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One in four 70-year-old men are still working, up from one in ten 20 years ago. And about 10 per cent of men in their late 70s are still working.
When I started investing at 18 I checked a box that I didn’t really understand. It turns out that was the best move I could have made.
What do young investors and central banks have in common? They’re all stockpiling this shiny yellow asset.
Borrowing money to make additional superannuation contributions is theoretically possible but there are some things to keep in mind.
The artificial intelligence ecosystem in the US is becoming increasingly interdependent as the sheer scale of the capital it requires is forcing...
With the Optus blame-game now in full swing, unwelcome attention is spreading to one of the telco’s most senior executives – former NSW premier...
The whole world saw Britain lay on the pomp and circumstance for Donald Trump last week. As UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, it was a “unique”...
The Murdochs made headlines when they settled their family battle recently, but you don’t need to be a billionaire to have trouble with siblings....
The space geeks of Earth are headed Down Under next week for the 76th International Astronautical Congress, the largest shindig in the galaxy for...
Michael Hooper spent an entire career trying to wrest the Bledisloe Cup back from the All Blacks. And the Wallabies great is adamant better days...
“We take the world as it is, but we seek to shape it for the better.” This has been Penny Wong’s guiding foreign policy mantra since before Labor...
I have a lot of anxiety about financial security. I have a stable job and I save well, I’ve learned how to invest. I thought I’d feel secure by...
What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole...
There are plenty of issues AFL chief Andrew Dillon must tend to after this season, but overhauling the Brownlow Medal should not be in the top...
If you have to cancel a date with someone, you reschedule, right? That’s what a good friend would generally do. Unless you never really wanted to...
So Donald Trump, evidently, has dodged a sit-down meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. We will see if this is a true snub, one that...
While the most common response to the Trump administration’s recent announcement that painkillers like Panadol (Tylenol in the US) may cause autism...
Donald Trump often casts himself as a mere observer – a commentator on American public life rather than its most powerful practitioner and...
This week, the Trump administration made headlines again by suggesting a causal link between autism and paracetamol use in pregnancy and promoting...
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at a packed-out romance panel at my favourite Australian bookstore – Readings Hawthorn – with some authors I...
Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical, evidence-based eye, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – sign...
David Barham’s decision to walk the plank and hand the Essendon presidency to his chosen successor Andrew Welsh, ahead of schedule, could well...
After last week, Anthony Albanese and his Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen are entitled to a great sigh of relief. They made it through without...
“It’s been weird the last few weeks – I’ve felt more nerves going into the games, not knowing how we’re going to go,” Nathan Cleary tells...
The “Western refugee” is how the Financial Times columnist Janan Ganesh describes “rich-world citizens” who flee their well-heeled homelands...
It’s a funny game, rugby league. After round 16, the Bulldogs sat on top of the ladder. Eleven wins and only two losses, if you don’t mind. The...
Technology is now a pervasive part of our everyday lives. We take for granted that it will work, even if we don’t quite understand how it works....
New York: By officially recognising Palestinian statehood, Anthony Albanese has done more than send a message to the world about how Australia...
What should we make of last Thursday’s announcement by Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen of Australia’s target for emissions reduction and the...
What about the size of that elephant in the room? When Donald Trump deliberately dropped the bombshell that Rupert Murdoch and son Lachlan were...
It was never going to be as good as Paris. Australia’s record-breaking medal haul at the 2024 Olympics set the bar so high for athletics, the team...
Phoenix, Arizona: It is impossible to know how significant Charlie Kirk will ultimately become in the pantheon of American history. But in the...
What Donald Trump is doing to mangle free speech and the democratic process in the United States should surprise nobody who is awake in Australia....
Lando Norris was not fooling anyone. Asked whether his seventh-place finish in Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix was an “opportunity missed” in...
The Australian National University had announced plans to cease publication of the third edition of the Australian National Dictionary to save...
Great advertising slogans bypass the rational brain and create emotional resonance. They don’t need to make sense or withstand rational scrutiny....
Manly have failed to learn from their mistakes with Daly Cherry-Evans and are now running the risk of watching history repeat itself with Tom...
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...
I’ve built a healthy share portfolio over the decades with leveraged debt. At present, I have $1.5 million in investment debt, and about $2.9...
For the best part of the past two seasons, Collingwood have defiantly stared down Father Time. But if the lessons of their premiership exit are not...
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of listening to the Australian World Orchestra’s rendition of Gustav Mahler’s stunning Fifth Symphony. Mahler...
There’s a saying among parents that you don’t get a true proper night’s sleep until your last child moves out of home. Always worrying, always...
It started with a few lines of legalese and one of those simple tick-a-box consent forms. But the Australian workers who clicked yes say they had...
In Ernest Hemingway’s debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, the author has one character (Bill) ask another (Mike) how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,”...
Two of the most successful clubs this century – Geelong and Brisbane Lions – will battle it out in Saturday’s AFL grand final. The Cats are into...
In the forecourt of the BBC’s headquarters in central London stands a sculpture of George Orwell. On the plinth are inscribed the words: “If...
When I wrote for The Tonight Show in the US – the show that President Donald Trump this week described as being hosted by a “total loser” and on...
What do you say when the unthinkable happens? When your company’s failure is linked to three deaths, what words could possibly suffice? After all,...
A little over four years ago, I found myself sitting tearily on a hospital trolley, a blue gown pulled tightly across my belly. At the time, I was...
In Sydney Town, it has been a week of reminiscing – last Monday being 25 years to the day since Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic Cauldron and a...