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A deal with Fiji is a start, but can Australia lead a united Pacific?

A deal with Fiji is a start, but can Australia lead a united Pacific?

It's been a big month in the Pacific, with the race between order and disorder, between cooperation and competition, brutally laid out. Subscribe...

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Dave Peebles

Please, Donnie, get over it. You lost in 2020

Please, Donnie, get over it. You lost in 2020

The usual cast of villains were there. The radical left, the fake news, the People's Republic of China, the deep state, the intelligence...

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John Hanscombe

Truth used to be a matter of fact. Now it comes down to affiliation

Truth used to be a matter of fact. Now it comes down to affiliation

There are two crises afflicting late-stage democracy - one, empirical, and the other, "umpirical" - a term I have taken the liberty of...

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Mark Kenny

Name your favourite Yank - no need to make a song and dance about it

Name your favourite Yank - no need to make a song and dance about it

Yes, the current president of the United States is one of the most loathsome men ever born, and yes, 36 per cent of polled Americans are foolish...

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Ian Warden

One simple change could save us millions at the pharmacy checkout

One simple change could save us millions at the pharmacy checkout

Your supermarket can discount bread. Your servo can discount petrol. But strict rules stop your pharmacy discounting most medicines. Subscribe now for...

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Peter Breadon

The PM's big AI ploy has missed one key threat

The PM's big AI ploy has missed one key threat

The Prime Minister has described the right destination for Australian AI. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...

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Rebecca L. Johnson

Productivity has grown, so why have wages not kept up?

Productivity has grown, so why have wages not kept up?

Productivity growth is supposed to be the key to boosting wages and living standards in the economy. However, just as housing price growth decoupled...

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Ebony Bennett

I've seen the chasm between white and Aboriginal Australia. It changed my life forever

I've seen the chasm between white and Aboriginal Australia. It changed my life forever

In 1975, an Aboriginal friend in the federal Health Department, Gordon Briscoe, invited me to ask his department questions about the prevalence of...

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Jack Waterford

The zeitgeist doesn't suit Angus Taylor but he could do more to help himself

The zeitgeist doesn't suit Angus Taylor but he could do more to help himself

As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has two major problems - and that's leaving aside One...

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Michelle Grattan

We all worry about cybercrime. So why are we still missing the warning signs?

We all worry about cybercrime. So why are we still missing the warning signs?

"I have anxiety around cyber security because I understand how important it is, but don't feel I have the skill needed to look after myself...

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Bruce Tonkin

Spare me with your 'not all men' cries. Here's how we can stop the bodies piling up

Spare me with your 'not all men' cries. Here's how we can stop the bodies piling up

If we want to stop women and children being raped and murdered, we are going to have to change men. This week, last week, this year, the bodies are...

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Jenna Price

Australian Signals Directorate warns foreign hackers targeting vital services

Australian Signals Directorate warns foreign hackers targeting vital services

Modern wars are not just fought on the land, in the air, or at sea. They are increasingly contested in real time in cyberspace. The bad news is that...

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The Canberra Times

Small talk dies thanks to our love of smartphones

Small talk dies thanks to our love of smartphones

Apologies for interrupting, my fellow introverts. I know how much you value your silence. How you despise small talk. How you break into a cold sweat...

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Garry Linnell

It's the ABC's job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of 'balance'

It's the ABC's job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of 'balance'

One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue...

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Peter Greste

I'm not special. I'm just an ordinary bloke who couldn't look away

I'm not special. I'm just an ordinary bloke who couldn't look away

I never expected to spend my weekends and evenings talking about homelessness to tens of thousands of strangers on trains, ferry wharfs, cafés and in...

16.07.2026 10

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Stan Ghys

The secret insurer rort forcing private hospitals to close

The secret insurer rort forcing private hospitals to close

Canberra Private Hospital is just the latest in a string of more than 20 hospital closures around the country. Patients are paying a heavy toll, and...

16.07.2026 7

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Brett Heffernan

PM's AI plan must please big tech, creatives and the union movement

PM's AI plan must please big tech, creatives and the union movement

There was much to like in the Prime Minister's speech on the government's response to the challenges and opportunities created by artificial...

