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The Age
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It’s the same for most of us who have reached a certain age.

Word watchers, pedants after my own heart, won’t let anything slide. Definitely not Meghan’s “elevate”.

We would have never heard the end of it if Japan had achieved the unthinkable by defeating the Wallabies for the first time.


It is 15 months since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Australians that the decision to appoint an independent administrator of the CFMEU...


The Cox Plate is a grand final for heavyweight horses. And like most title fights, Saturday’s showcase at Moonee Valley looks to be a race in two....


Every day, people lose hours of their lives standing in queues. For most, this is a necessity. But in the first world, they also queue to do dumb...


It’s 1pm on a Saturday as I drive up to my final house inspection of the day. This morning I got to bed at 3am after working the late shift and...


Around the turn of last century, just after the impoverished and sick Oscar Wilde had been released from prison in France for engaging in the “love...


The May election generally was acknowledged to have been disastrous for the Coalition. But the disaster continues to unfold. On its current...


Enough is enough. In my life, two things are happening in parallel about which I am incredibly invested – and unhappy. Firstly (and for those who...


Once upon a time, early retirement was the dream. You’d leave work at 55, buy a caravan, and spend your days fishing, golfing, playing bowls, or...


The Essendon and Hawthorn Football Clubs have despised each other for decades. The infamous rivalry has intensified in recent weeks, after the...


In making the call to hang on to their skipper Zach Merrett, rather than trade him to Hawthorn for a few handy rather than knockout draft picks,...


A teenage girl is looking at me with tears forming in her eyes. She is struggling to find the words to ask me a question. “I don’t know where to...


Anthony Albanese has been underestimated by his opponents for his entire political career. The question now is whether, after the prime minister’s...


A few weekends ago, I caught the train into Melbourne’s CBD. As it rolled into Flinders Street, a group of about five readied themselves to board....


I work in public health. My shifts are split into half patient clinical contact and half non-clinical privileges. With the latter, I avoid our...


You wake up and your brain is already racing with today’s meetings, unread emails, and half-finished projects. Before you’ve even had your first...


In this edition of On Background, Hugh Marks’ honeymoon is over at the ABC, familiar faces meet in Riyadh, another rights deal in the works for the...


Three years ago, the jobs market was roaring, and the only thing the Reserve Bank’s economists really lost sleep over was inflation, the surge in...


The European and US auto industries are bracing themselves for disruption to the supply chains of the low-value semiconductors vital to modern cars,...


Listening to Elon Musk’s performance during his quarterly profit call is akin to watching a street hustler playing a pea and thimble trick. He...


Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s triumph with President Donald Trump this week unexpectedly thrust Australia into a position of power in the...


There were nights in the little West Gippsland town of Neerim South when anxious parents brought ailing children to the only doctors in the...


There is an illogical view that Collingwood’s failure to add senior players of note, as the 2025 premiers did and Hawthorn attempted, was a setback...


This week, a documentary aired in Britain about automation and the job market. Channel 4’s Will AI Take My Job? featured a television reporter...


When I was a kid, I lived near an old guy, Mr Lamont, a retired man who’d once been an accountant. He must have been short of dough because one...


In what appears to be an increasingly dangerous world, all of us want to feel safe. That fear of the outside has given successive Australian...


I’ve always thought of mobile phones as the new cigarette but of course they’re much worse. Let me tell you then just how much I miss smoking...


Every week, I see 80 to 100 cancer patients. Half are on experimental therapies. Some are taking drugs that have never been tested in humans...


I have a lovely husband. We’ve been together for a very long time; 50 years in November, to be precise. We are growing old together and, by and...


As Anthony Albanese headed home from Washington, DC, at the most triumphant point of his long political career, did he reflect on how much he owes...


Horrified. Sickened. Appalled. Whatever descriptor you prefer, it is what we all felt when we saw the images of Lauren Darul allegedly plunging a...


What do you get for the man who has everything? In Donald Trump’s case, the answer, it seems, is a model submarine. Anthony Albanese’s meeting with...


The steep plunge in precious metals prices overnight was almost predestined. They had run up too hard and too far, and some of the factors behind...


It doesn’t get any better than reading the entrails of a billowing stoush between Australia’s highest-profile export, Rupert Murdoch, and his...


London: Prince Andrew has fought for years to stay in a stately home near Windsor Castle despite a persistent effort to move him away from the...


If you thought Geelong had a Bailey Smith problem, you were wrong. It’s you who has a Bailey Smith problem. My goodness, did you not see the way he...


When Lachlan Galvin turned down the chance to join Parramatta last season, the decision was all the more painful for the club because they should...


Washington: It’s hard to believe it has already been 15 years since then-prime minister Kevin Rudd lobbed the “mining tax” into the national...


OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman wants to change how 3 billion people use the internet. Altman, who is behind the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT,...


Convinced atheists might be surprised to know that the God in whom they do not believe is one Christians also do not accept. That is because,...


Few toymakers have garnered as much investor attention as China’s Pop Mart International Group, the maker of Labubu, a plush accessory seen...


This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry...


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...
