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'If they're having a go at you, it's because you're good'

For all the conjecture around what spectators said to Indian bowler Mohammed Siraj during the Sydney Test and the subsequent discussion about...

Merv Hughes

7 yesterday

Indian star Pujara remains 'key' wicket but has hit a wall

That only three visiting batsmen have faced more deliveries in Australia this century than Cheteshwar Pujara highlights why he is seen as the...

Jon Pierik

In the Herald: January 18, 1959

Cricket ‘Czar’ blamed “Former Test cricketer H.L. 'Stork' Hendry has accused Australia’s Test team of throwing away the third Test at the SCG...

Harry Hollinsworth

Pandemic strips away the myth of equality

Crises have the power to reveal who we are. One of the things this pandemic has done is reveal just how much inequality there is around us. It’s...

Tim Soutphommasane

3 yesterday

Public must be kept in the loop on vaccines

Last week’s flurry of debate about the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines that Australians are poised to receive was a reminder of the importance...

Julie Leask

It's time for Big Tech to be held to account

There is no doubt that 6th of January 2021 will be remembered as a dark day in American history. The events of the day and the resulting fall out...

Anne Webster

2 yesterday

US cannot ignore lessons of history

If something can happen once, it can happen again. This is the oft-ignored first lesson of history. The second lesson is that humans usually forget...

Dennis Glover

6 yesterday

Test narrative veers further from expectations

This was India's greatest act of heroic defiance since last Monday. That's the way it's been all this series. The Sydney gallants at least were...

Greg Baum

20 yesterday

Farewell @RealDonaldTrump, we knew you far too well

Donald J. Trump isn’t the greatest president ever, and will only be the oldest president ever for a few more days. But he is certainly the most...

Dom Knight

1 yesterday

New Year's money resolution that could change your life

Happy New Year! I, like so many of us, spent these Christmas holidays unexpectedly at home, where I Marie Kondo-ed my entire apartment....

Jessica Irvine

4 previous day

Your 2021 money survival guide

The reset we all desperately hoped for at the stroke of midnight on December 31 – you know, where everything goes back to normal – didn’t...

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

5 previous day

Do your sums before buying a second property

I am in my early 40s and working as a professional three days a week. I'm also the sole parent of a vivacious toddler. I earn $74,000 a year, plus...

George Cochrane

Australia must read the ball carefully when playing with India

For the past week Australia has been making headlines in India for all the wrong reasons. Allegations that spectators racially abused Indian...

Matt Wade

Doing your job well is great, but do you really need a medal with that?

The other evening, I spent several hours on my hands and knees, pulling out weeds from my local school’s garden. This is something I have enjoyed...

Nicola Philp

'Too angry, too political, too commercial': social media at tipping point

My second most significant lesson about social media came courtesy of an old friend who has travelled to 85 countries and was driving along the...

Stephen Brook

Raise a tinnie to the Coldest 100 and the dulcet tones of Alan Jones

Could it be two years running that a warbling Alan Jones tops Australia's annual Coldest 100 chart? It's certainly shaping up that way as we...

Andrew Hornery

This boom in trashy television? It's a sign of ambition, not decline

Since the invention of television streaming, the word Netflix has become synonymous with high-end, blue-chip content thanks to medium and genre re-...

Michael Idato

Is Morrison ready for a Biden administration?

At the height of the United States presidential election in 2016, then-Foreign Minister Julie Bishop instructed her mandarins to prepare two...

Anthony Galloway

4 previous day

A (mindful) list of New Year's resolutions

In a world that celebrates the next big thing, the newest look, the latest trend, the what’s hot and what’s not, this year I am going to look out...

Ann Rennie

He may not be Warnie or Murali, but there's only one Nathan Lyon

When Nathan Lyon was trooping around Alfred Oval in Young, the odds of him getting a top-grade game two hours away in Canberra weren’t that high....

Geoff Lawson

6 previous day

It makes perfect sense Sex and the City's reboot will be sans Samantha

A short list of things nobody asked for in 2021: coronavirus clusters, the storming of Capitol Hill and, quite possibly, a new Sex and the City...

