 68-year-old husband is affable by nature, so he moves fairly easily through the world. He can strike up a conversation with just about anyone...
At its heart, the proposal to enshrine in the Constitution an Indigenous Voice to parliament is about a desire to improve Indigenous outcomes. So...
One of the surprising elements of Taryn Brumfitt’s appointment as Australian of the Year was the body image campaigner’s immediate identification...
February, already! How is that possible? The ink is fresh on my monthly budget spending tally for January, and it appears I’ve joined the trend for...
On my first day in the UK in four years I was jet-lagged and hungover. My wife, daughter and I were catching up with friends and family post-Covid,...
Amid the pre-season slog, there is plenty of excitement around the young stars hoping to take the next step in 2023. We take a look at who your...
The third anniversary of Britain’s departure from the European Union passed without fanfare on Tuesday, and why not? Brexit has faded from the...
A week after the excerpts of his essay in The Monthly first dropped in national newspapers, it’s safe to say that Jim Chalmers is feeling...
Chess Grandmaster David Bronstein once said, “It is my style to take my opponent and myself on to unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an...
The first thing to do this week is pat Usman Khawaja on the back for his equanimity during the delayed visa affair. It’s difficult to imagine what...
The word ‘downsize’ can elicit a very emotional response. It can conjure images of tiny homes or apartments, noisy neighbours and relinquishing...
After 60 games in seven weeks, BBL 12 reaches its denouement in Perth when the Scorchers take on the Brisbane Heat at a packed Optus Stadium on...
The Eddie Jones saga, making him Wallaby coach at the expense of Dave Rennie? It is brutal but brilliant. The brutal part, of course, is the...
The school kids are settled, and no doubt you’re back in the full swing of things. But the year really begins on Tuesday, when the Reserve Bank...
We are a retired couple drawing an income from our self-managed super fund (SMSF). The SMSF has an equal mix of shares, real estate and cash....
Rory Sloane is back in full training and is on track to return from a knee reconstruction in round one. Prized recruit Izak Rankine started contact...
“You’re vindicated!” read the message from a friend, along with a link to The Washington Post. I am rarely vindicated, so I excitedly clicked on...
How much money could you donate to a political party in secret, without breaking the law? The straightforward answer for this year would be...
Long before streaming became a thing, much of the music industry ran out of the back of old Kombi vans and Kingswoods. It was a simpler time. Going...
When I played for the Matildas at FIFA’s first women’s tournament in 1988, it was beyond contemplation that a wealthy tourism authority might pay...
Circumstances frequently dictate the type of career decision that we confront. The resignation or retirement of a senior colleague may provide...
Jim Chalmers likes to say we need national conversations about the economic issues facing the country. Now, just as the new parliamentary year is...
The world is a complicated place. I have no doubt that the capitalist, market-based way of running an economy delivers the best results for workers...
Question: Lunch breaks in our break room are usually a tame affair, but a while ago I got yelled at, and I still can’t work out why. We were...
Portsmouth: Penny Wong’s shoe-leather diplomacy since Labor came to power last May had, until the past few days, rarely come unstuck. Apart from...
Even in a week when I had big issues to obsess over – whether my parents need a trainer for their toy poodle who veers between adorable and Danny...
Even in a week when I had big issues to obsess over – whether my parents need a trainer for their toy poodle who veers between adorable and Danny...
In the 1997 Tour de France, Italian cyclist Marco Pantani summited the 21 hairpin turns and 13 kilometres of the Alpe d’Huez in a little over 37...
Like Matthew Bach, who wrote a piece in this masthead this week arguing that school refusers need “tough love” from parents, I admire teachers....
One of my daughters asked her computer the other day to write a song as if it were written by Bob Dylan. Naughtily, her request – through the...
The permanently aggrieved defenders of His or Her Majesty, depending on the date, sat at high tea, morosely eyeing off uneaten platters of cucumber...
One of the most visible manifestations of the seismic shift wrought by the 2022 federal election was aptly topographic: the Liberal Party can no...
The outrage and alarm about an essay by federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers on the future of capitalism has veered wildly in recent days from ominous...
Michael Clarke has a hall of fame record for Australia. Exclusion from the company of other greats of the game underlines his complicated legacy....
Northern Europe has Nordic-noir shows like The Killing and The Bridge, South Korea has K-dramas like Squid Game and Sky Castle, and the Brits have...
When you’re the CEO of Qantas, people are always keen to tell you how they think the airline is doing. Whatever their feedback is, I always see...
The immediate response of financial markets to the US Federal Reserve Board’s decision to raise US interest rates again was a sell-off in the...
Mark Zuckerberg declared on Thursday that this was the year of efficiency for Facebook’s owner Meta. There are 11,000 recently axed staff who can...
Belatedly, North Melbourne and Tarryn Thomas reached the point they should have started with and had him step away from the club. Had North...
The humble Mac Mini is getting a new lease on life this week, standing out among the handful of Apple devices the tech giant is now launching with...
Australia’s healthcare system is at a crossroads. On one hand, we achieve some of the best health outcomes in the world. Australians live longer...
This week’s decision by FIFA to accept sponsorship from Visit Saudi of the Women’s World Cup to be played in Australia and New Zealand later this...
OK kids, find a seat at your flexible learning space experiential module pod and listen up. Welcome to the 2023 school year! It’ll be exciting, as...
Switching to an ethical super fund is the third most effective thing people can do to fight climate change according to new research, coming in...
A slew of economic data and a cautiously optimistic upgrading of the global economic outlook by the International Monetary Fund tend to support the...
The success of Virgin Australia’s sharemarket listing will ultimately come down to the strength of post-COVID revenge travel, the affordability...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ essay in The Monthly this week, on “capitalism after the crises”, sparked fears in certain quarters that he had taken a...
Apple’s HomePod is back, and looking nearly identical to the device the company removed from shelves in 2021. But while the gadget itself isn’t...
The Greens face a defining choice between outright opposition to fossil fuels and compromising to deliver a crucial element of the Albanese...