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Why a $285 billion pile of cash has made Warren Buffett boring

Berkshire Hathaway is a gigantic conglomerate that owns a bunch of boring businesses outright and has big stakes in a few arguably less-boring...

10.05.2024 0

Brisbane Times

Justin Fox

I didn’t get a job because I’m Gen Z. Why did that happen?

It might seem like your potential employer was discriminating against your youth, but the truth is probably more complex.

10.05.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Jonathan Rivett

‘It’s not personal’: V’landys dismisses talk of Gould fallout after NRL breach notice

But the ARL Commission chairman has promised greater scrutiny on club officials who slam the game in their media roles.

10.05.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Andrew Webster

By cancelling Mother’s Day, this school is so inclusive it excludes mums

We’re cancelling Mother’s Day. Sorry Mum, but apparently all the work you did and the sacrifices you made to make my life, my sister’s life, the...

10.05.2024 3

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Brad Emery

If Chalmers gets the budget wrong, interest rate rises may kill his government

Federal budgets can make or break a government – and the treasurers who deliver them. Jim Chalmers, about to deliver his third budget in just 19...

10.05.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Five ways to kick off the concussion debate without stopping the game

The clash in this masthead between columnists Andrew Webster and Peter FitzSimons on rugby league and the risk of concussion from kick-offs...

10.05.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Michael Morgan

Move over, Met Gala: Labor’s budget night bash the big ticket in town

Forget the Met Gala. For CBD’s subjects – politicians, lobbyists, random Canberra grifters – it’s all about the second Tuesday in May, when...

10.05.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Kishor Napier-Raman

The economy’s just the means to an end. So, are we getting our money’s worth?

Our materialism puts us on a “hedonic treadmill”. We think buying a bit more stuff will make us happier and, at first, it does. But pretty soon...

10.05.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Ross Gittins

Why open-plan offices are bad news for ADHD workers

Bright overhead lighting, noisy phone calls, unpredictable office temperature and smells from the kitchen are all triggers that can overload...

10.05.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Adam Mawardi

CBA lowers the curtain on a profit season banks would rather forget

The curious thing about Australia’s four big banks is their insistence on individuality – they highlight the difference in their profiles and...

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Elizabeth Knight

When uni students endorse terrorism, it’s time for political intervention

The sight of a university student pledging “unconditional support” for a listed terrorist group takes the argument about campus protests well...

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David Crowe

Why AFL needs to embrace the coaching merry-go-round

Imagine if Luke Beveridge and the Western Bulldogs had heeded the signs at the close of 2022, when the Dogs suffered a terrible loss to Fremantle...

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Kane Cornes

Protests are firing up across our unis. As an academic, it’s a joy to witness

I don’t think I’ve ever been happier to see a peaceful protest, as I was to see RMIT students start an encampment as part of the global Students...

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Alexandra Wake

Why this is the most important three weeks of Nicho Hynes’ career

Nicho Hynes is facing the most important three weeks of his career. He and his Sharks teammates will have heard the mutterings about Cronulla having...

latest 10

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Andrew Johns

The world’s turned a blind eye, but I’ve seen Gaza’s horrors

“Will I ever walk again?” The question caught me off-guard, and I glanced at our nurse Becky for her reaction, desperately hoping her answer would...

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Brisbane Times

Sacha Myers

Homophobic and dumb: Why the punishment is right for Powell’s slur

Just days after Port Adelaide’s Jeremy Finlayson told The Age how contrite he was for using a homophobic slur on the football field, Gold Coast’s...

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Brisbane Times

Peter Ryan

Apple’s tone-deaf iPad ad triggers our darkest AI fears

I find it hard to believe that no one on Apple’s marketing team saw this coming. Maybe they were too timid to speak up. Perhaps they were...

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Brisbane Times

Dave Lee

It’s not easy being green for UK and European oil giants

There’s a yawning gap between the valuations of US oil and gas majors and their UK and European counterparts. That’s prompted a debate over...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Biden had hoped to send a quiet message, then Israel leaked it

Washington: The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee...

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Peter Baker

The 20 seconds that entered Carlton folklore the night the stands shook

All up, it took about 20 seconds. Diehard Carlton fans can remember it by heart from having it on loop all summer and beyond: The dare, the courage...

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Brisbane Times

Andrew Wu

How do you know if you were ‘raised right’? I’ve always felt like I’m missing something

Recently, I was at a tasteful country wedding, witnessing a glowing bride drift down the aisle. She was, like brides tend to be, beautiful. But as...

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Brisbane Times

Wendy Syfret

Mums, learn to put yourself first for once in your life

Mothers have a guilt gland. It throbs from the moment that little pink line appears on the pregnancy stick. Normally easy-going females suddenly...

latest 10

Brisbane Times

Kathy Lette

Albanese’s is an ‘experimental’ government – and it looks like the experiment is failing

Probably few would attach the word “experimental” to the Albanese government, but that’s what it is. Traditionally, first-term federal...

latest 10

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Why I will continue to argue for concussion victims – past and future

Yes, thank you for your many texts, emails and calls. I did see my colleague Andrew Webster’s piece on me last week. And I, too – waking on the...

