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It’s been a year of wearying in the fight against inflation. But if you think you know what it all proves, you’re probably kidding yourself. The...
The capture of an Australian soldier by Russian forces has brought home the realisation that, in addition to death, foreign fighters risk being...
When a kindly-looking elderly woman asked if she could share my table at a cafe not so long ago, I happily shifted seats, moved my computer and...
Flogging Foxtel for $3.4 billion is nothing short of a Christmas miracle for News Corporation and the Murdochs, who are not only freed from the...
I’ve never been a big Christmas person, largely because my family didn’t celebrate it when I was growing up. Because of this, I didn’t have any...
On Friday, one of the biggest stories in Australia was the possible cancellation of New Year’s Eve fireworks in Sydney, as the result of a...
Suddenly, one day, “woke” was over. From November 6 to 7 this year, in the aftermath of the US presidential election, the pretence disappeared....
Criminal trials that attract the world’s attention almost always focus on the perpetrators. But Gisèle Pelicot upended that paradigm, and may...
For the first time in almost two decades, Christmas and Chanukah will fall on the same date this year. When this last happened, in 2005, I was just...
Washington: President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk played a key role this week in killing a bipartisan funding proposal that...
A few weeks ago we took a small tribe of children to see Home Alone at the Sydney Opera House, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the...
The Jewish calendar follows the lunar calendar, so this year, during a Jewish leap year, all our festivals fell a little later than usual. Like...
There was no lengthy, intricate or divisive debate when Charlie Bannerman was named to open the batting for the Australians in the fixture that was...
“Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas MacArthur. When my brother Ian retired, I thought he was making a huge mistake....
What a sporting year. What a time to be alive. And so we approach the end of an extraordinary sporting year that had as much colour, movement,...
Well, thanks, Keira and Hugh. You’ve really killed the Christmas spirit in my house – with a little help from Paddington Bear. It’s been 21...
Sixty summers ago, thousands of Australians were devouring a book published in the lead-up to Christmas which became an instant Aussie classic....
You reckon perhaps it’s true; we’re all just existing in a clown world? Of course, why can’t a tiger shapeshift to transform into a magpie? The...
A week out from Christmas, I wake to something unusual. My husband is awake first! Even without coffee, he seems pretty pumped. Leans – looms –...
In 2005, back when he was still playing the character of a buffoonish right-wing television pundit, comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term ‘...
As talk of an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine grows among Western diplomats, and Volodymyr Zelensky comes round to the idea of what he calls a...
It has been building towards this for months: an ultimate showdown between powerful rail unions and a state Labor government as Sydney’s rail...
Washington: Elon Musk has never been elected to office. President-elect Donald Trump has not tapped him to serve in any role inside the government....
The base of the Christmas tree looks a bit depleted in an empty nest. A white envelope. A couple of token efforts. Something from someone, but not...
Generative AI does not signal the end of student writing. Even that time-honoured (if shop-soiled) form of writing – the “student essay” –...
Of all the incentives in the world, money must be among the most powerful. Since its birth thousands of years ago, dosh – chasing it, saving it,...
ABC News in America has just settled a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network. ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15...