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Last week, during the leaders’ debate, Anthony Albanese put on record what he would like his legacy as prime minister to be. “We want the universal...
Cameron Ciraldo was the architect of the Panthers’ defensive system that helped drive them to four premierships in a row. When he arrived at the...
Since it’s Easter, and we’ve got the day off – and politicians have gone to ground – it’s a good time for, if not religious observance, then...
Ever since his return to the Oval Office, the question of how to deal with Donald Trump has, for democracies and dictatorships alike, been at the...
Benji Marshall versus Isaac Moses is currently one of the biggest feuds in rugby league, but the reason they have fallen out has remained a secret...
Forget, if you can, about the No.6s on either side of Easter Monday’s sold-out western Sydney derby. Even after all the endless column inches,...
When I anticipated moving from the inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne to Sydney’s east, I imagined the obvious adjustments: Needing to invest in...
The emergency is here. The crisis is now. It is not six months away. It is not another Supreme Court ruling away from happening. It’s happening...
Easter is supposed to be a season of hope and new life. This year, I find myself instead, like much of the world, in grief and perhaps even...
Real Money, a free weekly newsletter giving expert tips on how to save, invest and make the most of your money, is sent every Sunday. You’re...
Trump 2.0 is testing us all in unexpected ways. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has discovered what it is to be ghosted – after calling Albanese a...
With two weeks of the election campaign to go, Labor has reversed its downward slide in the opinion polls, edging back up into what looks like a...
I’m unhappy with my current super fund and wish to switch to another provider. Should I wait for markets to recover before switching, or just get...
This Easter marks the 80th anniversary of the execution by the Nazis of the pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was hanged on April 9,...
They’re the best two months of the sporting year. The NBA play-offs are back. Astonishing athletes, white-knuckle tension, and acts of heroism and...
In the early spring of 2015, a despondent Richmond boss Brendon Gale put a question to his assistant coach Mark Williams. “How do we get better?”...
Elon Musk’s misadventures with the so-called DOGE might be the ultimate example of a powerful flaw in how we think about leaders. That’s our...
Antony Green has been analysing elections for the ABC for the better part of the last forty years. In a fortnight, he will anchor his last federal...
For centuries, fuelled by stories of mythical, serpent-like monsters, people have been fearful of the deep sea. James Joyce described it as...
It wasn’t too long ago that many Coalition members looked to Donald Trump as their messiah. A little over two months ago, Peter Dutton said: “So,...
Financial literacy. They are two dull, non-headline-making words, and in all the territory covered by the party leaders since this election...
For decades, Australia’s retirement income system has relied on a quiet assumption: that by the time you retire, you’ll own your home. It’s not...
There is a significant change brewing in Japan Rugby League One (JRLO) that will have significant short- and long-term impacts on the player market...
Sydney’s Olympic Park cops a bad rap a lot of the time. When it’s a cold, wet, midwinter night and 90 per cent of the stadium’s 83,500 seats are...
This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates the fall of Saigon to...
Palm Sunday in sunny Sumy, when a ballistic missile fired from Russia targets a trolley bus taking citizens and their children to church. Then a...
Bad feminist that I seem to be, I missed what many other women saw and felt when the “historic” all-female Blue Origin space jaunt started making...
Nestled between the usual posts from the defeatists and doomsayers was a curious report on social media. Huddled in a Frankfurt pub before kick-off,...
It may not have wall-to-wall marble, but a deceptively simple architect-designed house in Northcote shows what can be achieved on a relatively...
A moment last week solidified for me that, when it comes to our relationship to AI, the toothpaste has exploded out of the tube. I already had a...
If you’re sharing a meal with someone this Easter, chances are you’re happier. In fact, it’s as strong an indicator of how happy you are as the...
America has misjudged China horribly before. Hyperpower hubris turned the Korean War into a direct conflict between US and Chinese troops....
A viral mindset known as the ‘Let Them’ theory is gaining traction in workplaces, with employees rethinking how they respond to difficult...
A colleague [we’ll call them Alex] was made redundant. I thought they were excellent at their job, and they helped me do my job better in many...
If you were going to dip a tentative toe into the fraught world of TikTok, you might come across a new trend taking hold. So that you don’t have...
I don’t particularly want to have a go at Peter Dutton, but why is “strong” considered the ultimate political compliment, particularly for a man,...
In almost every campaign, there comes a point where commentary turns to how miserable, how uninspiring, how visionless the offering is. This is the...
To Ray Brown, the Lachlan Galvin walkout on Wests Tigers and subsequent vitriol from the young half’s teammates is, as Rex Mossop might have said,...
There is very little the Daicos brothers do that surprises Magpies coach Craig McRae any more, as the pair masterminded their side’s 52-point...
Jerome Powell, in unusually candid, almost provocative, remarks at the Economic Club of Chicago, made it clear that President Donald Trump’s...
Relationship experts say that three of the top reasons behind couples breaking up are money, trust and narcissism. So, the appearance of emerging...
The federal election has entered a final phase when character and trust become even more important to the outcome – and when both sides rely more...
In a world as disordered and dangerous as ours is now, we ought to be thankful for the monotonous nature of Australia’s election campaign, where so...
It was always going to end spectacularly, one way or another. The end, it seems, is almost here – and if this really is Ange Postecoglou’s last...
Carlton supporters could be forgiven for thinking Patrick Cripps had lost his mind when interviewed on Fox Footy after last weekend’s breakthrough...
I have a deep curiosity about the language we use in football. The phrases, the tropes and the pieces of wisdom. All of it. From the quizzical,...
Both major parties have been campaigning hard on the cost-of-living crisis – and especially housing affordability – in a bid to win over younger...
Four premierships and Origin series triumphs have defined Jarome Luai’s career to date, but Thursday afternoon’s Wests Tigers media performance...
If you crudely divided up the working population, most people would fit into one of two categories. There are those who seek the safety and...
Lately, consuming the celebrity content my algorithm knows I cannot walk past, I feel a creeping sense of dread. Cosmetic interventions are,...