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If you could take all the best skills and attributes of the leading players at this year’s Australian Open and combine them into one player, what...
Tennis tantrums get us talking and keep us watching, but where’s the line between endorsing bad behaviour and acknowledging it’s good for the sport...
For the super fund giants and major overseas investors that load up on only the biggest ASX companies, it’s likely to be slim pickings among the...
The UK has experienced decades of underinvestment and a shortage of trained personnel. But all is not lost.
But compare the way Donald Trump views protesters at home with those in Iran and it’s clear few principles are guiding his approach, even as he...
If 2026 is shaping up as a landmark year for you, a binding financial agreement could be a good fit. Your future self might thank you.
The government’s proposed changes to hate speech legislation may have unintended consequences, and fall foul of the Constitution.
If we think of voter grievance as fuel on the forest floor, there is a point in any long-term government where the build-up reaches combustive levels.
A skinny doctor applauded my weight loss via diet and exercise rather than drugs. I wish I’d told him to get lost. I’d have taken those drugs in a...
The terrible divisiveness of police violence is why responsible leaders respond to every incident with extreme care. You don’t send out allies and...
In the eyes of the taxman, capital losses have a limited life. But things can change if you have a self-managed super fund.
If 2026 is shaping up as a landmark year for you, a binding financial agreement could be a good fit. Your future self might thank you.
When it comes to your redevelopment, there is no avoiding the fact that, in the eyes of the taxman, this is a profit-making venture.
Choosing the former prime minister to be Australia’s US ambassador always stood out for being full of potential but laden with risk. That’s how it...
With a typically cheeky quip about the need to spend more time on her golf, Alyssa Healy drew the curtain on one of Australian cricket’s most game-...
All three living former Federal Reserve chairs have slammed the criminal investigation into Powell, but there’s been a stony silence from others in...
Apple has been extremely cautious when it comes to using AI and is hoping Google’s raw resources will help it close the gap on its rivals.
Jerome Powell has had enough, and he is fighting back. The time for a biblical ‘Turning the other cheek’ is over.
His infamous tweet left a question mark over his capacity to do the job, but Kevin Rudd changed the narrative.
This blinkered and ruthless old man has staked everything on the idea that maximum cruelty will quash his protesters – and that the US will do...
We’ve heard calls not only to investigate how the Bondi massacre occurred but to place universities, protest movements and migrants under suspicion.
Fighting fires is, like the health sector, an essential service, and it is under pressure due to budget strain.
I knew my only shot at avoiding this happening again was to figure out what I could do better next time. So, I asked myself a question I’d been...
The Celtic Tiger was roaring and I was on track to fulfilling my journalism dream. Then an email arrived with a word that I’d not heard in years...
OK, yes, I am invading your precious beach town. But we summer tourists bring good things too.
I was 16 and had the colours of rolling thunder and driving rain at my fingertips. I thought I had to choose between listening to my head or...
As Greenlanders watch the ice melt around them, mining becomes more commercial and more attractive to the US president – or that’s the theory.
Even two years ago coal was the mining industry’s kryptonite - the dirty commodity cousin whose place in the energy mix was rapidly fading.
Now would be a great time for the federal government and the opposition to review their use of the platform they condemn.
The overthrow of Iran’s Islamic regime would be a seismic event that would transform geopolitics and markets. Analysts say the government has a...
One of the solutions to the housing crisis could be right under our noses – or over our heads.
Why, if the message is so simple (and unoriginal), have the guidelines caused such a stir?
Our political classes have shown Australians how not to respond to a crisis. Can we learn from it?
The financial markets have passed two crucial tests barely a week into the new year.
The big question for me is how do I keep my kids safe? The good news is that we are not powerless.
Suitcases packed, hotel rooms vacated, sore heads and red eyes hidden under baseball caps and behind sunglasses, winners and losers alike face the...
After 35 years of ruling Iran, Ali Khamenei is running out of options fast.
The world’s largest gadget show promised a future in which technology handles everything. Outside the Las Vegas bubble, reality had other plans.
Although there is no place in this country for hate speech, there must be room for people to express their views on politics and world events.
There will be no denying Aryna Sabalenka’s standing as favourite to clinch a third Australian Open mantle, but even the world No.1 has issued a...
The true test is not whether we establish an inquiry but whether we have the courage to confront uncomfortable truths about how we arrived at this...
There will be a royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion. Not just because eminent Australians spoke out in favour, but because...
On the streets of Nuuk, derision of the US president is palpable. A group of boys walking in the snow stop to say “we hate Trump”. One makes the...
Financial gymnastics aimed at obtaining a few extra dollars from social security that you don’t really need is not my cup of tea.
In times of grief, words can be unnecessary. Yet there are such times when something must be said. Anything. Say it with love.
An alarming sign of Brendon McCullum’s attitude to coaching England came on the Adelaide outfield, where, with Australian players uncorking the...
The problem with my Best Combined XI from the 2025-26 Ashes is that it only has VI players in it. Travis Head opens the batting, and then we have...
Letter writers and coin collectors of the world unite! Our analogue days are numbered.
The morning after England’s sucker-punch of an opening Ashes defeat in Perth, Brydon Carse was sitting at a riverside cafe with his teammates Zak...