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The Canberra Times

Pauline made a major error when she visited the UK, and it might be her undoing

Pauline made a major error when she visited the UK, and it might be her undoing

It's telling that great prime ministers like Howard, Fraser, Hawke and Keating have nothing in common with Pauline Hanson. Subscribe now for...

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Amanda Vanstone

Mid-whinge, I remind myself how lucky I am

Mid-whinge, I remind myself how lucky I am

I only had myself to blame for the unpleasant sensation. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Cold, gnawing and...

16.07.2026 10

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John Hanscombe

The glaring questions Chris Bowen must answer on energy sovereignty

The glaring questions Chris Bowen must answer on energy sovereignty

It's probably not something that is said very often, but hopefully we will be hearing sometime very soon from Energy Minister Chris Bowen....

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The Canberra Times

The Australia I know is proudly multicultural. Politicians should stop telling us otherwise

The Australia I know is proudly multicultural. Politicians should stop telling us otherwise

There is a version of Australia that gets repeated often by politicians who trade in fear. It's a version where migrants arrive as cultural...

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Zoë Wundenberg

Can anyone explain the Australian addiction to swimming in sharky waters?

Can anyone explain the Australian addiction to swimming in sharky waters?

Those of us born outside Australia can't understand why native Australians go in the sea. In ten years, I've been in once - but never again....

15.07.2026 10

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Steve Evans

My new friend turns out to be a robot and I don't like her

My new friend turns out to be a robot and I don't like her

I had a chat with a charming woman the other day. I called a prominent consultancy in Canberra and a pleasant female voice answered. She sounded...

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Steve Evans

The disturbing global hypocrisy exposed right outside a massive oceanarium

The disturbing global hypocrisy exposed right outside a massive oceanarium

The Singapore Oceanarium is an engineering marvel. It holds 45 million litres of water (18 Olympic pools) across 22 displays. It also has a 36-metre...

14.07.2026 10

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Crispin Hull

Iran war and super El Nino are a recipe for food insecurity

Iran war and super El Nino are a recipe for food insecurity

The cost of living is at the centre of Australians' concern and a major political battleground, but one of the biggest inflation threats is...

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Neil Greet

Winter isn't a season of discontent, it's a time for quiet reflection

Winter isn't a season of discontent, it's a time for quiet reflection

This Thursday marks the very depths of the frosty months, dropping humanity right into the middle of the seasonal chill. Mid-year often feels like a...

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The Canberra Times

Teaching our kids to be safe on the roads is so tough

Teaching our kids to be safe on the roads is so tough

Anyone reading the story of that 19-year-old hooning around would have been relieved that the kid was caught before he killed himself or anyone else....

13.07.2026 10

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Jenna Price

The music conversation with my daughter that broke my heart a little

The music conversation with my daughter that broke my heart a little

I recently had the strangest conversation with my 14-year-old. We had just finished watching 10 Things I Hate About You, as part of a private campaign...

12.07.2026 20

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Sally Pryor

Why the tide may be turning against global political intolerance

Why the tide may be turning against global political intolerance

Call me naive, but might there be a correction coming - a global renaissance of the human heart? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...

12.07.2026 20

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Mark Kenny

Stop panicking and don't listen to pollies. Falling house prices are a win

Stop panicking and don't listen to pollies. Falling house prices are a win

Last month's fall in house prices is good news. Further falls would be welcome. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...

11.07.2026 10

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Peter Tulip

Football, Messi and make-believe: Warden's World Cup delirium

Football, Messi and make-believe: Warden's World Cup delirium

"Some believe football [soccer] is a matter of life and death - but it's much, much more important than that." Subscribe now for...

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Ian Warden

Jewish Australians deserve protection. But nations shouldn't be shielded from criticism

Jewish Australians deserve protection. But nations shouldn't be shielded from criticism

The royal commission into anti-Semitism and social cohesion has heard convincing evidence that Jewish Australians have encountered increasing levels...

