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Israel must open its eyes: Defeating Hamas does not require starving a single child

Israel’s friends must stage an intervention and speak with one voice: End the famine in Gaza. Drop any talk of annexation. Protect the civilian...

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David French

Welcome to Donald Trump’s dystopian world

There’s a quote in George Orwell’s 1984 that seems appropriate after Trump’s shocking move to fire the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Cold Pies and a Giant headache: Who will make the finals in the race for the top eight?

The race for the top eight continues apace, with all spots still up for grabs. Who will make it and who will miss out?

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Jon Pierik

The cost of the commute to work adds up

By the time Jess Whatman counted extended day care costs on top of petrol, tolls and lunches, she was forking out $400 a week just to get to work....

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Nina Hendy

Under-regulated childcare centres allow children to become easy prey

The charging of a worker accused of filming the abuse of 10 children at six Sydney centres is another alarm bell on the booming but under-regulated...

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The Herald&x27S View

Albanese now has time to bring real change. So timing becomes critical

In the first session of question time this term, Anthony Albanese was asked whether the government was considering certain taxes. A small smile...

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Sean Kelly

The stats don’t lie: Dumping Brown the best coaching decision of 2025

The best decision made by a coach in season 2025 belongs to Jason Ryles. Dumping the defecting Dylan Brown from his Eels side has transformed the...

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Neil Breen

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

It’s good to know the Ricky Ponting right hook is alive and well. That was confirmed over the weekend when he said he might well have administered...

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Emma Kemp

Big business quick to veto productivity tax reform

Well, you can forget about Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ three-day roundtable discussions leading to any improvement in the economy’s productivity and...

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Ross Gittins

Wallabies win on the right side of violence

The Wallabies’ victory over the British and Irish Lions was just on the right side of violence as they inhabited that elusive space between where...

yesterday 10

Paul Cully

Despite worst fears and weather, this was the day Sydney took a stand for humanity

Despite the worst fears of NSW Police and Premier Chris Minns, Sunday’s pro-Palestine protest on the Harbour Bridge will be remembered as the day...

yesterday 30

Alexandra Smith

The genius new law demanding dogs and owners spend three hours together each day

It was the summer of 1996: the sun was high, the surf was up and me and my best friend, Fang, ruled the world. Young and reckless, we rejected...

yesterday 9

Rosie Beaumont

How men can reject Trump’s crude masculinity and rediscover their richer selves

It was one of the most erotic things I ever heard. A man I know said he was reading all the novels of Jane Austen in one summer. At first, I...

yesterday 8

Maureen Dowd

Don’t let FOMO fool you: Selling Big Bash teams is a bad idea

Introducing private equity into Australian cricket is almost certainly a bad idea. So I read with interest that Cricket Australia has been advised...

yesterday 8

Andrew Jones

Australia should recognise Palestine. To not do so only rewards Israel’s crimes

Australia was among the first countries to recognise the state of Israel, but regrettably looks set to be among the last to recognise the state of...

yesterday 20

Ben Saul

I received an exciting delivery. I never expected what was inside

I had just dropped my daughter at school when my phone rang. It was a number I didn’t recognise, and I almost didn’t pick up, as I rarely use my...

yesterday 8

Kerri Sackville

The 3-step check to see if you’re in a good super fund

Real Money, a free weekly newsletter giving expert tips on how to save, invest and make the most of your money, is sent every Sunday. You’re...

yesterday 10

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Let’s stop stigmatising dementia – and give it a new name

The other day I looked up synonyms for dementia – and are they ever a depressing bunch! Such as, on the top of the list: madness, insanity, lunacy,...

yesterday 9

Anne Ring

This man could cull the number of ‘misery machines’ in NSW. But he won’t

David Harris is, among other portfolios, the NSW Minister for Gaming and Racing. After last week’s interview with anti-gambling lobbyist and former...

yesterday 1

Peter Fitzsimons

In 30 years at The Age, I never wrote on Israel-Palestine. Now, I must

I began writing for The Age in 1981, and worked there for more than 30 years, the last 12 as religion editor. Among the 3 million or so words of...

yesterday 1

Barney Zwartz

‘He’s the bloke who tackled a tree. That’s his legacy’: ‘Dog head’ has final crack at Paul Kent

The man Paul Kent called “dog head” during their infamous altercation last year has had an affray charge against him dismissed and says the former...

yesterday 9

Danny Weidler

Signs are already not good for Chalmers’ productivity testament

This week, the festival of productivity kicked off in Canberra. The quasi-religious ritual will culminate in a productivity roundtable, at which an...

