Opinion
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Markets
Who will pay for the world's debt mountain? It's you, dear saver
Someone has to pay the price of the financial excesses of the last few decades. With low and negative rates, that "someone" will be savers.
- by Satyajit Das
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Analysis
AFL
How a discarded Tom Scully ended up in a Hawthorn jumper so soon
The story of how Tom Scully, the former $6m man, was given away to Hawthorn and his stunning recovery
- by Jake Niall
Analysis
Sport
Time for F1's moral blind spot over Bahrain to close
Once more, then, F1 finds itself impaled on the horns of the thorniest moral dilemma.
- by Oliver Brown
Analysis
Tennis
Ash Barty edges to rightful spot among the world's best players
Now Ashleigh Barty has broken through to the women’s world’s top 10, there’s an overwhelming sense that the time is now for Australia’s highest-ranked player.
- by Scott Spits
Analysis
NRL
Benji and Robbie have got Tigers loving their football again
Robbie Farah and Benji Marshall are making it look easy. And it's rubbing off on the whole team.
- by Phil Gould
Opinion
Markets
Brace for nightmare before Christmas, banking giant warns investors
Citigroup has issued an explicit recession warning for the world's largest economy, advising clients to exit risky assets and prepare to ride out the storm.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Analysis
AFL
How can you stop AFLW Adelaide star Erin Phillips?
The Crows co-captain is clearly the best player in the women's game, so how will the Blues look to stop her on Sunday in the grand final.
- by Daniel Cherny
Analysis
Soccer
Devil in the detail in agreement on new look A-League
Proposals from the new league working group due on Sunday will, if adopted, bring about a sea change in the way the highest level of the Australian game operates.
- by Michael Lynch
Analysis
Cricket
Into the mystic of my holy cricket memory
If you are viewing the Shield final as a kind of trial for international status, and the Ashes, then James Pattinson’s return is especially well timed.
- by Tim Boyle
Opinion
Rugby Union
Johnson has a fighting chance of saving Australian rugby
After watching the Sunwolves humble the Waratahs, Scott Johnson might have been having second thoughts. But he is the right man to steer Australian rugby.
- by Paul Cully
Opinion
Workplace
We all have a part to play in stamping out racism at work
Jim Bright argues that everyone has a responsibility to call out racism in the workplace.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
ACT
Prepare to feel Sydney's squeeze
Before accepting the current high growth projections, Canberrans should ask what sort of place they want future Canberrans to live in.
- by Letters to the editor
Opinion
National
Weasels win from cycle of vengeance
One of the worst lessons to emerge from Australia's pointless leadership scheming is that the ultimate winner is neither the attacker nor the avenger.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
ACT
Survivor's master class in wisdom
"I believe in Allah and Allah says that if we forgive one another then he loves me, he loves us." Christchurch survivor Farid Ahmed.
- by The Canberra Times
Opinion
Federal
Why the cult of Pauline won't be enough for One Nation this time
Hanson made a mistake this week by appealing to her base while flanked by the men who are bringing her down, writes the author of the book on her 1998 campaign.
- by Margo Kingston
Opinion
The economy
High immigration is hiding the economy's long-running weakness
Australia's rapid population growth – plus the ups and downs of the resources boom – is masking the economy's problems.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
Europe
I worked for UK Labour but I think we'll miss Theresa May
It is not just Brexit that has been hard for May to resolve. The challenge confronting her has been far more profound.
- by Marc Stears
Opinion
Federal
Does the budget matter? It depends on who's asking
Evidently the government thinks the budget will matter: their re-election strategy clearly depends on it doing just that.
- by Simon Cowan
Opinion
Federal
Voters aren't coming to the party because they're in it for themselves
What has changed is not the performance of the major parties, but the life experience and motivation of voters.
- by Crispin Hull
Opinion
ACT
The ACT government is shrinking health spending year on year
The government cannot hope to deal with extensive problems in Canberra's hospital system unless it reverses its dangerous squeeze on funding.
- by Khalid Ahmed and Jon Stanhope
National
Richard Glover on social media: this is our seatbelt moment
Christchurch and the dark side of social media prove now is the time to keep the good; dump the bad.
- by Richard Glover
National
Diary of a bad housewife: The end of an affair with amateur decorating
Farewell to DIY French washing,ragging and faux-marbling. It's time for a professional.
- by Dusty Miller
Opinion
Life & relationships
Am I a Melburnian yet?
After 10 years living in the country's most progressive state, can I finally call myself a local?
- by Claire Thurstans
Opinion
Racing
The good, the bad and the ugly come to the fore
In a week that emphasised the great, the sordid and the character of the turf it was divulged that Redoute’s Choice – big, male and virile – was a tongue flasher.
- by Max Presnell
Opinion
Sport
Warner and Smith deserve their second chance
Athletes in other sports do worse on a daily basis. And even the worst sporting 'criminals' should be allowed to atone for their sins.
