Nic Maddinson’s inclusion for the South Africa series laid bare the low regard in which selectors hold the domestic first-class competition, and it is costing Australia.
Chiefs players will be seeing a lot of the airport, and it’s not just because they are travelling to away games every second week. PNG life will be very different to Sydney or Brisbane.
Over a single week, more than $US1 trillion ($1.43 trillion) was wiped from the stocks of 20 of the world’s biggest semiconductor and AI companies.
There seems to be considerable confusion around the application of the minimum 30 per cent tax that will be introduced from next financial year.
Brisbane’s fears over the Chiefs’ pulling power has led them to question why Nine’s Bronte Gildea was part of the media pack who descended on Port Moresby last week.
Calling for change is easy. Making the right moves is much more difficult. Our cricket scribes pick their XIs for the third Test, with the series on the line.
The first commercial flights from Nancy-Bird Walton mark a milestone worth celebrating and an opportunity worth embracing.
I executed this radical feat partly because there are so few acts of rebellion available to middle class, law-abiding working mothers.
Some in the presidential circle at the White House were going to leave at the midterms, but now will stay. That way they can use government lawyers.
They are the entitled heirs of entitlement. A generation which learned there is always someone responsible for you.
Desperate to go to a gig but deterred by the cost? Here’s how to get your hands on a cheaper, legitimate ticket.
I worried my ICU roommate wasn’t going to make it. Then he started ordering fried chicken.
Welcome to the Museum of Forgotten Places. Come, let me be your guide.
There are many ways you can bring your mortgage-freedom date forward. Some of them are cheaper and easier than you think.
Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has powerful advocates in the media, but there are risks attached to doing interviews before a criminal trial.
A good retirement plan should not just be about making sure your money lasts as long as you do.
Every one of us can and should act. We share the pleasures and the pains of the same country. We can all contribute to improving it in this dire moment.
You’re about as good a winger as we’ve seen. You do things we’ve never witnessed done on the football field. If you don’t play for the Wallabies next year, you’ll be missed.
The fortunes of data centre business NextDC took a massive dive this week when its massive expansion plans hit a power pole in suburban Melbourne.
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman made a few big gambles as he rose to power, including one on Donald Trump.
The attack on Helen Haines is a reminder of the parlous state of our mental health services.
Multi-club ownership is on the rise in Australia and around the world. But as the Manchester City case shows, belonging to a global football empire can come with risks beyond a single club’s control.
There’s no law requiring anyone to sing the national anthem. This isn’t North Korea, after all. But the confected outrage has a sinister subtext.
When it comes to attentiveness and screens, our laws trail dangerously behind reality.
In the tradition of my great-great-grandfather, consider this your chance at salvation.
There is despair in France over how to stop a violent upheaval turning into a social collapse. The breakdown in order is so widespread, that it is impossible to turn away with a Gallic shrug.
The Wallabies won’t get what they need to win a Rugby World Cup from the NRL next year.
We like to blame modern times and modern platforms, but answers, too, can be found in our long history of insisting that women quietly endure.
I wonder about the therapy-speak in Harry’s language: sometimes this provides only a surface-level understanding and enables people to project their difficulties outwards.
I fell short of my goal and blew my budget. But here’s how joggers like me are keeping the economy running.
The rush of wickets that led to this innings defeat is a sign of bigger problems with Australia’s ageing and patched-up batting order.
I think your nagging concern about this situation is something felt by many people at work, especially when they know their colleagues are not being malicious.
News Corp outlets were lightning fast in reporting the attack on Helen Haines after 7News Melbourne broke the news. How did they confirm it so quickly?
Once you introduce violence into a political ecosystem, you make it a feasible way of doing politics.
The filly defied 33 years of history to win the Gloaming Stakes last start, so a true staying test at Randwick will suit her down to the ground.
It has become terribly clear that online anonymity helps many write or say things they’d never record if they knew they could be identified.
Trump’s erratic White House, Putin’s aggression, China’s mercantilism, globe-affecting wars, rising debt levels and skyrocketing costs of living – it’s one toxic global cocktail.
The final section of Sydney’s $30 billion M1 metro rail line will probably be the last built on the old freight lines.
David Shoebridge is genuine in wanting an independent inquiry into Jordon Steele-John. Some of his party’s supporters, not so much.
Instead of throwing money at the problem, here are 10 small, repeatable behaviours that anyone can do to improve their workplace right now.
Host Ben Fordham put many questions to Ben Roberts-Smith during an interview on radio 2GB, but he did not challenge any of the answers. Here are some of the facts.
A merger of Tesla and SpaceX makes a lot of sense for the world’s richest man and his shareholders.
Ben Roberts-Smith is shaping the battlefield. Or as he sees it, he’s reshaping it. No one should be surprised. It’s what soldiers are trained to do.
This was arguably Australia’s worst single day of Test cricket under Pat Cummins, bad enough to flip the series from one the tourists held in their hands to a contest now wide open.
Sydney FC have blocked young gun Akol Akon from going to next month’s under-17s World Cup. It’s tempting to frame the Sky Blues as the villain, but that would be wrong.
Governments in NSW have for years felt it prudent to establish an independent assessment framework for major mining projects, so such decisions are taken out of the hands of politicians.
You can ask people to forego a holiday to ease inflation, but the RBA driving up rates so some have to skip meals is Dickensian.
Apple’s first foldable is a genuine ‘oh wow’ device. But at $3499, and with many apps not ready for its big screen yet, most people should hold off.
