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Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

I live in real life, not on the Jumbotron. Like many others, I’ve been betrayed and a betrayer. I know what those early days feel like.

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Kate Halfpenny

The ABS just had to bin some statistics. Here’s what went wrong

Data collected from 30,000 households failed to meet the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ standards and was never released. It’s a particularly bad...

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Millie Muroi

The key sign Trump is losing the plot over Epstein

Donald Trump is flailing. The self-proclaimed slayer of the deep state stands accused of becoming its mouthpiece.

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Nick Bryant

Why Nathan Cleary didn’t make the best NRL team since 2000

The Western Suburbs coach of the century and former Dragons’ coach selects his best squad of the quarter-century. Do you agree?

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Roy Masters

Stagger then strike: What the Wallabies need to do to keep the series alive

The Wallabies were dismantled physically early but showed just enough fight and found just enough fixes to believe a turnaround is possible at the...

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Jonathan Drennan

The NRL’s representative eligibility rules are broken. Here’s how to fix them

Samoa-born Stephen Crichton represents NSW. WA-born Kalyn Ponga wears the Maroons jersey. But Sydney-born Addin Fonua-Blake can’t play Origin. Go...

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Michael Chammas

I saw starving children every day in Gaza. It makes you question humanity

I’m going back in the coming months and I don’t know how I will be able to do my job. It’s become so dangerous.

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Claire Manera

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

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Nick O&x27Malley

Segal’s antisemitism plan takes us down a path we should fear to tread

This week, the federal government joined 27 other nations in condemning Israel’s “drip-feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians,...

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Waleed Aly

My company hired a dud, despite my warnings. Should I have said more?

Some time ago, I was brought into a job interview panel at the last minute. We interviewed numerous candidates. A few stood out to me and I argued...

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Jonathan Rivett

Lost in translation: Trump doesn’t seem to understand the ‘massive’ deal he just made

Donald Trump has hailed the US trade deal with Japan as the opening of Japan’s markets to the US “for the first time ever”, depicting it as a...

yesterday 10

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why older workers can be ‘too qualified’ to get a new job

There’s a strange place in your career you might find yourself in one day, whether you like it or not. It’s not a destination many would choose to...

yesterday 10

Tim Duggan

Overkill in Gaza: Penny Wong was right to call out Israel

This week’s joint statement signed by Penny Wong and more than two dozen other foreign affairs ministers calling for an end to the war in Gaza was...

yesterday 1

Rodger Shanahan

A new book aims to fix housing affordability, but there’s better solution for Victoria

Melbourne’s time in the property price doldrums could be over, ending a dream run for first home buyers in the Victorian capital. But it wasn’t...

yesterday 9

Jim Malo

Macquarie’s day of reckoning: Millionaires’ factory shareholders draw the line

Macquarie Group’s board has been served a rare taste of a dish called consequences de jour.The financial group, commonly referred to as the...

yesterday 3

Elizabeth Knight

Pistol and Boo should have disguised themselves as (maybe mad) cows

Poor Pistol and Boo. If only they’d disguised themselves as cows. Maybe mad cows. You may recall the border-busting adventures of Pistol and Boo,...

yesterday 3

Tony Wright

Why the NRL finals should start next weekend

A 22-round NRL season, you say? Thought you’d never ask. A shortened regular season to ease player workloads and potentially create a...

yesterday 4

Dan Walsh

Albanese and Rudd will have to sell very different messages on US beef ban’s end

If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, as the anachronistic saying goes, could Donald Trump’s love of beef be the key to a tariff...

yesterday 9

Matthew Knott

We’re awash with mental health advice. Meanwhile, a generation is getting sadder

Within a few minutes of scrolling through TikTok, the algorithm more familiar with my likes and my interests and my neuroses than my own mother,...

yesterday 3

Clare Stephens

More money, time and headspace: The upsides to downsizing

We weren’t really looking. We’d been chatting, on and off for years, about selling our four-bedroom family home and buying something smaller and...

yesterday 3

Jane Caro

From a Lygon era: Why I can’t cop a Silvagni at Collingwood

Carlton lost the great Alex Jesaulenko to St Kilda as a consequence of a political storm after the 1979 premiership, the season after another...

yesterday 3

Jake Niall

Why ‘inconvenient’ friendships may be the best kind

Deep in my phone is a lone contact labelled with their first name only. No job title, no relevant organisation, no second name, no elusive “Kate...

yesterday 2

Jamila Rizvi

Trump’s Aussie ‘alpha male’ is falling flat in Malaysia

US President Donald Trump’s nomination of a right-wing provocateur with a history of making Islamophobic remarks as his man in Muslim-majority...

