|
Canberra Times |
Something remarkable happens on Sydney buses. At every stop, disembarking passengers thank the driver. In a world in which good manners have become...
Weekends can be hard. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading As a person with a disability, I feel incredibly...
The Coalition and business lobbyists are quite right to say that the federal government must rein in spending and reduce debt. And they were doing it...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au Subscribe now for unlimited...
The AI wave has crashed, and we're now swimming through the detritus. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
I'll never forget the morning I froze during a client presentation at Kearney, the global management consulting firm, where I was a vice...
For a long time, ageing came with a script. You study. You build a career. You work full time for decades. Then somewhere in your 60s, you step back...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au Subscribe now for unlimited...
As a 15-year-old, Edie Roff had mixed feelings in the lead-up to the social media ban last year. Now that it hasn't worked, her feelings are...
Long before the internet put unchecked power in the hands of billionaire technofascists, there was a kid's doll which emitted insults when you...
"What shade of orange is Donald Trump?" Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Headline in Fast Company...
There is a word that gets used a lot in political commentary right now - realignment - and like most words deployed too frequently, even by me, it is...
I've gained a new respect for Harry and Meghan after their Australian visit this week. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
US President Donald Trump is letting it be known that he is considering pulling the United States from NATO, and perhaps some of America's...
While some of the criticism of the defence strategy announced by Defence Minister Richard Marles in Canberra on Thursday was so extreme as to render...
A few weeks ago Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen joined a group of local and federal politicians at the end of my street in Dickson to...
An effective opposition is good at policy. Last term and so far this term, the Coalition has been very poor at policy formulation. Subscribe now for...
The fire that broke out at Viva Energy's Corio refinery near Geelong on Wednesday night could not have come at a worse time for Australians or...
Mum had no time for Australian values. In fact, she was pretty vocal on the topic. Australians allowed their kids to roam around after school on...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au Subscribe now for unlimited...
Like most people with a Netflix subscription, I recently watched the latest doco from Louis Theroux called Inside the Manosphere. Subscribe now for...
The days of a cheap cappuccino, a familiar, affordable morning habit, are a rapidly fading memory, a quaint artefact of an era unlikely to return....
The federal government is preparing a budget badged as "intergenerational fairness". The idea it sells is simple: young people are...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au Subscribe now for unlimited...
Angus Taylor's wide-ranging remarks on immigration on Tuesday were less of a policy statement than they were an illuminating insight into the...
Last week I was asked by someone on a very modest income whether it was worthwhile keeping private health insurance. Subscribe now for unlimited...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au Subscribe now for unlimited...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Fractured internally and debased internationally, it is hard to imagine that the US will again wield the unique mix of strategic threat, intellectual...
With friends like these, who needs enemies? The US is supposed to be Australia's "closest ally, and our principal economic and strategic...
In 40 years of advising company directors, I have seen boards deal with recessions, regulatory upheaval, trade wars, and pandemic. The organisations...
Good government won despite the Albanese government losing a court case recently. Given the money and the effort that it put into losing its case, and...
While some might suggest it is impolite to say that the Nationals are slow learners determined to repeat previous costly mistakes, that is where the...
It is so easy to let satanic Donald Trump and the Hell-bent America that has spawned him drive us all to drink, to despair, to the psychiatrist's...
There's a particular kind of overwhelm that belongs to this moment in history. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
If you want a basic measure of the difference between Liberal leader Angus Taylor and Nationals leader Matt Canavan, compare these two reactions to US...
Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON) has surged in the opinion polls, and rather surprisingly, those poll numbers have held up in the party's...
It might feel like a lifetime ago, but it was just last week analysts began talking about fuel rationing in Australia. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Donald Trump must be approaching his nadir. His attempts to spin an ephemeral ceasefire that might not even last until sundown into a "mission...
Imagine being the folks at the Australian War Memorial right now. What a nightmare. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au Subscribe now for unlimited...
I've just watched The Sopranos episode where Carmela discovers that Tony's psychiatrist is a woman and she is jealous. Carmela devotes quite...
It would be an understatement to describe as pathetic the ACT government's response to this newspaper's revelations that dozens of shops...
Chris Bowen singing "it's all ok we've got supplies till May" is cold comfort. May is just around the corner. Somehow we're...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au Subscribe now for unlimited...
The boy who told a reporter who asked why he was watching the launch of Artemis II: "Because we're going back to the freaking moon"...
The war on Iran has made crystal clear how shaky our reliance on fossil fuels is. It's no surprise electric vehicles and transport have become...
It was 1999 and we were doing what we thought was our final renovation. Oh, the naivety of the first time renovator. We'd heard of solar panels...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have confirmed in the past week that the May budget will contain major tax changes to help...
Don't know about you but I'm exhausted. Seems it's been one thing after another for at least six years. Subscribe now for unlimited...