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There was rain on her wedding day but the sun eventually came out for a tiptoe through the beachside park.
Whether it’s selling into a roaring bull market, or ordering the chicken instead of tuna, embracing your inner contrarian may be the most...
Mitch Owen delivered a batting masterclass for the ages in a breathtaking century in the Big Bash League final on Monday night. Here’s how he did...
A Chinese start-up that didn’t exist 18 months ago just triggered a meltdown that exposes the vulnerability of Wall Street.
Can a powerful leader who is a bit crazy – or is at least perceived to be crazy – make the world a safer place? Richard Nixon, the 37th United...
Finding efficiency savings inside the sprawling federal public service has been the go-to “painless” budget message of politicians for a...
Later this week, the US Federal Reserve Board chair, Jerome Powell, is likely to find himself in Donald Trump’s crosshairs, yet again, with the...
When I drove around Silicon Valley in 2017, talking to tech gods for a magazine piece, trying to figure out if artificial intelligence would be...
Washington: On his first full day back in the White House, President Donald Trump revelled in his return to power and vowed to do what no president...
We don’t talk about our bums enough. No, I should be more specific. We don’t talk about our anuses enough. It’s the most intimate part of our...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When you wake up to hundreds of Twitter notifications, it’s generally not for...
It’s been a week. Just as he promised, the 47th president of the United States has wasted no time. As soon as he was inaugurated, Trump began a...
The only threat to Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open final was the same threat to the tournament itself – that they would suffer from too much of...
Last year, during a routine spring clean, my partner pulled out a small metal box – about the size of a palm – nestled in between some long...
Jannik Sinner’s “safe place”, as his Australian super coach Darren Cahill puts it, has been a little less so this past fortnight in Melbourne....
Should we sell our investment property and put the money into super? My husband and I retired two years ago and have about $700,000 each in super....
Alexander Zverev’s forehand is misbehaving like an unattended garden hose. The 27-year-old German committed 19 forehand errors in the first (and...
The genuine magnetism of the Australian Open is that it’s the biggest global sporting event that comes here every year. Outside the Formula 1...
Friends were discussing the brilliant new film Conclave this week, and said they were surprised athow political electing a new pope is. I was...
The will-he-won’t-he wait around Joe Schmidt’s future continues, and for once in Australian rugby, grapevine clues are scarce. It wasn’t raised...
The fragile Gaza ceasefire continues to hold after 15 months of Israeli devastation of the Strip in response to Hamas’s attacks on Israel. That...
As the summer holiday ends and election season begins, opinion polls continue to head in the wrong direction for Anthony Albanese. So it is not too...
More so than any other cohort, Gen Z Australians are reluctant to commemorate Australia Day. Recent polling suggests that the younger you are, the...
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First Bro Elon Musk has called it a “vibe shift” and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton reckons it’s a “near revolution”. The backlash from what...
I heard a joke this week from the era when communists expected workers to rise up any minute to cast off the chains of paid labour. Though, told in...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Peter Dutton admitted in a 2023 episode of the ABC’s Kitchen Cabinet that he is...
The start of a new year is a popular time to set in motion new career resolutions and goals. It is also a time to reflect on the great Australian...
For most of human history, it’s been a miracle for us to survive long enough, or reproduce vigorously enough to rapidly grow in numbers. But as...
Given the national selectors’ prevarication over the opening batting position for almost three years, it borders on bizarre that the waft of...
Whenever I check the mailbox, I feel a bit like a war bride, fumbling with the key, hoping to get word from my brave beloved. Sadly, the digital...
In the 80s, when I swapped school for a job, I went into shock when I could no longer hang out at the beach from Christmas ’til February. I would...
According to Washington folklore, it was Ronald Reagan, that one-time master of political stagecraft, who altered the location of the inaugural...
Anthony Albanese heads to the election with a new sense of confidence that he can win voters back, despite months of polling that suggests millions...
The Grattan Institute has dropped a report this week that’s got everyone talking. It tackles a familiar issue: Australians are nervous about...
Regular readers of this column will know my penchant – nay, passion – for Qantas frequent flyer points. Indeed, in just a few weeks I will take my...
For once, maybe for the first time, Novak Djokovic didn’t have all the answers. Neither he nor we can truly know if he ever will again. After...
New Year’s Eve celebrations were on course to be a largely calm affair in Beijing. Yet while thousands of worshippers visited the Yonghe Temple...
Meet Steve Irwin off his plane in Sydney, I was told. Easy. At the gate, a few passengers appeared. Not Steve. Not Steve. Ah. Was that Steve? I...
If it were possible to short a public figure with maximum leverage, Elon Musk would surely be the top target. The political and enterprise value of...
There is so much that is so self-evidently awful about the current spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney that one feels trite even pointing it...
The inevitable grumblers grumbling about Michael Clarke’s induction to the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame are looking at the wrong hall and the...
Well, that was awkward. In front of a man claiming to have been appointed by God, saved by God, a man to whom conservative evangelicals have...
With Brian Lara clinking bottles of champagne together in the bowels of the Gabba watching a triumphant West Indian press conference and itching to...
The severed feet of Captain Cook’s bronze statue in St Kilda made for a sorry sight on Australia Day eve last year. This year, Australia Day falls...
The housing affordability issue isn’t just about intergenerational inequity: it is a warning sign of a brewing economic and social catastrophe. If...