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Anna Murdoch told me succession would bring heartbreak. How right she was

I interviewed Anna Murdoch after her marriage to Rupert ended. Now, 23 years later, her fears about succession tearing the family apart look remarkably prescient.

  • by David Leser

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Max Chandler-Mather, Greens spokesperson for housing and homelessness, and Greens leader Adam Bandt.

By siding with the right the Greens are in a race to the bottom

I have observed Labor’s attempts to pass its housing legislation this week with growing anger. The Greens’ attempts at blackmailing the government betray their own voters.

  • by Emma Dawson
Daly Cherry-Evans and Luke Brooks celebrate their win over Canterbury.
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NRL 2024

Manly or Easts? Welcome to the NRL’s insoluble moral quandary

League needs hatred like Dracula needs blood, and Saturday night’s semi-final has something for everyone.

  • by Malcolm Knox

In the days before cameras, these cops kept us safe in their own way

There is something that sets combatants apart from the rest of us.

  • by Anson Cameron
Pies’ beach house.
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Real life

An isolated beach shack has finally made me feel like myself again

After being on call 24/7 for decades – kids, ageing parents, dogs – I feel like I’m exhaling after holding my breath for far too long.

  • by Kate Halfpenny
Xi Jinping.

After murder of Japanese boy in China, Xi Jinping’s nationalism faces reckoning

With unrest mounting over China’s economic slowdown, the government is now grappling with online hatred spilling over into real life violence.

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Wall Street have surged higher on the back of the Fed’s rate cut. Whether the rally can be sustained is another matter entirely.

Wall Street is primed to crumble if the Fed made a mistake

The start of a Fed rate-cutting cycle is a huge moment for the international financial system. Whether it has come too late remains to be seen.

  • by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Many of the materials used in the economy end up buried in landfill or drifting around in the atmosphere.

The key to happiness and economic prosperity? Growing rounder

Since the industrial revolution, we’ve fattened up our economy by pumping out products and consuming more. But there’s a way to grow outside the box.

  • by Millie Muroi
Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys clashed with upper house MP Mark Latham a parliamentary hearing last month.

Four Corners sets sights on V’landys as inquiry fallout continues

You can judge a man by his enemies. The Racing NSW and ARLC boss has some influential ones circling him at the moment.

  • by Andrew Webster
Labor and the Greens have clashed repeatedly in parliament over housing policy.

Why this is the housing fight Albanese had to have

Labor tried for an outcome on housing in the parliament, and got obstruction instead. It did not get the law it wanted, but it got the argument it needed.

  • by David Crowe
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Scams

A scams bill that protects banks over victims is the biggest scam of all

Asking people who may have lost their life savings to wait for however long, at whatever cost, just for a shot at compensation doesn’t look like putting victims first.

  • by Waleed Aly
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Column 8

Did the Father of Federation fill the bill?

And what drove Calwell to make sweeping reforms?

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Strip searches should have ended years ago

Not only should those innocent people who were humiliated by being strip-searched be compensated, the police responsible for such actions should be charged.

Tupperware - an iconic brand
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Insolvency

The company that time forgot: Lifting the lid on Tupperware’s demise

The most shocking aspect to the end of the storage container maker is that it lasted this long.

  • by Elizabeth Knight
Hezbollah fighters carry a coffin of one of the people killed when pagers exploded in Lebanon.

‘The mission is clear’: Israeli generals in no doubt about next step against Hezbollah

In addition to exploding electronic devices, Israel has moved a powerful fighting force up of thousands of troops to the northern border.

  • by Julia Frankel
US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has given Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock plenty to think about.

Bullock might have to change her tune after America’s big-bang rate cut

The US Federal Reserve has gone big with its rate cut – exposing the problems facing the Reserve Bank of Australia in its inflation fight.

  • by Shane Wright
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Charlotte, aged 12, died last Monday night. Her family are critical of her school’s response to claims she was bullied.
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Bullying

Charlotte’s heartbreaking final act is a wake-up call to end bullying

The apparent suicide of a 12-year-old girl has raised questions about an epidemic of bullying in schools.

