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Productivity growth is supposed to be the key to boosting wages and living standards in the economy. However, just as housing price growth decoupled...
As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has two major problems - and that's leaving aside One...
"I have anxiety around cyber security because I understand how important it is, but don't feel I have the skill needed to look after myself...
If we want to stop women and children being raped and murdered, we are going to have to change men. This week, last week, this year, the bodies are...
Apologies for interrupting, my fellow introverts. I know how much you value your silence. How you despise small talk. How you break into a cold sweat...
One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue...
I never expected to spend my weekends and evenings talking about homelessness to tens of thousands of strangers on trains, ferry wharfs, cafés and in...
I only had myself to blame for the unpleasant sensation. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Cold, gnawing and...
It's telling that great prime ministers like Howard, Fraser, Hawke and Keating have nothing in common with Pauline Hanson. Subscribe now for...
There is a version of Australia that gets repeated often by politicians who trade in fear. It's a version where migrants arrive as cultural...
Those of us born outside Australia can't understand why native Australians go in the sea. In ten years, I've been in once - but never again....
The Singapore Oceanarium is an engineering marvel. It holds 45 million litres of water (18 Olympic pools) across 22 displays. It also has a 36-metre...
I had a chat with a charming woman the other day. I called a prominent consultancy in Canberra and a pleasant female voice answered. She sounded...
Anyone reading the story of that 19-year-old hooning around would have been relieved that the kid was caught before he killed himself or anyone else....
Call me naive, but might there be a correction coming - a global renaissance of the human heart? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Northern Tasmanians I speak with are on a unity ticket with concerns about the James Boag's site in Launceston. People believe the iconic site...
Last month's fall in house prices is good news. Further falls would be welcome. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
If you are feeling financially depleted personally, and pessimistic about the economic outlook generally, figures released this week won't cheer...
The burden is heavy, let me tell you. I have been carrying the world on my shoulders for more than half a century. No rest. No respite. But you...
The think tank for the world's rich countries had some bad news for Australia last week. The OECD found that Australia's productivity growth...
I have a few personal habits which I feel may be distinctive to me. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I am so...
Something very odd happened after the introduction of the iPhone, the world's first smartphone. We stopped having so many babies. Subscribe now...
There's a particular kind of political rhetoric that thrives in moments of uncertainty. It doesn't offer solutions, or reforms, or even...
Welcome to Ask Property, our new weekly column where we answer your real estate dilemmas. Our Ask Property columnist Nina Hendy is here to hunt down...
Justice was done. The United States were bundled out of the World Cup despite a grubby intervention by the President of the United States. Mr Trump...
Every tax season, tax professionals hear the same comment from property investors. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
There was much to celebrate and be grateful for last Saturday as the US marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Subscribe now...
Let me say unapologetically that I would "shag" Kylie Minogue. As the Prime Minister has also perceived, they all seem to have a very...
Good morning to the burrow, it's Jenna Price here - our email banner hasn't received the message about John's time off. Subscribe now...
Co-host of TV's Parental Guidance and podcast Happy Families DR JUSTIN COULSON says boys lost to screens and algorithms designed to be addictive...
Remember the pious hand-wringing a few years back as Liberals and their media friends warned that electing community independents meant the end of the...
A journalist's job is not to cheer politicians. Equally, it is not generally to tear them down. Our primary job is to test them. To challenge...
The biggest and best tax reforms in 25 years just passed the Parliament. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading In...
"Whoever wants to preach effectively must preach with love." Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Saint...
Boys often struggle to express themselves, but books can help them process their feelings safely and in their own way. For author FIONA HARRIS,...
It's usually great seeing old friends. You don't have to plan what to say, watch your words, suffer awkward silences, or try to guide and...
Silent Friend (M, 147 mins) This gorgeous, unusual film never lets us lose sight or the sound of the natural world. Subscribe now for unlimited...
If you stood outside your local primary school at pick-up time two decades ago you witnessed a procession of Commodores, Falcons, Corollas and the odd...
I can't recall exactly what tickets to the local Olympics cost - but I do know I ended up with a massive credit card debt, which built up as...
Leaders are meant to bring out the best in us. They draw us into being our better selves, to being a part of something bigger and better than our own...
Children. Nothing but trouble. Except Deborah O'Neill, 65. Her parents would be very proud. And Albo should be acknowledging the NSW...
Don't get me wrong. I love an ice cold beer. That refreshing fizz. The shock of bitterness. It's an instant party for the palate. Subscribe...
United States President Donald Trump's innate inability to empathise with others and lack of intelligence to foresee consequences are likely to...
They're calling it RAMageddon, the extreme shortage of computer memory chips caused by the AI industry's rapacious appetite for them. The...
When Pauline Hanson stood at the National Press Club lectern and declared that Australia "must be monocultural," the internet's comment...
A strange thing happened last week. I found myself tearing up on the news Daryl Braithwaite was calling time on his live music career. Subscribe now...
The good grace with which Peter Dutton exited politics in 2025 explained much about why his colleagues had stayed true. Subscribe now for unlimited...