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The small company that has car giants scrambling

Some of the biggest car brands in the world are in a panic after getting caught in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s trade war with China.

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Musk wants to build a robot army to win his $1 trillion pay package

The road to ending world poverty runs parallel to a plan to award Musk a $US1 trillion pay packet. Investing in Tesla is now a choice between...

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Elizabeth Knight

Albanese’s meeting with Trump is a warning to Australia’s enemies

The critical minerals deal has thrust Australia into a position of power, sending a powerful message to allies and others: you can’t ignore us...

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Peter Hartcher

The country boy with polio who became Australia’s most famous GP

John Murtagh was a boy who learned respect for rural doctoring when he was struck down by polio. He would go on to shape general practice around...

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Tony Wright

Beyond Nick Daicos, you need a NASA telescope to see Collingwood’s next young A-grader

There is an illogical view that Collingwood’s failure to add senior players of note during the trade period was a setback for a club that is...

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Jake Niall

A painted leotard was all it took to expose the cowards in our town

As the phantom of the Ghost Train, Mr Lamont became my boyhood hero.

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Anson Cameron

I was wrongfully jailed in Egypt, but Australia’s culture of surveillance takes the cake

Australia is the most “reflexively secretive” country that this former foreign correspondent has dealt with. If we don’t defend our freedoms, we...

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Peter Greste

Our so-called ‘smart’ car’s incessant warnings are driving me nuts

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...

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Jane Caro

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

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...

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Shaun Carney

A woman was randomly stabbed in the CBD. It could have been stopped

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

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Chip Le Grand

Season for giving: What do you give the man who has everything?

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...

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Charlotte Grieve

Gold still glitters, even after its shock slump overnight

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...

yesterday 3

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Frenemies for life: Trump vs Murdoch enters round 2

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

yesterday 6

Elizabeth Knight

Prince Andrew feels heat over royal home after rent deal revealed

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...

yesterday 4

David Crowe

No more ‘oh Bailey’: The schoolboy treatment that lets Smith escape accountability

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...

yesterday 1

Michael Gleeson

How the ghost of Galvin prompted Parramatta’s Pezet deal

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...

yesterday 3

Adrian Proszenko

We all love mining now, but there is still a big ‘elephant in the room’

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...

yesterday 1

Michael Koziol

This ChatGPT browser is genuinely impressive. Will anyone actually use it?

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

yesterday 2

David Swan

Atheists do not understand what faith actually involves

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,...

yesterday 2

Barney Zwartz

Sorry, Pop Mart, Labubu is just not Lego or Pokemon

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

yesterday 2

Shuli Ren

Trump’s diarrhoea video was a wonderful lesson. The president wants to befoul us

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...

yesterday 30

Michelle Goldberg

Wordle’s a fad, and it’s well and truly K-A-P-U-T

I felt a weird kind of mourning the other day. The quiet kind, where nothing dramatic happens, but you notice something’s missing. And,...

yesterday 1

Ali Berg

Game day at Wembley is a bucket-list experience. This Sydney venue should take note

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...

yesterday 8

Robert Dillon

Most people think CEOs are grossly overpaid. What can we do about it?

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....

yesterday 8

Matt Wade

Reimagining the west and the idea of Melbourne

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,...

yesterday 7

The Age&x27S View

Albanese’s won over Trump. Convincing the Australian people about what comes next will be tougher

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....

yesterday 3

Rory Medcalf

If you’re heading to aged care, beware this common misconception

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...

yesterday 7

Rachel Lane

We have $1.5m in super. Should we use it to help us downsize?

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...

yesterday 9

Noel Whittaker

Louvre heist is a result of the world’s rush to gold

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...

yesterday 10

Lionel Laurent

Trump brought knives, but China brought a bazooka

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”...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why one company’s glitch just broke half the internet

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...

previous day 20

David Swan

Inside Albanese’s extremely successful Trump meeting (where I was called a nasty guy)

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...

previous day 10

Michael Koziol

Albanese knows Trump loves nothing more than making deals. He came prepared

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,...

previous day 30

James Massola

Best of both worlds: Blockbuster weekend of rugby league looms large

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...

previous day 1

Robert Dillon

The glass half-full economy has rarely looked so good

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...

previous day 9

Daniel Moss

As Vance heads to Israel, latest violence shows how fragile this ceasefire is

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...

previous day 10

David M. Halbfinger

Rex Airlines rescue more a relief than cause for celebration

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...

previous day 6

Elizabeth Knight

Albanese secured the least expected outcome of his Trump encounter: Harmony instead of hysteria

It’s perhaps the least expected outcome of the Albanese summit with Trump. After all the hysteria, harmony. Trump praised the Australian people:...

previous day 8

Peter Hartcher

Looking for a ‘provider husband’ to pay the bills? Try this first

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...