yesterday 2

Zach Hope

Australia has become the global village idiot on quitting smoking

When it comes to reducing harms from smoking, Australia finds itself cast as the global village idiot – clinging to policies that perpetuate harm,...

yesterday 8

Fiona Patten

Albanese’s guru talkfest won’t make you richer - he’s chosen the wrong people

Looking at the list of experts who will be at Anthony Albanese’s three-day productivity love-in next month, my heart sank. Not that people such as...

yesterday 2

Shane Wright

Playmakers are now a protected species. It’s making rugby league boring

For years, I’ve been a loud voice when it comes to protecting playmakers in the NRL. It’s been on two fronts, especially. Halves and playmakers...

yesterday 2

Andrew Johns

Trump sparks a $6.4 billion wipeout for a US icon

If tariffs are paid for by those exporting products to the US, as Donald Trump consistently claims, why did General Motors say tariffs cost it...

previous day 1

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Nowhere to hide for NAB boss after drinking accusations

For National Australia Bank boss Andrew Irvine, there was nowhere to hide – but odds are the headline-making executive in the middle of a...

previous day 2

Elizabeth Knight

Question time returns, but you wouldn’t look here for answers

It took barely a minute before the first caterwauling broke out. It was a half-hearted effort, however, barely worthy of the name. Prime Minister...

previous day 4

Tony Wright

The Albanese government wants the Gaza war to end now. So do most Israelis

The Albanese government wants the war in Gaza to end immediately. So do the vast majority of Israelis, not that you’d necessarily know that from...

previous day 2

Matthew Knott

Under the gun over Epstein, Trump tries to finger Obama for ‘treason’

Washington: There’s something about the presence of a foreign leader in the Oval Office that spurs Donald Trump into territory that is, even for...

previous day 2

Michael Koziol

Trump’s becoming the Basil Fawlty of American tourism

There are those who misguidedly believe that not only should sport and politics never mix, travel and politics shouldn’t ever coexist either. Fat...

previous day 1

Anthony Dennis

Cutting HECS debt is the least Albanese could do for young Australians. He should do more

It may seem an age since the federal election, but the new parliament has just convened for the first time. Anthony Albanese will be giving top...

previous day 20

Ross Gittins

My super fund has collapsed. Can I get the pension in the meantime?

I’m caught up in the collapse of First Guardian super, and while this is going on, I won’t have access to my super. Am I entitled to receive the...

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Noel Whittaker

Defining antisemitism is no threat to free speech. Without a definition, we are adrift

The International Holocaust Remembrance  Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism was adopted in 2016 as an educational and data-collection...

previous day 3

Adam Slonim

Getting aged care advice? Ask these five questions first

When it comes to aged care, the decisions you make – where to live, how to fund care, and what to do with the family home – can have significant...

previous day 2

Rachel Lane

Want your portfolio to grow this year? Just follow this rule

For investors, the first half of 2025 rewarded smart positioning in selective asset markets. Money poured into artificial intelligence (AI) stocks,...

previous day 2

Billy Leung

I lived my dream on US talk shows – the axing of Colbert’s Late Show is about one thing

When I first got to Hollywood in 2011, I had a movie-like experience. I was picked up from the airport by my friend in a red ’70s convertible and...

previous day 4

Simon Taylor

Charlie Curnow got the mid-winter blues, and dreamt of life in the sun. We’ve all been there

It’s the middle of winter. Your team is in the toilet. Everyone is a critic, and you get some of the blame. The bloke who has been lumping around...

previous day 4

Michael Gleeson

When I visited Sydney, I was shocked by the antisemitism I encountered

My family have been in Australia for a considerable time. They were among the first Jews to arrive. My father’s family arrived in the colony of NSW...

previous day 7

Marcus Solomon

Steven May’s suspension was justified, and won’t change footy as we know it

The Steven May hearing came down to deliberating a question which has divided opinion surrounding AFL tribunal hearings for decades. May’s legal...

previous day 2

Peter Ryan

The world is more scared of Trump than America is

Another day, another US sharemarket record. All’s well in the United States, despite Donald Trump’s tariffs, his debt-funded spending binge and his...

tuesday 10

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump, Murdoch, Epstein and MAGA: Bannon predicts firestorm, but it’s not clear who will get burnt

Steve Bannon says it’s going to be “a long, hot summer” in a season of American political recriminations. And, he tells me, Australians have a...

tuesday 10

Peter Hartcher

Who will make finals in the race for the top eight – and how can your team play spoiler?

