Opinion
Opinion
Health & wellness
Why a mid-life gap year is a good idea
Surely taking the risk is better than living a life filled with regrets.
- by Philippa Arnold
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National
Palestine: international community has utterly failed in its stated mission
Viewed from Palestine, it’s hard to disagree that we’ve perhaps seen one of the most inflammatory weeks in recent memory.
- by Brendan Ciarán Browne
Opinion
AFL
Baguley should pay Lamb's fine
Essendon defender Mark Baguley should show pay Jed Lamb's fine for the melee that he initiated with stupid comments about the Blues' players family.
- by Michael Gleeson
COMMENT
National
A solution for the recycling crisis: turn plastic into energy
Australia's recycling crisis needs us to look into waste management options beyond just recycling and landfilling. Some of our waste, like paper or organic matter, can be composted. Some, like glass, metal and rigid plastics, can be recycled. But we have no immediate solution for non-recyclable plastic waste except landfill.
- by Muxina Konarova
Opinion
NRL
Inevitable Immortal Smith's rep footy retirement is impeccably timed
On Sunday, for the first time in 14 years, the Melbourne Storm, Queensland and Australian captain realised he wouldn't be able to back up after an Origin game.
- by Roy Masters
Analysis
Planning & budgeting
Something will have to give in financial advice
The vertically integrated business model is just too conflicted and will not survive the banking royal commission
- by John Collett
Analysis
NRL
Exhaustion, missing family commitments told Smith it was time
After each Origin game in 2017, Cameron Smith found himself laying on the bed at home feeling exhaustion he had never experienced before.
- by Roy Ward
Opinion
Health & wellness
The royal wedding really will be a feelgood event, for everybody
Sharing the royal wedding with others across the world really will be a unifying experience.
- by Linda Blair
Opinion
Banking & finance
Unintended consequences: How Trump is threatening the US dollar
The erratic nature of policy-making in the Trump era is threatening the status of the US dollar.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Life & relationships
Meghan Markle's dad has disobeyed the first rule of weddings
We're sure he meant well, but Mr Markle, come on!
- by Natalie Reilly
Opinion
Federal
'Rich whingers' not as hard done by as Morrison would have you think
Personal income tax is just the biggest and most visible of our taxes.
- by ROSS GITTINS
Opinion
Super & retirement
Federal budget failed to dazzle women, but election campaign might
Before budget night Minister for Women Kelly O’Dwyer said there'd be “a lot in the budget" for women. We'll have to wait until spring.
- by Nassim Khadem
Opinion
Small business
The secret to starting a successful start-up
The one simple question you must ask before you launch your online business.
- by Bernadette Schwerdt
Analysis
Small business
Hidden benefits for small business in the 2018 budget
A careful reading of the 2018 federal budget reveals several positives for small business.
- by Max Newnham
Opinion
National
You can be a republican and welcome a royal wedding
It will be romantic, it will be fun, and the higher the hype the more the Republican cause is helped.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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Companies
$38bn bonfire: How Telstra's value has sunk under CEO Andy Penn
It is not a happy third anniversary for Telstra's CEO Andy Penn.
- by Colin Kruger
Opinion
Middle East
Israel defies the odds to flourish
The welcome US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem is an appropriately symbolic way to mark Israel's 70th anniversary.
- by Colin Rubenstein
Opinion
Federal
Facing the hardest separation
International Day of Families is an important moment to reflect on Australia’s separation of refugees and asylum-seekers. It’s time to bring them together.
- by Catherine Stubberfield
Opinion
National
The real problem with royal commissions
Regulators have become more like risk managers, minimising short-term institutional risks rather than the systemic risks that matter most.
- by Kim Sawyer
Opinion
Life & relationships
Junot Diaz and consent: is it really that simple?
I once appluaded Diaz's intersectional analysis of sexual violence, but now it left me sickened. How was I to process this?
- by Alecia Simmonds
Opinion
AFL
Worsfold extension puts pressure on assistants
Decision to hand coach an additional two seasons has referred much of the stress on to his support cast.
- by Jake Niall
Opinion
Asia
An Aussie Trump is not such a remote possibility
Think Australia is immune from the rise of strong man leaders? Think again.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
NRL
Why Storm captain Cameron Smith isn't a grub ... but so what if he is?
The Australian and Queensland captain has taken the early plea for his wishbone tackle on Kevin Proctor. But the Smith haters still aren't happy.
- by Andrew Webster
Analysis
Asia
Australia feels chill as China and US trade blows over microchips
The ban by the US on Chinese telecommunications company ZTE, then Donald Trump's reversal, will prompt China to build its own microchip industry.
- by Kirsty Needham
Opinion
National
Innovator behind ZIP Industries had passion for cultural heritage
Michael Crouch's Zip instant boiling water appliances quickly won acceptance in the UK and Asia.