previous day 2

Paridhi Jain

Trump runs his meetings like a TV director. Here’s what it was like on his set

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...

previous day 6

Michael Koziol

I’ve sat with Trump in the Oval Office, and I give Albanese a 10/10

Anthony Albanese and his team, including ambassador Kevin Rudd, should be very pleased with their meeting with President Donald Trump. They...

previous day 20

Malcolm Turnbull

My oldest friends are getting divorced and our friendship group is unravelling

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,...

previous day 8

Rob Selzer

Constant protest gridlock in the CBD is symptom of how Melbourne has lost its way

There was a time when Melbourne prided itself on being the most liveable city in the world, tolerant, thoughtful, creative and diverse. We wore...

previous day 1

Philip Dalidakis

‘Cockroach’ warning by America’s top banker sparks fears about the financial system

When JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon talked about cockroaches last week, he hit a raw nerve within the increasingly complex global financial system....

monday 1

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Beside Trump, Prabowo was in his happy place – at home it’s a different story

Singapore/Jakarta: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto was thousands of kilometres from troubles at home and at the top of his international...

monday 4

Zach Hope

The Wallabies’ complicated – and comedic – reunion with ‘uncle Eddie’

After an evening of well-meaning – but mostly dull – “this belongs to my whole team” acceptance speeches, Len Ikitau drew a laugh at Sydney...

monday 3

Iain Payten

In Trump’s America, the Pentagon now resembles Saudi Arabia for journalists

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...

monday 4

Maureen Dowd

The more we learn about Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, the worse it gets

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....

monday 5

David Crowe

Gold FOMO in full swing: Why people are lining up to buy bullion

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...

monday 1

Elizabeth Knight

Xi and Trump are growing more alike. But only one can win this global power struggle

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...

monday 10

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The small company that has car giants scrambling

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Musk wants to build a robot army to win his $1 trillion pay package

Elizabeth Knight

Albanese’s meeting with Trump is a warning to Australia’s enemies

Peter Hartcher

The country boy with polio who became Australia’s most famous GP

Tony Wright

Beyond Nick Daicos, you need a NASA telescope to see Collingwood’s next young A-grader

Jake Niall

A painted leotard was all it took to expose the cowards in our town

Anson Cameron

I was wrongfully jailed in Egypt, but Australia’s culture of surveillance takes the cake

Peter Greste

Our so-called ‘smart’ car’s incessant warnings are driving me nuts

Jane Caro

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Shaun Carney

A woman was randomly stabbed in the CBD. It could have been stopped

Chip Le Grand

Season for giving: What do you give the man who has everything?

Charlotte Grieve

Gold still glitters, even after its shock slump overnight

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Frenemies for life: Trump vs Murdoch enters round 2

Elizabeth Knight

Prince Andrew feels heat over royal home after rent deal revealed

David Crowe

No more ‘oh Bailey’: The schoolboy treatment that lets Smith escape accountability

Michael Gleeson

How the ghost of Galvin prompted Parramatta’s Pezet deal

Adrian Proszenko

We all love mining now, but there is still a big ‘elephant in the room’

Michael Koziol

This ChatGPT browser is genuinely impressive. Will anyone actually use it?

David Swan

Atheists do not understand what faith actually involves

Barney Zwartz

Sorry, Pop Mart, Labubu is just not Lego or Pokemon

Shuli Ren

Trump’s diarrhoea video was a wonderful lesson. The president wants to befoul us

Michelle Goldberg

Wordle’s a fad, and it’s well and truly K-A-P-U-T

Ali Berg

Game day at Wembley is a bucket-list experience. This Sydney venue should take note

Robert Dillon

Most people think CEOs are grossly overpaid. What can we do about it?

Matt Wade

Reimagining the west and the idea of Melbourne

The Age&x27S View

Albanese’s won over Trump. Convincing the Australian people about what comes next will be tougher

Rory Medcalf

If you’re heading to aged care, beware this common misconception

Rachel Lane

We have $1.5m in super. Should we use it to help us downsize?

Noel Whittaker

Louvre heist is a result of the world’s rush to gold

Lionel Laurent

Trump brought knives, but China brought a bazooka

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why one company’s glitch just broke half the internet

David Swan

Inside Albanese’s extremely successful Trump meeting (where I was called a nasty guy)

Michael Koziol

Albanese knows Trump loves nothing more than making deals. He came prepared

James Massola

Best of both worlds: Blockbuster weekend of rugby league looms large

Robert Dillon

The glass half-full economy has rarely looked so good

Daniel Moss

As Vance heads to Israel, latest violence shows how fragile this ceasefire is

David M. Halbfinger

Rex Airlines rescue more a relief than cause for celebration

Elizabeth Knight

Albanese secured the least expected outcome of his Trump encounter: Harmony instead of hysteria

Peter Hartcher

Looking for a ‘provider husband’ to pay the bills? Try this first