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A call by nurses to weigh and measure school children in a bid to combat obesity should be seen as more than a “fat shaming issue”. And to dismiss...
Imagine your daughter being on the cusp of her teenage years. She’s sassy and awkward, and vulnerable, and she plays with her phone a tad too much....
Dominique Pelicot, the 71-year-old French man accused of drugging his wife so he and 50 other men could rape her, says he wasn’t born a pervert; he...
Numbers lie at the heart of politics; dictating what party wins the treasury benches, and what party is sent into political exile for another term....
A moment in time. A cool Saturday morning in July 2021. Triathlete Alexa Leary is out cycling, a stone’s throw from Noosa – Queensland’s...
Max Chandler-Mather’s decision this week to climb onto a stage in support of the embattled CFMEU was a high-risk strategy that ended in a...
What if Gareth Train and his extremist family, including wife Stacey Train, had not been lured down a terror hole on his Wieambilla bush block during...
The murder of an angelic-looking 10-year-old – allegedly at the hands of her mother on the Gold Coast this week – is utterly impossible to fathom....
And after days of waiting, the outsider won. The dark horse. The long shot. The improbable. The outside chance. But Tim Walz, the politician next door...
Often, at an Olympic Games, it’s what happens out of the pool, or off the field, that delivers the real gold. And that’s been the case, every day...
It was The Washington Post this week that reminded us of the handful of words, uttered by Kamala Harris, that told us everything we needed to know...
We should all despise bad men. But when did all men become bad? An Indian low-cost airline has now put in place a policy that gives credence to a...
Joe Biden, on the numbers, is anything but average. At 81, he’s already taken the cake, as the oldest president to lace up his shoes for another run...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, armed with a lettuce leaf, took on the social media giants recently. They were arrogant, he admonished. And out of...
Billionaire Elon Musk is the second richest person on the globe, after Bernard Arnault, but wealth might not be the only world record he wants to brag...
It’s almost three decades since the 1997 comedy The Castle took over our screens, but Peter Dutton’s grand nuclear plan has brought back its...
A few years ago now, Holly* argued with a group of other students at her New South Wales high school. Their revenge was fast and effective; they...
Ariel Bombara did what every parent should hope their daughter would do if thrown into a domestic violence maelstrom. The 27-year-old West Australian...
We are kidding ourselves if we think sexism is not the problem it was for our mothers, or that the gender equality gap – through affirmative action...
One morning this week, a Brisbane woman took her young granddaughter to Woolworths. Just inside the door, the woman handed the toddler one of the free...
Political leaders almost always leave office on a wave of unstoppable unpopularity. Scott Morrison. Kevin Rudd. John Howard. Julia Gillard. Malcolm...
Molly. Hannah. Emma. Tara. Kiera. Chaithanya. Joanne. Alana. The list of names goes on. All women. Varying ages. And all calling different communities...
Justice Michael Lee dispensed more than a dose of justice this week; he brought the word omnishambles into common lexicon in the most apposite way....
Imagine this script. Rome is burning. In the suburbs, a grandfather kills a balaclava-clad intruder. Others check the locks on their front door,...
It started as a genuine research project, and has ended as an obsession. Sunday nights are for staying at home. Mondays and Tuesdays too. And any...
Imagine your boss picking up the tab for a 1.9kg steak, with a price tag of $361. And a side serve of prawn toast worth $48. And not a single question...
A litany of scandals and a lack of transparency have stolen the trust we’ve placed in big organisations for decades. The big banks, for example, and...
Today, in Australia, five people will die from drug use. And this year, if it’s like any other, that number will climb to more than 2200. It’s a...
The fact that it is the Perfect Princess, not that runaway American, who has plunged the British royals into mayhem and maelstrom simply headlines the...
In a week where International Women’s Day is recognised at breakfasts, lunches and evening toasts, one story told us so much. Zoe McKenzie, the MP...
Jesse Baird. Luke Davies. Samantha Murphy. Names that would have passed without an iota of recognition from almost all of us, until earlier this...
Snus. Zyn. Upper decky lip pillow. Heard any of those words before? Because they pose an insidious threat to our children. In short, they are words...
Snus. Zyn. Upper decky lip pillow. Heard any of those words before? Because they pose an insidious threat to our children. In short, they are words...
King Charles’ relevance to Australia is routinely behind the push by republicans here to have him ousted as head of state. But this week, he dished...
C’mon Australia! Surely we can do better than the loutish behaviour we’re seeing courtside at the tennis this week? This is tennis, not a game of...
Is Woolworths’ decision to dump Australia Day merchandise this year a woke decision that will draw the ire of customers? Or is it a sensible call in...
Today across Australia, 100 people will be taken to hospital with injuries sustained in a road accident. And this month – January 2024 – we’ll...
Would you use an Apple AirTag to monitor your child? Under what circumstances? What about a smartphone app like Life360? Would you tell them they were...
Four decades is a long time to wait for justice to be served. But that’s the gift soapie star Madeleine West is cherishing this Christmas. West, a...
Just when we believed that 80 was the new 60 and 60 was the new 40 and 40 was the new 30, Jimmy Barnes goes under the knife. He’s 67, and uses...
… Ready For It? Or Is it Over Now? There are so many ways we could use Taylor Swift’s songs to opine on news she is Time’s Person of the Year....