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Hezbollah fighters carry one of the coffins of a person killed after their handheld pager exploded, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Why did Israel choose 3.30pm on a weekday to detonate its explosive pagers?

With its explosive devices distributed to Hezbollah, Israel had the luxury of waiting for exactly the right moment to detonate them.

  • by Rodger Shanahan
A Trump election victory could scupper the Fed’s economic projections.

How Trump could destroy the Fed’s grand plan

The Federal Reserve has started its rate-cutting cycle with a bang as it tries to help keep the US out of a recession. That plan could be derailed by November’s election.

  • by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Mark Williams’ most iconic scene as Port Adelaide coach.
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AFL 2024

A blessing and a curse: The pains of being a Port Adelaide supporter

Our club’s motto is literally: “We exist to win premierships.” It’s been way too long.

  • by Vince Rugari
The Blues should pounce on Geelong’s Sam De Koning.
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AFL 2024

De Konings reunited? Why the Blues must pounce on this big Cat

If the Blues are to advance from pretenders to true premiership contenders, they must put all their resources towards luring Geelong defender Sam De Koning to Princes Park.

  • by Kane Cornes
There is debate over the Welcome to Country.
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AFL 2024

Welcome to Country at the footy is not the place to push personal views

As an ex-player who now listens to Welcome to Country in the same way as most of the population, I feel it is being overdone.

  • by Mathew Stokes
Nicho Hynes
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NRL 2024

Nicho Hynes is under pressure to deliver on the big stage, but here’s my simple message to him

The only way for the Sharks and their star player to prove the detractors wrong is to win a big game. But it doesn’t need to be a big fix for Hynes.

  • by Andrew Johns

When life gives you Libertarians, you build a lemonade stand (with or without permission)

Got a development application? You’ll get a welcome carpet from the new wave of Libertarians elected to NSW councils.

  • by Alexandra Smith
Former US President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a town hall event at Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Trump is poised to capitalize on the second attempt on his life in recent months, using the shocking development to try to snatch back the political momentum that Vice President Kamala Harris has enjoyed. Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg

As a red-state American, I’m asked one question in Australia more than any other

While the American political scene is very complex, there is, when it comes to this particular question, one overriding simple answer.

  • by Bill Wyman

What my mother’s 80th birthday taught me about life

Because of my mum, I never arrive empty-handed, I treat heartache with a long walk, and the reason my house is tidy is because of a mantra she gave me.

  • by Jo Stanley
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Column 8

Concertgoers’ Lex education

There’s a lot of hair in here!

School Strike 4 Climate organisers Ella Simons, then 15, and Anjali Sharma, then 17, at the 2021 rally.

Social media helped me find my voice. It’s a shame others won’t have the same chance

The federal push to ban under-16s from social media would cut young people off from news sources and the ability to engage meaningfully in the political process.

  • by Anjali Sharma
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It’s so hard for schools to deal with bullying

It is easy to blame the specific school involved in the latest devastating bullying incident and ignore the fact that no school knows how to handle bullying

Harvey Norman chairman, Gerry Harvey.

Bad timing: Big business’ image tarnished by Harvey Norman class action

All it took was a class action lawsuit to put a kink in a nation-unifying call from the Business Council to cease and desist with business bashing.

  • by Elizabeth Knight
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Alcohol

A school formal booze ban won’t stop pre-loaders (and that’s just the parents)

If parents can’t be trusted not to get drunk at a school event, their kids have bigger problems than can be solved by an alcohol ban.

  • by Kerri Sackville
Cash costs money to use. If the country wants to keep it, then costs have to be reduced.
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Cash

The costly business of cash has to change

When debating surcharges imposed on people who pay with a card versus physical money, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve had to explain that cash is not free.

  • by Shane Wright
Tammy Shipley died in Silverwater jail in 2022.

