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Despite the rapid rise in digital payments, about 1.5 million Australians still use cash regularly, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Cash can be...
There is no tinderbox quite like that which sits at the heart of industrial relations in Australia’s aviation sector. So one has to question why...
In the very early morning of December 2, 2005, my client Van Nguyen was hanged in Singapore’s Changi Prison. His offence? Carrying 396 grams of...
Even before Donald Trump has returned to the White House and the Republicans take control of Congress, the war on “woke capitalism” in the US...
Laurie Daley, genuine good guy of the game that he is, acknowledged the elephant in a room replete with blue seats, blue carpet, blue everything,...
It’s one thing for a president to pardon his son. It’s another to do it like this. President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, on...
I wouldn’t mind a wager that the scripts for those lobbying the federal government not to ban gambling advertising outright are being written by...
The smile on NSWRL boss Dave Trodden’s face as he prepared to announce the return of Laurie Daley as NSW coach on Monday said it all. He’d won....
In finalising his cabinet, Donald Trump has come to resemble an American Caligula, the Roman emperor rumoured to have considered appointing his...
The self-proclaimed “Tariff Man” has struck again, this time threatening the BRICS countries with 100 per cent tariffs if they try to undermine...
This week, Australian cricket bid farewell to one of its most selfless and admired sons, Ian Ritchie Redpath. Born on 11th May 1941 in Geelong,...
Woolworths is caught in the ultimate pincer movement. Pitchfork-wielding politicians are blaming it and its competitor Coles for fuelling...
The difference in where the Wallabies are now and where they were this time last year is enormous. On and off the field. After emerging from the...
It’s the bias that affects half of Australia, yet so little is known about the true scope and impact of medical misogyny. The Herald hopes to...
My instinctive reaction to news of the pardon given to Hunter Biden by his father, President Joe Biden, was that here is a father in complete,...
Tis the season to be merry, except if you’re a director at clothing retailer Mosaic Brands. The clothing group, which went into administration in...
When Eartha Kitt sultrily sang her Christmas wish list in Santa Baby – a 1954 convertible (in light blue), a yacht, a ring, Christmas tree...
The Syrian civil war that the world had tried to hope away and forget has again erupted into international headlines. And the West will, again,...
US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump now agree on one thing: the Biden Justice Department has been politicised. In pardoning his...
India’s decision to continue batting at 10.20pm on Sunday night after already passing the total of 240 posted by the Prime Minister’s XI at...
You won’t hear politicians admit it, but the nation’s south-eastern states need to import gas and moves are afoot to quietly make it happen....
Warning: This article discusses suicide. I was 32 when my older brother Sam died by suicide. To call him that, a brother, feels inadequate. As...
At the end of year 4, I said goodbye to my classmates and my teacher. I was a little sad, a little excited: the next year, I was to change schools....
What a match! What a tour. And what a superb game is rugby when its derring-do is derring-done like this. True, our blokes narrowly went down 22-19...
Had the Wallabies managed to get over the line in their 22-19 loss to Ireland in Dublin, it would have been their finest defensive performance...
A single post on X from Joe Rogan summed it up perfectly. “LOL WUT”. This, after ABC chair Kim Williams unloaded on the world’s most popular...
It’s hard to know what to say when farewelling a legend of your business, but that’s what we’re doing today with the news that Paul Vautin has...
Amid the welter of commentary and post-mortems among Democrats to explain Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump, there is one theory that has...
There is a growing consensus among parents that social media platforms are places they don’t want their teen children to be. Rather than try to...
In 2015, Russia waged its largest military campaign outside its borders since the Cold War, launching a sweeping air war to rescue Bashar...
A dark day on Australian calendars came around recently. It’s not officially marked down, and no alerts are issued. But for 48.7 per cent of the...
At this very moment, thousands of people around the country are partaking in one of the great festive rituals: putting up the Christmas tree....
If there’s one individual from history who continues to enthral billions of people across our planet it’s a man called Abraham. Knight of faith,...
