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It's been a big month in the Pacific, with the race between order and disorder, between cooperation and competition, brutally laid out. Subscribe...
The usual cast of villains were there. The radical left, the fake news, the People's Republic of China, the deep state, the intelligence...
There are two crises afflicting late-stage democracy - one, empirical, and the other, "umpirical" - a term I have taken the liberty of...
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...
Your supermarket can discount bread. Your servo can discount petrol. But strict rules stop your pharmacy discounting most medicines. Subscribe now for...
The Prime Minister has described the right destination for Australian AI. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
Productivity growth is supposed to be the key to boosting wages and living standards in the economy. However, just as housing price growth decoupled...
In 1975, an Aboriginal friend in the federal Health Department, Gordon Briscoe, invited me to ask his department questions about the prevalence of...
As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has two major problems - and that's leaving aside One...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
There was much to like in the Prime Minister's speech on the government's response to the challenges and opportunities created by artificial...
It's telling that great prime ministers like Howard, Fraser, Hawke and Keating have nothing in common with Pauline Hanson. Subscribe now for...
I only had myself to blame for the unpleasant sensation. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Cold, gnawing and...
It's probably not something that is said very often, but hopefully we will be hearing sometime very soon from Energy Minister Chris Bowen....
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...
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....
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...
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...
The cost of living is at the centre of Australians' concern and a major political battleground, but one of the biggest inflation threats is...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
"Some believe football [soccer] is a matter of life and death - but it's much, much more important than that." Subscribe now for...
The royal commission into anti-Semitism and social cohesion has heard convincing evidence that Jewish Australians have encountered increasing levels...
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...
If you are feeling financially depleted personally, and pessimistic about the economic outlook generally, figures released this week won't cheer...
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...
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...
Earlier this week, Australians woke up to a major outage affecting Telstra, the largest telecommunications network in the country. But mobile phones...
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...
Something very odd happened after the introduction of the iPhone, the world's first smartphone. We stopped having so many babies. Subscribe now...
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...
A century ago, Australian science was at an inflection point. Australia was, said the then-prime minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce, a land of...
There's a particular kind of political rhetoric that thrives in moments of uncertainty. It doesn't offer solutions, or reforms, or even...
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...
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...
Every tax season, tax professionals hear the same comment from property investors. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
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...
Let me say unapologetically that I would "shag" Kylie Minogue. As the Prime Minister has also perceived, they all seem to have a very...
Across government, public servants are drowning in a broken operating model. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
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...
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...