What John Sattler and Roald Dahl have in common, and what they can still teach us

John Sattler playing the 1970 grand final with a broken jaw is still inspiring in the way that Manuel from Fawlty Towers and The Simpsons’ Apu...

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Malcolm Knox

Rugby’s potential capture of Suaalii still offers few guarantees

The potential capture of Joseph Suaalii offers rugby few guarantees. Israel Folau, Sam Burgess and Sonny Bill Williams are among the greatest...

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Paul Cully

China’s economy at risk as Xi plays the isolation game

In late 1978, China’s paramount leader Deng Xiaoping set in motion two major policy shifts that would change China and the world order in the...

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Li Yuan

Just like Satts, tough Stockman will be there when the whips are cracking

“The tears rolled down like Reschs the day John Sattler broke his jaw.” So sang Perry Keyes, the folk musician supreme, about a great and...

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Max Presnell

People are dining out less. What’s the takeaway about how we eat in?

Our two big supermarket chains recently announced a growth in customers buying groceries to cook at home, which, they suggest, is at the expense of...

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Terry Durack

Beware of dangerous disinformation. Taiwan is not part of China

A daunting dilemma lurks beneath the surface of Australia’s politically bruising AUKUS debate: Should Australia be militarily involved in a...

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Benjamin Herscovitch

A good life: The reason we have become so well off

The Productivity Commission’s job is to make us care about the main driver of economic growth: productivity improvement. Its latest advertising...

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Ross Gittins

When a visiting US president got drunk as a skunk at The Lodge

Presidents of the United States have had some curious moments during their visits to Australia. None was more startling than the night president...

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Tony Wright

‘We’re all in’: PM hopes carefully chosen words amplify support for Voice

The fate of the Voice to parliament now turns on whether a small change in wording can deliver a big shift in confidence for Australians who remain...

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David Crowe

Yuk!’: The outburst that stopped a smelly workplace problem

Question: Many years ago, I worked at an organisation with a well-appointed kitchen and meals area in the very middle of the office. A new employee...

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Jonathan Rivett

What will wall-to-wall Labor mainland states mean for NSW, and the country?

Saturday’s NSW election won’t just decide whether Dominic Perrottet’s Liberals claim four more years in power, or if Labor’s 12 years in the...

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James Massola

Rebounding Rupert’s greatest fear, and no, it’s not mortality

When Rupert Murdoch announced he was marrying for a fifth time, I rolled my eyes. Of course he was. In my eight years on the midlife dating scene,...

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Kerri Sackville

Four hours of chaos may have killed off any hope of a Johnson comeback

London: Boris Johnson, having been handed just enough rope from his parliamentary colleagues, may have finally ended any chance of rehabilitation...

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Rob Harris

‘We have a right to be excited’: Socceroos on cusp of a new golden generation

Graham Arnold warned us. A few days before his first press conference as Socceroos coach, way back in 2018, he stuck his head into an under-16s...

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Vince Rugari

My love affair with fashion shifted when the size of my body changed

I’ve always loved having fun with fashion. In the family album is a picture of five-year-old me astride my first bicycle, posing while draped in...

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Jamila Rizvi

Taiwan will be ours, but war with Australia is a fallacy

Recently, some commentators in Australia have confused right and wrong on the question of Taiwan, misled public opinion and again trumpeted the...

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Xiao Qian

IPL the path back for injured Warner, Maxwell and Hazlewood

Glenn Maxwell became the latest Australian player to struggle with injury, after Australia recovered from a dreadful start to the India tour with...

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Malcolm Conn

Authorities on high alert as old blokes float their boats

The ageing men of my town have become insubordinate. They whisper revolt and speak of the freedoms that once were. They will not go gently into...

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Anson Cameron

The damning signs that show Beveridge is steering the Dogs off course

Luke Beveridge and Leon Cameron graduated to AFL senior coaching from the Alastair Clarkson finishing school, a year apart. Cameron went to Greater...

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Kane Cornes

High rates and crippling costs are making the housing shortage worse

The fast-paced and steep increase in interest rates, the tripling in the cost of hiring tradies and skyrocketing prices of building materials have...

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Elizabeth Knight

Mortgage-holders wait nervously to see which way the RBA jumps

The Reserve Bank of Australia is likely torn on whether to pull the trigger on another rate rise at its next board meeting on April 4 or to wait...

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John Collett

Putin’s war has uncomfortable parallels with our invasion of Iraq

In the weeks leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I found myself thinking frequently about Iraq. In the environment of the moment, such...

