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US inflation is the calm before Trump’s tariff storm

The US inflation rate was edging towards the Federal Reserve’s target range. Then Donald Trump launched his trade war on the rest of the world.

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

We can have democracy without the plastic waste

Corflutes are fully recyclable, but signs from the 2025 election are already winding up in landfill or as litter.

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Caitlin Fitzsimmons

It was supposed to be the cost-of-living election. But then Dutton showed up

Talk about the dog that didn’t bark. Cast your mind back to the distant days of the election campaign, and you’ll dimly remember how often we were...

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Ross Gittins

Why won’t my bank let me buy from a trusted crypto exchange?

I wonder if you’d consider helping those of us Australians trying to safely transfer funds into CoinSpot – one of the biggest Australian crypto...

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Noel Whittaker

Why paying off your mortgage could cost you in the long run

It’s fair to say Australians have an obsession with property – it’s often considered a rite of passage to adulthood to buy our own home. After...

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Melissa Browne

Want to claim WFH on your tax return? You’ll need to act now

As we head towards the last month of the financial year, this is your last opportunity to create the diary records you will need to meet the...

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Julia Hartman

Now could be the perfect time for this unusual investing strategy

From as far back as the Neolithic period (9500-8500 BCE), profitable investing has revolved around assets increasing in value. But what isn’t...

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Arian Neiro

Women have won the Liberal Party battle, now we need to win the war

In the words of modern poet and philosopher, Lizzo, it’s about damn time. The Liberal Party has elected Sussan Ley as its leader, the first woman...

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Charlotte Mortlock

Don’t break out the champagne: The trade war truce is just a reprieve

There were enormous sighs of relief in global financial markets when the US and China announced far bigger than expected cuts to their tariffs on...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why the trade truce just failed to rock our world

Investors who woke this morning expecting the Australian sharemarket to jump out of the starting gate and race ahead on the back of Trump’s trade...

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Elizabeth Knight

Why Tanya Plibersek’s new job feels like ‘coming home’

Can I talk to you about maternal guilt for a minute? Can I tell you that the minute your baby slithers out, you feel this torrent of love and...

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Jenna Price

Albanese set to land in a changed and changing Indonesia

When Anthony Albanese arrives in Indonesia tomorrow, he will find himself in a consequential country poised between two possible futures. One is...

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Peter Hartcher

Why short-term thinking won’t build long-lasting wealth

“How do I avoid losing money?” At the beginning of my investing journey, that’s the question I focused on. As I learnt more, my focus shifted to...

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Paridhi Jain

Kremlin’s ‘cocaine’ chaos: How Macron’s tissue was twisted into a propaganda attack

In an age where high-definition video, forensic photo analysis and publicly available itineraries document nearly every move of a world leader, the...

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Rob Harris

Starmer’s sharp pivot on borders isn’t just about policy – it’s about political survival

London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has slammed the brakes on immigration. Once a staunch defender of free movement, the Labour leader is...

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Rob Harris

Why these vintage toys are too valuable to play with

Toys are a touchstone to one’s childhood – either for toys one had or, just as often, things that were considered by parents “too top shelf” to...

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Stephen Crafti

Both sides blinked, but this is Trump’s capitulation to own

Singapore: Was it all worth it? As the clock starts on the 90-day armistice for the United States and China to clinch a longer-lasting trade deal...

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Lisa Visentin

Glass ceiling or glass cliff? What awaits Sussan Ley as first woman to lead the Liberals

The Liberal Party’s worst electoral wipeout has led to it choosing its first female leader. Sussan Ley’s ascension to head of the federal Liberal...

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Natassia Chrysanthos

Ley replaced Dutton once before. This time is an even tougher task

The making of Sussan Ley as a federal cabinet minister came a decade ago when she was given a classic hospital pass. Ley was made the minister for...

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David Crowe

Taniela Tupou bared his soul. Did he also get his mojo back?

Of all the positive signs for Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt in two local derbies last weekend - a ruthless Brumbies win and a determined Queensland...

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Iain Payten

How Tony Blair helped out Matt Canavan in his war on net zero

Not surprisingly, Matt Canavan was as forthright in his views about Australia’s net zero goals after he lost his leadership bid for the Nationals...

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Nick O&x27Malley

Nothing suss about Sussan’s extra ‘s’. Many leaders go gaga for woo-woo

On the face of it, it seems mean-spirited to critique that superfluous third “s” in the name of the newly elected Liberal Party leader, Sussan Ley....

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Gary Nunn

Trump draws on golfing wisdom to defend Qatar’s gift of $625m plane

Washington: This is the parable of the president and the putt. It was Monday morning in Washington and US President Donald Trump was in the...

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Shawn Mccreesh

Trump needs to make a ‘nothingburger’ deal with China

Donald Trump declared there had been a “total reset” of trade relations between the United States and China after just two days of negotiations in...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

The unpaid 50m penalty that could have changed a game and Cripps catches fire: Key takeouts from round nine

These are the key takeouts from a round of close finishes and thrilling results. Sunday afternoon, GMHBA Stadium GWS d. Geelong by four points...

