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Donald Trump’s tough talk about capturing Greenland for the US has so far used the slow pressure of tariff threats and social media posts. It is...
I was tasked with reading 52 books from 52 countries in 52 weeks. I didn’t quite get there, but I still enjoyed the expedition. Here are some of...
UK politics is fracturing left, right and centre with febrile speculation about an imminent challenge to the PM Keir Starmer.
Credit card interest rates are often painfully high, but there are better ways to protect consumers than the 10 per cent rate cap flagged by Donald...
Captivating centuries from David Warner and Steve Smith at a packed SCG showed the potential of a juiced-up T20 competition.
When eight European countries sent troops to Greenland this week, it was meant to show the US president that NATO was serious about security. He...

Picture this: it’s Friday night, and you don’t have anything in the fridge. What do you do? If you’re anything like the 3.5 million Australians who...

This summer’s crackdown by the Minns government on the tobacco trade, with raids on retail outlets across NSW suspected of selling illicit...

One slogan summed up the spirit of the 1968 youth uprisings in France: it is forbidden to forbid. It was the essence of the ’60s and ’70s, which...

I will be receiving a significant inheritance next month. My first port of call will be to clear the mortgage, but after that, I’m lost. Super,...

“And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.” - Deuteronomy...

It’s a good thing William Shakespeare wasn’t on the guest list of Adelaide Writers’ Week. A community theatre performance of the Bard’s The...

On the back of the NSW Breakers’ training and playing apparel is the number 1934. It signifies the year the NSW women’s team was formally...

According to Danish law, parents of newborns must pick their baby’s first name off a government-approved list. Invented and non-listed monikers...

Wacky food trends have always been a thing (side-eyeing whoever thought it was a good idea to stick vegetables in jelly in the ’70s and call it a...

Appearing at Adelaide Writers Week had always been a dream of mine – dating from the time when I was a school student, sitting on the lawns of the...

Anthony Albanese just blinked in a high-stakes game of chicken. Stripping out controversial anti-vilification laws from a sprawling bill to counter...

Plenty of people have a bone to pick with Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock: interest rates being too high, interest rates being too low…and a...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. To win the Australian Open for the 11th time and become the first to reach 25 grand...

High up on the northern flank of the world’s largest volcano, Mauna Loa on Hawaii’s Big Island, lies an observatory that was first scraped into the...

There’s new data out this week on retirement confidence in Australia, and it makes for uncomfortable reading. Only 41 per cent of women say they...

Until the latest inflation reading, an interest rate hike next month looked like a done deal. Now, the date has probably pushed back a bit. But,...

On Christmas Day I felt a dullness, a something’s-not-rightness. On Boxing Day, this viral overture launched into fatigue and a tightness of chest...

Last Friday. The fire was so close the sky was an endless orange blur. An expected wind change could bring the rampaging front to the farmhouse....

What will it take for policymakers to take this more seriously? That’s the question a desperate-sounding Jeremy posed on local ABC talkback radio...

They played hundreds of games together, sharing partnerships and helping the Australian cricket team win world championships in all three formats...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly on his government’s leading-edge teen social media...

I became addicted. Hopelessly addicted. The more I succeeded, the more I wanted. The streak went 100 days, then 200. Neil Breen with his dog, Katy....

This week the Trump administration threatened a two-front war, with one against America’s allies and another against its own central bank. The...

And now the cracks appear. Having called for the Albanese government to introduce tougher hate-speech laws, the Ley opposition considers the...

One of the aims of terrorism is to break civic norms such as free speech. But the Albanese government’s well-intentioned Combating Antisemitism,...

The company I work for has just undergone a major change. This has affected my role, and I’m now being asked to travel much further every week than...

A year ago, Donald Trump waged a tariff war to curtail China’s relentless industrial manufacturing growth in a bid to revive US factories. One...

A week after the Bondi Beach massacre, and just three days before Christmas, Sussan Ley was insistent. The nation’s federal parliamentarians ought...

Most of the time, when a sporting organisation appoints a new chief executive, there are two seats at the press conference. That’s the standard...

Singapore: Wearing matching blue tracksuits emblazoned with their names, Japan’s Sanae Takaichi and South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung found their tempo...

Nearly 20 per cent of my first day back in the office was spent trying to remember my password. For the other 80 per cent, I was caught up in...

The old saying goes that there are decades where nothing happens, then weeks where decades happen. If I can take that phrase and butcher it...

Generations of accepted wisdom tells us that hazard reduction burns – reducing undergrowth, or “fuel loads” through targeted burning – reduces the...

Wyatt Thompson was locked out of YouTube once Australia’s landmark under-16s social media ban was activated on December 10, but the 11-year-old...

The decline of the Islamic Republic of Iran is now terminal. The periodic waves of mass popular unrest the country has experienced since the 1979...

In the summer of 2006, 16-year-old Alyssa Healy was selected as wicketkeeper for the Barker College First XI – the first girl to play in the NSW...

Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys left with the trophies, but the two most memorable moments from the 2025 Australian Open were Daniil Medvedev’s...

It’s difficult to get excited about this year’s share price prospects for most of the heavyweight companies that dominate the Australian market –...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We know the perfect tennis player doesn’t exist. Of course, in men’s tennis, Jannik...

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, as they say, which is certainly true for Donald Trump when it comes to protesters. Brave...

As with 2025, early 2026 again sees AUKUS, Australia’s plan to acquire a nuclear-powered submarine capability, back in the headlines. This time the...

For anyone planning a major, exciting life milestone this year – like moving in with a partner, getting married or starting a family – thinking...

In 1995, the Keating government tried to enact a criminal offence of inciting racial hatred, with a maximum penalty of one year’s prison. It was...

The suburban pool in southern Sydney where I learnt to swim was a simple affair. Built in the 1970s, it featured a small kiosk selling hot chips...