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With so little known about the spate of antisemitic attacks being carried out in Australia, terrorism and espionage are beginning to look...
The former Australian captain may have split public opinion, but his on-field record compares with the greatest of all time.
Most people care about the Sussexes only because of their royal past. When that’s taken away, they become as plain as the next person.
The surge in recent support for January 26 as Australia’s national day suggests Australians have shed their shyness over openly expressing their...
I work in an area where a manager has developed a cult of personality. They are bombastic, aggressive and delight in attention and adulation. Many...
In his first day in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order that defies a US law and encourages others to breach it. Trump’s order directed...
The Australian beach is portrayed as the great equaliser. Surf washes off social layers and other protections and, in the church of the open sky,...
It was a big week for retail billionaire Solomon Lew. He has spent decades in the Myer wilderness after being ousted from the Coles Myers board in...
One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, Steve Bannon, had some advice for Australians during this week’s effusive ceremonies to welcome the...
Two years ago Alex de Minaur was on the wrong end of a Novak Djokovic masterclass. He finds himself in a very similar position now. On Wednesday...
One of President Donald Trump’s first announcements has been Stargate, a new joint venture designed to unlock up to $US500 billion ($800 billion)...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has recently established a new rescue service. Its mission is to save his government, his party and his place in...
The next time you’re in an online meeting, I want you to take a closer look at the list of attendees. In addition to Steve from marketing and...
Ben Shelton thinks broadcasters are disrespecting players at the Australian Open. He went out of his way to say so after blazing his way past...
In 1988, when I was 34 weeks pregnant with my first child, my waters broke in a Thai restaurant. Yeah, I know, embarrassing. I found myself in...
Early in the first set of this match, the crowd began to erupt as Alex de Minaur chased a ball to the net post and angled a winning backhand pass...
I couldn’t have been more than 10, maybe 12, years old when my parents walked with me to the local synagogue. They wanted to show me vile...
As far as metrics go, it’s not scientific. But if you’ve noticed that more oversized headshots of slick-looking real estate agents appear to be...
Australia has a sandcastle culture, according to Jim Davidson, one-time editor of Meanjin. His point: we suffer from cultural amnesia. Every...
Washington: The impact was swift and severe, just as Donald Trump had intended. No sooner had the newly inaugurated president signed his name on a...
For more than 15 months, Gaza has endured relentless violence from Israel, its people living in unimaginable terror and grief. Now, as the...
While strolling through sunny markets with my five-year-old daughter last week, we encountered a bare bum. Bare bums aren’t an anomaly in my...
In the midst of Donald Trump’s executive orders dump on Tuesday were some that could undermine the American auto industry’s efforts to remain a...
When we travel overseas, we regularly find ourselves taking note and appreciating those subtle reminders of home. Strolling past an RM Williams...
All hail Novak Djokovic, the greatest tennis player in all of history. (That was the po-faced bit. He is.) But where does a man go once he is the...
Collingwood’s delicate handling of their most precious on-field asset – Nick Daicos – was reflected in the non-appearance of the precocious...
On Tuesday, Carlton announced two new re-signings. But neither was the man who looms as one of the most talked-about free agents of 2025. Tom De...
If some mystery remains about the turn of events that saw a lewd image posted on the X account of Luke Sayers, there is no question that Sayers has...
A generation gap will develop and grow between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz, but it’s not discernible yet, and it may never show on the...
I was a youngish reporter at federal parliament when former Treasurer Peter Costello issued his famed appeal for Australians to have more babies....
Today, I yet again saw some personal finance guru advocating the same tired advice: if you don’t have money, why are you wasting it on coffees,...
My husband is 64, and I am 59. I work full-time with an income of $83,000, while my husband works part-time, earning $15,000–$20,000 per year. I...
Amid the blitz of executive orders Donald Trump foreshadowed at his inauguration there was a notable omission. There were no new tariffs – at...
Washington: It was an inauguration that set the tone for a second-term presidency more emboldened and unchecked than the first. Six months after he...
Leaving Glenn Maxwell out of the Sri Lanka Test tour wasn’t the hardest call for Australia’s selectors. That unfortunate honour instead went to...
Strap in. Day one of Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States was by turns fascinating, funny and frightening: the 21st...
It’s taken five years but Wesfarmers boss Rob Scott has raised the white flag on the company’s expensive retail experiment which involved forking...
The frosty Washington weather may have forced Donald Trump’s inauguration indoors, but his first day back in the White House was never going to be...
The immediate solution to the housing shortage is fitting more people into existing houses, something that would also help with cost of living...
Some of the best relationship advice I ever received was to begin the way you intend to carry through. That probably meant something like being...
Penny Wong and Donald Trump: the cerebral, cautious champion of Labor’s left and the brash real estate tycoon turned Republican hero. It hardly...
At 12.02pm in Washington DC, Donald Trump took the oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” and resumed...
Washington: Donald Trump sat at the Resolute Desk signing executive orders for the cameras and taking questions from a small pool of journalists...
Birth stories take many forms. Some are joyous, some are tragic, many are traumatic and confusing. Mine was an overwhelming mix of all of the...
Whether it’s a childcare centre set alight in Maroubra, a house firebombed in Dover Heights, or the steady stream of hateful graffiti, Sydney’s...
Palo Alto, the small Californian town which spawned Stanford University, Silicon Valley and the so-called “broligarchy”, used to boast that it...
On the face of it, what Alex de Minaur thinks makes it possible for him to win a major one day is also what makes it nearly impossible. “Anything...
The moment I hopped off the train at a small regional town an hour north of Paris and into my host family’s car, I knew I’d plunged into the deep...
Donald Trump is returning to the White House – and the world is holding its breath. No one doubts that Trump 2.0 means business, and it’s not...
Over the past three years, I’ve called three cities home. But one, above all, was responsible for my housing affordability awakening. I had no say...
Donald Trump’s inauguration and expectations of the tumult he will release on day one of his administration have deflected attention from the...
What is it about high office that blinds political leaders to the fact that their time has come and gone? Bob Hawke could not see the writing on...
Donald Trump’s marketing and merchandising prowess reached nosebleed heights with the creation of his own digital meme coin, $Trump — a product...
Despite the continuing political arm-wrestling on climate policy, a remarkable degree of public consensus has developed over the past few years....
For all the connectedness that globalisation supposedly has brought, sometimes we’re still Venus and Mars, and by that I don’t mean platforms for...
We’re in the midst of a billionaire boom. The number of Australians with wealth of $US1 billion or more has jumped by 52 per cent since 2020, new...
The Australian Open sells itself as the “happy slam”. But Novak Djokovic isn’t happy. That is not surprising. Djokovic is often unhappy –...
Much has been said about the impending trade war amid Donald Trump’s threats to implement new tariffs against China, Mexico and Canada. But while...
I’ve had four housemates in three years. And I’m not the problem. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is doing away with the company’s...
Six months before the 1998 election, Anthony Albanese reminded the parliament of claims John Howard, then in his first term, was the worst prime...
Never had a diplomat arrived in Australia with such star power or as compelling a narrative as Caroline Kennedy. Camelot had come to Canberra,...
There are stark differences in job opportunities across Sydney, with the south-west of the city having among the highest unemployment rates in the...
After 470 days of war that began with the horrific Hamas attack on October 7 and resulted in the decimation of Gaza by Israel, an agreement has...