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Brisbane Times

Peter Fitzsimons

Why sorting your tax early this year is more important than ever

Tax planning before June 2024 is more important than ever as the tax rates for this year are at an all-time high and rates will be considerably...

latest 10

Brisbane Times

Julia Hartman

TikTok makes a stand against forced sale or ban in the US

Joe Biden and the US Congress gave China’s social media giant ByteDance choices: surrender its TikTok business in the US, flee or fight. It’s...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘A joke’: The $2.2b deal with no detail that has left investors fuming

Talk about a deal that backfired. When one of Australia’s oldest and most storied financial institutions, Perpetual, announced it would be broken...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Elizabeth Knight

If I use up my super on a lavish holiday, can I still get the pension?

I’m wondering when my super runs out, would I be eligible for the pension? I was told Centrelink will go back five years and want to know how...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Noel Whittaker

Stormy Daniels tells a story of sex with Trump as he listens in disgust

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Donald Trump met Stormy Daniels, their fling seemed fleeting: he was a...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Ben Protess

PM’s rinse-and-repeat response to China jet incident will do little to deter aggression

Since the Albanese government came to power two years ago, its approach to China relations has been summed up by one word: stabilisation. But how...

yesterday 9

Brisbane Times

Matthew Knott

Apple’s iPad event: Five things you should know

Though Apple’s announcement of new iPads and accessories overnight took the form of a pre-recorded streaming broadcast, it was accompanied by...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Tim Biggs

Sorry, not sorry: Qantas perfects the art of the non-apology

Qantas’ new chief executive, Vanessa Hudson, is desperate to appear different to her predecessor, Alan Joyce. Funny, ’cos they sure as hell...

yesterday 40

Brisbane Times

Joe Aston

What are the consequences of being a ‘wifey’ or ‘unrapable’. I hope those girls never find out

When news broke last week that a group of high school boys had created a spreadsheet to rank their female classmates in categories that ranged from...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Katy Hall

Roos unable to ‘meaningfully change’ Tarryn Thomas’ behaviour: CEO’s email to rival clubs

An email sent by North Melbourne chief executive Jennifer Watt to her 17 club counterparts about sacked player Tarryn Thomas has laid bare the...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Sam Mcclure

We might not want what America has in its sports stars, but our players do

We still have a fair way to go when it comes to creating an environment that encourages players to express their personalities off the field. There...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Mathew Stokes

What I wish I’d known about suicide before my son died

I wish I’d known that in the hours before someone decides to take their own life, they act as if they don’t have a care in the world. I wish I’d...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Wayne Holdsworth

Our obsession with property is pathological. Something’s gotta give

Forget AFL, Test cricket or the Sunday trip to Bunnings - investing in property is the greatest Australian pastime of all, and queuing for house...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

William Bennett

When politicians fire up on ‘security’, my bulldust detector goes to DEFCON 1

I doubt if you’re waiting with bated breath for next Tuesday night’s federal budget but, since it’s the big set-piece event of my year, I’ve...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Ross Gittins

Virtually good value: A jolly Joe Hockey gig costs $20,000 a pop

It’s been a decade since Joe Hockey delivered his infamous 2014 federal budget, toasting Australians as a nation of “lifters, not leaners”...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Brook

Why this is the most poorly understood thing in finance

You want to know the one financial concept that, I think, is the most poorly understood, and therefore contributes the most to poor financial...

yesterday 6

Brisbane Times

Paridhi Jain

Parents thinking of helping kids into property must consider this

The housing crisis keeps getting worse. Thanks to a raft of factors, the average home in Sydney is now over $1.6 million and in Melbourne over $1...

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Noel Whittaker

Gold fever: Why China and the rest of the world are stocking up

Gold prices have traded at or near record levels this year, breaking its usual inverse correlation with inflation rates, US interest rates and the...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Not all men abuse women. But is this how it starts?

I’m struggling to imagine how a bunch of schoolboys might have thought this was OK. Here we are, just a few months after the public service...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Jenna Price

Confused by the quantum computing race? It’s just like the Oscars

Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical, evidence-based eye, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – Sign...

previous day 20

Brisbane Times

Angus Dalton

Critics warn changes to buy now, pay later don’t go far enough

A long-awaited crackdown on buy now, pay later services doesn’t go far enough according to a slew of submissions from consumer groups, who are...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Panthers or Roosters? Why David Fifita is weighing up Titanic decision

The Gold Coast’s marquee man, David Fifita, is mulling a move to rugby league central with the Roosters and Penrith emerging as his most likely...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Adrian Proszenko

Not everyone will celebrate AGL’s improved profit outlook

AGL Energy’s move to bump up its full-year profit guidance for a second time in three months should get consumers and some in Canberra fuming...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Elizabeth Knight

To have and to hold: When an engagement goes belly up, who gets to keep the ring?

A story in this masthead on Monday has sparked fierce debate around dinner tables across the country. It recounted a sad tale of ruptured love,...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Peter Quarry

Reserve Bank delivers a hospital pass of problems to Chalmers

Michele Bullock and the Reserve Bank board have delivered the biggest hospital pass imaginable to Treasurer Jim Chalmers just a week out from his...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Shane Wright

Trumpeting a terrible vision: What awaits if Biden loses… or even wins?

