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Berkshire Hathaway is a gigantic conglomerate that owns a bunch of boring businesses outright and has big stakes in a few arguably less-boring...
It might seem like your potential employer was discriminating against your youth, but the truth is probably more complex.
But the ARL Commission chairman has promised greater scrutiny on club officials who slam the game in their media roles.
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...
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...
The clash in this masthead between columnists Andrew Webster and Peter FitzSimons on rugby league and the risk of concussion from kick-offs...
Forget the Met Gala. For CBD’s subjects – politicians, lobbyists, random Canberra grifters – it’s all about the second Tuesday in May, when...
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...
Bright overhead lighting, noisy phone calls, unpredictable office temperature and smells from the kitchen are all triggers that can overload...
The curious thing about Australia’s four big banks is their insistence on individuality – they highlight the difference in their profiles and...
The sight of a university student pledging “unconditional support” for a listed terrorist group takes the argument about campus protests well...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
Washington: The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee...
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...
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...
Mothers have a guilt gland. It throbs from the moment that little pink line appears on the pregnancy stick. Normally easy-going females suddenly...
Probably few would attach the word “experimental” to the Albanese government, but that’s what it is. Traditionally, first-term federal...
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...
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...
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...
Talk about a deal that backfired. When one of Australia’s oldest and most storied financial institutions, Perpetual, announced it would be broken...
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...
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...
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...
Though Apple’s announcement of new iPads and accessories overnight took the form of a pre-recorded streaming broadcast, it was accompanied by...
Qantas’ new chief executive, Vanessa Hudson, is desperate to appear different to her predecessor, Alan Joyce. Funny, ’cos they sure as hell...
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...
An email sent by North Melbourne chief executive Jennifer Watt to her 17 club counterparts about sacked player Tarryn Thomas has laid bare the...
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...
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...
Forget AFL, Test cricket or the Sunday trip to Bunnings - investing in property is the greatest Australian pastime of all, and queuing for house...
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...
It’s been a decade since Joe Hockey delivered his infamous 2014 federal budget, toasting Australians as a nation of “lifters, not leaners”...
You want to know the one financial concept that, I think, is the most poorly understood, and therefore contributes the most to poor financial...
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...
Gold prices have traded at or near record levels this year, breaking its usual inverse correlation with inflation rates, US interest rates and the...
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...
Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical, evidence-based eye, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – Sign...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Michele Bullock and the Reserve Bank board have delivered the biggest hospital pass imaginable to Treasurer Jim Chalmers just a week out from his...
Donald Trump’s priorities for a second term are growing clearer. The tunes he sings are familiar, but the lyrics are becoming explicit. One...
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....
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...
Credit where it’s due. The Albanese government’s changes to HECS/HELP debt indexation – long called for by students, Greens and independents,...
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...
Last Friday, Nippon Steel said it would postpone completing its $US15 billion ($22.7 billion) acquisition of US Steel for three months....
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...
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...
London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is on political death row after his party suffered crushing defeats in a series of mayoral contests at...
Everyone knows a tradie who thinks they know everything about footy. There just aren’t many like Jason Taylor, the former air conditioner...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Last week, we learned the astonishing news that, in the 18 months since the Albanese government scrapped the Australian Building and Construction...
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,...
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...
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...