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Why Wayne Bennett loves the game, but doesn’t chase the game

Maybe Wayne Bennett fears retirement and joining that “mass of men” whom American philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote “lead lives of quiet...

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Roy Masters

Chalmers wakes the baby debate the country needs

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...

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Shane Wright

‘You know I barrack for Queensland?’ How Roosters won race for Fifita

Just after 8pm on Wednesday, Nick Politis’ phone rang. David Fifita’s agent, Michael Hudson, was on the line. With his client mulling over...

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Michael Chammas

‘It could boomerang’: Stormy Daniels testimony on sex, lies and money is risky for both sides

New York: Stormy Daniels has finished testifying in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, capping a tumultuous day and a half of courtroom accusations,...

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Shayna Jacobs

Can Trump survive a Stormy sex scandal? Sure he can – just ask Bill Clinton

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...

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Nick Bryant

I gave the eulogy at Molly Ticehurst’s funeral. Here’s how we can all best remember her

After a recent spike in domestic and family violence deaths, the community of NSW has rallied together to seek widespread changes to domestic and...

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Aidan Clarke

Latest allegations should spell the end of Tarryn Thomas’ career

The emergence on Friday of fresh allegations of harassment against former North Melbourne player Tarryn Thomas has clarified what lies at the nub...

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Greg Baum

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...

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Justin Fox

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

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...

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Jonathan Rivett

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

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...

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Andrew Webster

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...

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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...

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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...

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Kishor Napier-Raman

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

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...

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Ross Gittins

Why open-plan offices are bad news for ADHD workers

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,...

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Adam Mawardi

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

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

Biden’s curb on bomb delivery could be a catalyst to end Rafah standoff

US President Joe Biden’s announcement to stop supplying weapons to Israel should it launch an all-out assault on the city of Rafah delivers a...

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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

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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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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Dave Lee

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

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...

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Brad Emery

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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Sacha Myers

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 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...

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Andrew Johns

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...

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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...

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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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Peter Fitzsimons

Book ban uncovers uncomfortable truths for Labor in Sydney’s west

Labor councillor Mohamad Hussein had no qualms about supporting the removal of a book about same-sex families from the shelves of Cumberland City...

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Alexandra Smith

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...

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Julia Hartman

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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Andrew Wu

‘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...

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Elizabeth Knight

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...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Same-sex families don’t just belong in Newtown: they belong everywhere

The ugly topic of censorship made an unwelcome return to the headlines this week, when the Herald published an article about Cumberland Council...

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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...

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Matthew Knott

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

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Ben Protess

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...

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Noel Whittaker

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 created a spreadsheet to rank their female classmates in categories that ranged from...

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Katy Hall

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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Wendy Syfret

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...

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Tim Biggs

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...

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Sam Mcclure

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...

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Joe Aston

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...

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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...

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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...

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Ross Gittins

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...

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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...

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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...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

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...

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Elizabeth Knight

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...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

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...

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Shane Wright

Chalmers’ challenge: Hard-headed budget discipline

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver his third budget on Tuesday and the traditional routine of pre-budget announcements is in full swing. The...

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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,...

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Peter Quarry

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...

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Angus Dalton

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...

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Mathew Stokes

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...

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Jenna Price

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...

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Adrian Proszenko

‘All options’ were on the table to tackle DV, but now the most obvious one is off

For nearly a fortnight, the NSW government has told us “all options are on the table” to combat the crisis of men murdering, assaulting and...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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Peter Ryan

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...

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Elizabeth Knight

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....

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

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...

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Brendan Coates

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

London: Rishi Sunak is on political death row after his party suffered crushing defeats in a series of mayoral contests at the weekend including...

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Rob Harris

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...

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Michelle Cazzulino

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...

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Vince Rugari

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...

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Daniel Zeqiri

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...

06.05.2024 6

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Marc Mcgowan

NSW has long trailed Victoria on tackling domestic violence. Can we finally catch up?

NSW Premier Chris Minns outlined precisely why NSW should follow the lead of Victoria and South Australia and hold a royal commission into the...

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Alexandra Smith

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