Opinion
AFL
Stringer theory: He needs to grow up
Essendon star's development is stalled, and it's all up to him to re-start it.
- by Chris Judd
Opinion
Health & wellness
It cost $250,000 to save Molly's life
Within two weeks of my daughter's diagnosis with an eating disorder I had tapped into the mortgage to pay $20,000 for the first private hospital stay.
- by Keeli Cambourne
Opinion
Investing
Investment inspiration from everyday life
More ways to generate ideas for stock investors - but be warned, you can have too many ideas.
- by Marcus Padley
Opinion
Companies
Telstra's not even close to filling the post-NBN earnings gap
For all the big talk of the future transformation of Telstra, there is nothing on the horizon that is large enough to be a game changer.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Analysis
Borrowing
It’s here as feared: banks rush to adopt US-style interest rates
Banks seize opportunity to introduce risk-based pricing on personal loans, even before the July 1 switch to comprehensive credit reporting.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Opinion
Celebrity
Eurovision 2018: the joke is finally wearing a bit thin
If you’ve ever wondered why the Western world put the US in charge of popular music some time in the second half of the 20th century, have a look at Eurovision.
- by Matt Holden
Opinion
Life & relationships
The problem with the 'good bloke' narrative
If refusing to discuss domestic homicide as anything other than an inexcusable act of violence is "demonising men", then we have a long way to go.
- by Clementine Ford
Analysis
Technology
Project Treble points to Android's less-fragmented future
How Google plans to get its latest features and security updates onto phones that might otherwise miss out.
- by Peter Wells
Opinion
Music
The novelty has worn off - let's ditch Eurovision for Asiavision
It makes sense for Australia to walk away from Eurovision and play a leadership role in pushing for an Asiavision song contest.
- by Jieh-Yung Lo
Opinion
Banking & finance
The seven-year tax offset plan means more than $10 a week for many
Scott Morrison did his best at explaining the tax cuts on budget night but how many Australians understood exactly what it means to them?
- by Olivia Maragna
Analysis
The economy
Donald Trump's freewheeling deals are starting to hurt the economy, say analysts
Donald Trump's unpredictability is helping to turn exuberance over tax cuts into fears about the health of the economy.
- by Tim Wallace
Opinion
Federal
Why do politicians refuse to believe decades of polling and research?
Today's poll proves anew something that only politicians refuse to believe. Voters generally care more about the health of the nation than about themselves.
- by Peter Hartcher
COMMENT
National
How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
Captain Cook has loomed large in the federal government’s 2018 budget.
- by Tracy Ireland
Federal
Federal budget lacks a political bounce for Coalition
A full federal election, due at the latest a year from now, suddenly seems a long way off.
Opinion
Federal
Measures to tackle black economy are suspiciously totalitarian
The solution to Australia’s black economy is to cut taxes and red tape, not to adopt the techniques of a totalitarian surveillance state.
- by Matthew Lesh
Opinion
Federal
Budget 2018: what we are witnessing is a grubby bidding war
We have far from seen the end of this bidding round.
- by Tony Walker
Opinion
Life & relationships
Cate Blanchett, I'm going to need an apology
Or at least a pivot.
- by Natalie Reilly
Opinion
Life & relationships
Husbands: here's how to not tick off your wives
According to one dad, parenting ability is either something you have or you don’t. And if it turns out he doesn’t have it, well, it just wasn’t meant to be, and there’s nothing to be done.
- by Kasey Edwards
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Companies
Catherine Brenner will finally face the music - at Coke AGM not AMP
It should have been a momentous occasion marking the progress of women into the top positions at one of Australia's bluest of blue chip corporations.
- by Colin Kruger
Analysis
Federal
Shorten reaps post-budget political dividends as Turnbull is left in dismay
The boost to Labor after the budget does not happen often.
- by David Crowe
Analysis
Rugby Union
Sponsors could yet derail Reds' play for Israel Folau
Brad Thorn may be vying for Israel Folau's signature but the Reds' naming rights sponsor may prove a stumbling block to a move north.
- by Georgina Robinson
Analysis
NRL
McGregor declares Souths are the 'benchmark' after 24-10 win
Souths have now won six of their last eight matches to be knocking on the door of the top four.
- by Andrew Webster
Opinion
Federal
Budget tax cuts the worst piece of tax policy design in recent history
This is the Trojan horse of tax cuts, calculated to save the political hide of a government which has proved bereft of true reform ideas, writes Jessica Irvine.
- by Jessica Irvine
Opinion
Companies
News Corp's war on Facebook is a decade in the making
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp wants a government body to monitor opaque tech algorithms. How would that work?
- by John McDuling
Analysis
Middle East
Trump set toughest test yet for Europe
President Donald Trump has posed a stark challenge for European leaders by abandoning the Iran nuclear deal: can they make it work without the US?
- by Andrew Hammond