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The English language is full of surprises. Here are my three favourites

A red-light district in Yokohama, or a Dutch game of tag? Take your pick, as hunky-dory is a linguistic puzzle. Either the idiom emerges from the...

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David Astle

Why staying underwater (and using a dolphin kick) might be the key to gold

If the Dolphins want to match their haul of nine gold, three silver and eight bronze medals at Tokyo 2020, they will not only have to beat the best...

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Tony Blazevich

The athletes Olympic medallist Ash Barty is desperate to watch in Paris

Three years ago I achieved my childhood tennis dream when I was triumphant on the famous Wimbledon grasscourts. Winning that tournament was amazing...

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Ash Barty

The Obamas called Kamala Harris. Cameras rolled. Hokeyness ensued

Kamala Harris’ dizzying rollout as a presidential candidate somehow pulled off the rare feat of looking organic and organised, fun but without...

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Rebecca Davis O’Brien

Will Microsoft’s new AI assistants revolutionise the office? Maybe one day

Microsoft Corp is betting that artificially intelligent assistants will transform workplaces around the world, generating new excitement and...

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Matt Day

Harris, Trump and the fight for America’s soul

These have been amazing days. Donald Trump, wounded in an assassination attempt, recovers and is the supreme hero of the Republican Party, on...

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Bruce Wolpe

Passed the torch from Biden, Harris faces steep climb in race to the US election

For almost a decade, former US president Donald Trump has been willing to repeatedly shatter the usual norms of political behaviour. The Democrats,...

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The Age&x27S View

Je ne regrette rien: How I scored an interview with French President Emmanuel Macron

Well I never. I mean it. Jamais! Last Monday, TFF cracked an invite to the Elysee Palace to attend a reception hosted by French President Emmanuel...

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Peter Fitzsimons

The surprising upside of impostor syndrome

Ever found yourself doubting your achievements, feeling like a fraud at work despite clear evidence of your capabilities? That gnawing doubt –...

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Shadé Zahrai

The French are protecting the Games with fearsome firepower. Australia had two pranksters

John Silvester lifts the lid on Australia’s criminal underworld in Naked City , an exclusive newsletter for subscribers sent every Thursday....

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John Silvester

The supreme influencer: A bluesman who shaped rock legends

Damn right I’ve got the blues. John Mayall has left this earthly stage. The godfather of British blues and a legend both sides of the Atlantic...

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Warwick Mcfadyen

The curious politics of Biden’s booming America: it’s about how voters ‘feel’

It’s a puzzle at the heart of US politics, and it occurs in Australian politics, too. Americans consistently say that by far the most important...

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Peter Hartcher

So Kamala is the ‘childless cat lady’? White male power plays its hateful gender card

The higher women climb, the thinner the air, the starker the double standard becomes. As Kamala Harris’s mother likes to say, none of us have...

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Julia Baird

Hero to political toast: The achievement Harris should keep quiet about

It’s a puzzle at the heart of US politics, and it occurs in Australian politics, too. Americans consistently say that by far the most important...

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Peter Hartcher

‘The world is in meltdown’: Inside the front lines of the CrowdStrike outage

It was at about 3.30pm on an otherwise quiet and uneventful Friday that Ashwin Pal’s phone began blowing up. He was at home working when hundreds...

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David Swan

Straaaaaaya! Humility, you’re disqualified. The Olympics boasting has well and truly begun

Hang on all, I’ll be right back. Just have to grab my Straya towel from Crazy Clark’s to wipe the old face. I’m sweating it up from wearing a...

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Kate Halfpenny

More pay, better skills: How job-hopping can turbocharge your career

Gone are the days when people spend entire careers with a single company. Instead, many professionals embrace job-hopping as a viable strategy for...

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Téa Angelos

China’s trade policy is almost a declaration of economic war

The first China Shock in the 1990s and early 2000s flooded the world with cheap goods and redrew the contours of the global economy. It let...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

A scourge on our society: We need to talk about financial abuse

For all the empowering and uplifting financial stories I’ve heard over the years, there is one line I heard years ago that’s never left me: If...

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Victoria Devine

How to ruin a family with one quick court case

Rupert Murdoch is trying to set his legacy using his family trust, and thousands of Australians are following in his footsteps. A year ago, the...

