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Thanks to a focus on developer freedom, a powerful Nvidia chip and ongoing killer software, the Switch 2 has the ingredients for success. But also...
Donald Trump has abandoned any meaningful notion of “the West” and, with it, America’s role as “leader of the free world”.
As Richard Roxburgh stars as me in a feature film, I confront a disturbing reality: more journalists are behind bars today than when I was...
Blanche d’Alpuget, Australia’s most highly regarded biographer, has just released a crime novel, The Bunny Club. I spoke to her this week. Fitz:...
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Hasan Piker is a 33-year-old American YouTuber and online streamer with a following in the millions. Young men love him, and he has been positioned...
Involuntary celibacy – “incel” – culture, toxic masculinity, knife crime and young teens on social media. Netflix series Adolescence has become a...
The NRL says it is not Big Brother – but after gagging coaches, they have now taken their ability to influence what fans are seeing on television...
Is it better to start a pension when the market is down or up? I am 69 and pretty much retired. Currently, my super is split between pension and...
One of the saddest laments I often hear when tragedy strikes is “why me?” It’s a thoroughly natural question as we grapple with suffering,...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Back in the late ’90s, then Carlton coach David Parkin expressed to me his view...
North Queensland forward Coen Hess monstering an unsuspecting Nathan Cleary as he shaped to kick on Friday night just about sums up Penrith’s...
One of the great things about following your friends’ parents on Instagram is that it’s a nostalgic throwback to a simpler time online. On...
It was his smile and the glint in his eye that drew you to him. And his name, of course. For those of us who grew up watching his dad and uncle in...
I emailed my son’s teacher at school and asked him what writing materials he needed for class. On the weekend, the teacher responded: “He’ll need...
The great closing of America is under way. It’s closing in multiple dimensions, but Donald Trump’s tariff decision is a concrete and quantifiable...
Oscar Allen’s emotional mea culpa made for uncomfortable viewing on Thursday. And somehow it felt all wrong. Having been exposed for breaking the...
For those observers who suggest we should take Donald Trump seriously but not literally, his “Liberation Day” speech in the White House’s Rose...
When we’re planning for retirement, we usually centre most of our financial goals on how much we want to have in superannuation when we retire. But...
Refinancing has just become the hottest game in mortgage town. Rates are finally down – just one teeny, token cut so far, but the Trump-induced...
In 1942, two dozen solvers assembled in a Fleet Street room, their task to crack the Telegraph crossword in under 12 minutes. The winner won a...
The Gout Gout second place last weekend, at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne was ... underwhelming. Just when we thought he was going to rule the...
The anguish on Christian Petracca’s face said it all. This was not the hell of the last two weeks when Melbourne did not give a yelp, but in a way...
Donald Trump loved “Liberation Day”. There he was on Wednesday afternoon, launching the biggest global trade war since the 1930s – the one that...
Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election here . It’s difficult to imagine who was more surprised by Donald Trump’s tariff war – the...
So we know Albo can be a hipster. He chugged a beer at a Gang of Youths concert and is planning a so-hot-right-now “small wedding”. But he still...
This might prove to be the day the Ange Postecoglou dream died as the Tottenham Hotspur head coach took on his own supporters and lost. Postecoglou...
A conversation has been brewing online. And when I say “online” I mean “on TikTok”. And when I say “been brewing” I really mean “happening recently...
The secret sauce at Canterbury? There is no secret sauce. No mysterious herbs or spices. Definitely not 11 of them. Nothing in the water at...
Drug law reform is one of those polarising social issues that often creates inertia in politics and officialdom, and their tortoise-like pace to...
So much for the buying opportunity. Every indicator on the equity, bond, commodity and currency exchanges is flashing a full recession alert....
Earlier this week I got a warning from my agent that the dataset Library Genesis had been hacked by Meta. “Unfortunately I see many of your works...
Power. What does it mean in politics? At its best, power means having the ability to effect positive change, change that will enhance a country and...
I was totally humiliated recently. Don’t get excited. It had nothing to do with leaked photos of me in bondage gear. No, it happened during a hot...
Isaah Yeo had one aim when he started his rugby league career – to eclipse his father, Justin, who played 11 first-grade games for Balmain and...
Hidden in the job contracts of about one in five Australians are little clauses weighing down their chances of landing a pay rise or a...
First, consider the unvarnished, unflattering facts of Carlton’s serial capitulations in the first four rounds of 2025. The Blues led lowly...
A colleague is having a major anniversary in a few months and plans are already under way to celebrate it at work. This is a person who has been at...
With an increasing number of Generation Z entering the workforce, the young, tech-savvy cohort are beginning to make waves. But not in a good way....
Pop quiz: which country is the world’s leading producer of soybeans? Instinct might say China, or perhaps Japan, given the traditional centrality...
In today’s professional world, the pressure to be constantly available, perpetually productive, and always switched on has become the norm. But the...
Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election here. Donald Trump’s self-destructive tariff blitz has forced Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...
Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history. The United States built the post-war...
Yes, that does indeed appear to be mother of all waves that hit the Bondi Icebergs in the very early hours of Wednesday morning, causing so much...
Nobody needed a ceremony in a rose garden to know that Donald Trump wanted a divorce from the global economic system that has delivered wealth and...
Caitlin Foord is tired of waiting. Most of her Matildas teammates feel the same way. It has been eight long months since Tony Gustavsson’s contract...
For weeks, Donald Trump has built up “Liberation Day” as a form of payback. The tariffs levied by the United States would be reciprocal, he said: “...
I’ve long marvelled about the power of tea, but it was only this week that I understood how it could be used as a weapon against the police. The...
The outrage machine is out of control this week, even by the AFL bubble’s hysterical standards. The reaction to West Coast co-captain, and...
While I was grabbing the peanut butter the other day, a sharp pain shot through some obscure tendons in my thumb, making me shriek. A preliminary...