yesterday 1

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Why the Voss call is easier for Carlton than the Goodwin call for Melbourne

Carlton have not delivered on market expectations, not least their own, and have a raft of vexing decisions to make at season’s end. Melbourne,...

yesterday 1

Jake Niall

Never forget what happened in Hiroshima

It was a still, quiet morning with rays of sunshine filtering through dappled clouds, on the day I visited Hiroshima. November 2019, just before...

yesterday 8

Janine Joseph

Collingwood have the wobbles. They have three weeks to shake them off

Collingwood’s dominance of the first four months of the season allowed them to have an eye on September, but the problem with looking too far ahead...

yesterday 2

Andrew Wu

Pride restored: The Wallabies’ magnificent win proves they’re back

Oh, what might have been! On a shockingly rain-interrupted night, the Wallabies – up against the might of the British and Irish Lions – finally...

yesterday 9

Peter Fitzsimons

The $8.6 trillion bank tweak that risks sparking the next financial crisis

They are supposedly the world’s safest bet. US government-issued debt, known as Treasuries, are a bedrock of the global financial system, with...

previous day 30

Szu Ping Chan

Australia needs a new boxing hero. This is who fans should get behind

Jai Opetaia isn’t overly fussed about fighting Jake Paul. If Paul is fool enough to challenge him in the ring, Opetaia is prepared to accept the...

previous day 1

Adrian Proszenko

Targeted ads are talking to me. I don’t like what they’re saying

I am the youngest of three children, a piece of information that is largely irrelevant to anyone outside my immediate family. I mention this only...

previous day 10

Thomas Mitchell

‘What you’re doing is not normal’: Why Mollie O can take swimming to uncharted waters

Singapore: Cam McEvoy’s mind starts spinning as he tries to fathom what Mollie O’Callaghan could accomplish by the end of her swimming career. “How...

previous day 4

Tom Decent

Private schools have a moral duty to pay council rates

The sandstone mansion Graythwaite House sits atop a grassy hill in North Sydney, with views down to the harbour. It was built on an early 1800s...

previous day 8

Jordan Baker

The US economy keeps chugging along. Does everyone owe Trump an apology?

Washington: As billionaire investor Warren Buffett says, never bet against America. The world’s largest economy grew at an annualised rate of 3 per...

previous day 10

Michael Koziol

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Find out what it means, Benny

The English say, and do, the most curious things. Consider this: The Laws of Cricket are eminently straightforward, even if the language is jagged...

previous day 10

Darren Kane

The fractured football club behind Melbourne’s eight seconds of madness

$The fractured football club behind Melbourne’s eight seconds of madness$

If ever eight seconds summed up a season it was at Marvel Stadium last Sunday as Melbourne’s leaders bungled, then panicked, then pointed fingers in...

previous day 10

Caroline Wilson

In the current climate, the Coalition looks cooked

The Coalition is starting to look like the Black Knight of Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s immortal skit. The knight is repeatedly wounded in a...

previous day 10

Peter Hartcher

It’s about time someone said it: paparazzi are artists and heroes

They’ve probably been popping up on your feed all week, glorious street-side shots of Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep and, uh, Stanley Tucci in an...

previous day 10

Robert Moran

Finished Dry July? Try Spud-free September next

As you read this, I’ll have just finished Dry July. I’ll be enjoying Saturated Saturday. Or perhaps Seriously Sozzled Sunday. Just kidding, of...

previous day 1

Richard Glover

The Wallabies deserved better ... that’s to lose a heartbreaker this week

That Wallaby loss to the Lions, at the death in Melbourne? I cannot remember a more gutting loss. To have played so well; to have led at one stage...

previous day 1

Peter Fitzsimons

Tech bros, or broken? Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes face greatest test

Scott Farquhar is jittery as he takes the stage at Canberra’s National Press Club, hyper-aware of the optics associated with a multibillionaire...

previous day 4

David Swan

If inflation is under control, why does your budget feel so stretched?

“Inflation is down? Where exactly? My [council] rates just went up 18 per cent, electricity 15 per cent, insurance 12 per cent. They need new...

previous day 2

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

You can’t quit America: It’s too big to fail as the global leviathan

This week, the European Union agreed to a trade deal with the United States that amounts to a capitulation to President Donald Trump. Yes, Trump...

friday 2

Ross Douthat

World leaders risk a Trump backlash to turn on Israel

London: Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have been working their phones hard over the past week to form a diplomatic convoy that could, if they...

friday 6

David Crowe

New trade war looms as Trump’s disruptive tariffs become reality

“Grateful for small mercies” is a phrase that springs to mind after US President Donald Trump failed to follow through on his previous threats and...

friday 4

The Herald&x27S View

What if Putin hosted the Olympics today? Would we hesitate to boycott?

