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Why Australia's slow start to primary maths is failing students

Why Australia's slow start to primary maths is failing students

Education ministers will soon receive advice on the findings of a national review of the maths curriculum for the first three years of school. It may...

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Kelly Norris

This was a monstrous, vile idea that further debased a nation

This was a monstrous, vile idea that further debased a nation

Whatever the reason for Donald Trump's decision to axe the livestreaming of the execution of Nadal Hasan, I celebrate that decision. Subscribe...

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Letters To The Editor

Why is a crucial report into a $65m taxpayer-funded education body being kept secret?

Why is a crucial report into a $65m taxpayer-funded education body being kept secret?

An open letter calling on all Australian education ministers to release a secret report into AERO is gaining momentum. The report, which investigated...

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Tom Mahoney

Councils act on smart glasses as federal lawmakers fall behind

Councils act on smart glasses as federal lawmakers fall behind

Councils in Australia are moving faster than federal and state governments to address the threats to privacy from "smart glasses" which...

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The Canberra Times

Can merit alone fix the Coalition's worsening gender gap?

Can merit alone fix the Coalition's worsening gender gap?

For 30 years now the Coalition parties have ensured women are limited to just 20 per cent of their federal MPs. Subscribe now for unlimited access....

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Stephen Spencer

I may be fighting a losing battle, but we should ban looking at phones in cinemas

I may be fighting a losing battle, but we should ban looking at phones in cinemas

I was in a sublime concert of choral music the other Sunday, cantatas written by the supreme master of sublime music, Johann Sebastian Bach. Subscribe...

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Steve Evans

Timing is everything: what Frydenberg's memoir reveals about truth and politics

Timing is everything: what Frydenberg's memoir reveals about truth and politics

Autobiographies of the political variety do quite well and have become de rigueur for major figures. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...

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Mark Kenny

Abandoning electronic monitoring a poor life-and-death choice on safety

Abandoning electronic monitoring a poor life-and-death choice on safety

The meeting of Australia's political leaders was convened to address what the Prime Minister acknowledged as the "national crisis of...

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The Canberra Times

ACT must not let human rights law shield illegal tobacco

ACT must not let human rights law shield illegal tobacco

Readers could be forgiven for having done a double-take at the news that human rights are a consideration when shutting down illegal tobacco shops....

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The Canberra Times

Stitch together what's happening and it's a patchwork of neglect

Stitch together what's happening and it's a patchwork of neglect

When you stitch together Canberra's big news headlines over the past weeks it makes for a patchwork of ill-considered ideas, financial...

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Letters To The Editor

Frydenberg's past will catch up with him before he gets a chance to shape the Libs' future

Frydenberg's past will catch up with him before he gets a chance to shape the Libs' future

Only three of the past 10 federal treasurers made it through to being prime ministers. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...

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Jack Waterford

Labor will need yet another budget backtrack to resurrect some of its health rebate cut

Labor will need yet another budget backtrack to resurrect some of its health rebate cut

The ins and outs of some of the seemingly endless fights over the Albanese government's budget measures are often arcane or difficult for many...

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Michelle Grattan

Diesel deal about more than prices. It is an intervention in war

Diesel deal about more than prices. It is an intervention in war

Trump's diesel deal with Putin is more than a commercial transaction. By easing sanctions to allow Russian diesel imports, Trump provides Moscow...

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Letters To The Editor

Desperate Trump is playing with fire

Desperate Trump is playing with fire

As the mid-term elections in the United States approach, the Trump administration is resorting to ever more desperate measures to try to defy opinion...

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The Canberra Times

How a jaded old man sparked awe and wonder in his heart once again

How a jaded old man sparked awe and wonder in his heart once again

There once was a jaded old man who couldn't remember the last time he'd experienced goosebumps. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...

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Garry Linnell

I've seen so many women abused online. But this instance blew me away

I've seen so many women abused online. But this instance blew me away

I have given truckloads of advice to women who are abused online. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Depending...

