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Israel blows up peace negotiations and makes a mess with its vital ally

Israel has pushed its luck on multiple occasions as it conducts its campaign to exterminate Hamas. This time, it may have gone too far.

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Michael Koziol

What’s to become of Murdoch’s corporate orphans?

The middle-aged trio – especially James and Elisabeth – don’t possess the obscurity gene, having been members of arguably the most talked about...

latest 4

Elizabeth Knight

Essendon should consider stripping Merrett of the captaincy ... if they keep him

It’s difficult to be a leader at a club you don’t believe in. The Bombers’ choice is between trading their best player, or retaining one whose...

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Jake Niall

Trump’s once-loyal conspiracy theorists are answering to a higher power

According to one of the president’s most ardent supporters, Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files mark “a boiling point in American history...

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Katy Hall

How precision missiles put a bloody end to Gaza peace talks

Israel struck at the heart of the Hamas leadership as they discussed the latest offer of a peace deal in the Qatari capital.

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Paul Nuki

The copper wars are here: Mega merger could trigger battle of the mining giants

Anglo American and Canada’s Teck have agreed to tie up and create one of the world’s larger copper companies. Will BHP and Rio Tinto be content to...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Does Ange Postecoglou still ‘believe in fairies’? We’re about to find out

Ange Postecoglou will be operating in the shadows of Brian Clough, one of England’s greatest managers at Nottingham Forest. In many ways, they are...

latest 10

Vince Rugari

Giddey re-signs on $150 million deal with Chicago Bulls

The Australian will become one of our highest-paid athletes after inking a four-year extension with the club that Michael Jordan made famous.

latest 9

Jon Pierik

Crucial decisions are ahead in the never-ending climate wars

Australia’s green credentials will be put to the test on three fronts

latest 8

The Herald&x27S View

Why now might be a good time to upgrade your iPhone

The lineup for 2026 includes an improved iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, plus the skinny iPhone Air, and phones are not likely to go down in price by this...

latest 8

Tim Biggs

Murdoch’s succession war is over, but family trust is gone

Peace has broken out in the Murdoch succession wars. It is not the ending that the writers of the TV series Succession would have contrived. It is...

latest 10

Rodney Tiffen

Our future prosperity is bright. We’ve hidden an ace up our sleeve

As you may have noticed, the nation’s economists are in a gloomy mood and warning of tough times ahead. Our standard of living stopped rising a...

latest 7

Ross Gittins

The construction industry is in crisis. It demands fixing. Now

This week The Age reported union accusations of unlawful behaviour against international construction giant Webuild and its subcontractor Future...

latest 7

The Age&x27S View

More than 1 million Australians have a family trust. Should you, too?

There were just over 1 million trusts registered in Australia in the 2023 financial year, latest available data from the ATO shows, delivering...

latest 7

Helen Baker

Why does the ATO make me withdraw so much from my super fund?

I am a widow aged 79 with a self-managed super fund. I draw a super pension plus a small wage from my company. Why does the ATO make me withdraw so...

latest 7

Noel Whittaker

How a simple mistake cost this taxpayer $200,000 in inheritance

Good record-keeping has always been important when it comes to keeping on top of your tax affairs, and a recent dispute between the ATO and a...

latest 7

Julia Hartman

Trump is starting to inflict severe damage on China

Given the stop-start nature of the introduction of Donald Trump’s tariffs, it was always going to take some time to see their effects on global...

yesterday 10

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Arise, King Lachlan! A new era for the Murdoch media empire has begun

For the 94-year-old Rupert Murdoch and his anointed 54-year-old son Lachlan, settling the media conglomerate’s multibillion-dollar succession plan...

yesterday 10

Elizabeth Knight

My job search has become an awkward threesome – me, the employer and AI

There are few things more stressful than looking for a job. Maybe it’s not so bad if you’re at the top end of town and you’re weighing up a new...

yesterday 20

Tania Cammarano

A major market crash could be coming. Here’s how to prepare yourself

Recent volatility across sharemarkets globally has been a stark reality check to investors just how quickly the mood and momentum in markets can...

yesterday 4

Kurt Mayell

I can easily afford business class seats. So how do I stop acting so frugal?