Russia has invaded a neighbouring country and started a brutal war. If Moscow was hosting the next summer Olympic Games, would Australia compete?...

friday 4

Malcolm Knox

Conferences, mid-week games and 10-team finals: How a 20-team NRL competition could work

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The NRL has started sitting down with potential broadcast partners to open...

friday 2

Michael Chammas

The secret to Teddy’s career-best form? Resisting what he does best

The biggest shift for James Tedesco – the Dally M medal favourite – might be resisting what he does best. That is putting the Roosters on his back....

friday 20

Dan Walsh

Why a Chinese mega-dam has taken the gloss off CBA’s lofty share price

Of all the things that could affect Commonwealth Bank’s lofty share price, the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam in China is probably not...

friday 7

Clancy Yeates

Trump was never that interested in Australia. Albanese just kept it that way

Washington: Australia fought hard for an exemption to Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs early in the year and got nowhere, despite...

friday 4

Michael Koziol

The colour that is tearing families apart

Imagine the confusion in the Twigg household. The trigger was the Wordle back in June. Sheryl and her daughter Keira pitched their daily battle,...

friday 4

David Astle

The move that has killed off Friday-night drinks

Gather round, young workers. Let me tell you a story of what work was like in the olden days. It might sound strange, but once upon a time people...

friday 3

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Israel must open its eyes: Defeating Hamas does not require starving a single child

David French

Welcome to Donald Trump’s dystopian world

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Cold Pies and a Giant headache: Who will make the finals in the race for the top eight?

Jon Pierik

The cost of the commute to work adds up

Nina Hendy

Under-regulated childcare centres allow children to become easy prey

The Herald&x27S View

Albanese now has time to bring real change. So timing becomes critical

Sean Kelly

The stats don’t lie: Dumping Brown the best coaching decision of 2025

Neil Breen

Handshakegate proves hypocrisy is the bedrock of great Test cricket

Emma Kemp

Big business quick to veto productivity tax reform

Ross Gittins

Wallabies win on the right side of violence

Paul Cully

Despite worst fears and weather, this was the day Sydney took a stand for humanity

Alexandra Smith

The genius new law demanding dogs and owners spend three hours together each day

Rosie Beaumont

How men can reject Trump’s crude masculinity and rediscover their richer selves

Maureen Dowd

Don’t let FOMO fool you: Selling Big Bash teams is a bad idea

Andrew Jones

Australia should recognise Palestine. To not do so only rewards Israel’s crimes

Ben Saul

I received an exciting delivery. I never expected what was inside

Kerri Sackville

The 3-step check to see if you’re in a good super fund

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Let’s stop stigmatising dementia – and give it a new name

Anne Ring

This man could cull the number of ‘misery machines’ in NSW. But he won’t

Peter Fitzsimons

In 30 years at The Age, I never wrote on Israel-Palestine. Now, I must

Barney Zwartz

‘He’s the bloke who tackled a tree. That’s his legacy’: ‘Dog head’ has final crack at Paul Kent

Danny Weidler

Signs are already not good for Chalmers’ productivity testament

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Why the Voss call is easier for Carlton than the Goodwin call for Melbourne

Jake Niall

Never forget what happened in Hiroshima

Janine Joseph

Collingwood have the wobbles. They have three weeks to shake them off

Andrew Wu

Pride restored: The Wallabies’ magnificent win proves they’re back

Peter Fitzsimons

The $8.6 trillion bank tweak that risks sparking the next financial crisis

Szu Ping Chan

Australia needs a new boxing hero. This is who fans should get behind

Adrian Proszenko

Targeted ads are talking to me. I don’t like what they’re saying

Thomas Mitchell

‘What you’re doing is not normal’: Why Mollie O can take swimming to uncharted waters

Tom Decent

Private schools have a moral duty to pay council rates

Jordan Baker

The US economy keeps chugging along. Does everyone owe Trump an apology?

Michael Koziol

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Find out what it means, Benny

Darren Kane

The fractured football club behind Melbourne’s eight seconds of madness

Caroline Wilson

In the current climate, the Coalition looks cooked

Peter Hartcher

It’s about time someone said it: paparazzi are artists and heroes

Robert Moran

Finished Dry July? Try Spud-free September next

Richard Glover

The Wallabies deserved better ... that’s to lose a heartbreaker this week

Peter Fitzsimons

Tech bros, or broken? Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes face greatest test