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Employees definitely perform better when they’re led by a profit-focused supervisor.

Is there anything as important as profit?

Of all the factors critical to business performance, few are as critical as profit.

  • by James Adonis

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Entente is one of two Gai Waterhouse-Adrian Bott hopes in the Gosford Cup on Saturday.

Glitz of Randwick and Rosehill gives way to milk-bar mood at Gosford

All eyes will be on Gosford on Saturday as the club hosts its first stand-alone Saturday meeting.

  • by Max Presnell
Associate Professor David Ranson.
Analysis
Naked City

Not like CSI: How pathologists really rebuild lives after death

“If I look at the homicide cases I have done the cause of death in 99 per cent of the cases has been bleeding obvious.”

  • by John Silvester
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Opinion
Jobs

Huge problem: Immigrants are not taking our jobs

Like most anti-immigrant rhetoric, ‘they took our jobs’ is high on fear but low on fact.

  • by Jan Fran
Hamish McLennan and the Wallabies.
Analysis
Wallabies

Why is rugby so scared of going back to its roots?

Amateur rugby is generally agreed to be the code’s strongpoint but Rugby Australia is going to extraordinary lengths to stop its elite level from slipping back to that same amateur status.

  • by Malcolm Knox
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Morrison government remains committed to its stage three tax cuts.

Our closed borders have turbo-charged the economy’s recovery

The economy’s rebound from the lockdowns of last year has been truly remarkable – far better than anyone dared to hope. Even so, it’s not quite as miraculous as it looks.

  • by Ross Gittins
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Gretel Bueta of the Firebirds in action against the NSW Swifts in round one.

Mum’s the word: why I’m in awe of dual-role netballers

As we approach Mother’s Day, it is nothing short of inspirational to see outstanding athletes on court while their children sit in the stands.

  • by Liz Ellis
Joe Biden is spending up big.

Biden’s risky spending poses a danger for the world

Joe Biden’s spending spree is unlike anything peacetime America has seen and has global implications.

  • by Liam Halligan
Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods catapulted it near the top of the $US700 billion grocery industry.

The shopping war that Amazon is losing

Amazon has been so successful in the last year that words almost fail me. Except in one area.

  • by Shira Ovide
The emergency declaration went through the national security committee and had the approval of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Scott Morrison learning all the wrong lessons from travel ban backlash

The Prime Minister chose to blame the media rather than accept responsibility for his government’s poor handling of the emergency declaration.

  • by David Crowe
The Holiday Inn quarantine hotel at Melbourne Airport was the source of one of Victoria’s outbreaks.

Culture of cover-up puts Victorians at risk

Denying errors damages public confidence – and risks sending the state back into lockdown.

  • by Annika Smethurst
By the end of the century a quarter of Australia’s population will be over 65, and their expertise will be needed.

In this more enlightened time, how can ageism still exist?

Older people have so much experience and wisdom to offer. How is ageism still such a stumbling block in our ageing society?

  • by Jonathan Rivett

Jewish business gathering for ScoMo organised at warp speed

In eight days, the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce organised a lunch for 650 people at Crown.

  • by Stephen Brook and Samantha Hutchinson
Spotify already operates the world's largest paid music service, and is now challenging Apple as the dominant way people listen to podcasts.
Analysis
Podcasts

Apple and Spotify’s podcast plays could leave smaller shows behind

The tech giants are pushing to own podcast subscriptions within their respective apps, but independent content creators are worried they will get squeezed out.

  • by Tim Biggs
Daniel Carr served in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Analysis
ADF

Damaged lives: lifting the lid on the consequences of war

As Australia prepares to confront suicides among military veterans, some of those suffering PTSD and depression sit for Chris Hopkins’ camera and tell their stories.

  • by Tony Wright
The distinction between science and ideology is hardly a neat one.

Our policy on India leaves us in a weird place

This week, more than any other I can recall, put our contradictory relationship with the world on full display.

  • by Waleed Aly
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A wind turbine on farm land near Hamburg, Germany.

Europe’s carbon tariff plan will ‘trigger a race to the top’, but there will be tensions

There is no time to lose in transitioning to a world run on clean technology but it will have its risks and obstacles, write two senior European lawmakers.

  • by Frans Timmermans and Josep Borrell
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ALP

Labor should focus on the pandemic recovery, not party infighting

The factional brawl that’s broken out over preselections highlights the absence of Premier Daniel Andrews, perhaps the only figure with the power to quell the strife.

