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Cod testes and crickets: tastebuds are dancing

Cod testes and crickets: tastebuds are dancing

The plan was simple. On this trip I intended to embrace one of the tenets of ikigai, the Japanese framework for living a happy life: eat until you...

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John Hanscombe

Imagine if 74 Australians were killed in a single day. This unfolding tragedy demands a better response

Imagine if 74 Australians were killed in a single day. This unfolding tragedy demands a better response

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Login or signup to continue reading Since we marked this day a year...

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Sussan Ley

This number proves your quality of life is falling (and One Nation's support is rising)

This number proves your quality of life is falling (and One Nation's support is rising)

This week the government aims to get its new environment laws passed. But it does not have a majority in the Senate. The Greens or the Coalition...

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Crispin Hull

Mark Butler could fix my life and hundreds of others with the stroke of a pen

Mark Butler could fix my life and hundreds of others with the stroke of a pen

Dear Mr Butler Login or signup to continue reading Last week, I was shattered to discover I'm ineligible for a life-changing medical breakthrough -...

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Kylie Miller

A broken housing market is costing jobs and pushing up prices

A broken housing market is costing jobs and pushing up prices

Australia is now confronting a housing shortage that has moved well beyond a social policy concern. It has become a drag on national productivity,...

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Dan Mckenna

Aboard the very fast train of Albo's dreams

Aboard the very fast train of Albo's dreams

Half an hour from Tokyo, the Toki bullet train cleared the urban sprawl. In the distance, the Japanese alps appeared and what I'd thought were...

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John Hanscombe

How to avoid peril and the loan sharks this silly season

How to avoid peril and the loan sharks this silly season

While there can be many joys of small business ownership, small businesses also deal with many potential perils. Login or signup to continue...

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Bruce Billson

How many more hits can contact sport take before it is banned?

How many more hits can contact sport take before it is banned?

The idea that we send our children out regularly to do battle is terrifying. They have no protection. When they are wounded, we encourage them to...

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Jenna Price

Why our debate on defence is focused on the wrong threat

Why our debate on defence is focused on the wrong threat

Australia's geography will always shape our defence strategy: a vast island with no land borders, thousands of kilometres from major powers, and...

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Clive Williams

The Liberals are facing their 'Kodak moment'

The Liberals are facing their 'Kodak moment'

Remember Eastman Kodak, the 20th century's leading global brand in photography which somehow failed to surf the digital wave? Login or signup to...

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Mark Kenny

A psychic made a prediction about me and I'm scared it will come true

A psychic made a prediction about me and I'm scared it will come true

The most unbelievable prediction the psychic made was that I would start a "side hustle" selling baked goods. Login or signup to continue reading...

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Lanie Tindale

A step in the right direction or tiptoeing toward glass-cliff? It's kind of both

A step in the right direction or tiptoeing toward glass-cliff? It's kind of both

Only six months after Sussan Ley became the first woman leader in the federal Liberal Party's 80 year history, the Victorian Liberals made history...

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Blair Williams

The ACT has a racism problem and it's either too clueless or too broke to fix it

The ACT has a racism problem and it's either too clueless or too broke to fix it

This story contains the name of an Aboriginal person who has died. Login or signup to continue reading We've all heard the saying if: it walks like...

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Bageshri Savyasachi

The operating cost of Canberra's public transport far outstrips the revenue

The operating cost of Canberra's public transport far outstrips the revenue

Revenue from Canberra's public transport is less than the $16.6 million collected in 1997-98, though the annual operating cost of the service has...

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Graham Downie

A giant statue of Whitlam atop Black Mountain? Now there's a big idea

A giant statue of Whitlam atop Black Mountain? Now there's a big idea

Our forgettable prime minister (whose name escapes me for the moment) has just announced that his government is going to commission a sculpture of...

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Ian Warden

Combatting the neo-Nazis is a 'wicked problem' for governments

Combatting the neo-Nazis is a 'wicked problem' for governments

When neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell appeared last week in a Melbourne court for a bail hearing, after jail time over the attack on an Indigenous...

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Michelle Grattan

Do you know who the next non-Labor PM will be? It likely won't be a Liberal

Do you know who the next non-Labor PM will be? It likely won't be a Liberal

When Vladimir Lenin outsmarted Mr Kerensky and the Nicholas, Russian Emperor, to seize power for the Bolsheviks in 1917 it was more than the Wagga...

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Jack Waterford

Who needs world-changing, life-saving science when you've got rugby league

Who needs world-changing, life-saving science when you've got rugby league

If you've ever used Aeroguard, the announcement this week that CSIRO would cut another 350 jobs should alarm you. And it's a wake-up call for...

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Ebony Bennett

The ACT and Queensland's economies are beating the rest of the nation

The ACT and Queensland's economies are beating the rest of the nation

The Australian Capital Territory and Queensland have won bragging rights for having the fastest growing economies in Australia in 2024-25. Login or...

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John Hawkins

The competence gap when good intentions fail

The competence gap when good intentions fail

It was the question of the week: why were we closing schools and no one else was? Why did other states think it fine to follow federal government...

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John Paul Moloney

We've always suspected it, but now it's proven

We've always suspected it, but now it's proven

And now for some very good news. Growing older isn't the tragedy we've been warned about. Login or signup to continue reading New research - not...

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Garry Linnell

Why I'm hypocritically embracing schadenfreude

Why I'm hypocritically embracing schadenfreude

I am bitterly opposed to immigration detention. And have long admired the activists who work tirelessly to get the federal government to do better,...

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Jenna Price