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The Wallabies have one Test against Fiji to blow out the cobwebs because Super-Rugby quality won’t cut it against the Lions.
The US president figures no one will notice the loss of healthcare and school lunches among the poor. Could he be right?
It remains one of the most memorable – for all the wrong reasons – images of this century. President George Bush, on the deck of the USS Abraham...
These are bleak days for arts institutions and organisations, which depend on public and private funding to survive. Many still struggle post-COVID...
When it comes to retirement, we’ve been taught to chase a number. A big, scary, often impossible number. $1 million. $2 million. Enough to live off...
As July officially rolls around, it’s safe to say the last 12 months have been a wild ride, at least financially. According to SuperRatings, our...
In 2023, an Australian news presenter descended into helpless giggles when her on-air guest accidentally applied a Zoom filter that adorned him with...
I have a friend who attended a posh boarding school, some seven decades ago, and he’s been teaching me the correct way to ask for the salt. No way...
TFF had a little fun with my Thursday column, this week, trying to educate the leaguies on the glory of the Lions. Ahem ... “Just how many people...
For Carlton, the writing was on the wall – and not just at their home base – that this contest against the Magpies wouldn’t be a pleasant...
The last thing I did before running out the door for my second wedding was stick on the veil from my first. From when I was half my age, 24, not...
I have worked for more than 50 years in early education and care as an academic, centre director, writer, consultant, resource developer and...
St George’s: The frustration was evident on Sam Konstas’ face as he slowly walked off the Grenada National Cricket Stadium, shaking his head after...
Broncos NRLW superstar Tamika Upton has declared Reegan Hicks is in line to produce a breakout campaign, as the club seek to bounce back from their...
“Please remember to treat our team respectfully as they assist you.” (Telstra, recorded phone call.) “During this stressful time we ask everyone...
China’s leaders must be wondering whether they are hallucinating or the United States’ political class have lost their minds, committing economic...
Volodymyr Zelensky thought he had done everything right. When US President Donald Trump demanded that he sign away Ukraine’s mineral rights in...
Words like payload worry me. Deploy and warhead. Bunker-busting munitions. Diagrams to illustrate how the Shahed-136 drone works, from target-lock...
It’s the stuff of nightmares. Broken bones. Burnt hands. Children strapped into high chairs for hours and force-fed until they vomit. Toddlers...
Gloom begets gloom. Darkness is the perfect environment for anxiety. As I’m taking nightly refuge in bed, whatever anxieties I currently have...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s second visit to China – pencilled in for this month – will come weeks before the People’s Liberation...
For an odd, anxious period at the start of the week, it appeared as though Donald Trump’s confounding ability to reshape the world around him had...
This weekend marks the Grand Départ, in the 112th Tour de France. Between now and the end of the month, a third of the 200 or so riders rolling out...
Anthony Albanese will definitely meet Xi Jinping on Chinese soil in 11 or 12 days’ time before he meets Donald Trump in India or somewhere...
Creative Australia’s one job is to invest in and champion Australian creativity. But its botched handling of the appointment of artist Khaled...
Anyone who has rented (or knows a renter) knows the woes of living on someone else’s terms: unresponsive landlords, rent hikes and the threat of...
We work in a very small office space. In the middle is a cupboard filled with various odds and ends. Noise from this part of the office tends to...
Ever found yourself frozen at your desk, staring blankly at your inbox, thinking: “I just can’t do this any more”? You’re not alone. As a workplace...
Everyone, after me: A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh. In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lions sleep tonight ... And so they do. But...
Just a day after the Herald raised the question of the oversight of childcare, fresh revelations about the alleged abuse of children have emerged...
“We’d rather live in Melbourne Though some folks say it’s faulty. Sydney’s got its strippers But we’ve got Henry Bolte. We’ve got...
Almost eight years after rape accusations against heavyweight movie producer Harvey Weinstein upended the film business and created a powerful...
Nothing tests a consumer’s fragile faith or a company’s integrity quite like a cyberattack. Qantas’ brand is in a particularly precarious position...
We all know the type. The colleague that hurries past your desk with a furrowed brow. The person who’s always late to the meeting. The one who...
Two important events concerning sexual harassment took place this week. Australian female-led hospitality advocacy group Sorry Not Sorry toured the...
It is impossible to overstate the distress, fury and anguish that parents, grandparents and educators in Australia are feeling in the wake of the...
An axiom in the national security world says you cannot bomb a country into giving up its nuclear weapons programs. The attack itself only...
The childcare operators that employed alleged child sex offender Joshua Dale Brown have said there is no indication so far of any negligence on...
Carlton president Rob Priestly says it’s all about the next eight weeks at Ikon Park, but the Blues’ problems run deeper than that. Whatever...
With less than a week to the deadline for the next phase of Donald Trump’s tariffs, it is clear that the “90 deals in 90 days” that the...
Recently, my high-end fridge started smugly beeping at me every two or three minutes. (We didn’t buy this fridge, I hasten to add – it came with...
We all know it’s nearly impossible to win a premiership from outside the top four. Of the 117 title winners since 1908, 115 of them have done so...
Anthony Albanese is a man who likes props. In the 2022 election campaign, he regularly brandished a one-dollar coin to emphasise his support for a...
My Gen Z-er children barely summon an eyeroll at my midlife failings. I’ve entered that twilight zone where I no longer fall over but have a fall....
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard may have left the Wimbledon field for another year, but his record-breaking 246km/h serve will be remembered – not least...
So far, in 164 minutes on Australian soil, we have seen the British and Irish Lions post two dominant wins, scoring 16 tries and 106 points, and...
When Steve’s* marriage came to an end, his biggest surprise came when he discovered the large debt left from his wife’s prolific spending. As the...
Zohran Mamdani just pulled off the political upset of the year in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary. It was a David and Goliath moment, powered...
When Sussan Ley revealed last week she’d been a victim of coercive control, my first response was “poor bloody woman”. Then “thank God she got...
The move into aged care sparks a flurry of financial decisions – none more emotionally charged than what to do with the family home. To preserve...