Donald Trump’s priorities for a second term are growing clearer. The tunes he sings are familiar, but the lyrics are becoming explicit. One...

previous day 2

Brisbane Times

Peter Hartcher

Prophecy that ‘doctors and lawyers’ will rule NRL is coming true

When commentating on NRL matches for Channel Nine, Phil Gould prides himself on predicting what’s going to happen on the field before it does....

previous day 2

Brisbane Times

Andrew Webster

How Vladimir Putin’s gas empire crumbled

Vladimir Putin is throwing everything he has got at ramping up Russia’s war machine. That is why the nation’s economy – if one believes...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Tim Wallace

Until Labor arrests the ballooning cost of uni, students are still being short-changed

Credit where it’s due. The Albanese government’s changes to HECS/HELP debt indexation – long called for by students, Greens and independents,...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Rachel Withers

Not a top-four team: How rival recruiters really rate the Bulldogs’ list

The notion that the Western Bulldogs have a top four list is off the mark according to four of the five club list managers The Age asked to...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Peter Ryan

The $23 billion deal that shines a light on a big threat to China

Last Friday, Nippon Steel said it would postpone completing its $US15 billion ($22.7 billion) acquisition of US Steel for three months....

monday 1

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Kids’ sport would be so much better without the parents. #prayforrain

Seasons of mist? Mellow fruitlessness? Winter sports season must be back. You spent all of last week commando-crawling your way to knock-off time...

monday 20

Brisbane Times

Michelle Cazzulino

Another horror show from Spurs. Postecoglou will not survive many more

Oh, Ange mate. What was that first 72 minutes all about? The Postecoglou-Spurs honeymoon ended months ago, but if there are more defensive away...

monday 1

Brisbane Times

Daniel Zeqiri

Tories smashed at local elections leaving Rishi Sunak on political death row

London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is on political death row after his party suffered crushing defeats in a series of mayoral contests at...

monday 20

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Pie and Saint take the long way; former tradie behind Dees’ success: Key takeouts from round eight

Everyone knows a tradie who thinks they know everything about footy. There just aren’t many like Jason Taylor, the former air conditioner...

monday 10

Brisbane Times

Marc Mcgowan

After Asian triumph, the Mariners are one trophy away from Australia’s GOAT conversation

Let’s get the qualifiers out of the way early. And we’re not talking about the 12 games the Central Coast Mariners had to play and the 100,000...

monday 10

Brisbane Times

Vince Rugari

Coalition’s super-for-housing policy would only help wealthier homebuyers

For decades after World War II, Australia was a nation of homeowners. But in recent decades, homeownership has fallen fast. In 1981, two-thirds of...

monday 20

Brisbane Times

Brendan Coates

How Qantas pulled off a soft landing on phantom flights

The exorcism of Alan Joyce’s Qantas legacy is now almost complete. And while the airline is up for $120 million in fines and compensation for...

monday 1

Brisbane Times

Elizabeth Knight

Productivity isn’t working, so why not try being more ethical?

Economists and business councils have been telling us for years that we must improve our productivity if we want to be more prosperous but, so far,...

monday 20

Brisbane Times

Ross Gittins

The policeman who pulled me over was wrong, and yet I copped it sweet

Last Wednesday, I had a hellish day. I’d been woken at 1am by a panicked call, the power went out, and one of my kids was unwell. My partner was...

monday 10

Brisbane Times

Kerri Sackville

The art of good government: Slow and steady won’t win Albanese the race

A brief summary of renting provided in a major housing report released on Friday is bleak. A third of Australians rent their home. There are more...

monday 10

Brisbane Times

Sean Kelly

The government’s HECS change is good, but another tweak is still needed

Timing is important – and that’s one of the clear shortfalls in the federal government’s surprise for young people with student loans over the...

monday 2

Brisbane Times

Millie Muroi

Should I move from a small super fund to a major one?

I am currently in a small industry super fund and have taken the MySuper balanced option. The returns over 10 years have been competitive with the...

05.05.2024 20

Brisbane Times

Paul Benson

It’s not corruption, but the Albanese government is guilty of cronyism

Last week, we learned the astonishing news that, in the 18 months since the Albanese government scrapped the Australian Building and Construction...

05.05.2024 20

Brisbane Times

George Brandis

I love Mother’s Day, but it also makes sense to be able to opt out

I don’t know about you, but my inbox has been absolutely spammed with Mother’s Day emails this year. It seems there are more emails this year,...

05.05.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Felicity Caldwell

Waratahs hit rock bottom as resurgent Reds put hands up for Wallabies

1. The Waratahs’ worst performance of the year. The 41-12 loss to the Hurricanes wasn’t good enough by the Waratahs. That game actually...

05.05.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Paul Cully

Back for the future: McDonald move turns Dees around

Tom McDonald was critical to Melbourne’s premiership win in 2021 after his late-career move to centre half- forward. If Melbourne were to win the...

05.05.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Michael Gleeson

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