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The Blues look well stocked for years to come after Jagga Smith and Harry Dean were standouts in their AFL wildcard final win over the DemonsSign up for our free weekly AFL newsletterMelbourne ran on to the MCG to a pyrotechnics show, lashings of Bon…
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The former treasurer’s new book will hit shelves soon, but he may learn that memoirs can be blunt instruments for political renewal. Just ask Peter CostelloFormer treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s new memoir, marketed as a coming-of-age story, family histo…
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Can you help me?, I asked. I think my car’s been towed away, and my children don’t have any shoesRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesOne of the first things we did after moving from the UK to Vancouver was buy a car. Unfortunately, I didn’t …
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It may sound strange: satirical novels set in Stalin’s Soviet empire, by an Australian journalist, about Trump’s America. But Knox’s darkly hilarious books have arrived when global politics so often feel like a farceSign up for a weekly email featuri…
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Care and attention, the fundamentals to keep relationships alive, are absent from many marriages that survive anywayThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workI’ve killed every garden I’ve negl…
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When Jackson Pollock painted Blue Poles, his masterpiece of American abstract expressionism, little did he know it would become one of Australia’s most fascinating political controversies. The piece ensnared everyone from Gough Whitlam to the Shah of…
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This month a predator with ties to the online extortion group known as 764 was sentenced to decades in prison. The mother of one his victims wants parents to know the truth about this ‘harrowing’ global trend“My beautiful, kind, intelligent, trusting…
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Smart glasses with cameras can benefit the vision impaired but companies might pit ‘accessibility benefits against safety and privacy’, says eSafetyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s online safety regulator has urg…
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Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Wong shares how his floppy Ikea stuffie is a role model for a softer, more vulnerable identityNo formal diagnosis though we’re pretty sure. Evident from age…
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Finance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.
