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Financial freedom, where your investment income covers your expenses, is an oft sought after goal. But is it really all it’s cracked up to be?
Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...
The Senate Republicans are using a controversial accounting approach to make the cost of Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill appear far smaller...
Investment bank bosses and hedge fund titans who predicted financial Armageddon a few months back have gone quiet.
The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...
Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...
Monday caps off a wild financial year for global markets, and therefore, for the retirement savings of just about all of us. But despite all the...
Though a peace deal has been struck between Israel and Iran, the ceasefire still hangs precariously in the balance. Worse for Israeli Prime...
If Jordan Clark didn’t take to the field yesterday, the Dockers wouldn’t have won. In a low-scoring and tight affair all day, Clark was head and...
Richmond spearhead Tom Lynch is facing at least a four-match suspension if found guilty of striking Adelaide defender Jordon Butts late in the...
It’s the most untrue statement ever uttered - sport and politics don’t mix. In the NRL, not only are they mixing, they’re in a blender. Let’s...
With his presidency on the line as Americans weighed the consequences of the third war in the Middle East waged by the United States over the past...
In a move that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has launched a Federal Court lawsuit to force Chinese-linked...
The art of the abstract colourist Bridget Kelly – who has Down syndrome and is mostly non-verbal – received a strong response at Vivid Sydney this...
One should never be cynical about love, but it is impossible to not be a little bit cynical about the nuptials of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and...
I’m 58, single and earn $120,000 per year. I’m receiving an inheritance shortly and would like to use it to boost my super in preparation for...
When I was in my 20s, an alarmingly long time ago, I was a regular traveller on the Sydney to Melbourne train. I had a boyfriend who lived in...
Canberra has been taken by storm by an i dea. The idea is abundance – the notion that scarcity is artificially created. It is described in a book...
The next two months are going teach Dragons coach Shane Flanagan who his friends are in the game as he deals with increasingly negative publicity...
There’s no denying it – Donald Trump just had the best week of his second presidency, by a big margin. A combination of daring, good fortune and...
Early on in my parenting journey a girlfriend sent a post that said, “To say all screen time is the same is like saying all paper time is the...
There is a misconception about what it is like to work as an academic at a university, which imagines it as a place of privileged and leisured...
Where is God after murder in Bourke Street, or devastating fire or flood, after a senseless accident or a plane crash at Essendon? In these places...
The Trump-brokered ceasefire in the oil-soaked Middle East won’t derail the momentum of two trades that have flourished under the cover of the...
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been out for three weeks and already enjoyed some unprecedented wins. After 3.5 million units were sold globally in its...
Donald Trump has finally met his match. The Iranian Supreme Leader lies just as boldly, with just as much bombast, as the American Supreme Leader....
Those hoping the Federal Court’s findings in the Antoinette Lattouf case will go some way to answering a question surrounding the rights of workers...
British and Irish Lions flanker Henry Pollock looks like a stereotypical English backpacker you want to dislike, but his performance against the...
In 1967, Gough Whitlam was in a strikingly similar position to Sussan Ley today. The newly installed Labor leader was little known to the public....
What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? Do you have a hobby? While it wasn’t a New Year’s resolution per se, I decided at the start of the...
A week is a long time in rugby league, even for someone who has spent as many weeks in rugby league as Wayne Bennett. After his South Sydney team...
The ’Riff! Just when we all thought it was safe to go back into the water, suddenly here they are again – in the eight and rising hard. From...
The drip-by-drip release of Wallabies players back to their franchises must be a form of water torture for British and Irish Lions chief executive...
Channel Ten has dropped the axe on The Project , and as the South Yarra studio goes dark, many words have been written about the show’s impact on...
In the lead-up to the federal election, university administrators were chilled by the messages they were hearing from the conservative side of...
We roll into our 50s thinking we’ve got time. Retirement still feels a long way off. The mortgage might be halfway tamed (or at least not keeping...
Like a lot of people of center-right/center-left political leanings, I’ve spent the past few decades detesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of...
Walking along cobblestone streets in the Danish capital, you can almost hear an orchestra playing Wonderful Copenhagen – a ditty from the 1950s...
Travelled internationally lately? It’s a different experience to 10 years ago – or even five. Connectivity is key – and also a security concern....
They say young children ask many questions – Why is the sky blue? Why are trees green? Why is Trump President? – but it’s nothing on the...
The truth of the matter is that I had a very busy weekend ahead of me. Two children’s birthday parties to attend (a curse I wouldn’t wish upon my...
Damp carpet and old coffee. That is how a perfumier might have described the “top notes” – industry speak for the initial olfactory experience – at...
Listen, I’ve lived through home perms, Peter Andre, my own children’s teenage years and the entire Twilight saga. But nothing prepared me for a...
A good Ashes series starts before it starts, like feature movies used to, with half an hour of teasers and cartoons. Right now, England are...
To have any prospect of beating or even competing with Port Adelaide, Carlton’s paramount on-field leaders were of paramount importance. Besieged...
Steven May will have played one more game at Melbourne than he did at the Gold Coast when he runs out to play his 124th match for the Demons on...
Da da. Da da. Don’t look now. But like a giant mechanical shark with its own soundtrack, four-time reigning premiers Penrith are circling....
Barbados: Form in the cricket nets is a bit like investment advice: past performance is not necessarily a reliable indicator of future returns. But...
Since first shocking the fashion world by putting a model in an exquisite Christian Lacroix jacket and ordinary blue jeans on her first US Vogue...
I was High Court judge Dyson Heydon’s Canberra associate in 2005. With growing concern, I’ve watched efforts to recast him as a victim and downplay...