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When it comes to the later stages of life, making sure you have accommodation that suits your lifestyle becomes a key priority.
Property as an investment has always been more complicated than our cultural obsession leads us to believe.
My friends are raging against the machine of mid-life malaise and I’m here for it.
Debt reduction is an idea so 1990s it could have been lifted from an episode of Melrose Place. Can Jess Wilson get Victorians excited about balancing...
Billy Slater should look to the future, not the past, when picking his No.7 for Origin, which means giving Sam Walker a chance over veterans Daly...
Pass the smelling salts: an Australian government has used a budget to reorganise the economic system and, by implication, society.
Xi Jinping hasn’t forgotten what happened when he rolled out the red carpet for Trump’s China visit in 2017. Trump responded with tariffs on...
Blues CEO Graham Wright said the club wants more selections in this year’s draft, the last uncompromised one before Tasmania’s entry, but how can...
Regardless of what happens next, Ivan Cleary will be remembered alongside coaching greats Wayne Bennett and Craig Bellamy. But unlike the veteran...
Have your views about the Middle East. You’re entitled to them. Criticise Israel if you like – you can find plenty of Zionists who will do so too....
Long-awaited action on taxes producing perverse outcomes is to be welcomed but there is still much to be done to boost the economy and repair the...
The removal of capital gains tax concessions is seismic for the founders of daring new businesses. It will hurt Australian enterprise.
The One Nation leader was keen to project confidence. In a wobbly press conference, she ended up guarding her MPs from questions about rogue...
My cinephile friends can scoff but I could be on the verge of a creative breakthrough.
The new head of the Federal Reserve starts this week. He just found out he won’t be able to deliver what Donald Trump expects from him.
Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget broke election promises, but the government says it simply had to rebalance Australia’s wealth. Here’s what our...
In exploiting the human instinct to seek threat, online “rage bait” is dividing society. Is it time it came with a warning label?
While last night’s budget no doubt addressed intergenerational inequality, I’d say the reforms are more of a tiptoe than a slam dunk.
Liberal leader Angus Taylor thought he had found the way to staunch the bleeding. He’s since discovered that fighting the hard right populists on...
Graham Wright helped get the Magpies back into contention after Nathan Buckley left. Can he do the same in the post-Michael Voss era at Carlton?
The former Brisbane Lions champion spent much of his coaching career looking over his shoulder.
Almost 4000 men lose their lives to prostate cancer each year. This has to stop.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says this is the budget that will finally do something to correct “intergenerational unfairness”. In which case, it gets a...
The war, the response of older investors and the actions of the Reserve Bank are the biggest risks to Chalmers’ outlook, which anticipates a quick...
We mark the treasurer’s work – and his grades are a mixed bag.
Aware that Labor’s (and Australia’s) golden age could end at any moment, Jim Chalmers has pitched reforms to help workers and younger generations....
There’s help on the way for taxpayers and first home buyers – while property investors and trust fund users won’t be as thrilled
By fighting to protect investors and older people, the Coalition could defend a dying demographic while Labor looks to a better future for younger...
In a contest of “eating bitterness” and enduring economic pain, Communist China has infinitely greater staying power than unruly, grievance-ridden...
Riding an e-bike is like being a teenager again. You fly along; adult problems left behind in your slipstream.
Sixteen weeks ago, our beautiful, healthy baby girl arrived. She was born a long way from home, in Reno, Nevada. My partner Hamish and I stood in awe...
Among the moments that contributed to rising frustration at Carlton was a meeting after an embarrassing defeat that didn’t pan out as expected.
The new Carlton regime wanted Voss to succeed, but in the end he couldn’t deliver the improvement his bosses wanted.
US courts have now deemed Trump’s first two attempts to impose a global tariff regime unlawful. His third, and probably final, attempt may also be...
Keir Starmer is on borrowed time as senior cabinet members lose faith in him, but as the drama unfolds, the entire episode piles more humiliation on...
We looked at thousands of the videos that young men are actually watching and developed a world-first analysis. We pinpointed how men get sucked in to...
The last time clearance rates hit these levels, house prices were falling at the fastest pace on record - although there’s a key difference.
The US leader and Chinese leaders will meet this week – the first humiliated by Iran, the second suppressing any sign of despair among his people.
I have a theory: the closer you are to the city, the less connection you have with your neighbour. I now have a dream lifestyle – and neighbours who...
Unlike John Howard’s call to propose a GST after ruling it out, Albanese will not give voters the chance to have a say on his U-turn on taxing...
Even if Donald Trump is able to strike a lasting peace deal – a big if – the impacts of the war will be felt long into the future.
Despite the US turning the screws on Tehran with a naval blockade and a new wave of economic sanctions, the regime is not buckling.
Working-class Wigan has long been a UK Labour stronghold, but of the 25 seats up for grabs at the recent local elections, 24 went to populist leader...
Donald Trump isn’t holding a winning hand as he gets ready for his summit with Xi Jinping.
Horror stories of hatred from the royal commission brought me close to tears, but I didn’t expect to find it on the sidelines while children played...
The speed and time of ball in play during the Raiders-Panthers game did not lead to touch football or a blowout, but to a match of grand final...
With inflation surging again, it is critical that government gets more control over the high prices hitting workers’ incomes.
In the federal budget, Albanese and Chalmers can change the course of both this country and its politics.
The Coalition can be wiped out in its strongest booths. An urban versus rural divide still exists without major parties. And One Nation is making...
The result has exposed unease about whether conservative voters are simply venting or steadily shifting allegiance.