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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...
Whatever the reason for Donald Trump's decision to axe the livestreaming of the execution of Nadal Hasan, I celebrate that decision. Subscribe...
An open letter calling on all Australian education ministers to release a secret report into AERO is gaining momentum. The report, which investigated...
Councils in Australia are moving faster than federal and state governments to address the threats to privacy from "smart glasses" which...
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....
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...
Autobiographies of the political variety do quite well and have become de rigueur for major figures. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...
The meeting of Australia's political leaders was convened to address what the Prime Minister acknowledged as the "national crisis of...
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....
When you stitch together Canberra's big news headlines over the past weeks it makes for a patchwork of ill-considered ideas, financial...
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...
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...
Trump's diesel deal with Putin is more than a commercial transaction. By easing sanctions to allow Russian diesel imports, Trump provides Moscow...
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...
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...
I have given truckloads of advice to women who are abused online. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Depending...
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....
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...
After months of negotiations over federal public servants' pay and conditions, the Albanese government has put an offer on the table. Subscribe...
The independent MP Monique Ryan was very dismissive recently of One Nation and the Liberals' tough stance on immigration. Subscribe now for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Somewhere in Canberra tonight, a woman who has been sexually assaulted may be wondering whether to report what happened to her. Subscribe now for...
Politicians often complain that people have lost faith in institutions. Governments lament declining trust. Public servants scratch their heads over...
Australia, we need to talk about revenue. Thanks to the business lobby, "tax reform" in Australia has become synonymous with cutting taxes,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
There is something badly missing from the increasingly heated debate about feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park. Subscribe now for unlimited...
For the White House, the midterm elections are always agony. They are always a referendum on the president. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
Filthy stinking rich. That's me. I'm loaded, baby. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Sixty-million...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
One of Australia's leading pollsters and repositories of knowledge about what and how Australians are thinking gave us some very encouraging...
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...
Since the Iran-US military conflict began earlier this year, disrupting global oil markets, Australia's electric vehicle (EV) market has...
The reaction to Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins' statement at Senate estimates last month was predictable and understandable. Her...
Artificial intelligence has suffered the worst advance publicity campaign in the history of human invention. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
The Albanese government must stop gaslighting Australians about the state of the economy, public finances and the dire implications for future...
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...