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Nick Kyrgios, Rafael Nadal and Kylie Minogue took very different paths to success. Their lives raise a deeper question about ambition, sacrifice and...
Neither Labor nor the Liberals needed the bruising Secret Harbour byelection to tell them One Nation had become a major player. But Saturday’s...
Banks are clawing back rewards as new credit card fee rules threaten their profits, raising bigger questions about competition, cash and who...
One of the best sculptures in Canberra depicts John Curtin and Ben Chifley mid-stroll on their way to Old Parliament House. The pair would walk from...
Like many of his predecessors, Anthony Albanese has grown to enjoy the international diplomatic round that goes with the prime minister’s job. These...
Shadow housing minister Andrew Bragg’s pledge that a Coalition government would scrap mandatory home energy-efficiency standards is the wrong...
Bulls–t may be easy to dismiss, but from politics and gambling to advertising and public relations, it can obscure truth, shape debate and carry...
The latest report-card on the state of the state budgets paints a sobering picture. The Parliamentary Budget Office’s National Fiscal Outlook,...
In April 2026, Dolly Parton was found to be the most popular person in America. Her death, announced on Wednesday, was greeted with global grief, one...
US President Donald Trump has escalated the country’s trade stand-off with Canada, announcing plans to raise tariffs on a range of Canadian imports...
For decades, divorce was treated as a sign that something had gone wrong: A marriage had failed, a family had fractured and a promise had been broken....
Last week I argued in this column that the great baby boomer downsizing wave isn’t coming to save Australia’s housing market. Judging by the...
Shopping at Coles and Woolworths used to mean a warm greeting and a friendly chat at the register. We all complained when self-checkout kiosks came...
America’s system of government, and the constitution on which it is built, was created in different times and for different circumstances and...
South Australian Senator Marielle Smith has successfully led a push to establish a Senate select committee to examine aspects of women’s health. It...
When did we decide joy was a commodity we couldn’t afford? Much has been written on the “politics of joy”, the term coined to explain New York...
If you’re not from Western Australia, the byelection in the state seat of Secret Harbour is unlikely to have been on your radar. But Labor, Liberal...
Interest rates are a blunt tool for tackling inflation, and can hurt the people least able to absorb higher costs. Abraham Maslow, an eminent...
In recent years, the Liberal Party has experienced a series of large electoral defeats at state and federal levels. Multiple state and federal leaders...
This week, the news is that One Nation wants to cut the tobacco excise by 75 per cent. Tobacco excise is not a new topic – I wrote about it last...
There’s no doubt that our private health insurance system needs reform. Insurers’ benefit payout ratios have drifted lower for years, eroding the...
The great wave of downsizing baby boomers has been predicted for years. Yet longitudinal census data from 2016 to 2021 suggests that the wave looks...
It’s not radical to say that Labor and the Coalition agree on more than they disagree on these days. That’s neoliberalism in a nutshell – both...
Australians do not need to be convinced that we need to build more homes. They see adult children struggling to leave home, older Australian unable to...
Just as the housing market calms down just a little bit, watch some politicians issue a spate of crazy policies to juice the market and push up prices...
I retired six years ago when with a Total Super Balance at the time of $1.2 million. I have now received an inheritance and would like to transfer...
We have now entered into a political sphere where One Nation, with a whole one MP in the lower house and a rag tag conspiracy of senators, is...
Last week, during Question Time, Nationals MP Alison Penfold asked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: “By bringing 1.5 million migrants into Australia...
The frightening scenario being painted for recent home buyers is easy to understand. You buy a house for $1 million, borrow $950,000 and then house...
How unfortunate that Peter Malinauskas says he is not interested in running for federal politics. This week again showed the South Australian...
On Thursday, the federal and NSW governments jointly announced a deal to bail out the Tomago aluminium smelter, at a cost of $2.5 billion over 10...
US President Donald Trump has this week signed an executive order that recasts the country’s childhood vaccination policy to “support maximal...
America likes to tell itself that Trump is an aberration. An anomaly, rather than a symptom of the deep, deep issues within American society, still...
Imagine travelling back to 1945 and telling an Australian that the country’s population would almost quadruple over the next 80 years. Australia was...
The latest Newspoll, published on Sunday night, showed on federal voting intentions; Labor and One Nation lost one percentage point to both sit on 29...
The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Board is meeting this week to decide if it is going to change interest rates, but a survey that it released last...
We have become accustomed to talking about artificial intelligence as though it were weather. AI is coming. AI is transforming everything. AI will...
It seems no matter how much we know about history, we are doomed to repeat it. The false equivalence between people who do not care about equal human...
Victoria’s election on November 28 has taken on a drama and significance we wouldn’t have anticipated a year ago. A sudden late change of premier,...
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s decision to resign his Clacton seat and force a by-election, amid scrutiny over his personal finances, has produced...
There are a couple of global trends colliding with each other at the moment. On one hand, we have, as discussed in this column eons ago, the...
“Disappointing” was the best Guardian Australia could muster when Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banned it from a press conference, this time...
Every time a celebrity appears to lose weight, the same debate begins. Some people say we shouldn’t comment on another person’s body. Others argue...
As a demographer, I spend my days counting babies, migrants and retirees. But the real job is not counting people, it’s working out where they...
The new-look Commonwealth Games wrapped up in Glasgow yesterday morning (Australian time) with plenty of questions about the stripped-back format and...
The Liberal Party of Australia has fallen on hard times as the party struggles to attract voters and weathers leadership uncertainty. In his first...
I currently have an income account with QSuper from which I draw a monthly pension. As I am over 60, my pension is tax free. I have heard that if I...
When did we decide joy was a commodity we couldn’t afford? Much has been written on the ‘politics of joy’, the term coined to explain New York...
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...
One Nation has confirmed that it will not only include student visas in its annual 130,000 cap, but that it also wants to deport 100,000 students...
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