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Jenna Price

Want to change the world? Come to where the readers are

Want to change the world? Come to where the readers are

Why do books and reading matter in a world where AI can seemingly do everything for us, in the blink of an eye? Subscribe now for unlimited access....

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Rhian Williams

Taxes should be high, at least at the moment

Taxes should be high, at least at the moment

Recent data showed that the federal government's tax take has hit a 20-year high. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...

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Adam Triggs

Albanese govt needs to strike the right balance with public sector pay

Albanese govt needs to strike the right balance with public sector pay

After months of negotiations over federal public servants' pay and conditions, the Albanese government has put an offer on the table. Subscribe...

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The Canberra Times

Stop saying 'this is not who we are' when the evidence proves it is

Stop saying 'this is not who we are' when the evidence proves it is

The independent MP Monique Ryan was very dismissive recently of One Nation and the Liberals' tough stance on immigration. Subscribe now for...

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Steve Evans

Justice system's response to a wave of violent offending has Canberrans asking the same question

Justice system's response to a wave of violent offending has Canberrans asking the same question

A teenage girl was raped, subjected to considerable force and left with psychological injuries that may remain with her for the rest of her life. The...

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Alex Caruana

Would you want to live forever? The tech bros do

Would you want to live forever? The tech bros do

There is an obscure opera about a woman who has eternal life (fellow opera nuts will recognise The Makropulos Case by Janacek). The plot involves...

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Steve Evans

America has a policing problem, and it's not because there are too many cops

America has a policing problem, and it's not because there are too many cops

Last week's depraved proposal to live stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of fatally shooting 13 unarmed US soldiers at the...

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Crispin Hull

Why you and I matter in the struggle of truth over internet fakery

Why you and I matter in the struggle of truth over internet fakery

Let me be a little self-indulgent for a moment. At the end of the week, the paper I work for will celebrate its hundredth birthday so it's time...

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Steve Evans

The words that should haunt Canberrans in the wake of this awful sentencing

The words that should haunt Canberrans in the wake of this awful sentencing

Somewhere in Canberra tonight, a woman who has been sexually assaulted may be wondering whether to report what happened to her. Subscribe now for...

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John Coyne

Enough with the PR. Pollies, give us the truth

Enough with the PR. Pollies, give us the truth

Politicians often complain that people have lost faith in institutions. Governments lament declining trust. Public servants scratch their heads over...

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Zoë Wundenberg

Tax reform is not just about cuts. There's another side of the coin to consider

Tax reform is not just about cuts. There's another side of the coin to consider

Australia, we need to talk about revenue. Thanks to the business lobby, "tax reform" in Australia has become synonymous with cutting taxes,...

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Ebony Bennett

Christa Pike's botched death sentence resurfaced memories of Australia's last execution

Christa Pike's botched death sentence resurfaced memories of Australia's last execution

Being just old enough to remember the furore over the execution of Ronald Ryan, the last person to be hanged in this country, in 1967 I have always...

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David Ellery

Give me a shoulder-to-shoulder ride on a tram to sport or music any day

Give me a shoulder-to-shoulder ride on a tram to sport or music any day

I have been going to sports events and big music concerts in stadiums around the world for, ahem, some decades - and what I know is that city centre...

11.10.2026 10

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Steve Evans

Stopped believing: vulnerable, neglected voters put hope in One Nation

Stopped believing: vulnerable, neglected voters put hope in One Nation

Already, the deeper story of the next federal election is written - tattooed, as it were, on the distended abdomen of our body-politic. Subscribe now...

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Mark Kenny

Stadium proposal could bring vibrancy back to Civic

Stadium proposal could bring vibrancy back to Civic

My wife Stephanie and I run a local family business employing 280 people across multiple venues in Braddon and Civic. We support a city stadium...

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Letters To The Editor

Why are voices like mine lost in the brumby debate?

Why are voices like mine lost in the brumby debate?

