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My close encounter with our founding fathers exposed Trump, our foundering father

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...

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Maureen Dowd

Is the world is on the brink of nuclear catastrophe? This expert thinks so

The former federal member for Fremantle, Melissa Parke, is executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN),...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Do you really need an accountant to do your tax return?

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...

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Dominic Powell

The on-field gesture that raises more concerns for Dragons and Flanagan

The Dragons have been returning serve to the social media trolls who have been attacking Shane and Kyle Flanagan, but they have also been...

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Danny Weidler

There is only one worthwhile test of social cohesion. We may have just failed it

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...

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Jacqueline Maley

Calls for more childcare regulation miss the obvious point

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...

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Should I give all my assets to my sister to avoid a will dispute?

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...

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Paul Benson

We can’t leave our moral foundations to machines

Artificial intelligence sparks a vast spectrum of human expectation, from the apocalyptic – AI will become sentient and destroy us all – to the...

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Barney Zwartz

What the Wallabies have to get right against Fiji

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...

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Paul Cully

Thugs who perform violence over distant atrocities have no place here

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,...

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Tony Wright

Trump and his multitrillion-dollar Sharpie sign off on cuts ‘no one will notice’

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...

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Tony Wright

Attacking a Melbourne restaurant does nothing for peace in the Middle East

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...

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Dani Valent

As Trump’s big, beautiful debt gets ever bigger, let’s give thanks for the RBA

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...

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Shane Wright

The major retirement planning question we’re all getting wrong

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...

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Bec Wilson

Forget the Midas touch, investing now requires diamond hands

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...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

The one simple choice that could transform your workday

In 2023, an Australian news presenter descended into helpless giggles when her on-air guest accidentally applied a Zoom filter that adorned him with...

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Patrick Lenton

No elbows on the table and other rules to live and dine by

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...

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Richard Glover

Lions series won’t be won on penalties and collapsed scrums

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...

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Peter Fitzsimons

The writing was on the wall for the Blues – in black and white this time

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...

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Jake Niall

‘Everything will turn to dust’: As Gaza crumbles, its fate lies knotted to that of one man

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...

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Nick O&x27Malley

Rude customers? Retail review gives us one star, at best

“Please remember to treat our team respectfully as they assist you.” (Telstra, recorded phone call.) “During this stressful time we ask everyone...

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Malcolm Knox

‘That real hard edge’: Dual-code prodigy leads Queensland’s new era of NRLW stars

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...

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Nick Wright

When the proof is in the pudding – culinary mysteries through the ages

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-...

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John Silvester

The Konstas conundrum: When will the golden boy of Australian cricket come good?

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...

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Tom Decent

Trump has hung Ukraine out to dry, though Zelensky did all he asked

Volodymyr Zelensky thought he had done everything right. When US President Donald Trump demanded that he sign away Ukraine’s mineral rights in...

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Owen Matthews

Trump’s big, beautiful mistake will have China licking its lips

China’s leaders must be wondering whether they are hallucinating or the United States’ political class have lost their minds, committing economic...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

When the world keeps you awake: Finding sleep in anxious times

Words like payload worry me. Deploy and warhead. Bunker-busting munitions. Diagrams to illustrate how the Shahed-136 drone works, from target-lock...

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David Astle

Childcare horrors are shocking, but they’re no surprise to me

It’s the stuff of nightmares. Broken bones. Burnt hands. Children strapped into high chairs for hours and force-fed until they vomit. Toddlers...

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Adele Ferguson

Why do I lie awake at night? Because it kept my ancestors alive

Gloom begets gloom. Darkness is the perfect environment for anxiety. As I’m taking nightly refuge in bed, whatever anxieties I currently have...

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Anson Cameron

As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help us

Prime  Minister  Anthony Albanese’s second visit to China – pencilled in for this month – will come weeks before the People’s Liberation...

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Jennifer Parker

Bravo to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. It was vulgar but they did their wedding right

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...

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Kate Halfpenny

I’ve worked in childcare for 50 years. This is the worst I’ve seen it

I have worked for more than 50 years in early education and care as an academic, centre director, writer, consultant, resource developer and...

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Anne Stonehouse

Lance Armstrong is back, but he should be banned from any association with cycling

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...

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Darren Kane

Shattered trust, teetering confidence and far too little action

When Premier Jacinta Allan addressed the media on Wednesday, flanked by Minister for Children Lizzie Blandthorn and the state’s interim co-Chief...

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The Age&x27S View

Between Xi and Trump, can PM afford to be ‘relaxed and comfortable’?

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...

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James Massola

How Canberra’s most popular book might influence my hunt for a first home

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...

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Millie Muroi

My colleague is attention-seeking and noisy. How do I make them stop?

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...

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Jonathan Rivett

Modern work demands we be ‘always on’. It’s wearing us down

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...

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Amanda Gordon

Lions for leaguies: My guide to the greatest rugby show on turf

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...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Trump’s foolish war on the world is a mess

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...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why Melburnians celebrate the failure of Sydney’s ‘Vile Kyle’

“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...

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Tony Wright

We can have a good childcare system, or a cheap one. When protecting children, that choice should be easy

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...

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The Age&x27S View

Why Penrith can’t win the premiership, but Brisbane still have a shot

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...

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Andrew Johns

Enough with the beeping machines! They are making our lives worse, not better

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...

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Jane Caro

Albanese is the conservative who mugged the Liberals. Let’s hope he seizes the moment

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...

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Shaun Carney

Villain or victim? Qantas cyberattack will be a test of customer faith

Nothing tests a consumer’s fragile faith or a company’s integrity quite like a cyberattack. Qantas’ brand is in a particularly precarious position...

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Elizabeth Knight

Being busy doesn’t make you special, so lay off the drama

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...

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Tim Duggan

Iran’s latest decision reveals flaw in Trump’s big plan

An axiom in the national security world says you cannot bomb a country into giving up its nuclear weapons programs. The attack itself only...

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David E. Sanger

We have a great law to tackle workplace sexual harassers. Pity it’s never been used

Two important events concerning sexual harassment took place this week. Australian female-led hospitality advocacy group Sorry Not Sorry toured the...

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Karen O&x27Connell

Relentless push for profit is failing our kids

The childcare operators that employed alleged child sex offender Joshua Dale Brown have said there is no indication so far of any negligence on...

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Colin Kruger