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The growing complaint about the historic May 3 election isn’t only that our voting system is busted. To some, it represents a full-blown conspiracy.
If you feel like you’re struggling to be more productive, you might be right. But it’s probably also not your fault.
What this salesperson tried was a pretty common tactic. And you were well within your rights to do more than just ignore them.
Asking your boss to take extended leave without pay can be nerve-wracking. But that doesn’t mean you should avoid it.
Even as a forgiving reader, I have my quibbles.
My electorate told me that the Liberals’ working-from-home policy was a dud. Sussan was the only one who cared.
Ley and Littleproud should note, a trial separation needs to be done right. Otherwise, you’re dragging around unresolved mess.
The NSW and Rabbitohs star is catnip to modern media as he continues to wrestle with his place in rugby league.
There is a reason doping is banned in organised sport. These Enhanced Games won’t end well.
While Steve Jobs was the visionary leader and inventor of the iPhone, Jony Ive was the person who made it sought after. Now he’s trying to take it...
If we want our work to feel like it means something, we’ll need to be extremely careful about the growing use of artificial intelligence.
The people most affected by natural disasters in Australia are represented by the people who are most likely to deny that human activity has...
There is no natural right to existence for a publicly subsidised company such as ours, so it must dig deep and identify exactly who and what it is...
Tariff walls are going up around the world to try to head off an anticipated surge of low-value Chinese exports seeking to offset the impact of...
The prevailing narrative about high interest rates being a major culprit in the cost-of-living crisis is no longer passing muster – if anything,...
It’s unwise to get between a political leader and a VIP jet. I discovered this long before the US scammer-in-chief, Donald Trump, began making...
Excuse me for interrupting, but may I have a moment of your precious time? Do you find that to be a well-mannered introduction or just annoying and...
“Impasse” is among the multitude of French words that English speakers over the centuries have borrowed and repurposed. In English, impasse means a...
Fine words butter no parsnips. A ludicrous phrase, though it’s true. Or real at least, listed in the Oxford and elsewhere. Maybe you’ve met the...
How old are you? Your answer has a surprisingly strong correlation to how you feel about one of the most vexing issues of modern workplaces: the...
I recently interviewed for a job, and got rejected within the same week. Honestly, I was gutted. Partially because I thought I had kind of smashed...
To say that I was surprised by Max King’s selection for his Origin debut is an understatement. I was nothing short of shocked. But the more I...
Look, when it comes to sporting disgraces, you’re right: the pickings are singularly rich right now – and I don’t just mean LIV golf, organised and...
A friendly interview over a couple of beers turned into a social media success for Anthony Albanese when the prime minister walked into a pub...
We need rain. Rain’s coming. The heat’s coming. A change is on the way … Weather is the universal subject of the Australian bush. It welcomes,...
Washington: There is nothing unusual about Donald Trump snapping at a journalist. On Tuesday, Washington time, on Capitol Hill, he demanded to know...
When former US president Joe Biden acknowledged his cancer diagnosis in a statement on social media, he included a photograph with his wife, Jill....
The cure for Spursiness has been administered. Finally. For the past two years, the patient has been in the chair, strapped in, squirming,...
Having created havoc in Washington and turned Tesla into a toxic brand around the world, Elon Musk is now retreating from politics and has...
For all the robust enthusiasm, dinner party discussions, public policy debate and focus on climate change, Australians are embarrassingly behind...
Right now, it feels like no one really understands me, except Natalie Imbruglia. Tomorrow morning, Manchester United, a team I have followed since...
Bitcoin is back in a big way. After a pretty miserable start to the year, the world’s most well-known digital asset has staged a sharp rebound. In...
By the Reserve Bank’s own words, Donald Trump is more of a threat to the global and domestic economy than the COVID pandemic and the global...
As the Liberal Party struggles to put its house in order following the May 3 election rout, junior is playing hard ball. The National Party’s...
John Herbst, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, says the summation of Donald Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin is simple: “Trump blinked.”...
Like most famous people, bestselling author Marian Keyes seems much smaller in the flesh, with a mane of jet-black hair and a flawless porcelain...
Tottenham Hotspur’s season has existed in what Ange Postecoglou has described as two “parallel worlds”. Domestically, they’ve been atrocious,...
In the 1974 Queensland state election, the Bjelke-Petersen Country-Liberal coalition was re-elected in a landslide off the back of Gough Whitlam’s...
I can still remember both nights clearly – they were sleepless. The two nights before playing against the Bulldogs and then the Demons, both former...
The 78th Cannes Film Festival’s sudden and last-minute ban on “nude” dresses isn’t about taste or tradition, it’s politically motivated and about...
I’m confused about the proposed 15 per cent tax on unrealised gains in super for balances over $3 million per member. Given Labor’s strong election...
I promise I’ll stop talking about the surprising election result if you let me make one last point. There was a hidden factor that helps explain...
Australians in or facing retirement are in for a nasty surprise when it comes to the new cost of aged care being rolled out from July 1. Beyond the...
There was a time when the hard men of the Nationals – it was always men – struck mortal fear into Liberal leaders. They got their own way because...
On the same day last week, two important international news stories illuminated a coincidence of risk and opportunity for Australia. First, Reuters...
If this is what state and federal Labor’s clean-up of the nation’s construction sector looks like, God help those still working in it. It’s bad...
If you’ve ever wondered why Australians live more comfortably now than we did 50 years ago, you’ve pondered the history of “productivity”....
The reaction of financial markets to Moody’s downgrade of America’s credit rating was instructive. There was an initial tremor, and then a...
In February last year, something looked weird about the skyrocketing Commonwealth Bank stock price. At $115 a share, its price had risen well above...
The announcement by former US president Joe Biden that he has aggressive prostate cancer is the bitterest of ironies. The political leader who...