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In one of the first interviews I did after Bondi, a reporter said something I have not been able to shake. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
Two years on from the Defence and Veteran Suicide Royal Commission, the veterans' affairs portfolio remains a mess. The landmark inquiry was...
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This week's announcement of job cuts at Infrastructure Canberra may not be particularly surprising, but comes as just the latest confused signal...
This Friday will mark the day 25 years ago when time itself appeared to stop dead. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
If ever I meet any alien creatures from galaxies far away I doubt that they, however green they are and however many heads they have, will seem more...
Despite ever-rising health insurance premiums, alongside the rising cost of living more generally, the federal government has come up with further...
For the past few years, Australia's supermarket debate has proceeded from a wonderfully simple story. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
It's about time that the government stopped telling citizens that it feels and understands their pain. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
It has been an awful year for cycling safety in Australia. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Last week, a...
The federal opposition's proposal to slash the tobacco excise by 80 per cent is its response to a policy dilemma that pits economics against...
I got a strange email last week. OK, that's true most weeks but this was among the weirdest. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers would have sighed with relief at this week's economic growth figures. Despite some preview talk of possible stagnation, we...
Something tragic is happening with young Australians and sex. Violence has slipped into their bedrooms disguised as intimacy and there's no...
Soon after I joined The Canberra Times 54 years ago, as a copyboy, I was taken aside by a senior journalist and allocated a discreet, clandestine and...
Receiving my home insurance was an unpleasant experience last week. It went up 15 per cent since last year. This would have been fine except that it...
The hate was constant and visceral. Every morning, it would be waiting for me in the inbox. It wasn't criticism of what I had written but a deep...
I didn't particularly want to write about Pauline Hanson but couldn't let her breathtaking hypocrisy through to the keeper. Subscribe now...
Pinch and a punch, first day of the month, no returns! Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Where I live, spring...
Canberra gets pretty freezing in winter, which is why lots of people (including me) plan holidays to warmer places then. But those jetting off to a...
In organisations across Australia, a fundamental shift in leadership is taking place as chief artificial intelligence officers (CAIOs) become an...
Last Saturday's Western Australian byelection in the state seat of Secret Bay was worse than diabolical for Labor. Subscribe now for unlimited...
When Donald Trump signed one of his first executive orders of his second term, renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in January 2025, the...
Several surveys now have pegged the typical person crossing the Rubicon to One Nation as a white outer-suburban male, in his 50s. Subscribe now for...
The federal Labor member for Bean, David Smith, has burst from his political slumber to offer unsolicited advice on the way the Australian Capital...
If someone had walked into a tiny cabin in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee in the 1950s and pointed to a little girl singing into a homemade tin-can...
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Are you - Nobody - too? How dreary - to be -...
Tragedy struck Canberra in the early hours of Thursday morning when a 32-year-old woman lost her life on Gungahlin Drive. She died while taking part...
I have been waiting for some time for someone to notice the remarkable congruence between allegations of a cult of Opus Dei zealots seeking to take...
I think I'm about to attend my last Book Week parade. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading My son is in year 6...
Perhaps I am confused as I believe that members of Parliament are elected as the people's representatives and that Parliament House is the...
Tech giant Meta will pay up to roughly US$18 billion, plus make major design changes to Facebook and Instagram, as part of a settlement it has agreed...
It had been a frustrating year pursuing a dead man. He had lived an extraordinary life but in death William Buckley was an elusive, maddening ghost....
Rabbi Yehoram Ulman delivered devastating testimony as the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion officially closed its public hearings...
It's taken me a while to write this because I always feel it is best not to write when upset. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Like many of his predecessors, Anthony Albanese has grown to enjoy the international diplomatic round that goes with the prime minister's job....
The latest inflation data underscores the pressure facing household budgets across Australia. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
Two young children were allegedly hurt in Canberra last week, and their family is now living through something no family should have to endure....
Band-Aid solutions are not very effective and certainly not long-term. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading And yet...
There's no shortage of reasons to despise online influencers. From those pushing the manosphere to the teens posting hare-brained copycat TikTok...
If you thought doing nothing about a GST deal that hands extra money to a state with a $3.5 billion operating surplus was not enough to really...
To say he shopped around is an understatement. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading He was a member of the NSW...
Over the past week or so, most Australians would have received an email notice from their bank announcing "bigger", "better", or...
Consider yourself lucky, the doctor told me, extremely lucky. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I'd been...
Minister Wells, thank you. You've opened up a world of exciting possibility with your AdStop initiative. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
May 10, 2013, was the day Skywhale was shown off to Canberra on our front page in all her booby glory. I remember because it was the day my mum died....
The Federal Parliament delivered a rare display of bipartisan co-operation last week. The government and opposition successfully negotiated the...
For 60 years, UNSW has proudly trained the men and women who enter our defence forces to keep this nation safe and secure. Subscribe now for unlimited...
This week, Parliament passed the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, with the...
Tony Jones' new documentary Sentient, about monkeys used for medical testing and research, and the people who have to care for them before they...
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