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On Independence Day, we took an enlightening tour. And it shone a light on Trump’s America, whose people are at one another’s throats – a world...
The former federal member for Fremantle, Melissa Parke, is executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN),...
Real Money, a free weekly newsletter giving expert tips on how to save, invest and make the most of your money, is sent every Sunday. You’re...
The Dragons have been returning serve to the social media trolls who have been attacking Shane and Kyle Flanagan, but they have also been...
The idea that an artwork should not be “divisive” is an extraordinary one, an anti-creative concept which, if you follow it to its natural...
The cliche used to be that a predictable response would come “like clockwork”. Surely it’s time to update that in the age of artificial...
I have a terminal illness and don’t expect to live more than 12 months. I went through an unpleasant divorce nine years ago and the family is still...
Artificial intelligence sparks a vast spectrum of human expectation, from the apocalyptic – AI will become sentient and destroy us all – to the...
The British and Irish Lions are predictably doing a “Bazball” against the Australian Super Rugby teams, running up big scores with an open style of...
Imagine it’s 1972. Thugs try to set alight the front door of Melbourne’s old St Francis Catholic Church while 20 worshippers, including children,...
As Donald Trump produced his multitrillion-dollar Sharpie pen – surely, the only sharp tool in this US president’s toolbox – to sign his One Big...
Waking to the news that an Israeli restaurant was targeted in Melbourne on Friday night has hit me hard. A group of about 20 people – some wearing...
It remains one of the most memorable – for all the wrong reasons – images of this century. President George Bush, on the deck of the USS Abraham...
When it comes to retirement, we’ve been taught to chase a number. A big, scary, often impossible number. $1 million. $2 million. Enough to live off...
As July officially rolls around, it’s safe to say the last 12 months have been a wild ride, at least financially. According to SuperRatings, our...
In 2023, an Australian news presenter descended into helpless giggles when her on-air guest accidentally applied a Zoom filter that adorned him with...
I have a friend who attended a posh boarding school, some seven decades ago, and he’s been teaching me the correct way to ask for the salt. No way...
TFF had a little fun with my Thursday column, this week, trying to educate the leaguies on the glory of the Lions. Ahem ... “Just how many people...
For Carlton, the writing was on the wall – and not just at their home base – that this contest against the Magpies wouldn’t be a pleasant...
For an odd, anxious period at the start of the week, it appeared as though Donald Trump’s confounding ability to reshape the world around him had...
“Please remember to treat our team respectfully as they assist you.” (Telstra, recorded phone call.) “During this stressful time we ask everyone...
Broncos NRLW superstar Tamika Upton has declared Reegan Hicks is in line to produce a breakout campaign, as the club seek to bounce back from their...
Not that long ago, I underwent a routine colonoscopy. Sitting in the waiting room with a grumbly tummy (brought on by pre-procedure nerves and pre-...
St George’s: The frustration was evident on Sam Konstas’ face as he slowly walked off the Grenada National Cricket Stadium, shaking his head after...
Volodymyr Zelensky thought he had done everything right. When US President Donald Trump demanded that he sign away Ukraine’s mineral rights in...
China’s leaders must be wondering whether they are hallucinating or the United States’ political class have lost their minds, committing economic...
Words like payload worry me. Deploy and warhead. Bunker-busting munitions. Diagrams to illustrate how the Shahed-136 drone works, from target-lock...
It’s the stuff of nightmares. Broken bones. Burnt hands. Children strapped into high chairs for hours and force-fed until they vomit. Toddlers...
Gloom begets gloom. Darkness is the perfect environment for anxiety. As I’m taking nightly refuge in bed, whatever anxieties I currently have...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s second visit to China – pencilled in for this month – will come weeks before the People’s Liberation...
The last thing I did before running out the door for my second wedding was stick on the veil from my first. From when I was half my age, 24, not...
I have worked for more than 50 years in early education and care as an academic, centre director, writer, consultant, resource developer and...
This weekend marks the Grand Départ, in the 112th Tour de France. Between now and the end of the month, a third of the 200 or so riders rolling out...
When Premier Jacinta Allan addressed the media on Wednesday, flanked by Minister for Children Lizzie Blandthorn and the state’s interim co-Chief...
Anthony Albanese will definitely meet Xi Jinping on Chinese soil in 11 or 12 days’ time before he meets Donald Trump in India or somewhere...
Anyone who has rented (or knows a renter) knows the woes of living on someone else’s terms: unresponsive landlords, rent hikes and the threat of...
We work in a very small office space. In the middle is a cupboard filled with various odds and ends. Noise from this part of the office tends to...
Ever found yourself frozen at your desk, staring blankly at your inbox, thinking: “I just can’t do this any more”? You’re not alone. As a workplace...
Everyone, after me: A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh. In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lions sleep tonight ... And so they do. But...
With less than a week to the deadline for the next phase of Donald Trump’s tariffs, it is clear that the “90 deals in 90 days” that the...
“We’d rather live in Melbourne Though some folks say it’s faulty. Sydney’s got its strippers But we’ve got Henry Bolte. We’ve got...
Once it became clear that a string of child abuse offences may have taken place across Melbourne for years undetected, and parents of 1200 children...
We all know it’s nearly impossible to win a premiership from outside the top four. Of the 117 title winners since 1908, 115 of them have done so...
Recently, my high-end fridge started smugly beeping at me every two or three minutes. (We didn’t buy this fridge, I hasten to add – it came with...
Anthony Albanese is a man who likes props. In the 2022 election campaign, he regularly brandished a one-dollar coin to emphasise his support for a...
Nothing tests a consumer’s fragile faith or a company’s integrity quite like a cyberattack. Qantas’ brand is in a particularly precarious position...
We all know the type. The colleague that hurries past your desk with a furrowed brow. The person who’s always late to the meeting. The one who...
An axiom in the national security world says you cannot bomb a country into giving up its nuclear weapons programs. The attack itself only...
Two important events concerning sexual harassment took place this week. Australian female-led hospitality advocacy group Sorry Not Sorry toured the...
The childcare operators that employed alleged child sex offender Joshua Dale Brown have said there is no indication so far of any negligence on...