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Weekends can be hard. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading As a person with a disability, I feel incredibly...
The Coalition and business lobbyists are quite right to say that the federal government must rein in spending and reduce debt. And they were doing it...
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The AI wave has crashed, and we're now swimming through the detritus. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
I'll never forget the morning I froze during a client presentation at Kearney, the global management consulting firm, where I was a vice...
For a long time, ageing came with a script. You study. You build a career. You work full time for decades. Then somewhere in your 60s, you step back...
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Long before the internet put unchecked power in the hands of billionaire technofascists, there was a kid's doll which emitted insults when you...
Fuel companies are asking Tasmanians to accept something consumers would never tolerate in any other essential market: sudden, sharp price increases...
US President Donald Trump is letting it be known that he is considering pulling the United States from NATO, and perhaps some of America's...
I've gained a new respect for Harry and Meghan after their Australian visit this week. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
An effective opposition is good at policy. Last term and so far this term, the Coalition has been very poor at policy formulation. Subscribe now for...
Mum had no time for Australian values. In fact, she was pretty vocal on the topic. Australians allowed their kids to roam around after school on...
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Like most people with a Netflix subscription, I recently watched the latest doco from Louis Theroux called Inside the Manosphere. Subscribe now for...
The federal government is preparing a budget badged as "intergenerational fairness". The idea it sells is simple: young people are...
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Last week I was asked by someone on a very modest income whether it was worthwhile keeping private health insurance. Subscribe now for unlimited...
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Fractured internally and debased internationally, it is hard to imagine that the US will again wield the unique mix of strategic threat, intellectual...
With friends like these, who needs enemies? The US is supposed to be Australia's "closest ally, and our principal economic and strategic...
When anyone says goodbye to their loved ones to go to work and then don't come home it is beyond sad. Recently, that fate has befallen police...
Good government won despite the Albanese government losing a court case recently. Given the money and the effort that it put into losing its case, and...
There's a particular kind of overwhelm that belongs to this moment in history. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
If you want a basic measure of the difference between Liberal leader Angus Taylor and Nationals leader Matt Canavan, compare these two reactions to US...
Imagine being the folks at the Australian War Memorial right now. What a nightmare. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
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I've just watched The Sopranos episode where Carmela discovers that Tony's psychiatrist is a woman and she is jealous. Carmela devotes quite...
Chris Bowen singing "it's all ok we've got supplies till May" is cold comfort. May is just around the corner. Somehow we're...
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It was 1999 and we were doing what we thought was our final renovation. Oh, the naivety of the first time renovator. We'd heard of solar panels...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have confirmed in the past week that the May budget will contain major tax changes to help...
Don't know about you but I'm exhausted. Seems it's been one thing after another for at least six years. Subscribe now for unlimited...
As a young widow of 38, I remember all too vividly dragging my body, heavy with grief, into Centrelink a couple of weeks after my partner Nathan had...
Australia has a mental health crisis, but not the one we think. Despite decades of soaring expenditure, our national mental health has not improved....
Hand-wringing over soaring fuel prices is a national obsession but, sadly, it is not matched by the quiet reflection this moment warrants - either as...
The point where price is no longer a number on a bowser and becomes a warning sign was reached weeks ago by many. At $3.00 a litre, fuel isn't...
This holy week saw the Catholic Pope, Leo XIV, clash sharply with the American Secretary of War, Peter Hegseth, and by implication his master, Donald...
My new book, The Embarrassing Confessions of Gracie Sparks, is written in diary form, and so many readers have asked if I kept a diary when I was 12....
Using one lens, you could view the present contest between the Albanese government and the Taylor-Canavan opposition as pragmatism versus populism....
There wasn't much of my grandfather to start with and by the time cancer finished devouring his slight frame there was very little left. But even...
We shouldn't really call them sovereign citizens. It's a phoney name for people who think they are above the law. They take up time in the...
More than two decades ago, Dr Melita Keywood of the CSIRO identified Launceston as the most polluted residential area in Australia, with wood heaters...
The federal government had no control over the Iran war. As the Prime Minister remarked in reference to Trump's decision to invade:...
A mate who'd booked his family Easter holiday long before the Middle East war upended everything is going ahead, despite the extra fuel costs. He...
As the war in Iran heads into its second month, the conflict has escalated rapidly. The effects are being felt around the world, and there is no clear...
The notice in the La Trobe University student newsletter was inconspicuous: "Actresses required for Mess Hall Players' production of One...
The world is breathing a little easier this morning after stunning developments in Washington overnight. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...
Fuel has become a precious, and increasingly expensive, commodity. The ongoing Middle East conflict has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz,...
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