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Will the launch of Apple’s extended reality headset provide the long-awaited breakthrough for what many see as the future of computing? Probably...
Taxpayers will have to go to a lot more trouble to claim working-from-home expenses in their returns this financial year, with the tax office...
Prospective home buyers looking to secure a place in the government’s low deposit home loan scheme have been told to get a move on, with the...
The full judgment from Justice Anthony Besanko in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case is not just damaging for Australia’s most decorated...
We like to think we are very egalitarian in Australia, but this isn’t reflected in our education system. I would sum up our education using three...
My flatmate and I have a funny ritual to keep the rent down. It involves a sneeze-inducing chemical and kneeling before our shower drain every two...
All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar. Brazil and China recently struck a deal to settle trade in their...
When the war is over, Ukraine’s defence minister is planning to resign his post and head to Australia and New Zealand as soon as possible. “I...
We human beings need a moral centre, a set of core values and principles to guide our behaviour and help us make ethical decisions. Without a moral...
The OPEC oil cartel is showing signs of the tensions generated by a slump in oil prices in which the Western sanctions on Russia’s oil output...
As much as first-season coach Adam Kingsley would hate this, it has been a season of honourable losses for the Giants, who were poor in two of...
Fremantle came in cold to the 2023 season, kicking off their campaign with back-to-back losses to St Kilda and North Melbourne. Yet after...
After 12 years in the competition, and with coach Stuart Dew in his seventh year at the helm, the Suns set themselves a clear target at the...
Stung into action by their shock last-quarter Showdown meltdown, Port Adelaide have barely put a foot wrong for two months as they charge up the...
Some things are written in the stars. In the case of Ange Postecoglou’s impending move to Tottenham Hotspur, it’s written at the bottom of the...
The Swans have been one of the major disappointments this year. Injuries have hit them hard, particularly to their key position ranks, but do not...
A season that began with high hopes enters the midway point close to despair. The Blues are under fire from the board down. Fans are losing faith...
The Kangaroos’ defeat to Essendon on Sunday means they have won only 11 of 73 games since the start of the 2020 season, which makes for hideous...
A dismal first half against Port Adelaide on Saturday revived memories of the doom-and-gloom forecasts after Hawthorn’s two substandard efforts...
Sitting top four with seven wins from 12 games, on face value it’s been a positive first half of the season for the Demons. But the reality is...
After dropping two of their first three games in a shaky start to the season, the Lions have roared into the front rank of flag contenders. They...
The light at the end of a very long tunnel is suddenly shining, with Adelaide’s rebuild clicking hard into overdrive in 2023. Some truly sizzling...
A barely blooded NSW No.7 or a battle-hardened veteran, back for his first Origin in seven years, will be tasked with saving the Blues Origin...
There are seven key reasons NSW coach Brad Fittler could end Adam Reynolds seven-year Origin exile and get the in-form Brisbane halfback back in...
Many AFL pundits had Essendon pegged for a bottom-four finish this year, but at the halfway point of the season, this young side looks a finals...
Most of us are looking forward to a rare long weekend. But some Australians now enjoy a four-day week every week. They’re lucky enough to work for...
Kathleen Folbigg has now walked into that nether world between guilt and innocence. The Hunter Valley woman convicted of killing her four children...
The key takeout from Friday night was the Footy Record. Otherwise, this was a match to forget. It was low-scoring, error-ridden and lacked any of...
Significant improvements are needed by the Brumbies, Waratahs and Reds in the space of a week to ensure it isn’t an all-New Zealand competition...
It’s just as well that England’s captain Ben Stokes got the chance to hang out with Oscar-winner Gary Oldman for his birthday. The way...
This was always to be an all-in year for Richmond. The arrival of two ready-to-go midfield recruits in Tim Taranto and Jacob Hopper was designed to...
Collingwood was the mystery coming into the season. It was hard to read whether so many close wins in the 2022 season flattered them or if their...
It’s been a remarkable start in the second coming of coach Ross Lyon at the Saints after a tumultuous end to the previous year. He restumped,...
The defending premiers knew they would start slowly but hoped to build into the season with enough wins on the board at the halfway point to put...
Rival clubs thought that if the Eagles could stay healthy, and their senior players performed well, they were capable of a mid-table finish. That...
Back-to-back defeats of 50 and 51 points to start the season had many – including the Bulldogs’ brass – wondering what had gone wrong. That...
Singapore: The most controversial moment of this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue was not the United States demanding that China pick up the phone, or...
The latest failure of the AFL to resolve allegations of racism in the sport it oversees provides a cautionary tale of what happens when we do not...
Don’t believe anyone – not even a governor of the Reserve Bank – trying to tell you the Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase minimum...
Justice Anthony Besanko’s dispassionate tone gave nothing away about the force of the judgment he was delivering in Ben Roberts-Smith’s...
