Opinion
Opinion
US election
US vice presidential pick Tim Walz was once my high school teacher
When I was 15 years old, Mr Walz was my favourite teacher. Watching him speak before an audience of millions this week, I can see he has not changed one bit.
- by Kayley Lyons
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Shipping
Clive Palmer’s plan to build Titanic II runs into another iceberg
The builders of the original Titanic, Harland & Wolff, have put a big dent in Palmer’s $1 billion effort to recreate the ill-fated ocean liner.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
City life
The great housing con is turning Melbourne into an Asian-style megacity
The government is attempting to dupe citizens about the real causes and nature of a housing crisis. The blitz against traditional land use planning would obliterate the remnants of a once-Marvellous Melbourne.
- by Michael Buxton and David Hayward
Analysis
US Votes 2024
Tim Walz, the Midwest nice guy primed to help Harris go after ‘weird’ Trump and Vance
Kamala Harris has made a direct play to the Democratic base in betting that Walz’s small-town grit and straight-shooting style will appeal to working-class voters.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion
AFL 2024
What’s Dusty like? I spent four years at Punt Road and this is what I know
Dustin Martin is a largely unknowable figure, who is what he does. Konrad Marshall spent four years embedded in the modern Richmond dynasty, and reflects on the career of the totemic Tiger.
- by Konrad Marshall
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Sharemarket
Was the flash crash a false alarm or a sign of worse to come?
The carnage on financial markets seems to have ended as quickly as it started. The fragility of the global economy remains.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Analysis
Earthquakes
How a big quake in Victoria in 2021 caused Wednesday’s aftershock
The quake felt in Victoria early on Wednesday is likely to have been another aftershock from the big 2021 earthquake – and shows the affected region remains unsettled.
- by Liam Mannix, Lachlan Abbott and Hannah Kennelly
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Olympics
Online searches for ‘sex Olympics’ have hit the roof. I’m not surprised
To the naked eye, the Paris Games are surely the raunchiest Olympics to date.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Why Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro
Choosing Tim Walz as a running mate is a safe but smart move for the Democrats. The challenge now for the Harris campaign is to maintain momentum.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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Paris 2024
If this was Patty Mills’ final Olympic act, it belongs in the Louvre. It wasn’t enough
The best of the last generation of Boomers – and their next-gen star – were superb. But the end to this Olympics campaign was sadly poetic.
- by Greg Baum
Opinion
Financial literacy
Three tips to help you fix your finances in your 40s
A few small changes today can have an enormous impact on the life you’re living just a few years from now, so here’s how to start.
- by Paridhi Jain
Opinion
Ask an expert
Are we too old to buy a few investment properties?
While it’s never too late to start investing, there are a few crucial considerations to keep in mind before you buy an investment property.
- by Noel Whittaker
Analysis
Telecommunications
Half of Australians don’t like their telco. But they don’t bother complaining
Telecommunications providers have been urged to fix the “trust deficit” with their customers, who often experience poor service and delayed responses.
- by John Collett
Analysis
Investing
How these top funds nearly tripled the market’s returns
Some managed funds that invest in Australian shares outpaced the market for the year to June 30 by almost three times
- by John Collett
Opinion
University
The most deplorable thing unis copied from big business, aside from vice-chancellor pay
Successive federal governments have engineered a kind of backdoor privatisation of our universities. It’s a race to the bottom.
- by Ross Gittins
Complaints surge about banks not doing enough to prevent scams
Australians’ complaints over payment scams have grown exponentially. Should banks be on the hook to reimburse customers?
- by John Collett
Letters
Letters
Running this way is not natural. And yet we keep doing it
Readers react to all the achievements and failures of the Olympics; the Trump-Harris rivalry and controversies at the ABC.
Opinion
Olympics
Taxpayers will come dead last at the Brisbane Games
Australia may be sweeping up gold in Paris, but the realities of hosting the Olympic Games in 2032 are proving seriously dire.
- by Shane Wright
Editorial
Paris 2024
Boxing’s gender saga has a simple short-term fix. The bigger picture is more of a problem
Sporting bodies around the globe are struggling to come to terms with a complex nexus of biology, gender and fairness in women’s sports.
- The Age's View
Analysis
US Votes 2024
‘The mistake becomes magnified’: How it could quickly go wrong for Kamala Harris
This presidential campaign is playing out in fast-forward. Strategists in both parties say speed is likely to benefit Vice President Kamala Harris.
- by Adam Nagourney
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World War II
‘I don’t want to be a martyr’: Last Rat of Tobruk dies, aged 102
Former ambulance driver Tom Pritchard was one of 14,000 Australian soldiers who – against all odds – held back the might of the German Army in North Africa during World War II.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Analysis
AFL 2024
Without Dusty, Tigers would not have that glorious treble of flags
Careers were made and unmade by Dustin Martin’s astonishing combination of brute power and his genius as an architect with the ball in his hands.
- by Jake Niall
Opinion
World markets
The market carnage is over for now, but volatility is the new black
Monday’s meltdown wiped out the gains the Australian market made in 2024. But Tuesday’s reprieve was just as dramatic. Hang on, the bumpy ride is set to continue.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Illness
Why I hang around public toilets watching what you do with your hands
I do not miss COVID-19 lockdowns, apart from the way people behaved about matters of personal hygiene.
- by Jenna Price
Opinion
Property development
One building permit has no limit on timing or cost. It’s adding to the price of houses
Amid the escalating housing crisis, we need to be able to have honest conversations about planning regulations which aren’t working well, without being called racist.