I’ve achieved “FAT” in my mid-50s [a level of financial retirement that can afford an above-average lifestyle]. It’s taken a lifetime to...

yesterday 3

Paridhi Jain

‘Very tough’: ANZ boss takes the painful step to rewire the bank

ANZ bank boss Nuno Matos was one of the more notable corporate heavyweights who descended on Sydney’s Four Seasons Hotel on Monday night for a...

yesterday 2

Clancy Yeates

Captain Lachlan may be News Corp’s master and commander but troubled waters lie ahead

Washington: Securing Lachlan Murdoch as the successor to the News Corp media empire is hardly the dawn of a new era, but it does clear the way for...

yesterday 3

Michael Koziol

Lachlan got his prize, but like everything in Murdoch world, money was the real winner

When Rupert Murdoch inherited his news empire from his father in 1952, it comprised a scrappy Adelaide afternoon tabloid paper, a pile of debt and...

yesterday 4

Eric Beecher

Japan’s rotating ranks of prime ministers ‘not good for foreign policy’

Singapore: Japan will soon have its third leader within little more than a year, an event triggered by the early exit of Prime Minister Shigeru...

yesterday 2

Lisa Visentin

China and Australia in a high-speed race to win control of the Pacific

If you want to know how China and Australia are competing for influence in the Pacific Islands, here’s a microcosm of the contest. Constantly...

yesterday 3

Peter Hartcher

Carlos Alcaraz is scary good and getting better. But there is an asterisk next to his world No.1 ranking

The US Open men’s final was not even a game old when back-to-back points signalled what we were about to see for almost three hours. By the end of...

previous day 10

Marc Mcgowan

The classic ’80s banger than sums up the 2025 Wallabies

It’s a 1980s banger more likely to be found on their parents’ Spotify playlists, but the stadium DJ dropped the perfect theme song for the...

previous day 10

Iain Payten

My dad was a sawmiller; national parks make more money than logging

For most of his adult life, my father was a timber worker on the NSW north coast, mostly in the sawmills of the Manning and Hastings valleys. He...

previous day 3

Ken Henry

Oscar Piastri should have disobeyed team orders

Max Verstappen simply laughed to his race engineer when he was told that Oscar Piastri had let McLaren team-mate Lando Norris through to take...

previous day 10

Luke Slater

Trump’s wrecking ball is really hurting America

US economic data released last week confirmed what everyone except the Trump administration expected. The US economy is stalling. It’s doing so...

previous day 20

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Musk’s $1.5 trillion pay proposal. Is he worth it?

The $US1 trillion ($1.5 trillion) pay package the Tesla board has proposed for Elon Musk is one of those jaw-dropping statistics that takes some...

previous day 1

Elizabeth Knight

If Price continues to follow Trump’s playbook, she’ll be sorry, even if she won’t say it

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s attempt to blame the media for her comments about Indian migrants voting Labor is the latest and most laughable attempt...

previous day 8

James Massola

If Erin Patterson is still religious, she should be thanking God for leniency

We don’t know if Erin Patterson is still religious (she became a churchgoer when she embraced her Christian in-laws she then poisoned) but she...

previous day 2

John Silvester

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

For an event held outside, there was an awful lot of talk about what happens between four walls. The location was Barangaroo and the time was very...

previous day 2

Emma Kemp

Patterson’s sentence answers one question. But the two most important remain unanswered

The case that has consumed the public since 2023 came to a kind of close on Monday, with Erin Patterson sentenced to life in prison with a...

previous day 10

Ahona Guha

My suburb’s confusing road feature separates the visitors from the locals

I sometimes wonder: how did I end up in my suburb when I grew up 50 kilometres to the west in Niddrie, and then 30 kilometres to the north-west in...

previous day 7

Linda Skinner

The David-and-Goliath battle at Optus Stadium proved sport is life’s greatest theatre

Sport is life’s greatest theatre. The sheer delight and gut-wrenching despair, the pure ecstasy and horrifying agony. The proof came yet again on...

previous day 4

Paddy Sweeney

Jacinta Price is wrong to think all Indian voters like me back Labor – but they probably will now

As my name indicates, I am of Indian heritage. Now 83 years old, I arrived in Australia more than five decades ago. Whenever I meet newly arrived...

previous day 4

Surendra Verma

Energy can be a winning policy for the Coalition, but not like this

When Parliament resumes today for the last week of sittings before a long break, the House of Representatives will continue its debate on Barnaby...

previous day 9

George Brandis

Why we’d be mugs to cut the company tax rate

Ask any businessperson if we should cut the rate of our company tax and, almost to a pale and stale male, they’ll unhesitatingly tell you we...

previous day 9

Ross Gittins

The khawd, the bat and the ugly: The 2025 NRL awards that really matter

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There were those who wanted out, those who were pushed out and those who were...

previous day 9

Michael Chammas

NRL’s beaten brigade: Why your team was no good in 2025, and might struggle again in ’26

Some had excuses, others crippled by injury and many were downright dreadful. The nine teams which missed the 2025 finals have six months to get...

previous day 10

Neil Breen

The intrigue for Hawthorn and can the Suns keep rising? Your early semi-final guide

And then there were six. The Giants and Dockers are no longer in the premiership race, and only four clubs will still be in contention after next...

sunday 10

Marc Mcgowan

Clubs rush to spend extra NRL funding as fears grow about PNG team

NRL clubs are spending their Papua New Guinea money quickly in case the expansion team fails to get off the ground. The belief they need to spend...

sunday 2

Danny Weidler

Trump’s a riot, but as he’s cracking us up, guess who has the last laugh?

