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While older Australians could learn from my generation’s compassion, it’s clear that Gen Z-ers could learn from them, too. Namely, about...
The prospect of finding yourself out of work through illness or injury is frightening. There’s an insurance for that − but many don’t have it.
Donald Trump’s re-election has been called a “vibe shift”. Peter Dutton prefers to think of it as a “near revolution”.
Now that Donald Trump is dismantling so many government programs, we might find out their ultimate cost.
The opposition leader’s rhetoric has prompted opponents to accuse him of “grotesque”, trumped-up politics. But do the times suit him?
We tend to see the headlines on goals and career success and conclude the most useful thing to do is to set many goals or advise others to do the...
Hosting one of the four grand slams is a fragile privilege. It’s under ever-growing threat from ambitious and cashed-up rivals.
A drop in migration and a global slide in birth rates won’t stop Australia’s population growth. That will come with its challenges.
With the World Test Championship five months away and the Ashes defence back home next summer, the Australian Test team needs Konstas to get as...
Based on all available evidence, the low road is more satisfying and equally successful at achieving your goals.
In the 80s, when I swapped school for a job, I went into shock when I could no longer hang out at the beach from Christmas ’til February. I would...
According to Washington folklore, it was Ronald Reagan, that one-time master of political stagecraft, who altered the location of the inaugural...
Anthony Albanese heads to the election with a new sense of confidence that he can win voters back, despite months of polling that suggests millions...
The Grattan Institute has dropped a report this week that’s got everyone talking. It tackles a familiar issue: Australians are nervous about...
Regular readers of this column will know my penchant – nay, passion – for Qantas frequent flyer points. Indeed, in just a few weeks I will take my...
If it were possible to short a public figure with maximum leverage, Elon Musk would surely be the top target. The political and enterprise value of...
I work in an area where a manager has developed a cult of personality. They are bombastic, aggressive and delight in attention and adulation. Many...
There is so much that is so self-evidently awful about the current spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney that one feels trite even pointing it...
The inevitable grumblers grumbling about Michael Clarke’s induction to the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame are looking at the wrong hall and the...
Meet Steve Irwin off his plane in Sydney, I was told. Easy. At the gate, a few passengers appeared. Not Steve. Not Steve. Ah. Was that Steve? I...
Well, that was awkward. In front of a man claiming to have been appointed by God, saved by God, a man to whom conservative evangelicals have...
For once, maybe for the first time, Novak Djokovic didn’t have all the answers. Neither he nor we can truly know if he ever will again. After...
With Brian Lara clinking bottles of champagne together in the bowels of the Gabba watching a triumphant West Indian press conference and itching to...
New Year’s Eve celebrations were on course to be a largely calm affair in Beijing. Yet while thousands of worshippers visited the Yonghe Temple...
The severed feet of Captain Cook’s bronze statue in St Kilda made for a sorry sight on Australia Day eve last year. This year, Australia Day falls...
The housing affordability issue isn’t just about intergenerational inequity: it is a warning sign of a brewing economic and social catastrophe. If...
In his first day in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order that defies a US law and encourages others to breach it. Trump’s order directed...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has recently established a new rescue service. Its mission is to save his government, his party and his place in...
Ben Shelton thinks broadcasters are disrespecting players at the Australian Open. He went out of his way to say so after blazing his way past...
One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, Steve Bannon, had some advice for Australians during this week’s effusive ceremonies to welcome the...
It was a big week for retail billionaire Solomon Lew. He has spent decades in the Myer wilderness after being ousted from the Coles Myers board in...
One of President Donald Trump’s first announcements has been Stargate, a new joint venture designed to unlock up to $US500 billion ($800 billion)...
Two years ago Alex de Minaur was on the wrong end of a Novak Djokovic masterclass. He finds himself in a very similar position now. On Wednesday...
The next time you’re in an online meeting, I want you to take a closer look at the list of attendees. In addition to Steve from marketing and...
In 1988, when I was 34 weeks pregnant with my first child, my waters broke in a Thai restaurant. Yeah, I know, embarrassing. I found myself in...
Early in the first set of this match, the crowd began to erupt as Alex de Minaur chased a ball to the net post and angled a winning backhand pass...
Australia has a sandcastle culture, according to Jim Davidson, one-time editor of Meanjin. His point: we suffer from cultural amnesia. Every...
Collingwood’s delicate handling of their most precious on-field asset – Nick Daicos – was reflected in the non-appearance of the precocious...
Washington: The impact was swift and severe, just as Donald Trump had intended. No sooner had the newly inaugurated president signed his name on a...
While strolling through sunny markets with my five-year-old daughter last week, we encountered a bare bum. Bare bums aren’t an anomaly in my...
For more than 15 months, Gaza has endured relentless violence from Israel, its people living in unimaginable terror and grief. Now, as the...
If some mystery remains about the turn of events that saw a lewd image posted on the X account of Luke Sayers, there is no question that Sayers has...
In the midst of Donald Trump’s executive orders dump on Tuesday were some that could undermine the American auto industry’s efforts to remain a...
As far as metrics go, it’s not scientific. But if you’ve noticed that more oversized headshots of slick-looking real estate agents appear to be...
I couldn’t have been more than 10, maybe 12, years old when my parents walked with me to the local synagogue. They wanted to show me vile...
All hail Novak Djokovic, the greatest tennis player in all of history. (That was the po-faced bit. He is.) But where does a man go once he is the...
When we travel overseas, we regularly find ourselves taking note and appreciating those subtle reminders of home. Strolling past an RM Williams...
On Tuesday, Carlton announced two new re-signings. But neither was the man who looms as one of the most talked-about free agents of 2025. Tom De...
A generation gap will develop and grow between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz, but it’s not discernible yet, and it may never show on the...
I was a youngish reporter at federal parliament when former Treasurer Peter Costello issued his famed appeal for Australians to have more babies....
Today, I yet again saw some personal finance guru advocating the same tired advice: if you don’t have money, why are you wasting it on coffees,...
My husband is 64, and I am 59. I work full-time with an income of $83,000, while my husband works part-time, earning $15,000–$20,000 per year. I...
Amid the blitz of executive orders Donald Trump foreshadowed at his inauguration there was a notable omission. There were no new tariffs – at...
The frosty Washington weather may have forced Donald Trump’s inauguration indoors, but his first day back in the White House was never going to be...
Washington: It was an inauguration that set the tone for a second-term presidency more emboldened and unchecked than the first. Six months after he...
It’s taken five years but Wesfarmers boss Rob Scott has raised the white flag on the company’s expensive retail experiment which involved forking...
Strap in. Day one of Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States was by turns fascinating, funny and frightening: the 21st...
Leaving Glenn Maxwell out of the Sri Lanka Test tour wasn’t the hardest call for Australia’s selectors. That unfortunate honour instead went to...
Birth stories take many forms. Some are joyous, some are tragic, many are traumatic and confusing. Mine was an overwhelming mix of all of the...
Penny Wong and Donald Trump: the cerebral, cautious champion of Labor’s left and the brash real estate tycoon turned Republican hero. It hardly...
At 12.02pm in Washington DC, Donald Trump took the oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” and resumed...
Washington: Donald Trump sat at the Resolute Desk signing executive orders for the cameras and taking questions from a small pool of journalists...
The immediate solution to the housing shortage is fitting more people into existing houses, something that would also help with cost of living...
Palo Alto, the small Californian town which spawned Stanford University, Silicon Valley and the so-called “broligarchy”, used to boast that it...
Some of the best relationship advice I ever received was to begin the way you intend to carry through. That probably meant something like being...