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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...
The potential capture of Joseph Suaalii offers rugby few guarantees. Israel Folau, Sam Burgess and Sonny Bill Williams are among the greatest...
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...
“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...
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...
A daunting dilemma lurks beneath the surface of Australia’s politically bruising AUKUS debate: Should Australia be militarily involved in a...
The Productivity Commission’s job is to make us care about the main driver of economic growth: productivity improvement. Its latest advertising...
Presidents of the United States have had some curious moments during their visits to Australia. None was more startling than the night president...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
London: Boris Johnson, having been handed just enough rope from his parliamentary colleagues, may have finally ended any chance of rehabilitation...
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...
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...
Recently, some commentators in Australia have confused right and wrong on the question of Taiwan, misled public opinion and again trumpeted the...
Glenn Maxwell became the latest Australian player to struggle with injury, after Australia recovered from a dreadful start to the India tour with...
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...
Luke Beveridge and Leon Cameron graduated to AFL senior coaching from the Alastair Clarkson finishing school, a year apart. Cameron went to Greater...
The fast-paced and steep increase in interest rates, the tripling in the cost of hiring tradies and skyrocketing prices of building materials have...
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...
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...
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....
The US Federal Reserve was caught within the proverbial “rock and a hard place,” forced to choose between maintaining its fight against inflation...
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...
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,...
Siren. Players slump to the ground, some throw their heads back, others motionless. Coaches hapless, fans stunned, history books re-written and the...
Ron Joseph, the brilliant North Melbourne administrator who died on Tuesday night at Geelong Hospital, aged 77, was an old-school football...
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...
The Reserve Bank is inflicting pain on mortgage holders and, unsurprisingly, they don’t like it. Monetary policy has been tightened at the...
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...
This week Joe Biden used his presidential veto for the first time since he gained office. The target? Legislation that would stop fund managers...
Latitude Financial halted trading in its shares last week when it joined the worst corporate club in Australia – those that had been the victim...
Swiss regulators have tossed nitroglycerin onto the global financial fire. They have also committed shameless expropriation. So much for the safety...
This week, during my visit to Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Moscow. Coming on the heels of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s...
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...
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...
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...
Did someone say, “sporting theatre”? The Broncos-Dolphins match on Friday evening is precisely that. It is true that sometimes – like when, say,...
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...
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...
In 2019, without informing coach Nathan Brown, the Newcastle Knights compiled a shortlist of potential replacements as part of an internal review...
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...
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...
Australians looking to save money on health insurance are being urged to consider smaller funds and take advantage of introductory offers as an...
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...
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?”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dual AFLW premiership player and sports physiotherapist Libby Birch uses skills from both her professions to analyse some of the biggest injuries...
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...
In their efforts to prevent that contagion from the US regional banking crisis would topple Credit Suisse, the Swiss regulators have unwittingly...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
The Federal Reserve entered 2023 focused on a central goal: wrestling down the rapid inflation that has plagued American consumers since 2021. But...
The great American judge Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect [a person] falsely shouting...
Rupert Murdoch – Australia’s biggest media mogul – succeeded where Vladimir Putin failed. He turned Americans against each other, promoting...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
A couple of years ago, I phoned a prominent Wests Tigers official before writing a column in support of coach Michael Maguire, who was getting...
Against a backdrop of an ever-growing list of former AFL players enlisting in class actions prompted by the long-term effects of concussions, and...
It’s hard to remember a start to a Super Rugby season as deflating as this one, at least if you’re a Reds or Waratahs fan. The Brumbies continue...
At a time when history has become such a driver of politics, from the toppling of statues to the wistful nationalism of Brexit to Vladimir...
Just weeks ago, they were bit players in the giant US banking system. Now, a handful of regional lenders are at the heart of a crisis that’s...
So whatever happened to the promised reduction in those elevated airfares that travellers have endured for more than a year? Seems they were a...
The Reserve Bank is soon going to have to make a decision. Does it divert from the war on inflation to avoid a repeat of the global financial...
Some of the biggest movers of the off-season proved to be the biggest movers in the new season. Others, however, were not so good. Tim Taranto was...
This article was originally published on The Chainsaw. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) prices are on the rise. Are investors using...
Delhi: All over the Indian capital these days loom posters of Narendra Modi, presenting him as the great modernising prime minister pulling India...