Donald Trump is very funny, often inadvertently, sometimes quite deliberately. For writers at Saturday Night Live, there are weeks when he almost...

sunday 4

Nick Bryant

Hardly anyone reads Meanjin any more. So why does its end even matter?

As death sentences go, the line from Melbourne University Publishing explaining the axing of Meanjin spoke volumes: “The decision was made on...

sunday 10

Karl Quinn

Bryan Brown met his dad just 10 times. He was determined to turn up for his kids

When it comes to Father’s Day, Bryan Brown is resolute: “Everything I know about fathering I learnt from my mother. In fact, everything I know...

sunday 4

Peter Fitzsimons

What our politicians won’t admit about immigration

With apologies to Rudyard Kipling: If, as a neo-Nazi, you attend an anti-immigration rally, which you insist provides an opportunity to show common...

sunday 3

Jacqueline Maley

The $900 million fee fight that could hit frequent flyer points

Have you ever wondered how credit card loyalty schemes manage to “reward” customers with perks such as frequent flyer points just for spending...

sunday 30

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Israel blows up peace negotiations and makes a mess with its vital ally

Michael Koziol

What’s to become of Murdoch’s corporate orphans?

Elizabeth Knight

Essendon should consider stripping Merrett of the captaincy ... if they keep him

Jake Niall

Trump’s once-loyal conspiracy theorists are answering to a higher power

Katy Hall

How precision missiles put a bloody end to Gaza peace talks

Paul Nuki

The copper wars are here: Mega merger could trigger battle of the mining giants

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Does Ange Postecoglou still ‘believe in fairies’? We’re about to find out

Vince Rugari

Giddey re-signs on $150 million deal with Chicago Bulls

Jon Pierik

Crucial decisions are ahead in the never-ending climate wars

The Herald&x27S View

Why now might be a good time to upgrade your iPhone

Tim Biggs

Murdoch’s succession war is over, but family trust is gone

Rodney Tiffen

Our future prosperity is bright. We’ve hidden an ace up our sleeve

Ross Gittins

The construction industry is in crisis. It demands fixing. Now

The Age&x27S View

More than 1 million Australians have a family trust. Should you, too?

Helen Baker

Why does the ATO make me withdraw so much from my super fund?

Noel Whittaker

How a simple mistake cost this taxpayer $200,000 in inheritance

Julia Hartman

Trump is starting to inflict severe damage on China

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Arise, King Lachlan! A new era for the Murdoch media empire has begun

Elizabeth Knight

My job search has become an awkward threesome – me, the employer and AI

Tania Cammarano

A major market crash could be coming. Here’s how to prepare yourself

Kurt Mayell

I can easily afford business class seats. So how do I stop acting so frugal?

Paridhi Jain

‘Very tough’: ANZ boss takes the painful step to rewire the bank

Clancy Yeates

Captain Lachlan may be News Corp’s master and commander but troubled waters lie ahead

Michael Koziol

Lachlan got his prize, but like everything in Murdoch world, money was the real winner

Eric Beecher

Japan’s rotating ranks of prime ministers ‘not good for foreign policy’

Lisa Visentin

China and Australia in a high-speed race to win control of the Pacific

Peter Hartcher

Carlos Alcaraz is scary good and getting better. But there is an asterisk next to his world No.1 ranking

Marc Mcgowan

The classic ’80s banger than sums up the 2025 Wallabies

Iain Payten

My dad was a sawmiller; national parks make more money than logging

Ken Henry

Oscar Piastri should have disobeyed team orders

Luke Slater

Trump’s wrecking ball is really hurting America

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Musk’s $1.5 trillion pay proposal. Is he worth it?

Elizabeth Knight

If Price continues to follow Trump’s playbook, she’ll be sorry, even if she won’t say it

James Massola

If Erin Patterson is still religious, she should be thanking God for leniency

John Silvester

Outside noise, media and haters: Why it’s what’s inside that counts in NRL finals

Emma Kemp

Patterson’s sentence answers one question. But the two most important remain unanswered

Ahona Guha

My suburb’s confusing road feature separates the visitors from the locals

Linda Skinner

The David-and-Goliath battle at Optus Stadium proved sport is life’s greatest theatre

Paddy Sweeney

Jacinta Price is wrong to think all Indian voters like me back Labor – but they probably will now