The crucial 23 minutes that could have saved Tammy Shipley’s life

Institutional neglect has been exposed in the unnecessary and lonely death of a troubled Aboriginal woman at Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre.

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The governor of the Bank of Japan, Kazuo Ueda.

Risk of flash crashes in markets is rising as Japan does its own thing

When the Federal Reserve Board cuts US interest rates this week, Japan’s will be the only major central bank moving in the other direction. That could lead to more turbulence.

  • by Stephen Bartholomeusz
An Afghan cricket player bowls  during a neighborhood cricket game June 15, 2011 in Kabul.

Cricket’s horror in indulging Afghanistan under Taliban must be stopped

Afghanistan must be banned from international cricket while the terror against women in the country continues.

  • by Oliver Brown
Sam Kerr

Why the Matildas are at a crossroads

With a playing group in dire need of rejuvenation, it’s the right call by Football Australia to take its time with the appointment of a full-time successor to Tony Gustavsson.

  • by Vince Rugari
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Hey Elon, assassination is hilarious, right? #duck!

Perhaps it was overkill to use X to complain that “no one was even trying” to shoot Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.

  • by Michelle Cazzulino
Is your social media feed undermining your relationship?
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Social media

Instagram locks down teens: How the new feature will work

All teens using Instagram will automatically have strong restrictions applied, with the change expected to roll out over the next 60 days.

  • by Tim Biggs
Women dominate industries such as childcare, aged care and nursing, and wages are often low.
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Aged care

New aged care rules will leave most of us worse off as costs rise

Aged care – and who pays for it – will be redefined in “once in a generation” changes.

  • by Rachel Lane
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Disability

The best thing our pollies have done in decades is also the worst

With the coming departure from politics of Bill Shorten, it’s time to talk about his former bouncing baby, and now obese adult.

  • by Ross Gittins

The misconception about investing that scares a lot of people

The challenge is that most people have a flawed understanding of “risk”.

  • by Paridhi Jain
Supermarkets and restaurants were the two main venues in the latest group flagged by Vic Health.

I have some Coles shares. Should I sell them before applying for the age pension?

If you feel the shares appear to have good long-term value your best strategy might be to hold them for the long term.

  • by Noel Whittaker
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Column 8

Broadway heckle just a lofty tale

The whole thing was staged.

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Seven things to talk about before you invest with friends and family

Ask yourself these questions to ensure everyone enjoys the proceeds and the relationship stays intact.

  • by Helen Baker
Young Australians are moving to South-East Asia to escape the cost-of-living crisis.

For young people, the great Australian dream now means leaving the country

Phnom Penh is a cool 50.1 per cent cheaper than Melbourne, Bangkok is 41.8 per cent cheaper, and Bali is 36.6 per cent more financially friendly. If you want to save, it’s time to get out of here.

  • by Alexandra Koster
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Science and climate policy are poles apart

Labor’s reluctance to include a climate trigger in environmental legislation implicitly acknowledges that evidence would rule out fossil fuel projects.

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Timetable cuts foist the idea on train travellers that less is more

Less than a month after the opening of the transformative Sydney metro, authorities plan to cut peak hour services on key rail lines.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Business Council of Australia president Tim Reed, outgoing chief executive Jennifer Westacott and her successor, Bran Black.

Albanese’s love affair with the big end of town is on the rocks

High inflation, elevated interest rates and a cost-of-living crisis have spawned a competition in Canberra over which party can produce the most populist policies. Now business is fighting back.

  • by Elizabeth Knight
Donald Trump was the subject of a second assassination attempt on Sunday local time.

Violence at home, violence abroad. Let’s stop pretending: This is the American way

The mistake we make in judging the US for its enduring problem with violence is not recognising this national attitude also spreads well beyond its borders.

  • by Dr Emma Shortis

Of the 900 recommendations for struggling veterans, there is one that stands out

People are understandably cynical about the prospect of change. Veterans and their families have the right to ask what will be different about these latest recommendations.

  • by Dr Alex Lim