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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...
Australia has a mental health crisis, but not the one we think. Despite decades of soaring expenditure, our national mental health has not improved....
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...
The point where price is no longer a number on a bowser and becomes a warning sign was reached weeks ago by many. At $3.00 a litre, fuel isn't...
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...
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...
More than two decades ago, Dr Melita Keywood of the CSIRO identified Launceston as the most polluted residential area in Australia, with wood heaters...
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...
Fuel has become a precious, and increasingly expensive, commodity. The ongoing Middle East conflict has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz,...
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....
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....
Each time The Examiner publishes a story about a sex offence in Tasmania, whether it involves the possession of child exploitation material or the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
I need to talk about a personal battle that I know many of you are also fighting in silence. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
Australia's world-first national legislation to restrict access to social media accounts for children under 16 years old has been in force for...
They were a middle-aged couple, packing their small car with belongings in a rubble strewn street. The photographer captured the moment they were...
The conflict in Iran, initiated by the Donald Trump administration and Israel, has triggered a global economic crisis being felt acutely in Tasmania....
At the ripe old age of 97, the death of the Cold War espionage writer, Len Deighton, just days ago, came as a different kind of shock. Subscribe now...
Anyone watching the smoke signals from Canberra knows that moves are afoot to try and increase capital gains tax (aka "cut the discount")....
No good crisis should ever be wasted, as Rahm Emanuel, a one-time chief of staff to Barack Obama, used to say. Donald Trump is in trouble with both...
It's strange what we've come to accept as normal. We have the cleanest tap water in the world, yet somehow we've created a $700 million...
"Feel the Power." "Age Friendly City." "Confident. Bold. Ready." Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
Granite angels with crumbling faces and broken wings. Headstones cracked by shifting earth. Chiselled names faded by the elements. Rusted iron fences...
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