Real Money, a free weekly newsletter giving expert tips on how to save, invest and make the most of your money, is sent every Sunday. You’re...
Madonna King is the co-author – with Cindy Wockner – of Bali 9: The Untold Story . I spoke to her on Thursday. Fitz: Madonna, I know you know...
I’m no linguistic purist. My brother and I exclaim “YOLO!” (you only live once) to each other, as in, “I backed into our neighbour’s car,...
Is taking offence the new form of protest? If so, then Senator Lidia Thorpe, the Green-turned-independent whose disruptions of parliament have...
In a way, tariffs, sanctions and bans all boil down to one word: no. We’ve just had a month of “no”. No-vember, you could even say. But not all...
Almost every week there is a new toxic culture story in the media, and Australia is no exception. Allegations of toxic management have been...
We’ve recently shifted our super to an SMSF as we wanted greater visibility on our investments. Our inclination is just to use ETFs to invest our...
There’s a certain tension in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ recent move to require the taxpayer-owned Future Fund to consider “national priorities”...
It is critical that the Wallabies’ finish the year on a high against Ireland this weekend. The feelgood factor from the wins against England and...
It has taken so long that it’s almost the next generation that will benefit, but the Help to Buy shared housing equity legislation finally...
Large home plots in Melbourne’s blue-chip suburb Toorak tend to be prime targets for demolition. Substantial homes built there in the early to...
By now, you’ll know Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. In case you don’t, let me give you a hint. We live in a world of pop-up ads,...
Today I’ve got a frightening warning for everyone using a mobile phone. And it comes from a real story about Matthew, a friend’s son who was...
It’s been some years since media baron Rupert Murdoch has visited Australia but that may change over the summer. The talk in well-placed circles...
The independent senator’s week of agitation ended with her being booted from a Senate fed up with her antics. Can she come back?
By the end of the sitting day on Thursday, it was all smiles for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. For the modest sum of $500 million towards social...
Peter Dutton on Thursday challenged Anthony Albanese to call an election immediately “to put Australians out of their misery and allow a...
WhatsApp is increasingly being used as evidence in employment tribunals, fuelling warnings to avoid using the social media app at work. The number...
Pour a slug of gin and clasp your pearls, people. The latest inevitable trope in the royal reality show is upon us. With Kate-versus-Meghan stories...
Earlier this week, a crucial piece of legislation made its way through parliament. It didn’t receive a lot of fanfare, but it’s a long-overdue...
The phone rang with good news. I’d won a prize for writing a story and I was $50,000 better off. So I called the fanciest restaurant in our salt-...
It’s weird to me that the bloke who undertook to build a national environmental protection agency for all Australians on the eve of the last...
Anthony Albanese clearly wants an election dividend from his policy slog over the past two weeks in getting laws through parliament to deliver on...
As Australia went down in Perth like a fast-motion sunset, the undead zombie of our cricket culture rose out of the dark. Our guys are too nice to...
Jasprit Bumrah destroyed Australia in the first Test in Perth, ripping out 8-72 and virtually deciding the game in a single spell on the first...
One of the worst people I’ve ever known has an Order of Australia medal. It’s an award that goes to people who have provided service worthy of...
Our consulate in Washington, DC, recently won a big gong. Like our embassies in Jakarta and Bangkok, it projects a new image of Australia to the...
Tennis’ biggest drugs problem may not be the drugs themselves. Instead, it revolves around trust. Mere months after revelations that men’s world...
Last week the Australian government denied a visitor’s visa to Ayelet Shaked, a right-wing former Israeli cabinet minister, while this week the...
By the end of the sitting day on Thursday, it was all smiles for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. For the sum of $500 million towards social...
Staring down and defeating this week’s leadership coup has been the second notable time that Libby Mettam has shown some gumption in her short...
Mark Cushway has months, perhaps weeks, to live. At 62, after a double-lung transplant in 2016, he is a cystic fibrosis survivor (not sufferer). He...