Opinion
Opinion
Companies
Myer's sales result scorecard? Better ask Sol
With sales down less than expected and a new CEO in the wings, Myer probably has a little reprieve until shareholders can assess what its new strategy will be.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Latest
Opinion
National
Company behind Sirius building one of first to employ women labourers
Company won contracts with NSW housing Commission constructed Sirius building, the Waterloo and Redfern towers and the Wooloomooloo redevelopment.
Analysis
North America
'Shiv each other': Why this White House leaks like a sieve
Donald Trump's White House possibly reached peak leak on Friday when staff leaked Sarah Sanders' exasperated staff briefing about leaks.
- by Rachel Olding
Europe
The right royal dysfunction in Meghan Markle's family
Markle's family dysfunction is on public display with the intense focus that accompanies a royal wedding.
- by Nick Miller
Opinion
Life & relationships
Who will walk Meghan down the aisle now?
Who will step up so this woman who is seen as property and not a person in her own right, can be relinquished by one owner and handed to another?
- by Kasey Edwards
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
NSW
NAPLAN is bad but Rob Stokes' alternative is worse
The new model is a micro-auditing system called ALAN. It requires teachers to be data entry autobots.
- by Dan Hogan
Opinion
Oceania
Like Suu Kyi, Anwar faces difficulties in power
The hopes for non-racial politics and economic reform represented by Anwar Ibrahim contrast with the Malay-first policies of his coalition partner.
- by Ross Tapsell and Kean Wong
Letters
NSW
Figures underplay the plight of Palestinians
Thousands of Palestinians have been displaced from Israel over the past 70 years.
Editorial
NSW
More pain in Gaza
Consider how much Israel had to celebrate on the occasion of its 70th anniversary this week.
Opinion
Workplace
The forgotten generation about to rule the roost
Public attention is on the retiring Baby Boomers and eager Millennials, but Generation X is ready to make its mark.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
CBD
Companies
$53m radio pay day for Lachlan Murdoch
And here we were all thinking that the heir apparent, Lachlan Keith Murdoch, was reliant on daddy Rupert Murdoch to earn a crust.
- by Colin Kruger
Opinion
AFL
AFL as a true global sport? Don't laugh - it could happen
Just how far-fetched is it to think one day an AFL team could be permanently based in Shanghai?
- by Sam Duncan
Opinion
Life & relationships
Jane Prentice and the biggest con of our age
How do people and institutions get away with prejudice? Simple: they dress discrimination in the cloak of merit.
- by Kasey Edwards
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
Opinion
Small business
Can this business sell $50 million in silk sleepwear?
You’ve made it if Kendall Jenner sends her runner to the Beverly Hills Hotel to buy eight sets of your sleepwear.
- by Alexandra Cain
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
Federal
Three ships but only two options
The government is preparing to decide who will build Australia's nine future frigates. It's a decision it must get right.
- by Nicholas Stuart
Opinion
AFL
Baguley should pay Lamb's fine
Essendon defender Mark Baguley should pay Jed Lamb's fine for the melee that he initiated with stupid comments about the Blues' player's family.
- by Michael Gleeson
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
Companies
Penn under the gun as Telstra's earnings hangover gets worse
Investors knew Telstra's earnings would fall off a cliff post-NBN. They didn’t previously understand the size of the cliff.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Health & wellness
The royal wedding really will be a feel-good 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
Comment
Middle East
A grotesque spectacle and a Trump Square in Jerusalem
Embassy event a consummation of the cynical alliance between hawkish Jews and Zionist evangelicals who believe the return of Jews to Israel will usher in the apocalypse and the return of Christ.
- by Michelle Goldberg
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
CBD
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
Letters
NSW
Budget reaction shows Canberra deaf to voters
It seems the budget is a political non-event with no effort to reduce the housing affordability crises.
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
Editorial
Federal
Women no longer need suffer in silence
It’s a silent epidemic that affects 700,000 Australian women, and costs the public purse billions - but finally, there’s action.
Opinion
Life & relationships
Junot Diaz and consent: is it really that simple?
I once applauded 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