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Waleed Aly

I once mocked the dog park dorks, but now I’m one of them

It’s hard to describe what it’s like to love an animal. It’s a complex mixture of feelings that exists far beyond the rational and tangible....

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Eliza Reilly

The Fed just made its choice. It could have serious ramifications

The US Federal Reserve was caught within the proverbial “rock and a hard place,” forced to choose between maintaining its fight against inflation...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

The Voice can’t wait: A prime minister wavers between hope and dread

It was possible to hear in Anthony Albanese’s faltering voice the burden of his mission: a mixture of hope for success and dread of failure. “This...

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Tony Wright

Eels haven’t worked out how to play with Josh Hodgson – they must learn quickly

I feel sorry for the Eels with the draw they’ve had over the last few weeks, but they’ve just got to find a way to win. It doesn’t matter how,...

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Andrew Johns

We should celebrate the rarest of AFL results – with a major exception

Siren. Players slump to the ground, some throw their heads back, others motionless. Coaches hapless, fans stunned, history books re-written and the...

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Paddy Sweeney

Old-school dealmaker helped North Melbourne shrug off years of frustration

Ron Joseph, the brilliant North Melbourne administrator who died on Tuesday night at Geelong Hospital, aged 77, was an old-school football...

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Charles Happell

I’m a university lecturer and wokeism is stifling free debate in my classroom

In the classroom, I must be careful. The room is mined with topics that can explode without warning. Therein lie the “trigger words”. I teach...

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Yannick Thoraval

The cost-of-living crisis is real, but are we blaming the wrong people?

The Reserve Bank is inflicting pain on mortgage holders and, unsurprisingly, they don’t like it. Monetary policy has been tightened at the...

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Cherelle Murphy

Blues believe they are making ground in photo finishes

With one minute 42 seconds left on the clock, Mitch McGovern marks a speculative kick into Richmond’s goal square. As forward Tom Lynch forlornly...

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Andrew Wu

Biden strikes back as the war against ‘woke capitalism’ rages

This week Joe Biden used his presidential veto for the first time since he gained office. The target? Legislation that would stop fund managers...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why corporate management is not being punished for cybercrime

Latitude Financial halted trading in its shares last week when it joined the worst corporate club in Australia – those that had been the victim...

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Elizabeth Knight

We should expect more financial shocks until the message sinks in

Swiss regulators have tossed nitroglycerin onto the global financial fire. They have also committed shameless expropriation. So much for the safety...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Why Xi wants the West to watch Russia rather than China

This week, during my visit to Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Moscow. Coming on the heels of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s...

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Mick Ryan

Oppo flips the script on Samsung with latest foldable phone

For its first foldable phone released outside of China, Oppo clearly had one goal in mind: do everything to take Samsung’s popular Galaxy Z Flip4...

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Tim Biggs

Minister, we are not confused by the Perth Mint doping program

For the very first time since those revelations of non-compliance by the government-owned Perth Mint were raised in the Four Corners program at the...

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Gary Adshead

When a man opens a door for me, I have a feminist malfunction

When I travel from the basement carpark to the first floor of my gym, there is a recurring event that happens around the lift. I have a feminist...

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Cherie Gilmour

Sporting theatre: Old-school coaches take centre stage in new NRL derby

Did someone say, “sporting theatre”? The Broncos-Dolphins match on Friday evening is precisely that. It is true that sometimes – like when, say,...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Why it’s not OK you forgot the calendar’s best day

Yesterday was World Poetry Day, but it flew under the radar because, well, it was World Poetry Day. I had hoped you’d notice. There were positive...

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Chris Harrison

The invisible problem affecting our saving habits

You may have noticed that most mainstream advice about “saving money” can be boiled down to one simple phrase: spend less. In fact, the less money...

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Paridhi Jain

Why the Dragons have made the right call making Griffin reapply for his job

In 2019, without informing coach Nathan Brown, the Newcastle Knights compiled a shortlist of potential replacements as part of an internal review...

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Michael Chammas

After years of struggle, can a beleaguered AMP reinvent itself?

AMP, one of the oldest financial institutions in Australia, has for years been trying to engineer a turnaround after a major fall from grace. It...

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Clancy Yeates

Approaching 50? It’s time to think about your inheritance

They may be in denial, but it’s time for Gen X to join the Baby Boomers in planning for retirement and, beyond that, for both Boomers and X-ers to...

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Grace Bacon

Easy ways to lower your health insurance costs

Australians looking to save money on health insurance are being urged to consider smaller funds and take advantage of introductory offers as an...

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John Collett

Free furniture, canned tuna: How to afford moving out of home

For young Australians today, moving out of home can feel like a bigger leap of faith than ever before, with soaring rents and rising inflation, not...

