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Machines aren’t just beeping at us now; some of them, creepily, have started to talk.
Getting the breaks going your way is an often-underappreciated factor in a politician’s success or failure.
There’s a big divide in cabinet about how to deal with crime in Victoria. Those who want to adopt the “zero-tolerance” approach made famous by Rudy...
From Ugg boots to submarine models, there’s a good deal of politics behind international gift-giving between leaders.
The precious metal had its biggest one-day fall in more than a decade, but most of the factors that drove its price to record highs are still in...
The media mogul and the US president share a relationship largely built on opportunity. But despite their codependency, it looks like neither is...
Engulfed by scandal, Prince Andrew has fought for years to stay in the Royal Lodge near Windsor. Now we know why.
Chris Scott is right: Bailey Smith, the footballer, was an outrageous success on the field. But Geelong didn’t just recruit a footballer, they...
Lachlan Galvin slipped through Parramatta’s fingers, twice. The first miss in particular was a costly and painful one, which is why they’ve struck...
It’s hard to believe it has already been 15 years since then-prime minister Kevin Rudd lobbed the “mining tax” into the national discourse. He...
OpenAI’s AI-powered browser can book holidays and build shopping lists while you browse. But it’s competing against the most stubborn force in...
Convinced atheists might be surprised to know that the God in whom they do not believe is one Christians also do not accept.
The toothy elf-doll has been seen dangling off the bags of A-listers from Blackpink’s Lisa to Rihanna, kicking off a Gen Z craze. But scepticism is...
On the surface, Trump longs for grandeur. But on some subconscious level he and those around him have a deep instinct for degradation.
I felt a weird kind of mourning the other day. The quiet kind, where nothing dramatic happens, but you notice something’s missing. And,...
There was hardly a spare seat in the house at Wembley last Sunday. There rarely is. A crowd of 86,152 flocked to London’s iconic stadium for the...
Few things can unite Australians like CEO salaries. Opinion polls have found about 80 per cent of us think corporate bosses are paid too much....
Melbourne is at a crossroads. The number of people who call the west home stands at close to 1 million. By 2050, it is projected to be 1.8 million,...
This week’s visit to Washington, DC by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was a triumphant marker in his pragmatic path on foreign and defence policy....
There’s a common misconception that once you reach the aged care lifetime cap, the bills stop. Sadly, that’s not quite true. The lifetime cap...
I am 67 and my husband is 68, and we are both retired. Between us, we have about $1.5 million in superannuation, from which we currently receive...
A ladder truck, an angle grinder, a maxi-scooter, and seven minutes. That appears to be all it took for thieves to nab priceless jewellery from the...
China’s economy is slowing, but it’s holding up better than expected in the face of Donald Trump’s trade war. Even as China’s “Fourth Plenum”...
Monday’s Amazon Web Services outage wasn’t just another tech hiccup. It was a stark – and for many people, incredibly frustrating – reminder of how...
Washington: There is no way to describe Anthony Albanese’s first proper meeting with Donald Trump as anything other than a raging success. With one...
And just like that, it was done. Almost a year on from the re-election of Donald Trump and six months on from the re-election of Anthony Albanese,...
It’s the Test match eight years in the making that traditionalists hope will resurrect one of rugby league’s greatest rivalries. Yet as fans in...
Seldom has the middling been the cause of so much relief. Six months after the White House unveiled steep tariffs, the global economy has held up...
Jerusalem: Ten days into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, relief is giving way to grim acknowledgments of the truce’s tenuousness, and of the...
Our ailing regional airline Rex has got a buyer, and it’s a relatively unknown North Carolina-based company, Air T, whose business is mainly...
It’s perhaps the least expected outcome of the Albanese summit with Trump. After all the hysteria, harmony. Trump praised the Australian people:...
I’ve started and stopped writing this article many times over the past few months. It’s a topic that can’t be done justice in a short opinion...
It started with a bang. A cameraman collided with a large mirror on the wall opposite Donald Trump in the White House Cabinet Room, and he noticed...
Anthony Albanese and his team, including ambassador Kevin Rudd, should be very pleased with their meeting with President Donald Trump. They...
It was New Year’s Eve and we were dancing like sugared-up 12-year-olds on the kids’ trampoline. At the stroke of midnight, we loudly, drunkenly,...
There was a time when Melbourne prided itself on being the most liveable city in the world, tolerant, thoughtful, creative and diverse. We wore...
When JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon talked about cockroaches last week, he hit a raw nerve within the increasingly complex global financial system....
Singapore/Jakarta: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto was thousands of kilometres from troubles at home and at the top of his international...
After an evening of well-meaning – but mostly dull – “this belongs to my whole team” acceptance speeches, Len Ikitau drew a laugh at Sydney...
It is a truth generally acknowledged that Pete Hegseth is a muttonhead. But I come not to bury the self-proclaimed “secretary of war” – rather, to...
London: King Charles has found a way to shield the royal family from each new revelation about Prince Andrew after years of damage to the monarchy....
As an investment rule of thumb, by the time the retail masses are climbing on board a “hot” asset, and it has reached FOMO status, it is a sign...
It’s tricky to rank the relative power of countries. Until they go to war with each other. For instance, Russia was always rated as vastly superior...
Washington: Above anything else, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will want to use his White House visit to extract a commitment from US President...
McLaren has consistently and emphatically declared they do not have a No.1 driver in this Formula 1 season. Their well-documented papaya rules –...
Liverpool’s new version of “heavy metal football” is more Spinal Tap than AC/DC. Chaotic and occasionally comical, a fourth consecutive defeat...
Barnaby Joyce’s pending departure from the Nationals is the latest chaotic episode in a two-decade political career that has veered from the...
Victoria Police Commander Wayne Cheesman, with his bald pate and forearms the size of Christmas hams, is the sort of no-nonsense cop we could all...
On Wednesday afternoon, I noticed that my phone was no longer sitting flush in its case. It took me a few minutes to realise that this was a big,...
Picture a quiet pocket of the bay where pelicans drift overhead, footpaths wind alongside the creek past quirky backyard fences, and every second...