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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.
Corflutes are fully recyclable, but signs from the 2025 election are already winding up in landfill or as litter.
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...
I wonder if you’d consider helping those of us Australians trying to safely transfer funds into CoinSpot – one of the biggest Australian crypto...
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...
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...
From as far back as the Neolithic period (9500-8500 BCE), profitable investing has revolved around assets increasing in value. But what isn’t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When Anthony Albanese arrives in Indonesia tomorrow, he will find himself in a consequential country poised between two possible futures. One is...
“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...
In an age where high-definition video, forensic photo analysis and publicly available itineraries document nearly every move of a world leader, the...
London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has slammed the brakes on immigration. Once a staunch defender of free movement, the Labour leader is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Of all the positive signs for Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt in two local derbies last weekend - a ruthless Brumbies win and a determined Queensland...
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...
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....
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...
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...
These are the key takeouts from a round of close finishes and thrilling results. Sunday afternoon, GMHBA Stadium GWS d. Geelong by four points...
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...
Sorry, what? During the second half, as they limped towards finishing their disgraceful “effort” against the Storm on Sunday arvo – conceding a...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Economist Paul Krugman’s endlessly repeated maxim that “productivity isn’t everything but, in the long run, it’s almost everything” has deluded far...
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...
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...
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...
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...
While applying for jobs recently, I noticed a recurring theme: almost every advertised position required “leadership abilities”. Not just for...
Australia has voted for its politics to remain Australian, using its uniquely Australian model of democracy to re-elect an emphatically Australian...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
Geez, the Melburnians are a weird mob. This week, the one-time Collingwood champion and then coach Nathan Buckley, who now does commentary, ended...
“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...