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Jenna Price

Banks no longer protect us from scammers. It’s time they paid the price

If you had to explain to a child why you keep your money in a bank, what would you say? My guess is you wouldn’t say much about...

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Waleed Aly

Messy power struggle gives ammunition to Pesutto’s Liberal enemies

Never ones to give their political opponents the space to flounder, the Victorian Liberal Party is reigniting decades-old factional tensions ahead...

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Annika Smethurst

Why is my colleague making fun of my standing desk?

I have started using a standing desk at work and have been a little surprised to find it has been greeted with doubt from people I work with. One...

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Jonathan Rivett

Why Paris will shake off les Olympiques bleus

So far, so Sydney. You will recall back then at the dawn of the millennium: if Historical Pre-Games-Grumbling had been an Olympic sport, then...

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Peter Fitzsimons

$1.1 trillion wipeout: Wall Street just got hit with a reality check

The shudder that rippled through Wall Street overnight appears to reflect a dawning realisation that the returns from the massive investments in...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Biden gives the speech he never wanted to, and did it with passion and grace

Washington: Four days after he withdrew from the 2024 US presidential election, Joe Biden delivered the most consequential speech he never wanted...

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Farrah Tomazin

The careers advice for my daughters is obsolete rubbish - they might as well aim for a job at Kodak

School career advisers are like a backwards Google. You can ask them any question you want, but they’ll only have one answer: journalism. For...

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James Panichi

Harris faces the sexism directed at Clinton and the racism directed at Obama

Donald Trump has openly said that if he wins in November and returns to office, he won’t be a dictator, “except for Day 1”. Kevin Roberts,...

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Charles M. Blow

Palfrey backed a rival swimmer. Now he must pack up his goggles and go

When Australian swim coach Michael Palfrey called out “go Korea” at the end of an extracurricular poolside interview on Tuesday, he might have...

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Greg Baum

Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to rule from the grave is stranger than fiction

Family patriarch, media mogul, nonagenarian and serial groom Rupert Murdoch has been famed for his remarks that he will live forever. He now...

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Elizabeth Knight

Why the AFL should stop Harry McKay from playing this Friday night

Harry McKay should not be playing in Friday night’s game against Port Adelaide. A week after AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon declared player...

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Kane Cornes

Trump v Rudd: who’d win, the master of the barb or the prince of persuasion?

We now know the next president of the United States will not be Joe Biden. The 81-year-old’s dramatic exit from the presidential race on Sunday...

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David Livingstone

Why it’s time we stopped obsessing over ‘work-life balance’

If I had an eraser that could magically scrub away any common phrase from our collective minds, I’d use it to delete a phrase that’s become so...

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Tim Duggan

No Kerr, no medal? Think again when it comes to skilled and hungry Matildas

The⁠ ⁠Matildas have never beaten Germany in a major international competition - and the key to breaking that drought will be the tactical growth...

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Craig Foster

The Origin decider was out of this world. But how much more can these players give?

I’ve finally taken the time to watch a replay of last week’s phenomenal State of Origin series decider and one question came to mind: can the...

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Andrew Johns

Men are not from Mars. They are from another galaxy entirely

God, apparently as a prank, devised two sexes and called them “opposite”. Even though there is only a pair of chromosomes which separate us, I...

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Kathy Lette

A Trump victory would leave Australia handcuffed to the whims of a narcissist

In Western Australia on Tuesday, US admiral and member of the joint chiefs of staff Lisa Franchetti made comforting noises when asked about the...

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Shaun Carney

Betting on autonomy: Investors are waiting for Tesla’s future to arrive

Tesla’s earnings might be $US1.2 billion ($1.8 billion) lower than a year ago amid slowing growth of the electric vehicle market, but that...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

How Flight Centre’s news on falling airfares became Qantas’ problem

It’s time to book that overdue holiday. Updated profit guidance from Flight Centre should be music to the ears of the travelling public –...

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Elizabeth Knight

The main problem with tourist trails? The tourists

Travel is best when you have a mission, however unlikely. It might be the need to buy a present for a friend obsessed with chihuahuas. It may be...