There is something badly missing from the increasingly heated debate about feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park. Subscribe now for unlimited...

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Richard Swain

It's troubled times for Trump as tides turn in America

It's troubled times for Trump as tides turn in America

For the White House, the midterm elections are always agony. They are always a referendum on the president. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...

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Bruce Wolpe

I love Canberra's comforts but would I choose it if starting over?

I love Canberra's comforts but would I choose it if starting over?

"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears ... You take delight not in a city's seven or 70 wonders, but in the answer it gives to...

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Ian Warden

Why watching a dad act like a single man ignited my micro-rage

Why watching a dad act like a single man ignited my micro-rage

Recently I went on a guided tour through the Sydney Opera House. A family - mum, dad and two young kids - were also part of the group. The...

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Gabbie Stroud

Commonwealth Park is not the place for a cathedral of sport

Commonwealth Park is not the place for a cathedral of sport

I expect that ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr will moderate his enthusiasm for a stadium on Commonwealth Avenue, even if the land in question is being...

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Jack Waterford

Unless you're Pauline Hanson, the migration debate can be a dangerous sinkhole

Unless you're Pauline Hanson, the migration debate can be a dangerous sinkhole

When, way back, the opposition started talking about cutting immigration it would have thought, on the basis of polling, that it was tapping into a...

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Michelle Grattan

My guilty pleasure is about to pay off. But I'm not sure the spoils will be worth it

My guilty pleasure is about to pay off. But I'm not sure the spoils will be worth it

Filthy stinking rich. That's me. I'm loaded, baby. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Sixty-million...

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Garry Linnell

This cursed tech gave me just what I didn't need: a new husband

This cursed tech gave me just what I didn't need: a new husband

I have had very little to do with AI - at least not in a way I recognise. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading If...

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Jenna Price

Are you still paying surcharges when you pay with a card? You shouldn't be

Surcharges on paying with a card are very annoying. I don't quite know why but I feel as though I'm being ripped off when I see those extra...

08.10.2026 30

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Steve Evans

Self-righteous activists are ruining one of life's great pleasures

Does it strike you as odd that the much-loved statement "All men are created equal" was written in the USA when they most certainly were...

08.10.2026 30

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Amanda Vanstone

Australians are right to fear this tech. Here are the laws which can protect us

If a week is a long time in politics, then it's an eternity in the universe of artificial intelligence. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...

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Josh Bornstein

Jeffrey Archer found that dishonesty didn't pay - eventually

May Jeffrey Archer rest in peace. His novels are not my cup of tea but they have their devotees. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...

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Steve Evans

Immigration is not on voters' minds, but its economic effects are

One of Australia's leading pollsters and repositories of knowledge about what and how Australians are thinking gave us some very encouraging...

06.10.2026 30

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Crispin Hull

Maybe the politicians aren't so bad - it's just that the job's too hard

Is Anthony Albanese the worst prime minister in living memory? Certainly a few days ago someone called Steve Price thought so: "Albo is our worst...

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Steve Evans

BYD is reshaping Australia's car market. How did it get here?

Since the Iran-US military conflict began earlier this year, disrupting global oil markets, Australia's electric vehicle (EV) market has...

05.10.2026 20

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Milad Haghani

Parliament and public service are getting their roles wrong

The reaction to Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins' statement at Senate estimates last month was predictable and understandable. Her...

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Andrew Podger

From killer cyborgs to garden gurus: the truth about modern AI

Artificial intelligence has suffered the worst advance publicity campaign in the history of human invention. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...

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David Ellery

The economy is in dire straits, and the govt needs to be honest about it

The Albanese government must stop gaslighting Australians about the state of the economy, public finances and the dire implications for future...

04.10.2026 20

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Stephen Walters

Liberal-lite Albo has become the problem. Now the party is really exposed

The new aspiration of the Greens to be seen as an alternative party of government, rather than as a left-wing prod on the Labor Party flank is a...

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Jack Waterford