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New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and Australian Prime Minster, Scott Morrison speak to media at a press conference held at Admiralty House on February 28, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Ardern is in Australia for two days for the annual bilateral meetings with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Ardern right to call out Morrison for deporting 'Aussie' Kiwis

The Jacinda Ardern comments at her press conference with Scott Morrison by her side were indeed strong - and I have to say she is right and we Australians are wrong.

  • by Peter FitzSimons

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Soviet couriers escort Evdokia Petrov across the tarmac at Darwin Airport in 1954.
Editorial
Foreign relations

ASIO needs more powers to tackle foreign interference

Espionage ain't what it used to be, but ASIO boss Mike Burgess says the threat to Australia is higher than it ever was during the days of the Cold War. 

  • The Herald's View
Faith
Opinion
International Women's Day

Young women can be the lantern that lights the way

International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the achievements of all women.

  • by Gemma Di Bari
Bettina Arndt
Opinion
Child abuse

Arndt's Australia Day honour invites scrutiny of the entire awards process

The system for selecting who gets honours is utterly opaque – it needs scrutiny.

  • by Jacqueline Maley
Brisbane-made children's show Bluey is an example of children's programming being successful and profitable.
Opinion
Australian TV

Posturing from broadcasters isn't the way screen content policy should be made

The issue of local content on Australian television has reared its head again.

  • by Nathanael Cooper
Hannah Clarke, pictured with son Trey, has now also lost her life.
Opinion
Domestic violence

Men must learn to talk rather than act to deal with their emotions

I was struggling to come to terms with my first break-up when I saw a young man sprinting towards me on Friday morning, followed by a police officer.

  • by Brandon Jack
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Letters

Kelly should leave the commentary to experts

Age readers discuss Liberal MP Craig Kelly throwing his weight behind Advance Australia's push to get its educational resources into Australian schools.

Illustration: Dionne Gain
Opinion
Coronavirus outbreak

Questions that worry me more than catching the bug...

...Or even running out of toilet paper.

  • by Julie Szego
Harold Bettle, then Managing Director of GMH, drives the first production Holden off the assembly line in Fishermans Bend.
Opinion
Cars

Fishermans Bend presents an unmissable opportunity

Car fanatics and Holden collectors are weeping into their oil cans, but there's a chance to solidify some of our city's history.

  • by Jon Faine
The writer at the house in question.
Opinion
City life

The bacchanal is over, and I'm mourning a house that was never mine

You're not supposed to fall in love with your university sharehouse - especially when it's not even yours.

  • by Michael Koziol
Could Melbourne be more like Copenhagen?
Opinion
City life

Melbourne could become the Copenhagen of the south

Modern Melbourne is a cosmopolitan mix of influences from around the world, replete with our own city making innovations that contribute to a world class level of liveability. But we would do well to embrace many of the ambitions and attitudes of modern-day Copenhagen.

  • by Nicholas Reece
Government failure has increased the cost of the transition to clean energy.
Opinion
Climate policy

Why I'm introducing the people’s Climate Change Bill

I am calling on all MPs to think carefully about the responsibility they owe to their electorates, their children and future generations.

  • by Zali Steggall
AFL great Graham "Polly" Farmer at home in 2010.
Opinion
AFL 2020

How many other players are at risk of brain injury?

The AFL should now publicly state CTE is a risk to those playing the game.

  • by Wendy Carlisle
Most households will soon have to deal with four bins.
Editorial
Waste

Sustainable future a cost we must bear

Victoria only converts about 4 per cent of waste to energy. There is potential for growth.

  • The Age's View
Sun Yang
Analysis
2020 Tokyo Olympics

Why CAS has done the IOC a huge favour by banning Sun Yang

There could be expressions of athlete revolution in Tokyo, but taking Sun Yang out of the equation means Mack Horton and Duncan Scott won't have to risk it all.

  • by Phil Lutton
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Opinion
Concussion crisis

Sport Thought: The new form of courage may be not to play

Despite the modern insistence that football is some kind of puzzle to be solved, the whole thing still swings on the abandonment of thought to action and on decisions rather than imagination.

  • by Timothy Boyle
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Kalyn Ponga represented the Maori All Stars and has spoken of his desire to play for the All Blacks.
Analysis
NRL 2020

Ponga would need at least two years to get anywhere near a World Cup

The Newcastle star needs to leave the NRL at the end of next season to give himself any chance of playing for the All Blacks at the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

  • by Paul Cully
Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V'landys.
Analysis
NRL 2020

Murdoch gives V'landys stamp of approval for second Brisbane NRL team

The ARLC chairman has got consent for a second Brisbane team from the man who matters most.