Redevelopment of railway stations in CBDs can revitalise great cities and Sydney train users have had their first glimpse of the future with the...
Amid all the factors that might affect a government’s ability to govern well, a broad and simple one sits at the top: the luck of governing at...
Jordan De Goey has never made it through a full season of games so on that score there was a sense of inevitability that something would come up to...
Taking pride of place on David Warner’s bat in photos promoting the showpiece World Championship final of cricket’s oldest format is a harbinger...
Every so often, a player will throw a pass and it happens so quickly you swear if the good folk with CSI: Miami had been called in even they might...
The French have an unnerving (to me) way of doing certain things very well. French women don’t get fat, because they only eat three mouthfuls of...
Owning property has long been sold as the great Australian dream. Now the frenzy is not just about finding somewhere affordable to live; there’s...
In the summer of 2006, my family had taken the day off only to usher me towards the promise of a big bright future in which I was about to scale...
It is a year for divisive debates – the kind that pit generations against one another and make people hateful and racist. While you’d think the...
In these tight times, I’ve become hyper-motivated by getting something for nothing. Anything for nothing, in fact. Points are now frequently...
With Jason Ryles having knocked back St George Illawarra to sign with the Storm, influential Dragons are trying to soften the anti-Shane Flanagan...
Running my finger across the red hardback book cover, I would stop to trace the slightly indented title, The Pink Ballet Slippers. The words were...
It’s Rich List season, and according to the various stocktakes of wealth that have been published recently around the world, it’s been a tough...
Kerry Michael O’Brien, one of Australia’s most respected broadcasters, won six Walkley Awards in his storied 30-year ABC career. He recently...
Was there ever a more pathetic cry? “I’m the eldest boy!” shouts Kendall Roy, the actually not-quite-eldest boy of the dead yet ever-present...
Scientific progress often comes with its moral quandaries. So it is with artificial intelligence, which promises to revolutionise our lives and...
Eddie Jones probably has more questions than answers. The Wallabies coach said at the start of the year that players would select or deselect...
Roxy who? These are the two words Sydney media magnet Roxy Jacenko says convinced her to quit Sydney, where she has scaled the dizzying heights of...
Even the people of Vanuatu enjoyed a superior A-League Men’s grand final experience to those in Australia supporting ‘home’ team Melbourne City....
Rugby league is a simple game. Twenty-six men chase a ball for 80 minutes and at the end, the Queenslanders always win. Yes, with apologies to Gary...
As retirement approaches, one of the biggest concerns people have is determining the amount of money they need to sustain a comfortable lifestyle...
A lot of people are hurting at Carlton, even if they are mostly putting on brave faces. Patrick Cripps’ mum is one of them. Harry McKay’s mum,...
Whether it be the dash of Collingwood’s Nick Daicos or the eloquence of Darcy Moore, the poise of the Western Bulldogs’ Marcus Bontempelli, the...
My earliest memory of my friend Stan Grant being placed in an uncomfortable position because of the colour of his skin is from the 1990 federal...
Most people who move into an aged care home are market price payers, which means that they pay the price agreed with the home for their...
Not everything that Peter Dutton said about the Indigenous Voice to parliament is false or misleading. For instance, in the course of the past...
Emotions frequently cloud judgements. You can see it in the workplace with people who storm out of their jobs, or perhaps worse than that, cling on...
Whenever New South Wales lose an Origin match as they lost on Wednesday – like three-quarters of the matches played since 1980 – the entire...
When my husband was 12, he wrote to Dennis Lillee. Standard but heartfelt fare: I was at the MCG when you bowled Viv Richards off the last ball of...
More than two years after Myanmar’s military staged a coup d’etat and plunged the country into a new round of bloody civil war, Australia’s...
There are three things in my life I thought I’d be absolutely brilliant at, but I turned out to be terrible. The first was surfing. The second...
Ben Roberts-Smith remains lionised in the Australian War Memorial, and he keeps his Victoria Cross, despite a civil court finding this week that he...
People have been complaining about the unaffordability of houses for as long as I’ve been a journalist. In all that time, governments have...
Exposure of a war criminal within the ranks is an onerous and telling revelation for the Australian Defence Force. But the damage must be...
The 5.75 per cent lift in the wage rates for a fifth of the working population goes to the heart of the economic issues facing Australia. There was...
Sanctions against Russia have been the unsung success story of the advanced democracies. Vladimir Putin’s ability to wage military war against...
A kid I went to school with walked out of a maths class with a confused expression on his face. Stumped by talk of derivatives, coefficients and...
Friday 8pm, Campbelltown Sports Stadium Jarrod Croker’s would-be 300th NRL game will have to wait another week with Canberra coach Ricky Stuart...
Singapore: The prime minister has laid out his vision for Australia’s most pressing foreign policy challenge: managing the rise of China. This is...