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Come on, Ange. Next time you win something, please give me some of the credit.
Australia has put itself in a political straitjacket that makes any real reform potentially suicidal for our elected leaders.
Whether the federal opposition is a restumped Coalition, a reimagined Liberal Party or some new configuration, it won’t have much time to get its...
While the government stalls and industry bodies argue, the people who actually need advice are still missing out. It’s time we stomped our feet.
Five weeks until the end of the financial year means it’s action stations if you want to make any moves to minimise your tax.
Two scandals and a serial fraudster have shaken one of Australia’s most prominent law firms over the past year, but who is to blame?
Could Gillon McLachlan and his team could have taken less money to give Seven one more game on a Saturday, or at least sacrifice some Foxtel cash...
The Nationals’ leader travelled to Ley’s dying mother’s bedside to make demands. The Liberal Party leader didn’t flinch.
A strong contributor on last year’s European tour, Andrew Kellaway is now multiple threats to his spot in the Wallabies starting side.
Inflation has been the talk of the town for the past few years, but now that it’s paled enough for interest rates to start coming down, it’s the...
A person contacted me on LinkedIn and said they admired my work and would like to connect. I was happy to oblige, and we had a conversation over...
A three-month holiday to travel through South America was a lifelong dream for Sydney marketing director Ayaan Mohamud. But approaching her boss...
The death knell many are sounding for remote work is premature. While high-profile return-to-office mandates continue to grab headlines, the...
Before I married my first husband, we broke up twice. Once at 18, a few months after meeting on the Surfers Paradise beach during HSC. I was...
Reading is my favourite hobby. What’s not to like about it? It can be done sitting down and can be combined with other hobbies such as drinking a...
Victoria Police’s new chief commissioner Mike Bush has made it clear his priority will be crime prevention, which means more cops out there being...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Latrell Mitchell’s former coach Jason Demetriou says it as well as anybody. “When...
Let’s be clear, this isn’t a column about sport. It’s a column about a circus freakshow, masquerading as sport. The concept of the Enhanced...
Sussan Ley was the last person I spoke to in alarm about the Liberal Party’s disastrous policy that proposed to restrict public servants working...
“If I had a spiritual partner at Apple, it’s Jony,” the late Steve Jobs said of Sir Jony Ive, the British designer. Together, the pair changed...
As a schoolboy, I had always wanted to work in theatre of some sort. Opera was not my first choice but, as fate would have it, I landed a job as a...
Australians don’t like sore losers. We are a country that celebrates near misses, unlucky defeats or even unexpected successes (see: Steven...
The text came on Wednesday night: “Water up to my shins in the house ... I’m here with two rabbits and a guinea pig. Horses and cows on the mound,...
Tariff walls are going up around the world to try to head off an anticipated surge of low-value Chinese exports seeking to offset the impact of...
Look, when it comes to sporting disgraces, you’re right: the pickings are singularly rich right now – and I don’t just mean LIV golf, organised and...
The prevailing narrative about high interest rates being a major culprit in the cost-of-living crisis is no longer passing muster – if anything,...
The cure for Spursiness has been administered. Finally. For the past two years, the patient has been in the chair, strapped in, squirming,...
It’s unwise to get between a political leader and a VIP jet. I discovered this long before the US scammer-in-chief, Donald Trump, began making...
Fine words butter no parsnips. A ludicrous phrase, though it’s true. Or real at least, listed in the Oxford and elsewhere. Maybe you’ve met the...
Washington: There is nothing unusual about Donald Trump snapping at a journalist. On Tuesday, Washington time, on Capitol Hill, he demanded to know...
“Impasse” is among the multitude of French words that English speakers over the centuries have borrowed and repurposed. In English, impasse means a...
How old are you? Your answer has a surprisingly strong correlation to how you feel about one of the most vexing issues of modern workplaces: the...
Excuse me for interrupting, but may I have a moment of your precious time? Do you find that to be a well-mannered introduction or just annoying and...
I recently interviewed for a job, and got rejected within the same week. Honestly, I was gutted. Partially because I thought I had kind of smashed...
When former US president Joe Biden acknowledged his cancer diagnosis in a statement on social media, he included a photograph with his wife, Jill....
To say that I was surprised by Max King’s selection for his Origin debut is an understatement. I was nothing short of shocked. But the more I...
A friendly interview over a couple of beers turned into a social media success for Anthony Albanese when the prime minister walked into a pub...
Having created havoc in Washington and turned Tesla into a toxic brand around the world, Elon Musk is now retreating from politics and has...
I promise I’ll stop talking about the surprising election result if you let me make one last point. There was a hidden factor that helps explain...
New treasurer, new(ish) premier, same old story. Jaclyn Symes’ first budget repeated this government’s previous inaction on its rising debt,...
Tottenham Hotspur’s season has existed in what Ange Postecoglou has described as two “parallel worlds”. Domestically, they’ve been atrocious,...
Right now, it feels like no one really understands me, except Natalie Imbruglia. Tomorrow morning, Manchester United, a team I have followed since...
Australians in or facing retirement are in for a nasty surprise when it comes to the new cost of aged care being rolled out from July 1. Beyond the...
John Herbst, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, says the summation of Donald Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin is simple: “Trump blinked.”...
By the Reserve Bank’s own words, Donald Trump is more of a threat to the global and domestic economy than the COVID pandemic and the global...
Ready for some breaking news? Victoria has a stonking great debt. Well, you could be forgiven for thinking it was breaking news. After all, it was...
In the 1974 Queensland state election, the Bjelke-Petersen Country-Liberal coalition was re-elected in a landslide off the back of Gough Whitlam’s...
After the golden spending years during the pandemic, keen budget watchers have been waiting for the Victorian government to be more prudent. Did...
The 78th Cannes Film Festival’s sudden and last-minute ban on “nude” dresses isn’t about taste or tradition, it’s politically motivated and about...
My first teaching job was in a small government school in a tiny town in regional Victoria. From prep to Year 12, there were only 200 students,...