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Hannah Farrow

My eight-year-old has never seen his footy team win. I don’t want to lie to him

Walking out of the MCG, my son turned to me with a question that has haunted the walkway to Jolimont for a century. “Dad, does our team ever win?”...

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Patrick O&x27Neil

Most of us don’t really want to be rich, for better or worse

When it comes to economics, the central question to ask yourself is this: do you sincerely want to be rich? Those with long memories – or Google...

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Ross Gittins

Do free Flybuys points make NAB’s new credit card worthwhile?

NAB’s Rewards Signature credit card offers 140,000 Flybuys bonus points for those who sign up, link it to their Flybuys account, and have the...

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John Collett

How NAB’s card with Flybuys bonus stacks up

NAB’s Rewards Signature credit card offers 140,000 Flybuys bonus points for those who sign up, link it to their Flybuys account, and have the...

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John Collett

Bracing for impact, US political world waits for Donald Trump indictment

Washington: Things are about to get even uglier in the Divided States of America. Facing possible charges over alleged hush money paid to an adult...

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Farrah Tomazin

Let’s stop pretending we are going to recycle all this plastic

The report in this newspaper that Australia stands no chance of reaching its goal of recycling 70 per cent of its plastic waste by 2025 is at once...

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Nick O&x27Malley

Rehab room: The likely timeframe for Jeremy Howe’s return

Dual AFLW premiership player and sports physiotherapist Libby Birch uses skills from both her professions to analyse some of the biggest injuries...

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Libby Birch

Murdoch: Another wife, another twist in the succession plan

Ann-Lesley Smith is more than just a number. As she prepares to be the fifth woman to enter into nuptials with Rupert Murdoch, she may ultimately...

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Elizabeth Knight

Credit Suisse fallout: CoCo bondholders go loco

In their efforts to prevent that contagion from the US regional banking crisis would topple Credit Suisse, the Swiss regulators have unwittingly...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

AUKUS is a dud deal. We’re safer on our own

The devil is in the details. Now that the Australian public is privy to the details of the AUKUS submarine deal, it’s clear what a Faustian bargain...

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Geraldine Brooks

Brumbies in gold: How can the Wallabies be anything else while Reds, Tahs are struggling?

The reality is hitting home, if it hadn’t landed with a thump some time ago, that the Wallabies at this year’s World Cup in France will...

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Wayne Smith

How the US broke Iraq, a look back

“You break it, you own it.” That’s the so-called Pottery Barn rule, famously invoked two decades ago by Secretary of State Colin Powell to...

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Ishaan Tharoor

‘When the police came, I had no idea I hadn’t paid for my fuel – and no memory of being there’

The police have turned up on my doorstep twice to ask if I’ve filled my car with petrol without paying. Both times I was stunned and said, “No, I...

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David Sellers

With bank chaos and inflation, Fed faces its most uncertain meeting in years

The Federal Reserve entered 2023 focused on a central goal: wrestling down the rapid inflation that has plagued American consumers since 2021. But...

tuesday 2

Jeanna Smialek

How we can fight violent extremism after far-right rally

The great American judge Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect [a person] falsely shouting...

tuesday 3

Daniel Aghion

Murdoch succeeded where Putin failed. Time for a Fox hunt

Rupert Murdoch – Australia’s biggest media mogul – succeeded where Vladimir Putin failed. He turned Americans against each other, promoting...

tuesday 2

Malcolm Turnbull

Our last climate chance: Act now on ‘everything, everywhere, all at once’

The final section of the UN’s sixth assessment report on the climate confirmed much that we knew – that the world is warming fast, that climate...

tuesday 2

Nick O&x27Malley

I’m a Musk fanboy – don’t hate me

Let’s cut to the chase. I am an Elon Musk fanboy. A Tesla tragic. It’s not something I am entirely proud of, but there it is. I have outed myself....

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Michael Schlechta

Perth’s best high schools and the powerbrokers who attended them

It’s an age-old question: What’s the secret to success? A deep-dive into the lives of some of WA’s most high-profile figures indicates there’s...

tuesday 2

Jesinta Burton

TikTok ban is only a matter of time

It’s littered with millions of video clips of fluffy dogs, silly pranks, cute dance moves and mimics of Harry Potter magic. If you’re under 25,...

tuesday 2

Peter Hartcher

A crisis is (hopefully) averted as UBS bails out Credit Suisse

It is remarkable that the failure of two insignificant banks in the US could topple a 167-year-old institution of globally systemic importance. But...

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