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The 19-year-old rising star will be plunged into an intensive physical and mental training regime to transform him into the powerhouse player the...
Politicians who are believers cannot help but bring their faith to their work because it shapes their values and convictions.
Residents used to wince when tourists asked directions to movie locations. Sixty years later, the city is embracing hordes of TikTokers channelling...
The spectacular falling out between the US president and the world’s richest man has been both jaw dropping and entirely predictable.
The Brumbies won a hard-fought qualifying final on Saturday. Their reward? Travelling to New Zealand for a semi-final at the home ground of a team...
The election is done and dusted. Some people are delighted with the result, some relieved and some disappointed, as happens every cycle. But our...
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...
The new Lord Mayor of Melbourne Nick Reece made news this week for, extraordinarily, saying admiring things about Sydney. I talked to him on...
There is a counterfactual fantasy, not much indulged but not dismissed entirely, in which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to his second...
Back in July of last year, Steele Sidebottom had a three-week stretch when his form dipped to a pedestrian level that would often spell the end for...
How do you know if you have enough? My wife and I are both in our mid-50s and thinking about retirement around 60. We have $1.6 million in super,...
There is a popular meme on the internet – the “never give up” cartoon, it’s called – which shows two men mining underground for diamonds. The first...
Two weeks ago, I caught up with a friend of mine who is an adult man with a very serious job as a corporate lawyer for a global bank, where he...
Top restaurateur Chris Lucas and his wife Sarah wanted a Parisienne-style feel in their new four-level Melbourne dining house Maison Batard. The...
The window for Wallabies auditions is almost at a close. Depending on results, there could be one, two, or no Australian teams left in Super Rugby...
I call it “hate-bait” – a vicious version of clickbait. It is when, in media and politics, you pick out with cold calculation the one target you...
Dark Maga has seen the light. In a plot twist eerily reminiscent of The Phantom Menace, (also known as the worst Star Wars movie ever made)...
Donald Trump’s Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was reported to be pressuring Australia this week to ramp up its military budget. Pressuring? He...
I was asked a bunch of two-option questions in a podcast last week, including if I was a saver or a spender. “Saver,” I swiftly answered. But if my...
For years people planning for retirement have been haunted by a single goal: reaching $1 million in super before they retire. Apparently, that’s...
As a parent I was occasionally a naysayer. I’d veto ice-creams before breakfast. I had strong views about using crayons to draw rabbits on the...
In Love Actually, Hugh Grant’s fictional prime minister famously declares Britain to be a nation of Shakespeare, Churchill, The Beatles – “David...
If you have a dog, love a dog, want a dog, support all things dog, maybe think of life from the dog’s point of view. The dog’s in the front yard. A...
Fidgety while my husband drove us to the airport last Friday, I checked my email. A bald message from Instagram: my personal account had been...
Nothing in life is straightforward, however straight you run. The concept of freedom and personal choice should be the exception, but there is...
And they seemed like such a happy couple … In reality, few are surprised by the public divorce between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Trump, the...
Tools, fangs, roots, pubs – the mailbag had a distinct ocker slant in May. William Ryan, a former publican, and keen word-watcher, wrote, “I’d...
Washington: US President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to visit Beijing, as he declared a trade deal with China was in good shape after a...
If we are to believe the words of former Qantas high-flyer and current Healthscope boss Tino La Spina, there remains no love lost between the...
In the end, it was perfectly imperfect. A goal that almost didn’t happen, off the non-preferred right boot of an unfashionable left-back, at the...
As difficult as it was for The Fonz to say “s ... s ... s ... s ... sor ... sorry” in TV’s Happy Days, some critics of the AFL might be equally...
Jim Chalmers slammed the door shut this week on doing a deal with the Coalition on tax changes to superannuation. The treasurer is perfectly...
In the goldmine of numbers unearthed this week, we learned a lot of things. Among them: that gold diggers (not those ones) stepped up while the...
I work in the medical field and I have a colleague who is claiming long COVID exemptions. They no longer work during certain times. Aside from long...
I often debate with my university friends whether the debt and opportunity cost of going to university was worth it, especially now that the rise...
It’s hard to find someone who isn’t feeling overwhelmed these days. Between work, family, and the constant juggle of everyday life, everyone I...
When looking at the latest US Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Trump administration’s proposed budget and tariff policies, the saying...
The adage “you do the crime you do the time” springs to mind when listening to Star Entertainment’s protestations that if stung with a legal...
It’s no secret President Donald Trump’s reach extends beyond the United States, but a key element of his second presidency could have unprecedented...
Let’s begin with a simple three-question quiz, and I don’t want any cheating. First question: if someone has ‘Executive’ in their job title,...
Since the October 7 butchery of Jews by Gaza’s reigning death cult, the anti-Zionist left and the antisemitic right have indulged in a masterclass...
Kim Kardashian’s Skims clothing brand announced a new product last month, and it’s pretty wild. The “pierced nipple bra” has fabric nipples pierced...
Elon Musk exploded like a SpaceX rocket. The debris rained down across Washington. Everyone has been awaiting the breakup of the most public...
How do you solve a problem like the Liberals? A good start would be to get the party at every level – parliamentary, organisational and, most...
Nathan Cleary and Mitchell Moses promise so much as the NSW halves pairing right now. At 27 and 30 years old respectively, the Cleary-Moses combo...
NSW Premier Chris Minns didn’t announce a plan to fix NSW’s feral animal crisis last week – he floated an idea that would be a taxpayer-funded...
Celebrity beauty is back. Elf Beauty last week agreed to buy Hailey Bieber’s Rhode, whose trademark look is its glossy, dewy skin, for $US1 billion...
Perhaps the most striking conclusion of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s revisions to its global growth forecasts is...
One doesn’t need to have possessed the powers of Nostradamus to predict that the greatest bromance of the modern era, between Donald Trump and Elon...
The hopes of home buyers and businesses for further interest rate relief depend on whether the Reserve Bank takes a glass half full or a glass half...