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It’s a good thing I’m not a pessimist because I have forebodings about this year’s federal election. I fear we’ll waste it on expressing...
I am a single 67-year-old with no superannuation. I own my home, have a 12-year-old Toyota, no other assets, and a $60,000 tax debt. I work...
What’s the best way for my partner and me to make wills that benefit each other but still protect our children from previous relationships? This is...
Financial markets have the potential to perform well in 2025, though there are many differences between now and President Donald Trump’s earlier...
High-interest savings accounts are currently offering interest between 5 per cent and 6 per cent. Last year, my investments grew more than triple...
At 7am on Thursday (AEDT), 18 games in a single competition, featuring some of the best soccer clubs in the world, will kick off simultaneously...
Our weekly science newsletter, Examine, has launched a mini-series of deep dives on the evidence-based pillars of good health starting with...
The vulnerability of the US sharemarket to its highly concentrated reliance on a small cluster of mega technology stocks has been exposed by the...
Sometime in 1982, maybe September, my mother finally told me she was dying. I’d known she wasn’t well – coughing, grey, more irritated than...
For more than five years, the Australian sharemarket has underperformed Wall Street, thanks to the meteoric rise of the US tech market with its...
Donald Trump is late to the shale party. The fracking boom of the last 15 years has largely run its course as the best seams are exploited and...
A respite stay in an aged care home can be a great way for family members who are providing care to have a holiday while their loved receives the...
Mitchell Owen has described his life-changing century in the Big Bash League final as surreal, his breathtaking innings featuring some of the...
Washington: Bullying works. That’s what Donald Trump will take away from his whirlwind tariff tit-for-tat with Colombia. What initially looked...
Despite Monday’s trillion-dollar meltdown, it’s hard not to be a stock market bull right now. Last week, Wall Street celebrated Trump’s arrival...
Grace Tame was Australian of the Year in 2021. She received her award for outspoken advocacy on behalf of sexual assault survivors and her...
Can a powerful leader who is a bit crazy – or is at least perceived to be crazy – make the world a safer place? Richard Nixon, the 37th United...
Finding efficiency savings inside the sprawling federal public service has been the go-to “painless” budget message of politicians for a...
Later this week, the US Federal Reserve Board chair, Jerome Powell, is likely to find himself in Donald Trump’s crosshairs, yet again, with the...
When I drove around Silicon Valley in 2017, talking to tech gods for a magazine piece, trying to figure out if artificial intelligence would be...
Washington: On his first full day back in the White House, President Donald Trump revelled in his return to power and vowed to do what no president...
We don’t talk about our bums enough. No, I should be more specific. We don’t talk about our anuses enough. It’s the most intimate part of our...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When you wake up to hundreds of Twitter notifications, it’s generally not for...
It’s been a week. Just as he promised, the 47th president of the United States has wasted no time. As soon as he was inaugurated, Trump began a...
When a triumphant Donald Trump reclaimed the White House last week, he wasted no time in declaring war. Not a trade war, nor an invasion of...
The only threat to Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open final was the same threat to the tournament itself – that they would suffer from too much of...
The genuine magnetism of the Australian Open is that it’s the biggest global sporting event that comes here every year. Outside the Formula 1...
Should we sell our investment property and put the money into super? My husband and I retired two years ago and have about $700,000 each in super....
The will-he-won’t-he wait around Joe Schmidt’s future continues, and for once in Australian rugby, grapevine clues are scarce. It wasn’t raised...
Alexander Zverev’s forehand is misbehaving like an unattended garden hose. The 27-year-old German committed 19 forehand errors in the first (and...
Jannik Sinner’s “safe place”, as his Australian super coach Darren Cahill puts it, has been a little less so this past fortnight in Melbourne....
Friends were discussing the brilliant new film Conclave this week, and said they were surprised athow political electing a new pope is. I was...
As the summer holiday ends and election season begins, opinion polls continue to head in the wrong direction for Anthony Albanese. So it is not too...
The fragile Gaza ceasefire continues to hold after 15 months of Israeli devastation of the Strip in response to Hamas’s attacks on Israel. That...
Last year, during a routine spring clean, my partner pulled out a small metal box – about the size of a palm – nestled in between some long...
More so than any other cohort, Gen Z Australians are reluctant to commemorate Australia Day. Recent polling suggests that the younger you are, the...
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...
First Bro Elon Musk has called it a “vibe shift” and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton reckons it’s a “near revolution”. The backlash from what...
I heard a joke this week from the era when communists expected workers to rise up any minute to cast off the chains of paid labour. Though, told in...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Peter Dutton admitted in a 2023 episode of the ABC’s Kitchen Cabinet that he is...
The start of a new year is a popular time to set in motion new career resolutions and goals. It is also a time to reflect on the great Australian...
For most of human history, it’s been a miracle for us to survive long enough, or reproduce vigorously enough to rapidly grow in numbers. But as...
Given the national selectors’ prevarication over the opening batting position for almost three years, it borders on bizarre that the waft of...
Whenever I check the mailbox, I feel a bit like a war bride, fumbling with the key, hoping to get word from my brave beloved. Sadly, the digital...
In the 80s, when I swapped school for a job, I went into shock when I could no longer hang out at the beach from Christmas ’til February. I would...
According to Washington folklore, it was Ronald Reagan, that one-time master of political stagecraft, who altered the location of the inaugural...
Anthony Albanese heads to the election with a new sense of confidence that he can win voters back, despite months of polling that suggests millions...
The Grattan Institute has dropped a report this week that’s got everyone talking. It tackles a familiar issue: Australians are nervous about...
Regular readers of this column will know my penchant – nay, passion – for Qantas frequent flyer points. Indeed, in just a few weeks I will take my...
If it were possible to short a public figure with maximum leverage, Elon Musk would surely be the top target. The political and enterprise value of...
I work in an area where a manager has developed a cult of personality. They are bombastic, aggressive and delight in attention and adulation. Many...
There is so much that is so self-evidently awful about the current spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney that one feels trite even pointing it...
The inevitable grumblers grumbling about Michael Clarke’s induction to the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame are looking at the wrong hall and the...
Meet Steve Irwin off his plane in Sydney, I was told. Easy. At the gate, a few passengers appeared. Not Steve. Not Steve. Ah. Was that Steve? I...
Well, that was awkward. In front of a man claiming to have been appointed by God, saved by God, a man to whom conservative evangelicals have...
For once, maybe for the first time, Novak Djokovic didn’t have all the answers. Neither he nor we can truly know if he ever will again. After...
With Brian Lara clinking bottles of champagne together in the bowels of the Gabba watching a triumphant West Indian press conference and itching to...
New Year’s Eve celebrations were on course to be a largely calm affair in Beijing. Yet while thousands of worshippers visited the Yonghe Temple...
The severed feet of Captain Cook’s bronze statue in St Kilda made for a sorry sight on Australia Day eve last year. This year, Australia Day falls...
The housing affordability issue isn’t just about intergenerational inequity: it is a warning sign of a brewing economic and social catastrophe. If...