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When regional Australia is strong, all of Australia prospers. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading That's the...
In all the fuss last week about the dip in NAPLAN results, comments from a principal at one of the schools which scored well stood out for me....
The H5 bird flu has taken 30 years to reach Australia. Emerging from the crowded cities and farms of southern China, it recently reached the crowded...
Two decades ago, Bob Katter began warning of an upwelling against the political mainstream's affection for privatisation, free trade, and...
The most alarming detail in the City of Launceston councillors' decision to hit some property owners with a 40 per cent rates increase isn't...
Australians aren't imagining it; they really are worse off than ever. And young Australians are increasingly worst off, despite all the...
Can someone, anyone, explain to me why the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will not meet "Kate"? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
Victoria's election on November 28 has taken on a drama and significance we wouldn't have anticipated a year ago. Subscribe now for...
They couldn't tell you the last time they attended mass. They never offer a prayer of thanks before a meal. Couldn't name all 12 apostles....
Are you in any pain? Doctors ask this because it's a pretty reliable indicator of whether there's a problem. It's not reliable,...
You know it's all a plot, right? A secretive scheme cooked up by unelected globalist bureaucrats to restrict your freedom of movement, to control...
The hatred was visceral. A loathing so deep, so mutual, there was no way the two would ever be reconciled. On occasions it manifested itself in public...
Whenever governments announce changes to negative gearing, the public debate tends to become highly polarised. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Reports of shocking abuse and neglect in our early childhood system mean many Australians are questioning whether they can trust childcare centres....
His love of gold knows no bounds. And when he promised a new golden age, he wasn't joking. The Oval Office groans under the weight of it - at...
On August 4, 112 years ago, stupid decisions by the leaders of great powers at the time - Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and Russia -...
Curious about that pain in your neck? The persistent, low-level discomfort you can't seem to shake could be caused by many things, among them the...
Australia's ARC (Australian Research Council) Centres of Excellence program is designed to break down research silos by funding...
You see a lot walking a dog at dawn - magnificent sunrises, stunning frosts, hot-air balloons and the occasional kangaroo. Subscribe now for unlimited...
It is easier to buy a cold six-pack or a drive-through burger in Greater Launceston than it has ever been. McDonald's recently opened its fifth...
Last month, Education Minister Jason Clare introduced new regulations that should help stop some of the rot eating away at Australia's...
It was late on a Friday afternoon in January this year, when fires broke out west of Ballarat. We had few staff on deck at The Courier but when a...
Look at this photo. It seems as if it was taken in the 1940s. The dirty overalls. The dark, confined space. Take the newspapers out of it and you...
We moved not long ago. And while we were doing that, I came across box after box of photos. That's what we did in the olden days. We managed our...
It's a sad reality of news coverage that my local community only really makes the front page of the major Sydney newspapers and media when...
At last week's Labor conference, which was totally under the Prime Minister's thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor: support for...
The oceans are heating, the skies are burning, the ice is melting and the earth is cracking. But let's not talk about that. Subscribe now for...
When the Glen Innes Examiner ceased printing in September 2024, our community lost more than a physical newspaper. We lost a familiar and trusted part...
Why is it that so many Aussies will confidently share their views on Trump, Netanyahu, Meloni, Macron, but might not be able to name their own local...
Consider these scenarios. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading An influential political commentator posts a reel on...
Hell hath no fury like ... me trying to get past stupid packaging to the product I paid good money for and I want to use now. Not in an hour's...
In many regional communities, local news is more than a source of information. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
Amid all the drama in the deposing of Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan - her early defiance, the acceptance of the inevitable, the resignation speech...
Over the past decade, community pharmacy has been steadily changing. Pharmacists have taken on a widening range of services beyond the supply of...
To our digital subscribers, loyal newspaper readers and long-time advertising partners: thank you. Your continuing support for this masthead and its...
Since the recent rise of One Nation, pollsters have had to deduce not just a Labor-Coalition two-party-preferred tally but also a Labor-One Nation...
By this time of year, the longing begins. The buds on the liquidambars and the London plane tree are checked for the first signs of swelling. Note is...
In 1979 my mother, Val French, received a grant to survey the needs of rural Australians. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
It usually begins three hours into the flight. A gnawing restlessness and intensifying, often irrational intolerance for other passengers. Subscribe...
A conversation I had this week with a long-serving former northern Tasmanian councillor confirmed what many of our readers already suspect: local...
Implicitly at least, a landmark new book, The Twilight of Exceptionalism: The Liberal and Conservative Era, might equally have been titled,...
I recently saw a story on Instagram claiming that the English TV talent show judge Simon Cowell intends to leave his estimated $600 million fortune to...
First of all, please stop complaining about Sarah Ferguson. Sure, she's not perfect. Me neither. But when she dragged Barnaby Joyce over the...
Bill Kelty has been a member of the Labor Party since 1964 but he is not among the hundreds of delegates at the party's national conference in...
The apology arrived in millions of inboxes around the country brimming with the usual bloodless verbiage and condescending prattle we now expect from...
The word of the day is resilience. It was in the title of the Treasurer's budget speech and then appeared another 13 times after that. In the...
My powers have been low the past few days. Scratchy cough, runny nose, generally out of sorts, nothing alarming just a typical winter lurgy, most...
I don't often feel sorry for Barnaby Joyce but I did the other night. There he was, mid-interview with 7.30's Sarah Ferguson, rarely a...
Workers need to put a new demand in for enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations: entitlement to a nap in the afternoon. Subscribe now for...