  • The Age's View
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 10: Action during the round eight Super RugbyAU match between the Queensland Reds and the ACT Brumbies at Suncorp Stadium, on April 10, 2021, in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Regi Varghese/Getty Images)
Analysis
Super Rugby

The Brumbies start fast and the Reds finish strong. Who wins the rest?

Queensland and the Brumbies are the last two sides left standing in Super Rugby AU, and the form guide shows how tightly contested the final will be.

  • by Morgan Turinui
Dejected Cats stand on the Gabba after the final siren of the 2020 grand final.
Opinion
AFL 2021

Grand final revenge? Key Cats owe it to themselves to lift

Geelong can begin their journey towards redemption on Friday night, in a contest that could have huge top-four ramifications.

  • by Wayne Carey
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison and China’s President Xi Jinping.

China’s latest move a mere formality as Xi and Morrison speak the dialogue of the deaf

Beijing’s decision to suspend a high-level economic dialogue with Australia has no practical effect. But it conveys important information nonetheless.

  • by Peter Hartcher
Kerry Stokes told Malcolm Turnbull )and others) that Rupert Murdoch told him "Malcolm's got to go".

Lachlan Murdoch’s Seven visit sparks News chatter

With one of the senior members of the Murdoch family in town at a pivotal juncture for the company, the rumour mill has understandably gone into overdrive.

  • by Zoe Samios
The big four chiefs (clokwise from top left): NAB’s Ross McEwan,  ANZ’s Shayne Elliott, CBA’s Matt Comyn and Peter King from Westpac.
Opinion
Dividends

Yes, bank dividends are back but let’s not party like it’s 2019

Banks haven’t let the COVID crisis go to waste, taking the opportunity to cut their payout ratios to shareholders happy to grab what they can.

  • by Elizabeth Knight
India has led the push for a vaccine patent waiver as it endures the world’s worst COVID outbreak.

No time to waste as world debates vaccine justice

While nations including Australia debate the details of a temporary waiver of vaccine patents, dangerous variants mutate in raging outbreaks around the world.

  • by Bianca Hall
When using an older iPhone, AirTags work similarly to Tiles.
Opinion
Gadgets

Apple’s AirTag trackers made it frighteningly easy to ‘stalk’ me

Apple’s new AirTags, $45 wireless devices that help you locate things, work well. Frighteningly well.

  • by Geoffrey A. Fowler
Matthew Johns, Andrew Johns and Sonny Bill Williams.
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NRL 2021

Johns brothers won’t be ‘laying out witches’ hats’ for Samoa coach Parish

Matthew Johns has rejected calls from the Samoan coach to be his assistant as the battle to coach the Pacific nation intensifies.

  • by Andrew Webster
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Gas

Cutting gas use for heating and cooking is not the way to net zero

Customers should be informed about new energy options and be empowered to adopt them, rather than restricting their choices by simply taking options away.

  • by Andrew Dillon
Is an Australian passport still a treasured contract between nation and citizen?

Morrison government has ripped up a treasured contract between nation and citizen

Australia has always done everything possible to bring home citizens caught in a disaster overseas, until now.

  • by Tony Wright
Please Explain podcast.

The curious incident of Stuart MacGill’s alleged kidnapping

Today on Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper joins crime reporter Fergus Hunter to find out more about a bizarre series of events.

  • by Nathanael Cooper
Donald Trump has been taken offline for repeated violoations of social media guidelines.

Cherished American right behind social media ban on Donald Trump

You can’t force a company to provide service to a jerk. That is the simple truth behind the Facebook and Insta ban on the former president.

  • by Bill Wyman
Mishearing people, or not hearing them, isn’t funny.
Opinion
Parenting

Nothing funny about hearing loss - as my child knows

Hearing loss isn’t a comedic act, nor does it only affect older people. It’s time to represent it for what it is.

  • by Megan Blandford
“Boring”, says Cruz: US President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress to declare that America is back.

China’s miscalculation on trade deal helps Biden rebuild the Western Front

China’s response to European sanctions for its human rights violations has blown up a trade deal seven years in the making and pushed Europe closer to the US.

  • by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Older women have been recognised as the fastest-growing group of homeless people in Australia in recent years.

The real budget reforms that could make women’s lives better in retirement

Simply allowing those women who can already save to save more isn’t enough.

  • by Christina Hobbs
President Biden has unleashed his spending plans with breathtaking speed.

