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Tuesday, dentist. Wednesday, blood test. Thursday, physio. Welcome to retirement

It’s the same for most of us who have reached a certain age.

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Richard Glover

Everyone’s committing crimes against literacy, even Meghan Markle

Word watchers, pedants after my own heart, won’t let anything slide. Definitely not Meghan’s “elevate”.

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David Astle

An ugly win it was … but get that into you, Eddie

We would have never heard the end of it if Japan had achieved the unthinkable by defeating the Wallabies for the first time.

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Peter Fitzsimons

Albanese’s answer to the CFMEU rot looks short of the mark

It is 15 months since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Australians that the decision to appoint an independent administrator of the CFMEU...

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The Age&x27S View

A trainer’s verdict: Sam Freedman’s guide to the Cox Plate, plus our expert tips

The Cox Plate is a grand final for heavyweight horses. And like most title fights, Saturday’s showcase at Moonee Valley looks to be a race in two....

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Sam Freedman

I struck gold by mistake, but I don’t get all these queues – or the Louvre heist

Every day, people lose hours of their lives standing in queues. For most, this is a necessity. But in the first world, they also queue to do dumb...

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Malcolm Knox

I’m 20, studying, working three jobs and flat-hunting. And you ask why I’m not happy?

It’s 1pm on a Saturday as I drive up to my final house inspection of the day. This morning I got to bed at 3am after working the late shift and...

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Siena Fagan

There’s no (real) sport on. But that doesn’t mean no stories...

Around the turn of last century, just after the impoverished and sick Oscar Wilde had been released from prison in France for engaging in the “love...

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Peter Fitzsimons

‘No Liberal leader can survive a fire on the right’, but arsonists surround Ley

The May election generally was acknowledged to have been disastrous for the Coalition. But the disaster continues to unfold. On its current...

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Peter Hartcher

Enough is enough – it’s time to get money smarts into schools

Enough is enough. In my life, two things are happening in parallel about which I am incredibly invested – and unhappy. Firstly (and for those who...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Forget early retirement – the smart move is to work longer

Once upon a time, early retirement was the dream. You’d leave work at 55, buy a caravan, and spend your days fishing, golfing, playing bowls, or...

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Bec Wilson

The Bombers have nose-dived in both AFL and AFLW. Their only way through it is together

The Essendon and Hawthorn Football Clubs have despised each other for decades. The infamous rivalry has intensified in recent weeks, after the...

yesterday 5

Kelli Underwood

Zach Merrett earned the right to want out. These numbers show why

In making the call to hang on to their skipper Zach Merrett, rather than trade him to Hawthorn for a few handy rather than knockout draft picks,...

yesterday 1

Peter Ryan

In one girl’s tears I found the struggle for the human soul

A teenage girl is looking at me with tears forming in her eyes. She is struggling to find the words to ask me a question. “I don’t know where to...

yesterday 2

Stan Grant

How Albanese triumphed, Trump got his deal and Ley was left with egg on her face

Anthony Albanese has been underestimated by his opponents for his entire political career. The question now is whether, after the prime minister’s...

yesterday 8

James Massola

I was intimidated by anti-immigration protesters. But rules can’t depend on the cause

A few weekends ago, I caught the train into Melbourne’s CBD. As it rolled into Flinders Street, a group of about five readied themselves to board....

yesterday 8

Waleed Aly

My boss wants us in the office to monitor when we leave. Is that fair?

I work in public health. My shifts are split into half patient clinical contact and half non-clinical privileges. With the latter, I avoid our...

yesterday 6

Jonathan Rivett

Our default workday is broken. Here’s how to fix it

You wake up and your brain is already racing with today’s meetings, unread emails, and half-finished projects. Before you’ve even had your first...

yesterday 7

Donna Mcgeorge

Hollywood Hugh, live from Bulgaria

In this edition of On Background, Hugh Marks’ honeymoon is over at the ABC, familiar faces meet in Riyadh, another rights deal in the works for the...

yesterday 8

Calum Jaspan

Like most people, the RBA has a bias. But it’s costing us jobs

Three years ago, the jobs market was roaring, and the only thing the Reserve Bank’s economists really lost sleep over was inflation, the surge in...

yesterday 10

Millie Muroi

The small company that has car giants scrambling

The European and US auto industries are bracing themselves for disruption to the supply chains of the low-value semiconductors vital to modern cars,...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Musk wants to build a robot army to win his $1 trillion pay package

Listening to Elon Musk’s performance during his quarterly profit call is akin to watching a street hustler playing a pea and thimble trick. He...