  • by Neil Breen
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to his supporters at parliament.
Analysis
Syrian conflict

Erdogan's demands are testing NATO's patience

The fact that Turkey is breaching Syria's territorial integrity somewhat undermines Ankara's claim that its sovereignty is under threat

  • by Con Coughlin
Illustration: Alan Moir
Letters

Coronavirus: Great leadership, PM. Now use it for climate change

Readers discuss the coronavirus, including the federal government's moves to prevent it becoming an epidemic.

On a recent American Airlines flight in the US, one passenger decided to shame a fellow flyer who "punched" and pushed her seat after she reclined it.
Opinion
Aviation

Don't blame capitalism for shrinking airline legroom

A viral video of a man punching the back of a woman's reclined airline seat got Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian's attention. But he made things worse when he asked flyers to be polite and check with the passengers behind them before hitting the recline button.

  • by Noah Smith
James Gargasoulas leaving the Supreme Court earlier this year.
Analysis
Naked City

Copping the flak after Bourke Street

The failure to stop Gargasoulas is not a failure of a few officers but the result of training that has encouraged a generation of police to be risk-averse.

  • by John Silvester
Hannah Clarke and her three children - Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey - were killed by the children's fathe.
Opinion
Domestic violence

There's a massive scarlet flag flying over women at risk

Coercive controlling behaviour is not “lesser than” physical violence: it is a predictor of it and it needs to be targeted.

  • by Julia Baird
Julian Assange being taken from court last year.
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Assange saga

The only questions that should matter in the Assange extradition battle

Everyone has a view on Assange. But, frankly, our views should be irrelevant.

  • by Elizabeth Farrelly
Officials work to diagnose people with suspected symptoms of the new coronavirus in Daegu, South Korea.
Opinion
Commercial real estate

COVID-19: This too shall pass … like a kidney stone

The real estate investment trust sector is reasonably well positioned to deal with the challenge of coronavirus.

  • by Andrew Parsons
Illustration: Dionne Gain
Opinion
Electricity

Despite neglect at the top, we're muddling towards low-carbon electricity

We are making the shift to renewables but don’t imagine we’re doing anything like enough.

  • by Ross Gittins
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Students have taken to the streets to protest what they believe is a lack of government action on climate change.
Opinion
Careers

I think I prefer complexity and nuance to simplistic messages and evangelical fervour

At a protest march last weekend, I realised that, while I do enjoy being helped in how to think, I do not appreciate being told what to think.

  • by Jim Bright
If you are easily distracted, bored or finding it had to concentrate, it might be a clue that you are no longer engaged in your work
Opinion
Careers

How to get motivated when you're in a professional rut

Becoming motivated at work after hitting a rut doesn’t come without challenges or a bit of ‘outside-the-box’ thinking.

  • by Jay Munro
Dog pounds are now 5-star Pet Rescue Resorts with an all-you-can-eat kibble buffet.
Opinion
Pets

Adopting a dog is no walk in the park

My beloved's fruitless quest to find us a rescue dog left her pining around the house, head lowered, making a whimpering sound.

  • by Danny Katz
Sun Yang has been banned for eight years.
Analysis
Doping

The Sun sets on Mack Horton's nemesis

The Olympic career of China's most celebrated and reviled swimmer, Sun Yang, has been brought to a shuddering halt by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

  • by Chip Le Grand
Mack Horton
Analysis
Doping

Career-ending ban vindicates Horton’s contempt for star

Sun Yang's banishment from international sport has given his Australian arch-rival, Mack Horton, the ultimate final serve in a bitter rivalry.

  • by Phil Lutton
Illustration: John Shakespeare
Opinion
The Fitz Files

In hunt for world No.1 narcissist's biggest fan, there can only be one winner

Bring it in tight, sports fans, and let’s see how quickly you can work this Who Am I quiz out?

  • by Peter FitzSimons
Illustration: John Shakespeare
Opinion
Coronavirus outbreak

How Australia defied global health authority on coronavirus

Why was Australia ahead of the world in acting against the virus? For the simple reason it didn't trust the World Health Organisation, which it believed was succumbing to China's pressure.

  • by Peter Hartcher
RFS firefighters get ready to defend properties in Bumbalong near Canberra earlier this month.
Editorial
Bushfires

Lessons forged in summer from hell

There have been some positives to come out of a summer beset by drought, bushfires and coronavirus.

