When one in five students from private schools applies for HSC disability provisions,the integrity of the exam at the end of high school has to come into question.
Inheritances are given a generous tax treatment in Australia,but once you spend it,that’s a different story.
After more than three decades of entertaining viewers - the Manly and Queensland favourite has called it a day.
The new blockbuster movie of the stage show Wicked calculates the cost of female niceness and has radical things to say about the way women are cast into rigid roles.
The ABC chair says he won’t tune into Rogan. Well,he should hope his journalists are doing it for him.
Two weeks ago,Margaret Pomeranz gave us 10 lesser-known great movies to watch. Now it’s the turn of her long-time collaborator and friend,David Stratton.
Before you hang up your work boots,make sure you’re financially well-prepared for the second half (ish) of your life.
As I prepare to welcome a new soul into our family,I pray they will grow up in an Australia where they can wear their identity with pride and without fear.
The EU-style regime aims to stop big tech locking down their platforms. But we are still a long way from making smartphones a truly open ecosystem,like home computers.
How financial advice is delivered in Australia is likely to change for the better and there’s plenty to unpack here for the average person.
For more than 50,000 spectators at Adelaide Oval on a balmy Saturday night,nothing could possibly have been more fun than watching Head take his cutlass to the Indian attack.
The arrival of pleasant weather brings with it a far more sinister reality:the annual war against mosquitoes.
Some self-reflection would not go astray from Israel’s leaders and advocates about why the nation has become so isolated on the international stage.
It appears the prime minister has put Labor’s political survival ahead of the survival of Australia’s endangered species
Next week,world football’s governing body will sign off on the Saudi bid to host the 2034 World Cup. They’re selling it as a catalyst for human rights reform in the Kingdom. Rubbish.
Poor grammar,bad spelling,random punctuation and unrealistic,un-Australian terminology:all of this can be fixed,for a price.
It’s all very demure,very mindful.
It’s the ultimate display of soft diplomacy,but when it comes to the brand new NRL team for Papua New Guinea,Australia’s playing hardball with China.
In difficult conditions,after a nightmare start,under-pressure batters Marnus Labuschagne and Nathan McSweeney held their nerve to build a promising platform for Australia in the second Test.
Nick Kyrgios says his sport is “cooked” after two top players tested positive to banned substances and were let off with a slap on the wrist. It’s a little more nuanced than that.
Do women or men have a higher threshold for pain? It’s a question that raises a number of problems with Australia’s medical system.
Burning a synagogue is a violent attack on a community,its history and its future.
So,Peter Dutton tells us that his nuclear policy will be cheaper than Labor’s renewables policy. I would recommend to readers the Climate Council’s myth-busting article “The seven ways the federal Coalition could cook the books on nuclear costings”.
For a decade,the ABC has been on a forlorn quest for digital relevance. It’s time it dared to be itself again – and took the risks required to be interesting.
My Weekly Report used to send me reaching for the spreadsheet. Not any more.
Something weird is happening in the Australian economy,but it won’t faze the RBA yet.
Amid France’s biggest political crisis in a generation,President Emmanuel Macron has rejected calls for him to step aside,even after a vote of no confidence in his prime minister.
It could become one of the most restrictive campuses in the country for peaceful protest,intellectual freedom and critical debate.
Women are being told we’re more “authentic” if we ditch makeup. Who benefits from that? Not the busy everyday woman who needs a bit of armour in a jar to boost her confidence.
The gift was so bad,in fact,that I suspect your initial suspicion is dead right and someone in your team has misunderstood the nature of the game.
Tanya Plibersek and Anthony Albanese are from the same state and faction. They share a world view. So why don’t they get along?
Drop him,pick that one. Why were runs given easily to Virat Kohli? The Indians are watching with amusement as questions swirl around the Australian team.
The story of how “Hadlee’s a w---er” become a 1980s anthem says it all about touring quicks. Forty years later,India’s strike weapon ranks among the very best of them.
किस खिलाडी का फॉर्म बिगड़ गया हे,किसको ड्राप करना चाहिए,और विराट कोहली को इतने रन क्यों बनाने दिये गए? ऑस्ट्रेलिया की इस मुश्किल घडी को देख टीम इंडिया को शायद मज़्ज़ा तो आ रहा होगा.
AI or a chip off the old block?
A year to the day after my dad died,the first gardenia of the season bloomed. Those flowers are my childhood - and the blooms of his enduring love.
I find it alarming that the astute Niki Savva sees Peter Dutton as electable despite his failure to produce a single,costed economic policy. Albanese,for all his faults,does stand for something other than himself.
The outcomes of the NSW drug summit will most probably will reflect the Minns government’s lack of enthusiasm for reform.
Financial abuse is a form of intimate-partner violence,but now perpetrators and their facilitators are on notice:with unanimous support from a parliamentary committee,reform is coming.
Ordinary Koreans’ response to the threat of martial law is a reminder that democracy was not achieved top-down in South Korea – it had to be won.
Burnout manifests itself in three ways:occupational exhaustion,depersonalisation,and a decrease in feelings of personal accomplishment. Sound familiar?
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is on the line and careers hang in the balance – but the contest against India in Adelaide is not the only battle the national team finds itself in.
The timing couldn’t be worse. The fall of the French government and the collapse of Germany’s coalition government have left Europe even more vulnerable to a new trade war with America.
A motivated,radical group wants Mardi Gras to be more exclusionary. Less radical queers are now the enemy.
A notorious Chinese hacking group has stolen a vast amount of Americans’ metadata,and Australian officials are worried.
If Anthony Albanese loses next year,which once seemed improbable and now looks possible,he will shoulder much of the blame and his legacy will be trashed.
West Coast can define the era of their rebuild if they manage Harley Reid well,regardless of whether or not they end up keeping him.
For all the ribbon-cutting on rail lines,Rosehill may never get its station – or its 25,000 new homes. And that’s a big hole in the premier’s plan to address the housing crisis.
As I age,I am finding this harder to achieve,as work and home pressures drain me of any excess of vitality for others.
And a return to the lawyerly pile-on.