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Richard Glover

The run home: Where the contenders stand in the race for the AFL top eight

The run home to the AFL finals in 2024 shapes as one for the ages, with positions two through to eight there for the taking with five home-and-away...

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Jon Pierik

You want cheap stuff? You’ll need to accept more pain like the CrowdStrike crash

The appearance of the blue screen of death across the world’s laptops and PCs last Friday will have caused billions of dollars worth of problems...

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Shane Wright

Money and power: Why Europe’s top leagues have declared war against FIFA

Late on Tuesday night (AEST), FIFPro Europe - a branch of the global players’ union FIFPro - announced it will take joint legal action against...

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Vince Rugari

Trump trades: Markets are betting against Europe, oil and humanity

Every brokerage house is coming out with its list of “Trump trades”, now that America’s triumphant caudillo is deemed a shoo-in for a second...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The first time I saw crying that frightened me, it came from my father

The first time I saw crying that frightened me, it was a Wednesday in 1983. I heard it before I saw it. My dad’s enormous body producing...

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Jacinta Parsons

Marky Mark is the weapon Australia’s sevens team needs in Paris

With remarkable blends of speed, strength and skill, Mark Nawaqanitawase and Antoine Dupont will make it look easy at these Olympics. Their...

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Michael Hooper

Consumers locked out of financial advice as fees keep rising

An increasing number of people seeking financial advice to help them navigate complex rules and regulations, particularly around retirement...

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John Collett

Can’t get a tradie? The CFMEU’s stranglehold on major projects is choking all of us

Across Australia we face constraints on new home building supply and the ability of households to undertake major renovations. The most prominent...

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Harley Dale

Death and taxes are inevitable. Here’s how retirees can minimise the latter

Most retired couples live on an account-based pension from their super fund, often supplemented by a part age pension. This usually works well...

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Noel Whittaker

The financial steps that can make or break your new business

Lately, I’ve been getting more questions from aspiring business owners. Today, I want to share the financial mistakes to avoid and how to set...

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Paridhi Jain

Cost-of-living crisis? Why only some of us are feeling the pinch

If you believe the opinion polls, we’re all groaning under the weight of the cost-of-living crisis. And Treasurer Jim Chalmers confirms we’ve all...

wednesday 4

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Ross Gittins

Can you withdraw a loved one’s super after death to save on tax?

I have a query regarding your recent article on wills. You seemed to be advocating withdrawing money from bank accounts or superannuation funds...

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Noel Whittaker

Westpac offers debit cards to eight-year-olds in youth banking push

As banks seek to sign up the next generation of customers, Westpac has taken a further step towards the cradle by lowering the age for access to...

wednesday 2

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John Collett

Retiree, beware: New residential village model charges more the longer you live

Residents in retirement villages who stay longer than the average nine years have long posed a problem for operators, but one company has come up...

wednesday 4

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Rachel Lane

China makes surprise move as alarm bells ring louder

Last week’s “third plenum” of China’s Communist Party may have disappointed with its lack of any plans for large-scale stimulus, but its...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

How the government’s CFMEU response plays into the Coalition’s hands

With Australia’s federal election looming and the battleground issue being the cost-of-living crisis, the Albanese government’s decision to...

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Elizabeth Knight

It’s time to straighten up our building sites with a strong regulator

If only feigning shock could restore order to the nation’s building sites. If that were the case then the procession of supposedly gobsmacked...

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The Age&x27S View

I’m a grandmother, not a child carer. I did the job the first time around

As Baby Boomers prepare for their final act, it is hard to ignore the recent musings on the role of grandparents. From the op-ed pages to the...

23.07.2024 8

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Avril Moore

Eight stocks that analysts have tipped for a turnaround

Some of Australia’s best-known listed companies have share prices that are languishing – often for reasons not of their own making – with...

23.07.2024 1

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John Collett

Why a 20-team NRL competition solves rugby league’s biggest problems

An endless maelstrom of exclusive stories, breaking news and bombshell revelations is rapidly making NRL expansion the most tedious topic in the...

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Andrew Webster

I’m a cafe worker. There’s one question customers ask that shows a lack of respect

While blundering his way towards a crushing defeat in the UK’s general election this month, Rishi Sunak made many mistakes as prime minister....

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Liam Heitmann-Ryce-Lemercier

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