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Maybe Wayne Bennett fears retirement and joining that “mass of men” whom American philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote “lead lives of quiet...
Just after 8pm on Wednesday, Nick Politis’ phone rang. David Fifita’s agent, Michael Hudson, was on the line. With his client mulling over...
Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth didn’t need to make a legal ruling or deliver a solemn lecture to shut down the sham unfolding before her in the...
New York: Stormy Daniels has finished testifying in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, capping a tumultuous day and a half of courtroom accusations,...
The emergence on Friday of fresh allegations of harassment against former North Melbourne player Tarryn Thomas has clarified what lies at the nub...
It wasn’t quite as catchy as Peter Costello’s “one for mum, one for dad and one for the country” baby-bonus-infused quip, but Jim Chalmers...
We’re getting better at dealing with old stuff appropriately. At a solemn ceremony in Cambridge recently four spears taken by Captain Cook from...
Hurricane Stormy swept through Lower Manhattan this week, the kind of once-in-a-generation freak event that now seems to happen in US politics...
Berkshire Hathaway is a gigantic conglomerate that owns a bunch of boring businesses outright and has big stakes in a few arguably less-boring...
I recently asked a hiring manager why I’d missed out on a job I was interviewed for. They said they wanted to be straight with me and admitted...
ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys insists he hasn’t fallen out with Canterbury boss Phil Gould; the decision to fine him $20,000 for...
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...
On election night in 2022, then-premier Daniel Andrews left little room for doubt: “We will deliver each and every element of our positive plan...
We spend a lot of time hearing, reading and arguing about The Economy, and we’ll be doing a lot more of all that after we’ve seen Tuesday...
Michelle Bellyou often leaves work exhausted and unable to speak. After getting home, she can do little more than take off her coat and shoes,...
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...
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...
The curious thing about Australia’s four big banks is their insistence on individuality – they highlight the difference in their profiles and...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Washington: The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee...
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...
The sight of a university student pledging “unconditional support” for a listed terrorist group takes the argument about campus protests well...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Though Apple’s announcement of new iPads and accessories overnight took the form of a pre-recorded streaming broadcast, it was accompanied by...
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...
Qantas’ new chief executive, Vanessa Hudson, is desperate to appear different to her predecessor, Alan Joyce. Funny, ’cos they sure as hell...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As someone about to turn 90, driving has been an important part of my life for more than 70 years. I have regularly tested my skills in courses at...
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”...
It is easy for Victorians long familiar with talk of the state’s mountainous debt to hear the government speak of “fiscal discipline” and switch...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Soft tacos or crunchy tacos? We have to choose because Victoria can’t have both. That was the message from government ministers on budget...
Treasurer Tim Pallas has handed down his 10th budget, which sets out the state’s strategy for getting back to surplus and dealing with debt. These...
Michele Bullock and the Reserve Bank board have delivered the biggest hospital pass imaginable to Treasurer Jim Chalmers just a week out from his...
Tim Pallas would like us to think of the thumping great debt owed by this state as a home owner might a mortgage. As the treasurer puts it, the...
Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical, evidence-based eye, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – Sign...
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...
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,...
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...
Gold prices have traded at or near record levels this year, breaking its usual inverse correlation with inflation rates, US interest rates and the...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Everyone knows a tradie who thinks they know everything about footy. There just aren’t many like Jason Taylor, the former air conditioner...
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...
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...
When people hear that I bought an apartment in Box Hill, the first question they ask is whether I’m in one of the glossy glass skyscrapers that...
London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is on political death row after his party suffered crushing defeats in a series of mayoral contests at...