Opinion
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Saving
Cash creativity to beat the budgeting blues
Turning financial goals into a game can help you stay motivated.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Opinion
Planning & budgeting
Financial security: why Millennials are unfazed and women are worried
Millennials apparently aren’t particularly concerned about financial security. By contrast, Australian women of all ages are very concerned about it.
- by Georgina Dent
Opinion
Investing
How to get property investment right
Buying an investment property is no guarantee of financial success - you need to buy well in the first place.
- by Noel Whittaker
Opinion
National
Forgiveness is a test of parenthood
Our children do stupid things, make bad decisions and disappoint. It's easy to condemn but so much more powerful to forgive.
- by John Watkins
Analysis
TV & radio
Is Lisa Wilkinson a ratings failure?
The Project's numbers are not what you think.
- by Michael Lallo
Opinion
National
Why I'm gunning for working class man Jimmy Barnes
Wherever I go, whatever I do, no matter how books I sell, I can't compete with the works of Australia's greatest non-fiction writer.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Analysis
Technology
Facebook dating: a question of trust
Do we trust Facebook with our most intimate details?
- by Ben Grubb
Opinion
Federal
Drumbeat to ditch NAPLAN is growing louder - and rightly so
As a school principal, I want to be able to give confidence to children and parents but right now, when parents ask whether they should withdraw their children from NAPLAN, I find it hard to argue why they shouldn’t.
- by Elizabeth Stone
Analysis
Asia
Inside the Demilitarised Zone, where Donald Trump wants to meet Kim Jong-un
The Demilitarised Zone is a preposterous place, not least for its name.
- by Nick O'Malley
National
Attacks on ambos show that ice is a scourge on society
There is no doubt that ice is the scourge of our modern day society.
Opinion
National
Most of us want to see more spent on social security
For the first time, an absolute majority, 55 per cent, of respondents want to see more spending on social security.
- by Emma Dawson
Opinion
National
The creepy truth behind the budget
Australia does not have high-taxing, high-spending governments. But it has had a succession of fiscally duplicitous ones.
- by Michael Short
Opinion
Sport
The deal between athlete and audience is souring
There is a bizarre penchant in this country for demoralising sportspeople.
- by Timothy Boyle
Opinion
Life & relationships
Faith
As Australia moves into a post-Christian phase, I have been pondering the legacy of the faith in building Western civilisation and culture.
- by Barney Zwartz
Opinion
Banking
Bad bankers have splattered other businesses
Is shabby bank behavior just a subset of a broader modern business delinquency?
- by Jack Waterford
Opinion
Cricket
Langer legacy could be great but key decisions await
Justin Langer has several decisions to make in his rebuild of the Australian cricket team.
- by Jon Pierik
Opinion
Federal
Testing times: children's education should not be a competition
We need a robust conversation about education, teachers, and especially the wellbeing of children. But can we please do it with some imagination and vision?
- by Stephanie Dowrick
Editorial
NSW
Trump lies; America says 'so what?'
Until very recently in the United States, to be caught in a sexual relationship with someone other than your wife would blight the career of any politician.
Letters
NSW
NAPLAN scores low as a way to improve education
At last we have an education minister with the resolve to rid us of NAPLAN.
Opinion
Beauty
Foreign Correspondence: Why the world is adopting Korean skincare
South Korea has become the indisputable global capital of all things beauty. Just look at its most widely exported and coveted product: the sheet mask.
- by Amelia Lester
Opinion
National
Don’t worry – you’re probably right about the budget
A mere 10 per cent of people think tax cuts for big businesses should be a priority. Yet the Turnbull government presses on with its strategy.
- by Richard Denniss
Opinion
Banking & finance
Flaws of self-regulation: trust some of the people, some of the time
Self-regulation flies in the face of millennia of self-interested human evolution, writes Crispin Hull.
- by Crispin Hull
National
Alexa, pizza and Elvis for everybody!
I have a new sense of power. I can bring the joy of Elvis into people's homes. Here's how it works.
- by Richard Glover
Opinion
Banking & finance
David Murray has taken a job nobody wanted at AMP and it's gargantuan
Is the grandfather of vertical integration really the best man to lead the embattled giant?
- by Adele Ferguson
Opinion
North America
The US and China are finally having it out
It's nothing less than a struggle to redefine the rules governing the power relations of the world's superpowers.
- by Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion
Life & relationships
Why does everybody else seem to have more friends than me?
I only have about five close friends in the world, but that's OK. I'm good.
