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Sixty summers ago, thousands of Australians were devouring a book published in the lead-up to Christmas which became an instant Aussie classic....
You reckon perhaps it’s true; we’re all just existing in a clown world? Of course, why can’t a tiger shapeshift to transform into a magpie? The...
A week out from Christmas, I wake to something unusual. My husband is awake first! Even without coffee, he seems pretty pumped. Leans – looms –...
In 2005, back when he was still playing the character of a buffoonish right-wing television pundit, comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term ‘...
As talk of an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine grows among Western diplomats, and Volodymyr Zelensky comes round to the idea of what he calls a...
It has been building towards this for months: an ultimate showdown between powerful rail unions and a state Labor government as Sydney’s rail...
Washington: Elon Musk has never been elected to office. President-elect Donald Trump has not tapped him to serve in any role inside the government....
The base of the Christmas tree looks a bit depleted in an empty nest. A white envelope. A couple of token efforts. Something from someone, but not...
Generative AI does not signal the end of student writing. Even that time-honoured (if shop-soiled) form of writing – the “student essay” –...
Of all the incentives in the world, money must be among the most powerful. Since its birth thousands of years ago, dosh – chasing it, saving it,...
ABC News in America has just settled a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network. ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15...
Australia heads into the summer lull with enormous pressures bearing down on households and no substantial answers on how the country will jump out...
When my brother and sister sent me my niblings’ Christmas lists this year – instruction manuals to keep this out-of-state, out-of-touch aunt on a...
A bond-trading scandal, a culture crisis, environmental remonstration, human rights concerns related to the funding of arms maker Lockheed Martin...
Those bloody Kiwis. There they go again, showing us the way. What makes them so smart and progressive, making us of the “West Island” look like we...
We’ve been so busy talking about Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith and Nathan McSweeney that we’ve hardly gotten around to talking about Usman...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is at a perilous moment, when it feels like the electorate has summed him up – in a word, gutless – checked out,...
Investors got what they expected from the Federal Reserve Board when it cut US interest rates for the third time this year – but promptly spat...
I sometimes take my clothes off for money. There’s usually 10 or so people with me when I do, and it’s a good way to earn some money on the side....
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s promise to build nuclear power stations will undoubtedly create immediate security and environmental conundrums,...
Travis Head dropped during a Test series. Mitchell Starc dropped during a World Cup. David Warner on notice for his spot. These were a few of the...
As Mariah Carey once again defrosts to bring All I Want for Christmas is You into every shopping centre, there’s something else that’s warming...
I just spent a week in Beijing and Shanghai, meeting with Chinese officials, economists and entrepreneurs, and let me get right to the point: While...
Earlier this month, my occupation disappeared. There I was, strutting around Parliament House as a print journalist, pen behind my ear, a dog-eared...
The decision by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia to scrap free admission is a bellwether to Sydney’s arts sector still struggling...
Eighteen months ago, Canterbury’s coaching staff were accused of leaving Jackson Topine with “psychiatric injury” and “physical and mental...
They used to call him the Moses of the airwaves. Prime ministers and premiers paid court to him. He had a loyal “pick and stick” crew that...
The third Test in Brisbane was heavily affected by rain and ended in a draw on the fifth day. Here’s how players from both teams rated. Usman...
Josh Hazlewood’s misfortune is Scott Boland’s good fortune – and it’s likely to force Australia into a potentially series-winning move they...
The lack of any middle ground in commentary about Gaza is striking. Advocates press hard for their side without conceding any ground to the other....
Jim Chalmers has delivered a set of budget numbers covered in red – that’s bad news for Anthony Albanese and also for Peter Dutton. In the run-up...
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s bromance could be rekindled in 2025 if both sides play their cards right. This is positive and would help create...
The holiday season marks its arrival in many ways: the sound of cicadas, the appearance of mince pies in bakery windows, a Netflix romcom in which...
From where I sat, high in the rickety bleachers of the Olympic breaking stadium in Paris on that hot August day, Rachael Gunn’s performance...
Brisbane: When Jasprit Bumrah peers down from the top of his mark at the MCG on Boxing Day, he will like what he sees. For all the Australian...
BP and Shell led Big Oil’s push into renewable energy. Now, they are leading the retreat. Last week BP announced that it had sold its offshore...
The news of the Melbourne Storm reviewing their Welcome to Country policy is good, but hardly controversial. What we know is the Storm are not...
Of all the people in all of the world, the ABC board landed on a local candidate when it went looking for a replacement for David Anderson,...
Sometimes I think I should appoint myself chief ageing reporter for this august organ. Why? Because I’m the only one left around here to know about...
Wowser. Kill-joy. Helen Lovejoy from The Simpsons. No one likes a scold – especially when they’re half-right. On this day 130 years ago –...
The ABC will have a new boss in the new year and the big question is not what Hugh Marks will do for Aunty, but whether the former Nine...
China’s final data dump for the year contained one optimistic note amid a set of economic numbers that showed the spate of actions its government...
Melbourne remain focused on building a training and administration base at Caulfield Racecourse and will tell their members that at their AGM on...
Like many people, after primary school, both of us began falling out of love with our education. As students who have both previously attended...
The Rail, Tram and Bus Union’s threat of strike action in Sydney over the busy New Year period is an object lesson in how not to win friends and...
Brisbane: If less dramatic than the ball Glenn McGrath trod on at Edgbaston in 2005, team warm-ups before day four at the Gabba will not be...
The weeks before Christmas are traditionally a period where meaningful work is dialled down and hangovers are dialled up. But Rugby Australia...
When my partner received a call in February saying he was the successful candidate for a job in the remote Northern Territory, my initial reaction...