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The hatred was visceral. A loathing so deep, so mutual, there was no way the two would ever be reconciled. On occasions it manifested itself in public...
Whenever governments announce changes to negative gearing, the public debate tends to become highly polarised. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Reports of shocking abuse and neglect in our early childhood system mean many Australians are questioning whether they can trust childcare centres....
On August 4, 112 years ago, stupid decisions by the leaders of great powers at the time - Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and Russia -...
His love of gold knows no bounds. And when he promised a new golden age, he wasn't joking. The Oval Office groans under the weight of it - at...
Australia's ARC (Australian Research Council) Centres of Excellence program is designed to break down research silos by funding...
Curious about that pain in your neck? The persistent, low-level discomfort you can't seem to shake could be caused by many things, among them the...
You see a lot walking a dog at dawn - magnificent sunrises, stunning frosts, hot-air balloons and the occasional kangaroo. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Last month, Education Minister Jason Clare introduced new regulations that should help stop some of the rot eating away at Australia's...
Australia may be moving into chickens-coming-home-to-roost time. It is now royal commission and public inquiry season. Those in reasonable prospect...
Canberra! City of unexpected thrills and delights! Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading One morning last week, idly...
It was late on a Friday afternoon in January this year, when fires broke out west of Ballarat. We had few staff on deck at The Courier but when a...
Look at this photo. It seems as if it was taken in the 1940s. The dirty overalls. The dark, confined space. Take the newspapers out of it and you...
We moved not long ago. And while we were doing that, I came across box after box of photos. That's what we did in the olden days. We managed our...
It's a sad reality of news coverage that my local community only really makes the front page of the major Sydney newspapers and media when...
At last week's Labor conference, which was totally under the Prime Minister's thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor: support for...
The oceans are heating, the skies are burning, the ice is melting and the earth is cracking. But let's not talk about that. Subscribe now for...
When the Glen Innes Examiner ceased printing in September 2024, our community lost more than a physical newspaper. We lost a familiar and trusted part...
The impending closure of the Hub Disability Day Program in Holt reveals a deeply troubling gap in support for some of Canberra's most vulnerable...
Why is it that so many Aussies will confidently share their views on Trump, Netanyahu, Meloni, Macron, but might not be able to name their own local...
Consider these scenarios. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading An influential political commentator posts a reel on...
Hell hath no fury like ... me trying to get past stupid packaging to the product I paid good money for and I want to use now. Not in an hour's...
In many regional communities, local news is more than a source of information. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
Amid all the drama in the deposing of Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan - her early defiance, the acceptance of the inevitable, the resignation speech...
Over the past decade, community pharmacy has been steadily changing. Pharmacists have taken on a widening range of services beyond the supply of...
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Since the recent rise of One Nation, pollsters have had to deduce not just a Labor-Coalition two-party-preferred tally but also a Labor-One Nation...
In 1979 my mother, Val French, received a grant to survey the needs of rural Australians. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
By this time of year, the longing begins. The buds on the liquidambars and the London plane tree are checked for the first signs of swelling. Note is...
Last Thursday was a sad day in ACT politics, with the local Integrity Commission making a finding of serious corrupt conduct against two public...
It usually begins three hours into the flight. A gnawing restlessness and intensifying, often irrational intolerance for other passengers. Subscribe...
Australian employers are thinking the wrong way about workers with disability. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
Implicitly at least, a landmark new book, The Twilight of Exceptionalism: The Liberal and Conservative Era, might equally have been titled,...
The release of the ACT Integrity Commission's Operation Kingfisher report has brought truth to a dark chapter in territory politics. After a...
Just when you imagined the burden of business regulation in Australia could not become heavier, along comes a new government regime to manage the roll...
I recently saw a story on Instagram claiming that the English TV talent show judge Simon Cowell intends to leave his estimated $600 million fortune to...
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The twin debacles of the Campbell Primary School procurement process and the phantom needs analysis report on aquatic facilities for Woden - each...
Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party have set their course for facing the next federal election. It's not a bold strategy, but it's a...
First of all, please stop complaining about Sarah Ferguson. Sure, she's not perfect. Me neither. But when she dragged Barnaby Joyce over the...
Bill Kelty has been a member of the Labor Party since 1964 but he is not among the hundreds of delegates at the party's national conference in...
The apology arrived in millions of inboxes around the country brimming with the usual bloodless verbiage and condescending prattle we now expect from...
No decent person could read the circumstances surrounding Raimo and Marlene Kasurinen without recognising the profound distress experienced by their...
The word of the day is resilience. It was in the title of the Treasurer's budget speech and then appeared another 13 times after that. In the...
My powers have been low the past few days. Scratchy cough, runny nose, generally out of sorts, nothing alarming just a typical winter lurgy, most...
Where to begin, the details of this case are just so disturbing on many levels, that as an advocate for gambling reform and someone who experienced...
I don't often feel sorry for Barnaby Joyce but I did the other night. There he was, mid-interview with 7.30's Sarah Ferguson, rarely a...
Workers need to put a new demand in for enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations: entitlement to a nap in the afternoon. Subscribe now for...
Many delegates attending this week's ALP National Conference no doubt feel the motto of this government is: "Do nothing for as long as...