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My daughter is learning to drive, and I am a cliché on wheels: proud, supportive and scared for my life. Torn between gentle instruction, and the...
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Peter Meakin is Australia’s most experienced and legendary news and current affairs producer, having worked on such seminal programs as 60 Minutes,...
The irony. After making its name in the heady days of internet cancellations, the ABC’s Q A has finally received a taste of its own medicine. Not...
It would appear from the outside that the challenge Canterbury coach Cameron Ciraldo is facing with Lachlan Galvin is one every club would like to...
Essendon are hardly a fearsome unit in 2025. So when the Bombers toyed with Melbourne on the Saturday of Gather Round, Simon Goodwin’s position...
I am 55, aiming to retire within the next 10 years. I don’t own property but have $800,000 in super that my employer is contributing at 16.5 per...
London: There was no mad scramble, no final-ball thriller, no cruel twist of fate. Just two men, bats in hand, embracing mid-wicket at Lord’s to...
London: As Australia fought to string out the final day of their failed World Test Championship bid against South Africa, they were also raging...
This has been a very sad week for those of us at the Herald and, from your touching reaction, many readers, too. It was the week we lost the...
Four obscenely wealthy men, standing on a white mountain top, faces lit with snow glare. One uncaps a bright red lipstick and begins to perform...
Anthony Albanese’s plane took off from Canberra on Friday morning without any word on whether he would be meeting Donald Trump. The same US...
David, meet Goliath. Harry Kane, meet Conor Tracey, a dude who works as a storeman at Auckland’s largest veterinary pharmaceutical warehouse....
The AUKUS submarine program, announced in September 2021, is the most complex defence project in this nation’s history, costing an estimated $368...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) reforms have been a curiously long time coming. First discussed more than 10 years ago, they came into effect last week....
I had a slight bingle on the roads the other day. Someone had cut in front of me, I whacked on the brakes and the car behind smacked into me. But...
Most people don’t think about their super until something shifts. A milestone birthday. A serious conversation about retiring. A market wobble that...
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Australia, with respect, lift your f---ing game. Americans can beat us in the Davis Cup. England can snag an Ashes upset. But how are we losing to...
Jerusalem/Washington: Israel’s surprise attack on Iran had an obvious goal of sharply disrupting Tehran’s nuclear programme and lengthening the...
Last week, it was the Commonwealth Bank becoming the first Australian stock to top the $300 billion mark with absolutely no one convinced this was...
Halfway through the year, we can all agree that things are not going well. Even by Modern Standards, 2025 is shaping up to be a bin fire that will...
London: A few days ago, Pat Cummins was queried about some unresolved elements of the 2018 “Sandpapergate” series in South Africa by an English...
Mollie O’Callaghan took out the women’s 100m freestyle final at the Australian swimming trials on Friday night in a solid time of 52.87 seconds,...
When we discovered a shared love for Barry Manilow and vodka on our first date, I knew Chris was the one. Our courtship was fuelled by post-work...
For a president famed for his shock value, the dog days of June have actually been some of the least shocking of his tenure. The break-up of Donald...
Those who have blamed the Lord’s pitch for the helter-skelter World Test Championship final might have picked the wrong target. The Australia-South...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. George Vasilopoulos made a lot of big decisions as president of South Melbourne...
Clyde Sampson decided to become a cop while playing American football – not because of the game, but because of his teammates. It was April 1991,...
The attack without warning by Israel against a range of targets across Iran is unprecedented, even by the new standards of behaviour established...
Before the 787-8 Dreamliner departing Ahmedabad, India, plunged to the ground after take-off on Thursday, Boeing was already tiptoeing away from a...
When a modern aircraft crashes as tragically and sensationally as Air India Flight AI 171 did on take-off bound for London last night, it’s normal...
It would have been hard to miss the news this month of the spat between US President Trump and Elon Musk. It “escalated quickly”, as the kids say,...
On the campaign trail, US President Donald Trump promised to end the world’s hottest conflicts and usher in global peace. But nearly five months...
When Starbucks announced last month that it was laying off more than 1000 corporate employees, it highlighted a disturbing trend for white-collar...
Allow me, this one time, to peel back the curtain. My editors for this column wanted me to write about Channel 10’s announcement this week that the...
Every few years, the US government goes into crisis-mode, and not just because of a certain unpredictable president. While it’s always been...
London: If this game has been the ultimate Test, as billed by its promoters, then Australia’s increasingly fragile batting lineup has largely...
One of the most annoying things that has happened in my long career was when a departing employee left their parting mess to be cleaned up. As the...
In today’s rapidly shifting work culture, quitting your job has become an entire genre of online performance. On TikTok, ‘Quit-Toks’ glamorise the...
Despite being fit and in her twenties, Lisa Cox suffered a stroke. After a year in and out of hospital, she was left with multiple amputations and...
Most of us have, at some point, dropped a phone. Sometimes it hits at just the wrong angle, or on just the wrong surface, and shatters. Other...
Donald Trump hailed the latest US inflation data as “great numbers” and said the Federal Reserve Board should cut interest rates by a full...
What drives shareholders into a tailspin, a cohort of prospective parents into crisis, and sends a chief executive packing? An IVF company...
The Trump administration’s decision to review the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal should not be a cause for panic within the Albanese government. At...
Brian Wilson occupies a special place in the pop pantheon, the golden youth who blew his mind making mind-blowing music. His 1966 masterpiece Pet...
The federal government’s decision to sanction two far-right Israeli minsters, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, has been a long time coming. It...
For years, clubs have been asked to make sacrifices in the name of State of Origin. They lose players to Origin camps, players to injuries from...
Here’s a statistic that might shock you: we will spend around one third of all the waking hours of our life at work. That’s a third of our limited...
News that the US Department of Defence has launched an AUKUS review has Canberra’s defence circles in overdrive, with familiar critics already...