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Postecoglou’s success? It’s all down to me

Come on, Ange. Next time you win something, please give me some of the credit.

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Peter Fitzsimons

With this much power, Albanese can think big. But here’s why he won’t

Australia has put itself in a political straitjacket that makes any real reform potentially suicidal for our elected leaders.

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Peter Hartcher

Sussan Ley was compared with the Liz Truss lettuce, but it’s David Littleproud who’s reduced to clear

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...

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The Age&x27S View

The advice gap: why are we abandoning middle-class retirees?

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.

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Bec Wilson

Five last-minute hacks to help reduce your tax bill

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.

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

‘I did nothing wrong’: The fraudster and Slater and Gordon’s year from hell

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?

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Colin Kruger

The true cost of the AFL abandoning free-to-air Saturdays in its $4.5 billion TV deal

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...

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Caroline Wilson

Littleproud’s Trumpian tactics only showcased Ley’s strength

The Nationals’ leader travelled to Ley’s dying mother’s bedside to make demands. The Liberal Party leader didn’t flinch.

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Jacqueline Maley

Kellaway needs some magic dust to fend off Harry Potter and friends

A strong contributor on last year’s European tour, Andrew Kellaway is now multiple threats to his spot in the Wallabies starting side.

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Paul Cully

Working less could be the answer to one of our biggest problems

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...

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Millie Muroi

Was I wrong to ignore a pushy LinkedIn salesperson?

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...

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Jonathan Rivett

Exhausted at work? This could be just the thing you need

A three-month holiday to travel through South America was a lifelong dream for Sydney marketing director Ayaan Mohamud. But approaching her boss...

yesterday 10

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Nina Hendy

Forget WFH, the future of work has a more pressing issue

The death knell many are sounding for remote work is premature. While high-profile return-to-office mandates continue to grab headlines, the...

yesterday 10

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Catherine Woo

The Coalition break-up isn’t a divorce. They’re just sleeping in different bedrooms

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...

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Kate Halfpenny

Writers, I’m on your side - now here’s my list of complaints

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...

yesterday 7

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Richard Glover

How an ‘invisible’ police unit has hounded criminals for generations

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...

yesterday 10

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John Silvester

Why silent Latrell Mitchell is still league’s loudest voice

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...

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Dan Walsh

Why clean athletes will never be allowed to compete in the doping games

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...

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Darren Kane

When the party machine wouldn’t listen, Sussan Ley paid attention, to me

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...

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Lucy Wicks

This man designed the iPhone – now he’s trying to destroy it

“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...

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Matthew Field

Opera Australia’s in dire trouble. As a former CEO, I think I know why

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...

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Craig Hassall

Australians can’t stand sore losers. How did politicians miss the memo?

Australians don’t like sore losers. We are a country that celebrates near misses, unlucky defeats or even unexpected successes (see: Steven...

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Shane Wright

Denial is hard to grasp in the city. In flooded Taree, it’s bewildering

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,...

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Malcolm Knox

Shein and Temu are in the world’s crosshairs

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...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Enhanced Games; trashed reputation. A pox on your house, James Magnussen

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...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Australia’s inconvenient truth: Are we really in mortgage stress?

The prevailing narrative about high interest rates being a major culprit in the cost-of-living crisis is no longer passing muster – if anything,...

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Elizabeth Knight

Ange delivered like he always does. Spurs would be mad to sack him now

The cure for Spursiness has been administered. Finally. For the past two years, the patient has been in the chair, strapped in, squirming,...

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Vince Rugari

Trump gets a flying palace. Keating was doomed to a jalopy in the sky

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...

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Tony Wright

Idiom or idiot? Google’s AI Overview is trying its best

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...

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David Astle

‘No more questions’: Trump’s meltdown betrays sensitivity on Qatar’s ‘Air Force One’ gift

Washington: There is nothing unusual about Donald Trump snapping at a journalist. On Tuesday, Washington time, on Capitol Hill, he demanded to know...

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Michael Koziol

The Coalition believed it was Australia’s anointed leader - now it has no plan B

“Impasse” is among the multitude of French words that English speakers over the centuries have borrowed and repurposed. In English, impasse means a...

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Shaun Carney

Boomers may dislike WFH, but they’re not the ones in the office

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...

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Tim Duggan

Our etiquette rules need a makeover. Here’s what I’d do

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...

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Kathy Lette

My bad job interview went viral on LinkedIn, but I still don’t have a job

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...

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Liam Heitmann-Ryce-Lemercier

Biden was empath-in-chief. Can a divided country offer him empathy?

When former US president Joe Biden acknowledged his cancer diagnosis in a statement on social media, he included a photograph with his wife, Jill....

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Robin Givhan

I was stunned when NSW picked Max King. But he could be an Origin match-winner

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...

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Andrew Johns

With the Coalition in disarray, Albanese’s on a collision course with the ‘real’ opposition

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...

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David Crowe

Musk turns away from Trump in bid to rescue Tesla

Having created havoc in Washington and turned Tesla into a toxic brand around the world, Elon Musk is now retreating from politics and has...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

After 50 years, we’re back to the glory days of full employment

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...

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Ross Gittins

A Groundhog Day budget, without the laughs

New treasurer, new(ish) premier, same old story. Jaclyn Symes’ first budget repeated this government’s previous inaction on its rising debt,...

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‘I’m not a clown, mate’: Why winning the Europa League would be Postecoglou’s biggest achievement

Tottenham Hotspur’s season has existed in what Ange Postecoglou has described as two “parallel worlds”. Domestically, they’ve been atrocious,...

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Vince Rugari

Is it OK to want your team to lose? A Manchester United fan hopes for a Spurs victory

Right now, it feels like no one really understands me, except Natalie Imbruglia. Tomorrow morning, Manchester United, a team I have followed since...

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Thomas Mitchell

‘Unaffordable’: Why aged care costs are about to skyrocket

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...

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Rachel Lane

Trump is washing his hands of the Ukraine problem, without quite saying it

John Herbst, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, says the summation of Donald Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin is simple: “Trump blinked.”...

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Michael Koziol

Donald Trump – a bigger problem than COVID and the GFC combined

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...

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Shane Wright

Victoria has a whopping debt. Jacinta Allan is betting that nobody cares

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...

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Chip Le Grand

The battle for the soul of conservative Australia may have just begun

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...

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George Brandis

Rewarding hospitals’ budget dummy spit was a risky thing to do

After the golden spending years during the pandemic, keen budget watchers have been waiting for the Victorian government to be more prudent. Did...

wednesday 7

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David Hayward

What the Cannes ‘nude dress’ ban really reveals

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...

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Adam Geczy

Allan’s school funding cuts pit underpaid teachers against underresourced students

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,...

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Elsie Flanagan-O&x27Neill