- by Darren Kane
Analysis
NRL
John Bateman carrying England's proud NRL legacy
The Raiders back-rower was a standout on the edge, unmatched by teammates and rivals alike.
- by Caden Helmers
Opinion
AFL
The AFL gives away a not-so-free kick
By enforcing copyright over use of the famous Tayla Harris photograph, the league has once again shown that it thinks it owns the world.
- by Greg Baum
Opinion
Companies
Aussie retailers are fighting the Amazon Armageddon - and winning
The online giant has been far less aggressive entering this market than anticipated, and local retailers are staging a successful rearguard action.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Cricket
Questions abound as ball-tampering saga shows no end
Intrigue over David Warner's relationship with teammates, and the original investigation, abound a year on from the Cape Town scandal.
- by Jon Pierik
Opinion
Markets
Why do 'bad' stocks outperform 'good' ones?
Many expected Nike's shares to suffer amid political backlash over its signing of controversial former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, but they didn't.
- by Jared Dillian
Opinion
Federal
Can Thodey, or Shorten, stop bleeding in the public service?
Without reforms, public servants are doomed to be handmaidens to dumber policy, more cronyism, less probity and more waste.
- by Jack Waterford
Opinion
ACT
Shooting for the stars still a worthy pursuit as anniversary nears
With the pending 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in July, it is fitting to consider the risk-management measures applied by NASA to the venture.
- by Letters to the editor
Opinion
Life & relationships
For women, what happens online is not virtual
Any remnants of a safety barrier between online and real life are gone, even for 'ordinary civilian' women.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Opinion
ACT
Rise to the population challenge
If the current rate of growth, calculated at 2.2 per cent, is maintained, Canberra's population will double to 842,000 by late 2050.
- by The Canberra Times
Opinion
Banking & finance
The world according to Samuel: men are better than women
Is it true that there is a coven of women directors who have a deathly grasp on power and refuse to share? As one noted feminist has said: nope, nope, nope.
- by Jenna Price
Opinion
Small business
Workplace hazing: how it arises
People think of it as normal at work, but hazing can have "severely harmful" consequences, research has found.
- by James Adonis
Opinion
National
Let's not forfeit our own freedoms in the rush to silence terrorists
The Prime Minister's moves to regulate social media should alarm all who cherish their democratic freedoms, says the Institute of Public Affairs.
- by Gideon Rozner
Opinion
National
When will we stop butting heads over sporting concussion?
A sports doctor and neuroscientist enter the concussion debate, and say players are not qualified to decide for themselves whether they stay on the field.
- by Ben Koh and Alan Pearce
Opinion
Federal
Minor star or major embarrassment? The baffling rise of Teena McQueen
The way Teena McQueen rose to the top of the Liberal Party left cabinet ministers aghast.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
National
Don't panic! Our gun laws are in little danger of being watered down
When all we hear is "guns, guns, guns", it means that an election is on the horizon. It is not about guns, but politics.
- by Samara McPhedran
Opinion
National
The morning after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern got on the sauce
"The last thing I remember is some bloke talking in a strange accent and a slab of whisky."
- by Warwick McFadyen
Opinion
Workplace
What do you do when it seems friends and family need only apply?
How should you respond to nepotism?
- by Jonathan Rivett
Opinion
National
$500 million war memorial upgrade should recognise unspoken conflicts
Let’s think about how we can acknowledge the wars fought on our soil.
- by Stan Grant
Perspective
Federal
Pauline Hanson and the ooze of Port Arthur conspiracy mania
The conspiracy theories began right after Martin Bryant murdered 35 innocents. Two decades later, the delusions are still troubling a political leader.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Markets
Barometer of fear: Manic bond investors send a chilling signal
When investors rush to pay governments to hold their money, you know something is rotten in the state of the global economy.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Comedy
Comedy at its groundbreaking best: Get Krack!n's Indigenous finale
In their final show, the two Kates handed over to Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell - and it changed the face of mainstream Australian TV.
- by Dom Knight
Analysis
North America
A triumphant Trump, a worried America
This week, Donald Trump had one of the best days of his presidency - US Attorney General William Barr announced that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had finished his investigation and found there was no evidence of collusion between the US president’s campaign and Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 US election. Is the report an indictment on US democracy, or merely another Trump scandal consigned to the scrap heap?
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Technology
Beneath the glitz of Apple's latest event, an air of quiet desperation
As Oprah Winfrey bounded on to the stage of the Steve Jobs Theatre in Cupertino, Apple's late founder may have turned in his grave.
- by Robin Pagnamenta
Opinion
AFL
What's the big deal with the term 'AFLM'?
I was baffled by the response to Bob Murphy's column in The Age this week because most of the responses on social media focused not on the broader message of the article, but on one letter of the alphabet.
- by Claire Siracusa
Analysis
AFL
Punch or palm: The 6-6-6 revolution has only just begun
The extra space created under the 6-6-6 rule has created more possibilities for ruckmen. Will they be brave enough to take them?
- by Peter Ryan