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Long thought extinct, the drongo is back. Not the bird, it's doing just fine, but the uniquely Aussie expression for an idiot or incompetent...
A central element of Australia's superannuation system is the superannuation guarantee (SG). This is the compulsory 12 per cent of an...
Aged care reform in Australia has focused heavily on staffing levels, regulation and funding. All of these matter. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Transport Minister Catherine King does not usually do parliamentary attacks, but via a "Dorothy Dixer' on Wednesday about the fuel crisis,...
Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of our own actions. After the Australian government shamelessly abandoned morality and...
Did you know the cost of adding a second dwelling on your standard residential block (RZ1) in the ACT could run to around $250,000 before you have...
"Can IQ tests settle whether Trump is a moron or not?" Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading This unkind...
Thirty-four years ago, celebrated eye doctor Fred Hollows established a partnership with millions of Australians to set in place an international...
Expect to hear a lot about "Australian values" between now and the next federal election. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...
Crises "stress test" governments and countries. Memories remain vivid of COVID, which put immense pressures on the Australian economy, the...
A newborn boy with tubes and cords running from head to toe to machines of baffling complexity. That's my reason. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the United States has ruled. Subscribe now...
She's a force of nature, this one. She's 83 and if those legs don't allow her to move as quickly as they once did, she's lost none...
In her early 40s, when it became apparent my sister was struggling to have children, we had a discussion about how I could help. That discussion went...
It seems ironic now but exactly a month before war erupted in the Gulf, oil industry news website Oilprice.com warned of a looming threat to global...
It's easy to focus on the success of One Nation in the recent South Australian election. There's a message there for both the major parties....
I was living in an inner-city suburb when I got pregnant with my first baby. I had a full-time job and wrote books for kids on the weekends. I had a...
It's hard not to smell a rat. Fifteen minutes before Donald Trump announced his postponement of threatened strikes on Iranian power plants and...
The South Australian election proves that One Nation is a far greater threat to the Liberal and National Parties than it is to Labor. We should ask...
As another Anzac Day approaches, and warfare for a vital waterway is dominating global affairs, it is worth recalling that the Gallipoli land campaign...
You can't legislate against stupidity. There will always be people whose reckless, irrational actions harm others. We're reminded of this...
When I was in the Defence Intelligence Organisation, we analysed foreign military leaders - their strengths, weaknesses, health status and likely...
I need to talk about a personal battle that I know many of you are also fighting in silence. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
Australia's world-first national legislation to restrict access to social media accounts for children under 16 years old has been in force for...
They were a middle-aged couple, packing their small car with belongings in a rubble strewn street. The photographer captured the moment they were...
At the ripe old age of 97, the death of the Cold War espionage writer, Len Deighton, just days ago, came as a different kind of shock. Subscribe now...
Fiona Robinson has been one of the warriors in the fight to keep open the Big Splash water park in Macquarie. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
For some years now, YWCA Canberra and Canberra's housing and homelessness support sector has kept mum about repeated and avoidable failings of...
Anyone watching the smoke signals from Canberra knows that moves are afoot to try and increase capital gains tax (aka "cut the discount")....
No good crisis should ever be wasted, as Rahm Emanuel, a one-time chief of staff to Barack Obama, used to say. Donald Trump is in trouble with both...
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The ACT is facing a triple-play of financial squeezes that could threaten the efficient operation of its criminal-justice system before the financial...
It's strange what we've come to accept as normal. We have the cleanest tap water in the world, yet somehow we've created a $700 million...
"Feel the Power." "Age Friendly City." "Confident. Bold. Ready." Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
Granite angels with crumbling faces and broken wings. Headstones cracked by shifting earth. Chiselled names faded by the elements. Rusted iron fences...
When he talks about the May 12 budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers always stresses that what's done on things like the capital gains tax discount will...
New figures this week show the number of family and domestic violence offenders rose by 8 per cent last financial year. We also know two in five...
Peace amidst such turmoil is found in the most unlikely places. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading These past...
The effect of the Iran war on Australia can be summarised in a single word: stagflation. The brutal combination of higher inflation and weaker growth...
On Thursday night, as the Raiders run out onto GIO Stadium, thousands of fans will rise to their feet for the famous Viking Clap. It's a moment...
Australia is again wrestling with familiar problems: stubbornly high inflation, net public debt approaching $1 trillion, and fresh demands for sharply...
It's the oldest journalistic trick in the book: ask the interview subject whether they can guarantee something will or will not happen. No...
As federal public servants and key ministers are crafting the May budget, University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Bill Shorten put forward a proposal...
As it does in these early days of autumn, the sky had turned cobalt blue. It was cloudless and there was the faintest hint of sea breeze, just enough...
Australia prides itself on being an innovation economy. We celebrate startups, talk about productivity, and lean into our reputation for punching...
There's no doubt about it, war's expensive, costing America about US$1 billion a day in Middle East. That's not to mention what...
The National Party has lunged for the button marked 'break glass in emergency' by drafting the contrarian populist agitator, Matt Canavan,...
The Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Oliver Cromwell, is not one of my favourite figures of history, but once gave one of my favourite...
As I write, our often hard-hearted nation is showing some tender-heartedness towards the Iranian soccer players who want to stay in Australia....
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