- by Danny Katz
Opinion
National
Winner takes all: how private schools make everyone nastier
Unless we want a rich-poor apartheid, we need to stop giving the fat little piggies in private schools such a hefty, gold-plated leg up.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
Opinion
The economy
Will tax cuts boost the economy? Yes and no
It's not so much tax cuts that will boost jobs.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
Federal
Economic reckoning is on its way - and we will all have to pay
Turnbull and Morrison will insult the intelligence of Australians on Tuesday by giving us a paltry tax cut and a beer discount.
- by Peter Hartcher
Analysis
NRL
Brad Fittler should take notice of Bennett's Origin push for James Roberts
The former Queensland coach has no love for the Blues but his endorsement of James Roberts carries plenty of weight.
- by Phil Lutton
Analysis
Rugby Union
Why Australia and New Zealand need each other more than ever
Kick the Aussies out of Super Rugby? We'd like to see you try.
- by Georgina Robinson
Analysis
Federal
The question Scott Morrison will not answer
There is one big question Scott Morrison does not want to answer about the tax cuts he will reveal on Tuesday night.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Banking & finance
Revealed: How AMP tried to frustrate the regulator's investigations
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has savaged AMP in confidential correspondence written in March.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
National
Andrew Laming: this is what I really meant about teachers' pay
My call to pay teachers for every hour they work was misrepresented by vested interests as an attack on the profession.
- by Andrew Laming
Opinion
Planning & budgeting
Clients of financial advice need to stay alert
Investors and savers need to understand and closely monitor the investments and strategies they choose to pursue.
- by Daryl Dixon
Opinion
Federal
We should welcome it when people change their minds
Backflipping. Caving in. Flip-flopping. We call for a change, but when it comes, we jeer. Yet changing of one’s mind is surely a sign of flexibility, of having an open mind, of a fresh interrogation of evidence, of discovering new information, or even just adapting to political circumstances.
- by Julia Baird
Analysis
Oceania
In New Caledonia, Macron confronts the past and prepares the future
Australian policy observers were focused on French President Emmanuel Macron’s first visit to Australia this week, but there is another important first.
- by Denise Fisher
Opinion
Rugby Union
The three players the Waratahs must stop to end the Kiwi hoodoo
Introspection has been a theme at the Waratahs over the past week. But it's three names on the Blues team sheet they must look out for.
- by Paul Cully
Opinion
NRL
Phipps, #talkthegameup and rugby league’s rules of distraction
The problem with rugby league is that there is often too much material to talk about.
- by Malcolm Knox
Opinion
National
Don't they get it? Those once mocked are having the last laugh
They made fun of 'poofters', 'blackfellas' and 'sheilas', now washed-up comedians from the '80s claim political correctness is killing their act.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Analysis
AFL
Dive Bombers: How Essendon have tumbled
Essendon had been expected to finish top four but are already struggling to make the finals amid claims of an out-dated game plan. What's gone wrong?
- by Jon Pierik
Analysis
Investments
How rich is Apple? Latest buyback shows it's world's biggest cashmaker
Like a bottomless ATM, the tech giant spent $28.7 billion on its recent share buyback - enough to buy any of 275 companies listed on the US benchmark.
- by Thomas Heath
Opinion
Fashion
Hey, global fashion brands, stop treating Australian shoppers like fools
It's no surprise that brands such as Esprit have failed in Australia when they all had one thing in common: they treated Australian shoppers like mugs.
- by Melissa Singer
Health & wellness
Don't tax sugar, tax these foods
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are relatively new, but they have been gradually growing in ubiquity.
- by Georgie Churchill
Opinion
Life & relationships
An open letter to men from a difficult woman
"Most go in the trash, the rest go to the police."
- by Kerri Sackville
Analysis
North America
Is President Donald Trump about to talk himself into an impeachment?
The topic du jour may be Rudy Giuliani's bombshell about Stormy Daniels, but the more important story remains the Russia scandal
- by Jonathan Bernstein
Analysis
North America
The President didn't tell the truth. Now Giuliani has. Will that change anything?
Does it bother anyone that President Donald Trump has been caught lying? Does it bother anyone that this is not new?
- by Dan Balz
Opinion
Small business
Email: nothing more than an interruption?
Employees send and receive an average of 122 emails a day and almost a third of our time is spent doing nothing but managing the darn things.
- by James Adonis
Editorial
NSW
The human cost of a big country’s politics
Is politics as a career just too hard? Two parliamentarians recently in the news symbolise two possible answers to that question.