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Trump 2.0 is the real worry
Bernard SaltStrip away compulsory voting in Australia and we would find Trump’s equivalent making a legitimate run for PM.
Hipster shift reshapes cafe index
BERNARD SALTThe nation’s highest rated cafes have moved, signalling a tectonic shift in modern urban culture.
Avocado with a grain of salt
BERNARD SALTHello Australia. I feel as though we know each other a little better because of the Avogate outrage this week.
Blame it on the Baby Boomer
Bernard SaltClimate change, Brexit, the high cost of real estate and the GFC... one generation is blame for all of them!
Rise and fall of world’s cities
BERNARD SALTBeijing has recently added an average of 800,000 net new residents per year.
Evils of the hipster cafe
BERNARD SALTIs the domination of smashed avocado on the nation’s cafe menus stopping the young from buying property? Just asking.
Melbourne goes into a flip
BERNARD SALTThe Victorian capital is doing what no other Australian city is doing: its growth direction is flipping | INTERACTIVE
Inclusion? Count me in
BERNARD SALTI feel sorry for sustainability. Here's a word and a concept that was all the go last decade, but has become passe.
analysisDo we live in worst of times?
BERNARD SALTHow does Australia compare with other nations at surviving disasters?
Losers, cougars and alpha males
BERNARD SALTNature has an uncanny way of tipping the romantic odds in favour of men or women according to their age.
Our success is on the waterfront
BERNARD SALTAustralia is a trading nation. We rely on our ports to deliver and to facilitate much of our wealth.
Bringing down the house
Bernard SaltHome sizes are diminishing across the nation and we are better off for that.
Centre for Fashionable Thinking
BERNARD SALTWhat could be more brazen than insisting that government spend more on a popular cause?
Shanghaied … the Fortune 500
BERNARD SALTYou kinda know that the biggest company on earth by market revenue is going to be based in the US.
Racist? We’re anything but
BERNARD SALTHow can anyone say that Australia is a racist nation when migrants form such a high proportion of our communities?
Move over Kiwis: here’s China
BERNARD SALTNew Zealand delivers more visitors to Australia than China but the Chinese middle class is on its way.
Bring back primitive parenting
BERNARD SALTParents in the old days slapped their children. That is not a misprint. And they did so with neither shame nor remorse.
Boomers refusing to retire
BERNARD SALTThe baby boomer generation was always going to reimagine the retirement years, and now we have proof.
Everyday Olympians
BERNARD SALTDon’t be too awed by the achievements of sport stars. Most ordinary accomplishments are equally impressive.
Chinese growth outward bound
BERNARD SALTThis is a China story — another China story — but from the perspective of corporate power.
Have we taken leave of our census?
BERNARD SALTAre we so fragile that our inability to access a census website causes this level of national angst?
No place like home
BERNARD SALTHomes have changed a lot since I was a kid. For one, the backyard shed has become a drawer of tools in the kitchen.
Politics just a numbers game
BERNARD SALTThere comes a point when middle-aged men and women in business think: ‘I reckon I’d make a good prime minister.’
The spirit of Clancy
BERNARD SALTThe characters who epitomise Aussie spirit have changed remarkably over the years. Who is it these days?
Pluses and minuses of ageing
BERNARD SALTThe ageing process is the issue that will reshape Australian society most profoundly over the coming decade.
commentNeed to prevent continental drift
BERNARD SALTShow hackers and doubters that we will not be dissuaded from telling the demographic truth of our nation in 2016.
China focus shows up in the mix
BERNARD SALTThere are 24 million people living in Australia, including about seven million who were born overseas.
Let’s get this party started
BERNARD SALTYou’ve gotta fight for your right to pay back your own debts.
Greed, boomers and original sin
BERNARD SALTThe reason why you don’t have a house is because a greedy ogre has gobbled up all the housing and has left nothing.
A generation of heroes
BERNARD SALTQuit your bickering and step aside boomers, Xers and millennials. This generation makes you all look soft.
What it takes to become a CEO
BERNARD SALTHow does getting to the top in Australia compare with corporate life in the US and China?
Out of the ordinary
Bernard SaltMeet the diva — an alien life form with mysteriously excellent financial skills
Marginal pork is overdone
BERNARD SALTIt’s a bidding war with the residents of marginal electorates winning at the expense of those living in safer electorates.
Opinion
We’ll all win if PM cows unions
Janet Albrechtsen The power grab for volunteer firefighters goes to the heart of the federal election.
Disruption looms in anti-elitism
Paul Kelly Feeling ripped off by corruption and afraid of terrorism and migrants, voters are going to extremes.
Politics is turning into tennis
Greg Craven There are only two dogs in this fight — our first unashamedly imperial poll.
Don’t be fooled, focus on future
Catherine Livingstone We need policies that prevent a downward spiral as the world’s economy evolves.
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