  • The Age's View
The imprisonment rate is at its highest level since the 1900s. S JAIL  PRISON  GENERIC***FDCTRANSFER***
Opinion
Spectrum

School trip to an asylum and other cautionary tales

Psychiatric hospitals, abattoirs, prisons, sewage works ... remember when school trips could give you nightmares.

  • by Richard Glover
Wansolwara
Opinion
Review

New wave of Pacific contemporary art: best maybe yet to come

An ambitious project explores the diverse cultures of the Pacific united by sharing the world's largest ocean.

  • by John McDonald
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The NBN is an infrastructure project that may well be as vital to the nation as our road network.
NBN

Let's rip up the roads and waste billions: sound familiar?

The government remains largely unscathed by the national disgrace that is the NBN.

  • by Monica Dux
Jack de Belin's rape trial has been hit by an unexpected delay.
Analysis
NRL 2020

A year on, is the NRL's no-fault stand down rule working as intended?

The Federal Court of Australia decided that the NRL's new rule was legal. But is it fair and balanced?

  • by Darren Kane
Rowan Baxter with Hannah Clarke and their children, Aaliyah,  Laianah and Trey. Baxter killed them all, but before Hannah died she detailed his crime to police.
Opinion
Domestic violence

The greatest human rights violation on the planet is the harm men do to women

The author has spent past two-and-a-half years investigating crimes against women. Now, moved by the murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children, he is grappling with the hatreds that possess violent men.

  • by David Leser
US markets plunged into correction territory overnight Thursday.
Opinion
Coronavirus outbreak

Sweating fingers hover above ‘sell’ buttons as investors ignore 101 of share trading

The current panic feels more akin to that which we saw during the global financial crisis - savage share price falls and calls for central bank stimulus to prop up economies.

  • by Elizabeth Knight
The pressure is showing on Meg Lanning.
Opinion
ICC Women's World Cup

Lanning feels the heat, but at least Australia's world cup flame is still burning

After a scratchy start, three knockout matches and the weight of expectation stand between Australia and the world cup.

  • by Malcolm Knox
Elvis Kamsoba is one of the players who have progressed from the NPL.
Analysis
FFA

How ready are second-tier clubs to step up to a national league?

The NPL Victoria is the strongest of the second-tier leagues and several of its players, clubs and coaches hope to be involved in a national second division

  • by Michael Lynch
Towns in northern Italy are in lockdown as the coronavirus gains a beachhead in Europe.
Analysis
Please Explain podcast

How prepared is Australia for the emerging coronavirus crisis?

This week on Please Explain, Tory Maguire discusses the emerging coronavirus threat with SMH Health Editor Kate Aubusson and Europe correspondent Bevan Shields.

  • by Tory Maguire
Wall Street has been rocked by the coronavirus outbreak over the past week.
Opinion
World markets

How to tell when sharemarkets have reached their bottom

It's said that the most expensive words on Wall Street are "this time is different." But this might be one of the few times where the phrase applies.

  • by Jim Bianco
The jig's up: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and PM Scott Morrison in Question Time on Wednesday.
Opinion
Scott Morrison

Predictions and promises: gambling on a surplus is for mugs

Think you know what you're seeing when politicians are on the make? Often there's less to it than meets the eye.

  • by Tony Wright
Is entrepreneurship in your DNA?
Opinion
Work in Progress

Are entrepreneurs born or made?

Is there logic in thinking people can be born entrepreneurial?

  • by James Adonis
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Investments in mental health in the wokplace need to be well targeted.
Opinion
The lowdown

Investments in mental health well-being need to target what matters

Promoting wellness initiatives, organisations risk missing out on important elements of well-being – often those that are more difficult to develop.

  • by James Donald
TECHNOLOGY ROAD MAP. Illustration: Jim Pavlidis
Letters

Recycling: We need to support the new four-bin system

Readers discuss recycling issues, include Victoria's new system of four bins.

Officials wearing protective attire work to diagnose people with suspected symptoms of the new coronavirus at a hospital in Daegu, South Korea.
Opinion
Coronavirus outbreak

What if living with COVID-19 is the new normal?

As the virus spreads to countries where three-fourths of the world lives, it becomes increasingly likely COVID-19 will be seen like the winter flu.

  • by Shitij Kapur and Sharon Lewin
Officials wearing protective attire work to diagnose people with suspected symptoms of the new coronavirus at a hospital in Daegu, South Korea.
Opinion
Coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus threatens more than just the budget

Real-world issues have laid siege to the government's prematurely-predicted surplus, but balancing the budget may now be the least of the PM's challenges.

  • by Waleed Aly