11.07.2026 20

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Jack Waterford

Telstra outage proves vital infrastructure is still very vulnerable

Telstra outage proves vital infrastructure is still very vulnerable

How is it that just 10 months after the 13-hour Optus outage last September that shut down the triple-zero emergency service and was linked to at...

10.07.2026 10

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The Canberra Times

AI has the potential to pull us out of this slump, but we can't just 'let it rip'

AI has the potential to pull us out of this slump, but we can't just 'let it rip'

If you are feeling financially depleted personally, and pessimistic about the economic outlook generally, figures released this week won't cheer...

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Michelle Grattan

It's not that I need to control everything. Everything just runs more smoothly when I do.

It's not that I need to control everything. Everything just runs more smoothly when I do.

The burden is heavy, let me tell you. I have been carrying the world on my shoulders for more than half a century. No rest. No respite. But you...

10.07.2026 10

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Garry Linnell

In a Gungahlin cafe, I discovered what being Australian is all about

In a Gungahlin cafe, I discovered what being Australian is all about

The chatter in a café in the Canberra suburb of Harrison suddenly fell silent as the Socceroos prepared for the penalty shootout against Egypt. For a...

09.07.2026 20

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Mainul Haque

How does a Telstra outage bring down trains? A telco expert explains

How does a Telstra outage bring down trains? A telco expert explains

Earlier this week, Australians woke up to a major outage affecting Telstra, the largest telecommunications network in the country. But mobile phones...

09.07.2026 10

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Faraz Hasan

We know how to prevent an outage like this. Here's why we can't

We know how to prevent an outage like this. Here's why we can't

I have a few personal habits which I feel may be distinctive to me. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I am so...

09.07.2026 20

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Jenna Price

How Steve Jobs put Australians off sex

Something very odd happened after the introduction of the iPhone, the world's first smartphone. We stopped having so many babies. Subscribe now...

09.07.2026 10

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Steve Evans

Why you can't entirely blame the government for this slump

The think tank for the world's rich countries had some bad news for Australia last week. The OECD found that Australia's productivity growth...

09.07.2026 20

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Adam Triggs

We have to make every research dollar count if we want to solve our biggest problems

A century ago, Australian science was at an inflection point. Australia was, said the then-prime minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce, a land of...

08.07.2026 10

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Tim Ayres

Is Pauline Hanson's populist anger a recipe for Australia's ruin?

There's a particular kind of political rhetoric that thrives in moments of uncertainty. It doesn't offer solutions, or reforms, or even...

08.07.2026 20

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Zoë Wundenberg

Ask Property: How do we help the kids without putting ourselves in a worse financial position?

Welcome to Ask Property, our new weekly column where we answer your real estate dilemmas. Our Ask Property columnist Nina Hendy is here to hunt down...

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Nina Hendy

Trump should get a red card and so should FIFA

Justice was done. The United States were bundled out of the World Cup despite a grubby intervention by the President of the United States. Mr Trump...

08.07.2026 20

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Steve Evans

The costly tax mistakes property investors make every year

Every tax season, tax professionals hear the same comment from property investors. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...

07.07.2026 10

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Mark Chapman

Trump's power grabs echo the very tyranny America was founded to escape

There was much to celebrate and be grateful for last Saturday as the US marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Subscribe now...

07.07.2026 20

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Crispin Hull

The Prime Minister should tell the lynch mobs to shag off

Let me say unapologetically that I would "shag" Kylie Minogue. As the Prime Minister has also perceived, they all seem to have a very...

06.07.2026 20

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Steve Evans

Forget chatbots, here's the real AI revolution government services need now

Across government, public servants are drowning in a broken operating model. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...

06.07.2026 10

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Ryan van Leent

Doomscrolling? I'd much rather be joyscrolling, thanks

Good morning to the burrow, it's Jenna Price here - our email banner hasn't received the message about John's time off. Subscribe now...

06.07.2026 20

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Jenna Price

Expert's guide to why your son is hooked on screens and how to help him

Co-host of TV's Parental Guidance and podcast Happy Families DR JUSTIN COULSON says boys lost to screens and algorithms designed to be addictive...

05.07.2026 20

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Justin Coulson