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You're riled up. It might be the overnight 30 cent hike in the price of a litre of petrol. Or the half day wasted waiting for the plumber to turn...
When was the last time public art, like the new Sky Vessels in Launceston, was revealed to universal acclaim? Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Every once in a while, we get a planetary alignment of evidence so significant that you have to pay attention. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Tony Burke was late to the National Press Club to announce the government's migration policy on Thursday. Six weeks late, to be precise....
I've been living under intense surveillance for the past 13 years. Every movement monitored. Every step followed. Every conversation overheard....
I think I'd love to have philosophers in charge of everything. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I feel...
Clinton election strategist James Carville was on the money in 1992 when he coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid." Subscribe now...
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a flawed measure. Economists have known this for as long as we've been measuring it. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Who knows when and how the end will come for humanity? Will an overheated climate make life impossible? Or will artificial intelligence (AI) decide...
Albo's old home was down the road a few blocks from where I lived - if you could call it "living" back then. Subscribe now for...
Allocating 73 per cent of a $560 million community infrastructure program to government-held seats: approximately $409 million. Subscribe now for...
Here's an interesting figure: Australia's household debt (mortgages, credit cards, loans etc) is $3400 billion. Australia's total...
"It must have been absolutely terrifying for Ms Ticehurst to die knowing that her worst fears had been realised." Subscribe now for...
At this time, 25 years ago, traumatised emergency services personnel were still working an enormous pile of glass, concrete and torn metal, with its...
Jacqui Lambie nailed it last week when she opened fire on Pauline Hanson. Every round hit the target. But it was the headshot which impressed me the...
Not all superheroes wear tight-fitting costumes and seek truth and justice. Some wear school uniforms. Some wear hi-vis work clothes. Some stand...
It's not all men, but it's almost always men. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading A series of sexual...
Most Australians believe disasters happen to someone else. Until they don't. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
I wish I grew up in a world without the algorithm. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I hate the algorithm. I...
Pauline Hanson declared in a recent News24 documentary: "I don't back down". Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
At our place, it's bad form to watch Below Deck Mediterranean alone. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had seen before. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
I swore I would never stray. Not this old-fashioned guy. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Unfaithful friends...
Do we all have fantasy jobs? The work we might have done if we'd had the right skills or talents? And if we had those jobs, would we then be...
Why do so few of our decent, hard-working, caring, young Australians get the credit they deserve? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Mr Morrow was terrifying. Physically squat, clad in a black academic gown which made him look like an angry bat, his temper was as short as his...
Boy oh boy, there's been some nonsense about the government's proposed digital duty of care on social media. Subscribe now for unlimited...
It's now more than three months since the May budget was handed down, and the fallout continues unabated. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Roll up! Roll up! In my hand and in limited supply is this rare miracle snake oil which the ancient Chinese discovered could cure aches and pains...
US President Donald Trump fell for the observers' paradox when he posted his ratings recently of the leadership qualities past US presidents....
This Friday will mark the day 25 years ago when time itself appeared to stop dead. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
In one of the first interviews I did after Bondi, a reporter said something I have not been able to shake. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
We interrupt this program to bring you some breaking news: there are some good things happening in the world. Here is just a handful: Subscribe now...
There comes a point in every major public project when numbers stop being an inconvenience and start becoming a concern. For the $43 million Princess...
Despite ever-rising health insurance premiums, alongside the rising cost of living more generally, the federal government has come up with further...
For the past few years, Australia's supermarket debate has proceeded from a wonderfully simple story. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers would have sighed with relief at this week's economic growth figures. Despite some preview talk of possible stagnation, we...
Something tragic is happening with young Australians and sex. Violence has slipped into their bedrooms disguised as intimacy and there's no...
I got a strange email last week. OK, that's true most weeks but this was among the weirdest. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
The hate was constant and visceral. Every morning, it would be waiting for me in the inbox. It wasn't criticism of what I had written but a deep...
Receiving my home insurance was an unpleasant experience last week. It went up 15 per cent since last year. This would have been fine except that it...
Canberra gets pretty freezing in winter, which is why lots of people (including me) plan holidays to warmer places then. But those jetting off to a...
I didn't particularly want to write about Pauline Hanson but couldn't let her breathtaking hypocrisy through to the keeper. Subscribe now...
Pinch and a punch, first day of the month, no returns! Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Where I live, spring...
Last Saturday's Western Australian byelection in the state seat of Secret Bay was worse than diabolical for Labor. Subscribe now for unlimited...
When Donald Trump signed one of his first executive orders of his second term, renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in January 2025, the...
Tasmania has a rare window of opportunity to capture one of the biggest technological shifts since the advent of the internet. Subscribe now for...
Several surveys now have pegged the typical person crossing the Rubicon to One Nation as a white outer-suburban male, in his 50s. Subscribe now for...
If someone had walked into a tiny cabin in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee in the 1950s and pointed to a little girl singing into a homemade tin-can...
Tech giant Meta will pay up to roughly US$18 billion, plus make major design changes to Facebook and Instagram, as part of a settlement it has agreed...