- by Max Shifman
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Active investing
Lessons from an Nvidia investor: Stay cool and use common sense
Despite the recent plunge, I’m holding on to my Nvidia shares and feeling bullish about their future. Here’s why.
- by Nicki Bourlioufas
Opinion
World markets
Butterfly effect: What sparked the global market meltdown
We are being shown just how vulnerable to surprises financial markets are.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Vale
Graham Thorpe was a cricketing great – and a better mate
The former England captain pays tribute to his teammate, who was his batting partner when Vaughan scored his first Test hundred.
- by Michael Vaughan
Analysis
Paris 2024
This attempt to clarify boxing’s gender row was a shambles. It also told us everything
While journalists and IBA officials exchanged verbal jabs, Algerian boxer Roumaysa Boualam, Imane Khelif’s friend, staged a dignified, one-woman protest.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Jobs
Being a corporate drone was souless. But years of inane tasks gave me my life back
Doing the work in an entirely meaningless but well-paying job is one thing. Performing the work is another, even if they appear to be entirely the same.
- by Wendy Syfret
Opinion
Banking products
We must stop this ‘nasty weed’ plaguing our financial system
It’s pervasive, affecting more and more people every day, and it wastes time – and yet most people have never heard of it.
- by Noel Whittaker
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Kamala Harris has just one route to power. Donald Trump has two
Yes, Kamala-phoria has entranced the Democrats and re-energised the base. But Donald Trump is far from beaten, and the election itself is only part of the story.
- by Peter Hartcher
Analysis
Olympics
The controversial decision and the Australian legend that crushed the Hockeyroos
The Hockeyroos thought they’d break their quarter-final curse in Paris. Instead, it continues, thanks to a controversial goal to China.
- by Jordan Baker
Letters
Letters
ABC chair brings the hard truth about soft news coverage
Readers react to criticisms that the recently appointed ABC boss has made about the public broadcaster’s news sites.
Analysis
National security
The person keeping ASIO awake at night
Tensions triggered by the war in Gaza, which Australian intelligence officials say played a significant role in the new threat assessment, are ratcheting up the temperature.
- by Matthew Knott
Opinion
Wall Street
Biden has made a disastrous bet on the wrong horse
One of Joe Biden’s biggest gambles is looking shakier by the day.
- by James Titcomb
Analysis
Paris 2024
Not so simple: Boxer Imane Khelif and the science of sex
Humans exhibit a wide variety of differences in sexual development. There is no simple binary. And a history of women playing sports is also a history of questions about their sex.
- by Liam Mannix
Opinion
Life in the ’burbs
A fight over a mural has put a frog in my suburb’s throat
My suburb has witnessed school closures and division over elevating the train station. It’s now united but conscious of over-development and a nearby shopping centre’s sprawl.
- by Mary-Jane Boughen
Analysis
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
How a battered Hamas may emerge stronger despite recent killings
Analysts and regional observers see the latest blows Hamas has suffered as offering Israeli forces a short-term victory at the cost of long-term strategic success.
- by Erika Solomon
Opinion
Online gambling
Hooked: Why a total ban on gambling ads is too big a punt
Forget problem gamblers, it is the commercial television networks in particular that are addicted to the revenue from bookie ads, and what government has an appetite for upsetting major media companies so close to a federal election?
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
University
Group assignments prepare you for life, just not in the way you think
Here are some of the lessons I’ve learnt from the dreaded endeavours.
- by Bella Westaway
Analysis
US Votes 2024
Trump left rattled by size of Harris’ crowds
The numbers game is everything to Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris’ first big rally appears to have got under his skin.
- by Shawn McCreesh
Opinion
Interest rates
Sharemarkets gripped by panic amid fears the Fed just made a big mistake
The ASX and sharemarkets around the world are a sea of red as recession fears build in the US.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
UK politics
Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?
Labour has responded judiciously to the recent ‘far-right thuggery’. But can it fix the UK’s immigration issues without giving Nigel Farage political oxygen?
- by Tim Soutphommasane
Opinion
US election
So what if Kamala is big on TikTok? You don’t have to yuck young voters’ yum
If politicians want Gen Z and Millennials to get excited about politics, they have to meet them where they’re at, and that’s exactly what Harris is doing.
- by Charlotte Mortlock
Opinion
Interest rates
There’s a good case for cutting interest rates ASAP
Data for the two years since the RBA began increasing the cost of money shows a lot more evidence of downturn and pain than you may realise.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
Political leadership
If this government is forgettable, Albanese is counting on you remembering the last one
An already defensive government may be entering an even more defensive phase in the run-up to the federal election. That will have its risks for Labor, but also for the Coalition.
- by Sean Kelly
Opinion
Workplace culture
I was among political staffers sexually abused. We’ve won change, but our work isn’t done
We were women cast aside, but we were underestimated.
- by Chelsey Potter
Analysis
Paris 2024
Trump, China and doping: Could USA’s power play cost them Olympic hosting rights?
The near-Orwellian powers of a US anti-doping act and subsequent protective action by the IOC threaten to disrupt the 2028 and 2034 Games in LA and Salt Lake City.
- by Roy Masters
Four Points
AFL 2024
If Carlton can fix these two problems, they can still win the flag
Carlton slumped from fourth to eighth in a bad weekend for the navy blue faithful, but they are still closer to success than Mitch McGovern’s kick was to scoring.
- by Peter Ryan