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Last month, Education Minister Jason Clare introduced new regulations that should help stop some of the rot eating away at Australia's...
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...
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...
To our digital subscribers, loyal newspaper readers and long-time advertising partners: thank you. Your continuing support for this masthead and its...
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...
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...
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...
It usually begins three hours into the flight. A gnawing restlessness and intensifying, often irrational intolerance for other passengers. Subscribe...
A conversation I had this week with a long-serving former northern Tasmanian councillor confirmed what many of our readers already suspect: local...
Implicitly at least, a landmark new book, The Twilight of Exceptionalism: The Liberal and Conservative Era, might equally have been titled,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Imagine if he'd had a different surname. Shicklgruber perhaps or even Heidler, as it was meant to be spelt. The minor Austrian customs official,...
The usual cast of villains were there. The radical left, the fake news, the People's Republic of China, the deep state, the intelligence...
There are two crises afflicting late-stage democracy - one, empirical, and the other, "umpirical" - a term I have taken the liberty of...
The closure of Liberty Bell Bay marks one of the most significant industrial blows Tasmania has faced in years. This news, on top of the closure of...
Productivity growth is supposed to be the key to boosting wages and living standards in the economy. However, just as housing price growth decoupled...
As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has two major problems - and that's leaving aside One...
"I have anxiety around cyber security because I understand how important it is, but don't feel I have the skill needed to look after myself...
If we want to stop women and children being raped and murdered, we are going to have to change men. This week, last week, this year, the bodies are...
Apologies for interrupting, my fellow introverts. I know how much you value your silence. How you despise small talk. How you break into a cold sweat...
One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue...
I never expected to spend my weekends and evenings talking about homelessness to tens of thousands of strangers on trains, ferry wharfs, cafés and in...
I only had myself to blame for the unpleasant sensation. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Cold, gnawing and...
It's telling that great prime ministers like Howard, Fraser, Hawke and Keating have nothing in common with Pauline Hanson. Subscribe now for...
There is a version of Australia that gets repeated often by politicians who trade in fear. It's a version where migrants arrive as cultural...
Those of us born outside Australia can't understand why native Australians go in the sea. In ten years, I've been in once - but never again....
The Singapore Oceanarium is an engineering marvel. It holds 45 million litres of water (18 Olympic pools) across 22 displays. It also has a 36-metre...
I had a chat with a charming woman the other day. I called a prominent consultancy in Canberra and a pleasant female voice answered. She sounded...
Anyone reading the story of that 19-year-old hooning around would have been relieved that the kid was caught before he killed himself or anyone else....
Call me naive, but might there be a correction coming - a global renaissance of the human heart? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
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