The run home to the AFL finals in 2025 remains must-watch viewing, with positions one through to eight there for the taking with five home-and-away...

tuesday 5

Jon Pierik

He’s the Mr Fix-It who can hold Tigers together. He can’t follow Galvin and Da Silva out the door

You can only hope the Wests Tigers don’t drag their feet much longer when it comes to tabling Adam Doueihi a new deal. Doueihi was the hero at...

tuesday 6

Christian Nicolussi

How James Packer plans to avoid passing the succession poison chalice to his kids

James Packer isn’t going to anoint a prince and heir to the family throne – signalling the end of four generations of the family dynasty. The fifth...

tuesday 6

Elizabeth Knight

Kiss Cam whammy made us chuckle, but it has triggered my bonk ban fixation

Kiss Cam, the harbinger of doom that picks out smooching couples in a crowd and projects them for everyone to see, brought out the ugly truth for...

tuesday 4

Jenna Price

Whitlam gave 18-year-olds the vote. Now it’s time to lower it again

In the midst of COVID and not long before the 2022 election, I tuned in half-heartedly to yet another Zoom seminar – something about sustainability...

tuesday 3

Vivienne Skinner

I’m in my 30s. Should I invest my savings or save for a property?

I’m in my 30s and have some savings that I’m trying to figure out what to do with. I do want to buy a property at some stage, but I don’t have...

tuesday 2

Paridhi Jain

An interest in politics is great, but only adults should be allowed to vote

When I was 16, Brian Henderson read the news, the Herald was a broadsheet and the best gaming computer was the Amiga 500. Today’s young people have...

tuesday 4

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Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

Kate Halfpenny

The ABS just had to bin some statistics. Here’s what went wrong

Millie Muroi

The key sign Trump is losing the plot over Epstein

Nick Bryant

Why Nathan Cleary didn’t make the best NRL team since 2000

Roy Masters

Stagger then strike: What the Wallabies need to do to keep the series alive

Jonathan Drennan

The NRL’s representative eligibility rules are broken. Here’s how to fix them

Michael Chammas

I saw starving children every day in Gaza. It makes you question humanity

Claire Manera

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Nick O&x27Malley

Segal’s antisemitism plan takes us down a path we should fear to tread

Waleed Aly

My company hired a dud, despite my warnings. Should I have said more?

Jonathan Rivett

Lost in translation: Trump doesn’t seem to understand the ‘massive’ deal he just made

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why older workers can be ‘too qualified’ to get a new job

Tim Duggan

Overkill in Gaza: Penny Wong was right to call out Israel

Rodger Shanahan

A new book aims to fix housing affordability, but there’s better solution for Victoria

Jim Malo

Macquarie’s day of reckoning: Millionaires’ factory shareholders draw the line

Elizabeth Knight

Pistol and Boo should have disguised themselves as (maybe mad) cows

Tony Wright

Why the NRL finals should start next weekend

Dan Walsh

Albanese and Rudd will have to sell very different messages on US beef ban’s end

Matthew Knott

We’re awash with mental health advice. Meanwhile, a generation is getting sadder

Clare Stephens

More money, time and headspace: The upsides to downsizing

Jane Caro

From a Lygon era: Why I can’t cop a Silvagni at Collingwood

Jake Niall

Why ‘inconvenient’ friendships may be the best kind

Jamila Rizvi

Trump’s Aussie ‘alpha male’ is falling flat in Malaysia

Zach Hope

Australia has become the global village idiot on quitting smoking

Fiona Patten

Albanese’s guru talkfest won’t make you richer - he’s chosen the wrong people

Shane Wright

Playmakers are now a protected species. It’s making rugby league boring

Andrew Johns

Trump sparks a $6.4 billion wipeout for a US icon

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Nowhere to hide for NAB boss after drinking accusations

Elizabeth Knight

Question time returns, but you wouldn’t look here for answers

Tony Wright

The Albanese government wants the Gaza war to end now. So do most Israelis

Matthew Knott

Under the gun over Epstein, Trump tries to finger Obama for ‘treason’

Michael Koziol

Trump’s becoming the Basil Fawlty of American tourism

Anthony Dennis

Cutting HECS debt is the least Albanese could do for young Australians. He should do more

Ross Gittins

My super fund has collapsed. Can I get the pension in the meantime?

Noel Whittaker

Defining antisemitism is no threat to free speech. Without a definition, we are adrift

Adam Slonim

Getting aged care advice? Ask these five questions first

Rachel Lane

Want your portfolio to grow this year? Just follow this rule

Billy Leung

I lived my dream on US talk shows – the axing of Colbert’s Late Show is about one thing

Simon Taylor

Charlie Curnow got the mid-winter blues, and dreamt of life in the sun. We’ve all been there