Natalie Reilly

9 previous day

With superannuation choice there will be retirement consequences

If you were given the option to have some of your superannuation as pay right now rather than keep it aside for retirement, would you take it? The...

Jennifer Duke

40 previous day

Failure of SCG crowd to police its own the saddest thing of all

In the wake of allegations that an Indian player was racially abused by spectators at the SCG, the Guardian’s rolling cricket commentary quoted a...

Peter Fitzsimons

20 previous day

Labuschagne emerges as left-field option to replace Paine as skipper

There is one job Marnus Labuschagne needs on his CV if he is to be a future Test captain and another that must be taken off him. One is in Cricket...

Andrew Wu

20 previous day

Indians still refuse to follow the script at Gabba

As the rain sheeted down on the Gabba on Saturday afternoon, it was possible to imagine that it was a Truman Show-style set and that somewhere out...

Greg Baum

8 previous day

'Still finding his groove': Green searching for maiden Test wicket

Cameron Green may be Australia's best batting talent since Ricky Ponting but his inability to have captured a maiden Test wicket through four Tests...

Jon Pierik

Don't want an Australian Trump? Now's the time to choose wisely

As President Donald Trump exits the White House, Australians face a decision. We can choose to keep following America or we can choose to learn...

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Fly the Aboriginal flag at half mast on January 26

For First Nations people across this country, January is a hard month. The colonial flag-waving, the heightened racism, the collective amnesia, and...

Lidia Thorpe

200 friday

Revenge of the bottom half: Biden's spending blitz spells trouble for the rich

We know more or less what will pop the US equity bubble in the end, with inevitable fallout across the world. It is called a taper tantrum. We have...

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

10 friday

The SCG is not a snake pit of heinous racism

Someone wrote an angry letter to the SCG this week demanding the removal of the Yabba statue from the Victor Trumper Stand following allegations of...

Andrew Webster

10 friday

Dear Tim, I learnt from my mistakes as captain and I have no doubt you will, too

Dear Tim, I hope this finds you well. As the 40th anniversary of the underarm incident at the MCG looms, I have considerable sympathy for your...

Greg Chappell

30 friday

Australian acts missing as ARIA charts reveal what we listened to in 2020

It was a year in which virtually no international acts toured, where the money which might have been spent attending gigs of local acts went...

Bernard Zuel

10 friday

The Irrepressibles make Australia sweat

At last, something to cheer from Washington, though Steve Smith might disagree. That's Steven Smith the master Australian batsman, not Stephen the...

Greg Baum

6 friday

Trump and his legacy 'diminished' among Australian conservatives

Donald Trump has always had his supporters on the conservative side of Australian politics, but he is a disgraced and diminished figure after the...

David Crowe

Dull, dispiriting and downright unimaginative: Sydney's aerotropolis doesn't fly

Aero-what? Aerotropolis? Seriously? As starship Earth and her motley crew hover warily on the edge of existential crisis, cities everywhere are...

Elizabeth Farrelly

6 friday

Suncream and slippery dips, the slippery slope of a Sydney summer

Summers were hotter when I was growing up. They weren't actually hotter, you understand, but they felt that way. Maybe that's why some people...

Richard Glover

4 friday

Trump climbed out of the '80s trash can - and can do it again

This year will mark the 30th anniversary of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho, a fever dream in which a New York investment banker carries...

Malcolm Knox

4 friday

Ignore online temptations and get real about life

There is a political figure in the US that some of you may have heard of, who during a recent election predicted that we would not hear any more...

Jim Bright

Scott Morrison tiptoes forward on Indigenous issues

Courtesy of his surprise election victory, Scott Morrison has a reputation as a skilled reader of the national mood. There is some truth to this –...

Sean Kelly

Biden's new cabinet embraces age and diversity

US president-elect Joe Biden has announced the final members of his cabinet of 24. It’s a team, he says, that “looks like America”. It is the...

Anne Summers

2 friday

Protection versus immunity: the great vaccination debate

How do you imagine the pandemic will end? The fight against the pandemic has entered a critical stage as countries around the world roll out...

Liam Mannix