previous day 5

Elizabeth Knight

Albanese’s meeting with Trump is a warning to Australia’s enemies

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s triumph with President Donald Trump this week unexpectedly thrust Australia into a position of power in the...

previous day 6

Peter Hartcher

The country boy with polio who became Australia’s most famous GP

There were nights in the little West Gippsland town of Neerim South when anxious parents brought ailing children to the only doctors in the...

previous day 4

Tony Wright

Beyond Nick Daicos, you need a NASA telescope to see Collingwood’s next young A-grader

There is an illogical view that Collingwood’s failure to add senior players of note, as the 2025 premiers did and Hawthorn attempted, was a setback...

previous day 5

Jake Niall

AI isn’t taking our jobs, it’s just giving us more work

This week, a documentary aired in Britain about automation and the job market. Channel 4’s Will AI Take My Job? featured a television reporter...

previous day 2

Tim Duggan

A painted leotard was all it took to expose the cowards in our town

When I was a kid, I lived near an old guy, Mr Lamont, a retired man who’d once been an accountant. He must have been short of dough because one...

previous day 2

Anson Cameron

I was wrongfully jailed in Egypt, but Australia’s culture of surveillance takes the cake

In what appears to be an increasingly dangerous world, all of us want to feel safe. That fear of the outside has given successive Australian...

previous day 2

Peter Greste

You’re having a ‘phone-free day’? I’ve never had a smartphone in my life

I’ve always thought of mobile phones as the new cigarette but of course they’re much worse. Let me tell you then just how much I miss smoking...

previous day 5

Gregory Day

For doctors, uncertainty is a fact. But we must be brave, take risks – and save lives

Every week, I see 80 to 100 cancer patients. Half are on experimental therapies. Some are taking drugs that have never been tested in humans...

previous day 6

Georgina Long

Our so-called ‘smart’ car’s incessant warnings are driving me nuts

I have a lovely husband. We’ve been together for a very long time; 50 years in November, to be precise. We are growing old together and, by and...

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Jane Caro

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

As Anthony Albanese headed home from Washington, DC, at the most triumphant point of his long political career, did he reflect on how much he owes...

previous day 6

Shaun Carney

A woman was randomly stabbed in the CBD. It could have been stopped

Horrified. Sickened. Appalled. Whatever descriptor you prefer, it is what we all felt when we saw the images of Lauren Darul allegedly plunging a...

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Chip Le Grand

Season for giving: What do you give the man who has everything?

What do you get for the man who has everything? In Donald Trump’s case, the answer, it seems, is a model submarine. Anthony Albanese’s meeting with...

previous day 7

Charlotte Grieve

Gold still glitters, even after its shock slump overnight

The steep plunge in precious metals prices overnight was almost predestined. They had run up too hard and too far, and some of the factors behind...

wednesday 6

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Frenemies for life: Trump vs Murdoch enters round 2

It doesn’t get any better than reading the entrails of a billowing stoush between Australia’s highest-profile export, Rupert Murdoch, and his...

wednesday 2

Elizabeth Knight

Prince Andrew feels heat over royal home after rent deal revealed

London: Prince Andrew has fought for years to stay in a stately home near Windsor Castle despite a persistent effort to move him away from the...

wednesday 7

David Crowe

No more ‘oh Bailey’: The schoolboy treatment that lets Smith escape accountability

If you thought Geelong had a Bailey Smith problem, you were wrong. It’s you who has a Bailey Smith problem. My goodness, did you not see the way he...

wednesday 5

Michael Gleeson

How the ghost of Galvin prompted Parramatta’s Pezet deal

When Lachlan Galvin turned down the chance to join Parramatta last season, the decision was all the more painful for the club because they should...

wednesday 1

Adrian Proszenko

We all love mining now, but there is still a big ‘elephant in the room’

Washington: It’s hard to believe it has already been 15 years since then-prime minister Kevin Rudd lobbed the “mining tax” into the national...

wednesday 4

Michael Koziol

This ChatGPT browser is genuinely impressive. Will anyone actually use it?

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman wants to change how 3 billion people use the internet. Altman, who is behind the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT,...

wednesday 5

David Swan

Atheists do not understand what faith actually involves

Convinced atheists might be surprised to know that the God in whom they do not believe is one Christians also do not accept. That is because,...

wednesday 4

Barney Zwartz

Sorry, Pop Mart, Labubu is just not Lego or Pokemon

Few toymakers have garnered as much investor attention as China’s Pop Mart International Group, the maker of Labubu, a plush accessory seen...

wednesday 6

Shuli Ren

Trump’s diarrhoea video was a wonderful lesson. The president wants to befoul us

This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry...

wednesday 30

Michelle Goldberg

Wordle’s a fad, and it’s well and truly K-A-P-U-T

I felt a weird kind of mourning the other day. The quiet kind, where nothing dramatic happens, but you notice something’s missing. And,...

wednesday 1

Ali Berg

Game day at Wembley is a bucket-list experience. This Sydney venue should take note

There was hardly a spare seat in the house at Wembley last Sunday. There rarely is. A crowd of 86,152 flocked to London’s iconic stadium for the...

wednesday 3

Robert Dillon

Most people think CEOs are grossly overpaid. What can we do about it?

