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The Sydney Morning Herald |
Now would be a great time for the federal government and the opposition to review their use of the platform they condemn.
One of the solutions to the housing crisis could be right under our noses – or over our heads.
Some years ago, a friend began referring to the period between Christmas and New Year’s Day as “the interregnum”: a pause between two things. To...
Anyone fretting about how fragile global financial markets might be in 2026 got an early and robust response from investors who have lost none of...
Las Vegas, Nevada – The first thing you notice at CES, the world’s largest tech show, is how seamlessly everything is supposed to work. The...
Suitcases packed, hotel rooms vacated, sore heads and red eyes hidden under baseball caps and behind sunglasses, winners and losers alike face the...
There will be no denying Aryna Sabalenka’s standing as favourite to clinch a third Australian Open mantle, but even the world No.1 has issued a...
In the days after the Bondi massacre, this masthead took the editorial decision to lead calls for a royal commission into this murderous attack on...
After 35 years of ruling Iran, Ali Khamenei is running out of options fast. The 86-year-old supreme leader is facing his most serious challenge...
I’m writing this as the CEO of the Climate Council, and also as a mum of two young children. Every time the temperature is forecast to soar into...
One year after the horrors of October 7, 2023, I gave a speech to the University of NSW warning that Australia was sleepwalking into a period of...
If 2025 was the year the childcare sector faced a reckoning, then 2026 should be a year of action. A litany of failures and a lack of transparency...
Anthony Albanese’s plan to brazen out calls for a royal commission into antisemitism in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack was always flawed....
Nuuk: The people of Greenland have a simple message for Donald Trump: no deal. On the streets of their capital, Greenlanders dismiss the US...
My wife and I disagree about whether we should adjust our assets to qualify for a part age pension. I’m 67 and still working full-time on a good...
I am picking up sodden scraps of decomposing plastic, from a gutter, by the side of the road. It is the middle of the day, hot now, and I still...
The problem with my Best Combined XI from the 2025-26 Ashes is that it only has VI players in it. Travis Head opens the batting, and then we have...
If you didn’t know otherwise, you might think Box Hill was abandoned. Not a single person was sighted in the north-west Sydney suburb on Saturday...
The morning after England’s sucker-punch of an opening Ashes defeat in Perth, Brydon Carse was sitting at a riverside cafe with his teammates Zak...
An alarming sign of Brendon McCullum’s attitude to coaching England came on the Adelaide outfield, where, with Australian players uncorking the...
In a world first, a seal has broken on one of the pillars of public life. Denmark’s PostNord, the Danish equivalent of Australia Post, has ceased...
Now that I’ve reached middle age, when the time I have left to me is dwarfed by the time I’ve squandered in unproductive activities like having a...
After 15 innocent people were gunned down at Bondi Beach on a Sunday afternoon, a Hebrew word came to Peter Wertheim’s mind: teshuvah. Often...
There are plenty of unusual things people buy with the expectation that they will be able to sell them for more in the future. Among these “...
Ask anyone in their 50s or 60s how they picture their retirement, and you’ll usually get a vague image of “more freedom”, definitely “more travel”,...
They say the average New Year’s resolution lasts 11 days – and guess what? It’s January 10. So it’s just about time to forget any vague overhaul...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The security of the old world order is being blasted away with every airstrike to...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to call a royal commission into the Bondi Beach shootings is a belated recognition of the community’s...
Washington: The more you watch the chilling video of an ICE officer shooting Renee Nicole Good dead in Minneapolis, the more you can’t help but...
Former AFL WAG Amie Rohan was on my radar at the gym weeks before we spoke. I clocked how one minute she’d be deadlifting hilariously heavy bars,...
It was hardly a vintage Ashes series, but there was still much to celebrate – and plenty to poke fun at – over the past six weeks. Here’s our...
“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression,” wrote the great Jewish-American writer Saul Bellow, “if you hold down one...
If building a winning cricket team were simply a matter of examining statistics, we could give the job to a computer and let algorithms dictate the...
“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression,” wrote the great Jewish-American writer Saul Bellow, “if you hold down one...
It was 1999 and it wasn’t just the ’90s that were coming to an end. My uni friends were leaving campus life, cutting their hair and moving into the...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to call a royal commission after the Bondi attack is a huge concession to cap a politically damaging...
Russia and China are the net beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s gunboat plunder of Venezuela and the insouciant betrayal of the country’s democratic...
There’s a strange comfort in adding things. We add goals, habits, productivity hacks, subscriptions, responsibilities and expectations, hoping that...
What exactly is this? It’s not regime change because, having unleashed a military raid to snatch Venezuela’s president from his bed, US President...
We like to tell ourselves that we’ve evolved when it comes to ageing. That we’re more enlightened. Kinder. More accepting. Rachel Ward, in a still...
England’s three wise men turned out to be the Three Stooges. Brendon McCullum, Rob Key and Ben Stokes sold a lie for three years. McCullum and Key...
I recently left my job after my team leader went out of their way to sabotage my career by not including me in important meetings with clients,...
There’s something uniquely Australian about trying to finish a report while watching the ocean through a holiday rental window. January arrives,...
The British Museum once held an exhibition called A History of the World in 100 Objects . The idea was that these objects – sometimes humble,...
It’s time to get back to work. It might be this week, next Monday, or even in a few weeks as the kids head back to school, but there comes a time...
Bowled through the gate by off-spin, a form of bowling about which he has been brutally sceptical, Steve Smith shook himself out of his bubble of...
With a cover drive to the fence and a clenched fist of celebration in the middle of the SCG, Alex Carey brought the 2025-26 Ashes series to a close...
For four years, not at all unreasonably and surprisingly successfully, England and Joe Root effectively put a big red bullseye on Scott Boland....
Las Vegas, Nevada: Every year, TV manufacturers promise revolutionary picture quality. Usually, it’s marketing speak, but this year at the Consumer...
Washington: Twelve months of escalating tensions on the streets of various US cities have now led to a sad, predictable result: an American citizen...