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If scandals and controversy were the season’s underbelly, on field the action was compelling.
With less than a day to go until the Fremantle Dockers take on the Brisbane Lions in Saturday’s AFL decider, WA Premier Roger Cook and Queensland...
Other sports have recognised that a one-match ban can be a disproportionately severe punishment depending on the match in which it is served. The...
There is no ‘spare adult’ to play backstop in single-parent households – and Australia has 1.2 million of them. We haven’t adjusted for this reality.
How is it that the singer ended up offending everyone? This is a study in the mental and moral gymnastics of inoffensiveness.
Riddle: It is something we do every day, hopefully twice a day, but even when we try our hardest, most of us fail.
I want my kids back home, but with them improved in all ways since they packed their drum kits and cricket stuff and burned off to their own share...
Champion halves boasting 14 titles and 1500 games between them all agree. Sam Walker – the gambler, meticulous planner and ambidextrous rogue – is...
Anthony Albanese promised to fix the political staffing system when he was elected in 2022. Instead, he’s made it worse.
A Brazilian-Latvian influencer who has spoken out about racism is the inadvertent face of T-shirts for the conservative news and opinion outlet.
A romantic relationship with a colleague might cause genuine problems but if you’re just inviting them to a barbecue, there is room to manoeuvre.
We shouldn’t be aiming for more children, but it might be a side-effect of focusing on the right thing as we face an ageing population.
Instead, there are four games at three different venues, one of which is an eyesore.
Solidarity? In America? Among the media? It seems astonishing that anything quite so unified could grow from America’s famously polarised soil.
The underlying wrinkle of this case is that the match review system leaves little room for shades of grey in the grading of offences.
Come to Australia, steal and plunder. That’s the prime minister’s message to the AI giants.
Factual errors are only part of the reason critics are lashing his book as a cash grab. The true state of Earl Spencer’s relationship with his...
The quirky trend is digital edging for the person who gets off on designer labels, not sex – PornHub for the Carrie Bradshaws of the world.
Liu Jinsong’s first Australian speech was not a time to emphasise differences, but to accentuate the positive – and implore both sides to pursue...
The company synonymous with super-sized everything is revamping its menu for an era of slimming waist lines.
An ancient Roman philosopher wrote about a wealthy and lazy man who desired to appear worldly and educated, without wanting to do the hard work of...
Arthur Beetson is an icon of both clubs. Friday’s preliminary final clash provides a fitting opportunity to remember the big fella’s incredible...
The modern cyber threat is no longer a person in a balaclava. How secure is our data in this new AI age?
It is one of the world’s most important markets, and the alarm bells are starting to ring louder.
The powerful administrator will on Thursday announce his resignation as Racing NSW boss. Hours later, he will be unveiled as the NRL’s new executive...
If one were being overly cynical, Albanese could not have been handed a more potent demonstration of the dangers of AI at a more useful moment.
Players will try to con them. They will be yelled at, and might even have things thrown at them. But the four field umpires picked for Saturday’s...
The NRL’s two best No.7s are playing grand final qualifiers under injury clouds. And it could just be the Panthers champion who comes unstuck.
Our independent Reserve Bank is in a protracted battle against high inflation. But the RBA faces another reputational threat: credibility.
The $16 billion Australian payments unicorn remains very sensitive to criticism of its operations in China.
Almost two years into Donald Trump’s second term, the global economy is looking for ways to distance itself from the United States.
Enshittification is spreading. Now everyday products are getting worse too. The biggest backward step is the high-tech feature that hides behind a...
I’ve bought so many clothes I have never worn. Finally, I am vowing to change my ways.
The question is, should the AFL weigh up the greater significance of missing a grand final?
The US president speaks relentlessly with a forked tongue – and that has provoked the media’s increasingly probing coverage.
At face value, 71-year-old farmer Howard Buffett has no obvious qualifications to be appointed chairman of a prestigious company, other than that he...
The band’s Australian tour has sparked the sort of frenzy that would embarrass Swifties.
A high-usage young adult can add around $1061 annually to your electricity bill.
Militaries are rarely good occupiers. Time and demographics usually wear down the occupying power, and the reasons why occupation initially made sense...
The rise of populism on the left and right is being assisted by ignorance. It can’t continue.
Shop around rather than assuming you must stay with your bank. For overseas travel, cards such as Wise are also worth investigating.
The ICAC heard a PI used covert devices hoping to catch out dodgy dealings – but only picked up breakfast orders.
Gen Z has become completely dependent on dating apps. But it’s not because we’re modern: it’s because we’re scared.
The NRL has fumbled its grand final entertainment. But there’s still time to save it.
After much speculation, it’s been confirmed the popular leader has finally settled on a home on the northern beaches.
Donald Trump owes his dominance of American politics to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. But this week, the media empire deserted the president.
More and more children are murdering their parents. I have a theory.
This requires changing your psychological and emotional relationship with spending.
Republicans, fearful of losing control of Congress, are pressuring the US president to ban or restrict diesel exports to stop the fuel’s price surge...
TV-loving Trump returned to office pledging to give the media access like never before. In reality, that meant fewer serious journalists and coverage...