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Marc Mcgowan

Getting sacked is not a bad thing for Ange Postecoglou

Is getting sacked as manager of Tottenham Hotspur necessarily a bad thing for the career of a coach? Being martyred by Spurs chairman Daniel Levy...

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Sam Wallace

‘Team first’ guy Jarome Luai needs to prove he’s just that

Sorry, what? During the second half, as they limped towards finishing their disgraceful “effort” against the Storm on Sunday arvo – conceding a...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Your next shop will be a lot cheaper as big supermarkets go to war

Woolworths has fired the first shot in a $100 million cost-of-living trolley land-grab. Let the grocery discounting wars begin! As Woolies is the...

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Elizabeth Knight

It will be all smiles at the swearing in, but there’s blood on the floor

Anthony Albanese has been coldly rational in learning from some of the weaknesses of his first term in power, so he can hold on to that power for...

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David Crowe

Thanks to the Pope, Trump is no longer the most important American in the world

US President Donald Trump is no longer the most important American in the world. He is certainly the most powerful, at least for three more years,...

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David French

Why it would be madness to select Mitch Moses for Origin

Laurie Daley has it all to lose. Which is why, despite much discussion and speculation, some of his selection choices in a week’s time for the...

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Neil Breen

The Dutton delusion: Many election myths were believed, then busted

One of the great dangers in politics – for both practising politicians and those, like me, who write about them – is in accepting the stories that...

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Sean Kelly

Ross Garnaut: Prophet with a sunny vision of our glorious future

Economist Paul Krugman’s endlessly repeated maxim that “productivity isn’t everything but, in the long run, it’s almost everything” has deluded far...

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Ross Gittins

You can now shop using ChatGPT, but is it worth the hype?

Imagine wanting to buy something online and simply asking your phone to do it. An AI chatbot shows you some options, you ask some clarifying...

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Tim Biggs

How Trump’s tariffs will turbocharge child deaths in Africa

Trump’s tariff blitz – up to 145 per cent on most Chinese imports, with tech-critical goods like non-EV lithium-ion batteries rising to 25 per...

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Passy Mubalama

Cocky and clunky, but Hawks still manage to get the points

They have been accused of being self-satisfied with their celebrations and bratty carry-on at times, but they also have a warm self-awareness at...

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Michael Gleeson

I received a poignant gift. What my friend said next pierced my heart

It was several years ago, but I recall it vividly. It was Mother’s Day. A friend arrived at my home, handing me a little gift – a badge on which...

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Janine Joseph

Job hunting has become a major headache, and I blame the AFL

While applying for jobs recently, I noticed a recurring theme: almost every advertised position required “leadership abilities”. Not just for...

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John Coles

Spooked by Trump, Aussies stayed close to home and chose ‘dinky-di’ Albo

Australia has voted for its politics to remain Australian, using its uniquely Australian model of democracy to re-elect an emphatically Australian...

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Nick Bryant

The hardest part about parenting teenagers isn’t the awkward conversations, it’s this

My daughter throws back her head, laughing as she sits on the living room floor, her navy sneakers peeking out from under her white tulle...

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Jessica Rowe

Liberals’ failure needs a paternity test

We are in the “One Big Thing” phase of the Liberal election loss of last week. Liberal Party figures, observers from other political parties and...

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Labor now rules the centre right. The left is on the brink of irrelevance

Much has been made of the crisis of the right in the wake of last Saturday’s federal election. Little, though, has been made of an equivalent...

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Richard Flanagan

Mark Kenny: ‘Sussan Ley is clearly the more sensible choice to lead the Liberal Party’

Mark Kenny is a former national affairs editor for the Herald and The Age. He’s now a professor at the Australian Studies Institute at the...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Phil Gould like we’ve never seen him before: The dinner guests who moved Gus to tears

“I don’t even want a funeral.” That was Phil Gould’s reaction as he tried to absorb the star-studded turnout for a private dinner to celebrate his...

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Danny Weidler

The Liberals must make peace with the ‘F’ word

There is no greater confirmation of the Liberal Party’s inability to learn from its mistakes than a re-read of its 2022 election review. Such...

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Jacqueline Maley

How crime and punishment do, and don’t, work in the AFL world

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, well...I have others” - Groucho Marx. North Melbourne’s Paul Curtis received a three-match...

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Jake Niall

‘I can hear my Mum, feel her, and there are moments when I cry out in my heart’

My mother may not be here in her physical form, but she’s still very much here. She’s still there inside me. I hear her speaking through my sister...

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Nicole Kidman

Can I stop my ex-husband from misusing our son’s school savings?

My husband and I have $30,000 saved for our son’s secondary education, but we’re divorcing, and I’m concerned he may try to claim half and...

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Paul Benson

Earth to Bleak City: There’s more to life than the ‘Brodes and Bucks journey’

Geez, the Melburnians are a weird mob. This week, the one-time Collingwood champion and then coach Nathan Buckley, who now does commentary, ended...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Labor has the mandate to think big and seize opportunity

“Move us away from fossil fuels and into a future of clean energy and exports”; “far-reaching policies on housing”; “a tax system that is fair and...

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