Biden is rediscovering America’s lost soul with his spending spree

The President is being anything but “un-American” as he seeks to get the US back on track with a spending binge.

  • by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
“Catch ups” ... Daniel Son, Jarryd Hayne and Corey Norman.

Players still playing catch up on how to hold each other accountable

Corey Norman posting a photo of himself with Jarryd Hayne is a strong show of public support for his mate. Some will find it touching, even inspiring. I find it troubling.

  • by Peter FitzSimons
Harry Grant and Brandon Smith form a dymanic and dangerous combination for the Storm.
Analysis
NRL 2021

Kapow! Biff! Why Souths can’t stop Melbourne’s Batman and Robin

The Storm’s dynamic duo of Harry Grant and Brandon Smith are Melbourne’s version of Batman and Robin, and the undermanned Rabbitohs will need a miracle to keep them in check.

  • by Andrew Johns
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Geoffrey Roberton is stuck in quarantine.

Liberals to move against four bad boys

Motions against four men are high on the agenda at the Liberal Party of Victoria’s state assembly on Friday.

  • by Stephen Brook and Samantha Hutchinson
Quotas have been described as a heavy-handed “bureaucratic mechanism”.
Opinion
Gender

How gender quotas can help kill both ‘queen bees’ and ‘tokens’

Quotas should be a central part of our current debate about improving economic outcomes for both women and society at large.

  • by Jessica Irvine
 Scott Morrison and wife Jenny at his Horizon Church in Sydney during the 2019 election campaign.

Revealing and uneasy peek at Morrison’s altar ego

We need to remember that respecting the right to freedom of religion is not the same as respecting religion.

  • by Julie Szego
Prime Minister Scott Morrison emphasised the importance of human dignity.

Faithful Morrison says one thing but does another

The Prime Minister has made a couple of speeches in the past month in which he has focused on his faith and beliefs. But his declarations sit at odds with his own behaviour.

  • by John Hewson
Victoria is the highest user of gas in the country.

Turning off the gas makes good sense

We owe it to future generations to do all we can to reduce greenhouse emissions.

  • The Age's View
Westpac comes before a public hearing by ASIC into responsible lending as the bank faces court action over some of its lending activities

How Westpac found itself in the frame for alleged insider trading

While ASIC does not characterise it as a test case, a win for the regulator could open a can of worms for others that inhabit this arcane market.

  • by Elizabeth Knight
Relatives of a person who died of COVID-19 mourn outside a hospital in Mumbai, India.

The Australian government cannot treat its own citizens as pariahs

The travel ban on Australians returning from India is a breach of the constitution that should worry all Australians.

  • by Helen Irving
Please Explain podcast.

Australia accused of abandoning its citizens in India

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire speaks with health reporter Rachel Clun about the increasingly dire COVID-19 situation in India.

  • by Tory Maguire
Facing abuse at work can have deep and long-lasting effects.
Opinion
Schools

We must protect our teachers, or there will be no one left to teach

The ‘red card’ system to deal with aggressive school parents is a good step, but it will need support to be successful.

  • by Malcolm Elliott
Michael Hussey has tested positive to the coronavirus while in India.
Analysis
IPL

IPL shambles a result of putting greed above common sense

India’s passion for cricket is a blessing that provides colour, excitement and wealth to the game, but the downside is the demigods this creates and the power they wield.

  • by Malcolm Conn
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ANZ is the second bank to report interim results this week following Westpac and before NAB.
Opinion
Big four

For ANZ and its peers it’s like the pandemic never happened

ANZ’s interim results show few pandemic scars, leaving it apparently overcapitalised and able to contemplate big returns to shareholders. But it’s too early to declare victory.

  • by Stephen Bartholomeusz
A Chinese navy chorus marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.

Australians don’t want a war with China. It’s time to raise voices against it

The recent flurry of war talk needs to be met with a forthright public pushback.

  • by David Brophy
There was a sense that the pandemic was behind us when the calendar ticked over to 2021.

Economy is growing but the pandemic will affect us for some time

Contrary to last year’s expectations that we’d face horror deficits in future, next week’s federal budget will include some big spending.

  • by Shaun Carney
Alison Quigley knows well the culture of silence that surrounds Gymnastics Australia.

Gymnastics Australia should say sorry to abused athletes and back it up with cash

The investigation into the culture of gymnastics in Australia is two decades overdue.

  • by Alison Quigley