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I've just watched The Sopranos episode where Carmela discovers that Tony's psychiatrist is a woman and she is jealous. Carmela devotes quite...
It would be an understatement to describe as pathetic the ACT government's response to this newspaper's revelations that dozens of shops...
Chris Bowen singing "it's all ok we've got supplies till May" is cold comfort. May is just around the corner. Somehow we're...
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The boy who told a reporter who asked why he was watching the launch of Artemis II: "Because we're going back to the freaking moon"...
The war on Iran has made crystal clear how shaky our reliance on fossil fuels is. It's no surprise electric vehicles and transport have become...
It was 1999 and we were doing what we thought was our final renovation. Oh, the naivety of the first time renovator. We'd heard of solar panels...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have confirmed in the past week that the May budget will contain major tax changes to help...
Don't know about you but I'm exhausted. Seems it's been one thing after another for at least six years. Subscribe now for unlimited...
As a young widow of 38, I remember all too vividly dragging my body, heavy with grief, into Centrelink a couple of weeks after my partner Nathan had...
Hand-wringing over soaring fuel prices is a national obsession but, sadly, it is not matched by the quiet reflection this moment warrants - either as...
Australia has a mental health crisis, but not the one we think. Despite decades of soaring expenditure, our national mental health has not improved....
I felt sick when I climbed the stairs up to my favourite bar of all time the other day, and not only because it was a weekday morning and the place...
This holy week saw the Catholic Pope, Leo XIV, clash sharply with the American Secretary of War, Peter Hegseth, and by implication his master, Donald...
Last week, a court imposed the first civil penalty on an individual for workplace sexual harassment under the Fair Work Act following law reform in...
High on the soft blue canvases of Constable Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading they are stuck in pigment, but his...
My new book, The Embarrassing Confessions of Gracie Sparks, is written in diary form, and so many readers have asked if I kept a diary when I was 12....
Using one lens, you could view the present contest between the Albanese government and the Taylor-Canavan opposition as pragmatism versus populism....
There wasn't much of my grandfather to start with and by the time cancer finished devouring his slight frame there was very little left. But even...
We shouldn't really call them sovereign citizens. It's a phoney name for people who think they are above the law. They take up time in the...
The federal government had no control over the Iran war. As the Prime Minister remarked in reference to Trump's decision to invade:...
A mate who'd booked his family Easter holiday long before the Middle East war upended everything is going ahead, despite the extra fuel costs. He...
As the war in Iran heads into its second month, the conflict has escalated rapidly. The effects are being felt around the world, and there is no clear...
The notice in the La Trobe University student newsletter was inconspicuous: "Actresses required for Mess Hall Players' production of One...
The world is breathing a little easier this morning after stunning developments in Washington overnight. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...
Are they ignorant fools? Thirty-eight per cent of One Nation voters blame the government for the fuel crisis and only 39 per cent of them blame Trump....
Fuel has become a precious, and increasingly expensive, commodity. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading The ongoing...
It swept up out of Antarctica with a vengeance. The mass of cold air ambushed south east Australia, plunging temperatures and breaking a cycle of heat...
Long thought extinct, the drongo is back. Not the bird, it's doing just fine, but the uniquely Aussie expression for an idiot or incompetent...
A central element of Australia's superannuation system is the superannuation guarantee (SG). This is the compulsory 12 per cent of an...
Aged care reform in Australia has focused heavily on staffing levels, regulation and funding. All of these matter. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Transport Minister Catherine King does not usually do parliamentary attacks, but via a "Dorothy Dixer' on Wednesday about the fuel crisis,...
Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of our own actions. After the Australian government shamelessly abandoned morality and...
Did you know the cost of adding a second dwelling on your standard residential block (RZ1) in the ACT could run to around $250,000 before you have...
"Can IQ tests settle whether Trump is a moron or not?" Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading This unkind...
Thirty-four years ago, celebrated eye doctor Fred Hollows established a partnership with millions of Australians to set in place an international...
Expect to hear a lot about "Australian values" between now and the next federal election. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...
Crises "stress test" governments and countries. Memories remain vivid of COVID, which put immense pressures on the Australian economy, the...
A newborn boy with tubes and cords running from head to toe to machines of baffling complexity. That's my reason. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the United States has ruled. Subscribe now...
She's a force of nature, this one. She's 83 and if those legs don't allow her to move as quickly as they once did, she's lost none...
In her early 40s, when it became apparent my sister was struggling to have children, we had a discussion about how I could help. That discussion went...
It seems ironic now but exactly a month before war erupted in the Gulf, oil industry news website Oilprice.com warned of a looming threat to global...
It's easy to focus on the success of One Nation in the recent South Australian election. There's a message there for both the major parties....
I was living in an inner-city suburb when I got pregnant with my first baby. I had a full-time job and wrote books for kids on the weekends. I had a...
It's hard not to smell a rat. Fifteen minutes before Donald Trump announced his postponement of threatened strikes on Iranian power plants and...
The South Australian election proves that One Nation is a far greater threat to the Liberal and National Parties than it is to Labor. We should ask...
As another Anzac Day approaches, and warfare for a vital waterway is dominating global affairs, it is worth recalling that the Gallipoli land campaign...
You can't legislate against stupidity. There will always be people whose reckless, irrational actions harm others. We're reminded of this...
When I was in the Defence Intelligence Organisation, we analysed foreign military leaders - their strengths, weaknesses, health status and likely...
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