Few things can unite Australians like CEO salaries. Opinion polls have found about 80 per cent of us think corporate bosses are paid too much....

wednesday 10

Matt Wade

Reimagining the west and the idea of Melbourne

Melbourne is at a crossroads. The number of people who call the west home stands at close to 1 million. By 2050, it is projected to be 1.8 million,...

wednesday 3

The Age&x27S View

Albanese’s won over Trump. Convincing the Australian people about what comes next will be tougher

This week’s visit to Washington, DC by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was a triumphant marker in his pragmatic path on foreign and defence policy....

wednesday 4

Rory Medcalf

If you’re heading to aged care, beware this common misconception

There’s a common misconception that once you reach the aged care lifetime cap, the bills stop. Sadly, that’s not quite true. The lifetime cap...

wednesday 2

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Tuesday, dentist. Wednesday, blood test. Thursday, physio. Welcome to retirement

Richard Glover

Everyone’s committing crimes against literacy, even Meghan Markle

David Astle

An ugly win it was … but get that into you, Eddie

Peter Fitzsimons

Albanese’s answer to the CFMEU rot looks short of the mark

The Age&x27S View

A trainer’s verdict: Sam Freedman’s guide to the Cox Plate, plus our expert tips

Sam Freedman

I struck gold by mistake, but I don’t get all these queues – or the Louvre heist

Malcolm Knox

I’m 20, studying, working three jobs and flat-hunting. And you ask why I’m not happy?

Siena Fagan

There’s no (real) sport on. But that doesn’t mean no stories...

Peter Fitzsimons

‘No Liberal leader can survive a fire on the right’, but arsonists surround Ley

Peter Hartcher

Enough is enough – it’s time to get money smarts into schools

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Forget early retirement – the smart move is to work longer

Bec Wilson

The Bombers have nose-dived in both AFL and AFLW. Their only way through it is together

Kelli Underwood

Zach Merrett earned the right to want out. These numbers show why

Peter Ryan

In one girl’s tears I found the struggle for the human soul

Stan Grant

How Albanese triumphed, Trump got his deal and Ley was left with egg on her face

James Massola

I was intimidated by anti-immigration protesters. But rules can’t depend on the cause

Waleed Aly

My boss wants us in the office to monitor when we leave. Is that fair?

Jonathan Rivett

Our default workday is broken. Here’s how to fix it

Donna Mcgeorge

Hollywood Hugh, live from Bulgaria

Calum Jaspan

Like most people, the RBA has a bias. But it’s costing us jobs

Millie Muroi

The small company that has car giants scrambling

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Musk wants to build a robot army to win his $1 trillion pay package

Elizabeth Knight

Albanese’s meeting with Trump is a warning to Australia’s enemies

Peter Hartcher

The country boy with polio who became Australia’s most famous GP

Tony Wright

Beyond Nick Daicos, you need a NASA telescope to see Collingwood’s next young A-grader

Jake Niall

AI isn’t taking our jobs, it’s just giving us more work

Tim Duggan

A painted leotard was all it took to expose the cowards in our town

Anson Cameron

I was wrongfully jailed in Egypt, but Australia’s culture of surveillance takes the cake

Peter Greste

You’re having a ‘phone-free day’? I’ve never had a smartphone in my life

Gregory Day

For doctors, uncertainty is a fact. But we must be brave, take risks – and save lives

Georgina Long

Our so-called ‘smart’ car’s incessant warnings are driving me nuts

Jane Caro

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Shaun Carney

A woman was randomly stabbed in the CBD. It could have been stopped

Chip Le Grand

Season for giving: What do you give the man who has everything?

Charlotte Grieve

Gold still glitters, even after its shock slump overnight

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Frenemies for life: Trump vs Murdoch enters round 2

Elizabeth Knight

Prince Andrew feels heat over royal home after rent deal revealed

David Crowe

No more ‘oh Bailey’: The schoolboy treatment that lets Smith escape accountability

Michael Gleeson

How the ghost of Galvin prompted Parramatta’s Pezet deal