Opinion
Opinion
Feminism
Tame Grace? Good luck with that. I delight in her brave belligerence
As a lifelong feminist, witnessing the blunt and precise advocacy of women like Grace Tame fills me with joy.
- by Jane Caro
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Opinion
Political leadership
Michael Leunig was my father. He didn’t want a state funeral, but he didn’t deserve to be ignored
Dad’s work meant a great deal to a great many people. It seems appropriate that his contribution be recognised by the government.
- by Sunny Leunig
Analysis
Trump diplomacy
Trump’s tariff tango will only reinforce his view that bullying works
Making an example of Colombia wasn’t a fair fight and didn’t actually change much, but it is being spun as a major victory for the power of threats.
- by Michael Koziol
Analysis
Aged care
How to holiday with a loved one who needs care
Respite care can provide an option for family members to take a break while their loved one receives care. But what about if you want to travel together?
- by Rachel Lane
Opinion
AI
Payback time: Australian shares give shelter from the AI storm
Local investors can watch the US market carnage from their armchair bunkers.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Sharemarket
Wall Street’s trillion-dollar wipeout sets off alarm bells
A Chinese start-up that didn’t exist 18 months ago just triggered a meltdown that exposes the vulnerability of Wall Street.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Analysis
Big Bash
Thirty-nine balls of madness: How Mitch Owen made BBL history
Mitch Owen delivered a batting masterclass for the ages in a breathtaking century in the Big Bash League final on Monday night. Here’s how he did it.
- by Jon Pierik
Opinion
Investing
Why acting like George Costanza could help save your investments
Whether it’s selling into a roaring bull market, or ordering the chicken instead of tuna, embracing your inner contrarian may be the most profitable choice you make.
- by William Bennett
Opinion
Trump diplomacy
Trump’s happy to play the ‘madman’ to restore global order. But will it work?
Trump has repeatedly and explicitly said he wants to use the perception he is unpredictable, and even unhinged, to boost American power.
- by Matthew Knott
Opinion
Summer reads
As I walked down the aisle, what was that sinking feeling?
There was rain on her wedding day but the sun eventually came out for a tiptoe through the beachside park.
- by Jenna Price
Analysis
Federal budget
Dutton’s enthusiasm for DOGE is just old tricks with a new name
Elon Musk says he can make the American government great again with deep spending cuts. It’s a lesson that could end in trouble for Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.
- by Shane Wright
Letters
Letters
Don’t celebrate Australia Day, it’s the Australian way
Age readers respond to the politics surrounding Australia Day.
Opinion
Cancer
The bottom line is that we need to open up about our bums
As one of Australia’s few specialists in the area of anal cancer, I know how embarrassment and shame about this most intimate part of our bodies has real-life consequences.
- by Richard Hillman
Opinion
Life in the ’burbs
My suburb has the best of all worlds. For years, there was a whiff of discontent
Even as the city has grown around it, my suburb has retained a country feel with market gardens and old farm buildings on the village fringe.
- by Warren Duncan
Analysis
US politics
‘People will be shocked’: Trump tests boundaries of presidency
Even more than in his first term, Donald Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do.
- by Peter Baker
Opinion
Interest rates
Trump is set to put the blowtorch to an old enemy
Donald Trump is demanding lower interest rates as soon as possible. He is likely to be disappointed – and an old foe will feel the brunt of his displeasure.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Donald Trump
Trump’s a Luddite, but his blossoming tech bromance makes perfect sense
Suddenly, Trump’s the saviour of TikTok teens and crypto bros while the lords of the cloud have turned into sycophantic courtiers. How did we get here?
- by Maureen Dowd
Opinion
Climate crisis
Trump is ditching climate action, again. This time, there are ways to fight back
Within hours of his inauguration, the US president issued executive orders to withdraw from the UN treaty and expand fossil fuels. Australia should not be tempted to follow suit.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Opinion
US politics
Think the past will protect Australia from Trump’s future? Think again
One of the very few things about our relationship with the US that actually makes us safer is collapsing in real time. We need answers, and quickly.
- by Dr Emma Shortis
Opinion
Behind the Headlines
I was at the centre of an Elon storm – and survived
Waking up to hundreds of notifications on X is generally not a good sign. This time, it was nuclear – and it came from the world’s richest man.
- by David Swan
Opinion
Australian Open
Sinner lifts the trophy, but the Open must beware the cup runneth over
Jannik Sinner and the Australian Open have in common the fact that the only thing that can beat them is to let success go to their heads.
- by Greg Baum
Opinion
Catholic church
My Catholicism lapsed long ago, so why can’t I let go of the relics?
Sometimes logic doesn’t explain the hidden feelings and belief systems we carry in our hearts, or the sentiment we ascribe to certain items.
- by Caroline Zielinski
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Second hostage swap is a bitter pill for Netanyahu’s failed ambitions
For Israel’s prime minister, the safe release of four soldiers is only further proof that his ambitions for the Middle East have not been fully realised.
- by Amin Saikal
Opinion
Anthony Albanese
Is Albo destined to be a one-term PM?
What is the legacy of the first (and perhaps only) term of the Albanese government? The loss of the Voice seems to have frozen his appetite for reform.
- by George Brandis
Analysis
Australian rugby
The looming Joe Schmidt problem … and it’s not his contract
The Wallabies coach hasn’t given much away about his future but a decision made in early January about a departing player could open a Pandora’s box.
- by Iain Payten
Analysis
Test cricket
Test cricket thrived like never before in 2024. But can it survive 2025’s reckoning?
The most extraordinary year of Test cricket will be followed by one its most critical periods on record.
- by Dan Walsh
Opinion
Ask an expert
Should we sell our investment property and put the money into super?
There is the school of thought that once you buy a property the strategy should be to never sell. But you can’t eat bricks.
- by Paul Benson
Analysis
Australian Open
Zverev has a fatal flaw. And this is how Sinner can exploit it and win the final
Novak Djokovic knew where he needed to go when push came to shove in his semi-final against Alexander Zverev. Naturally, so will Jannik Sinner.
- by Craig O'Shannessy
Analysis
Australian Open
Illness, pressure and a looming doping case: Sinner’s challenging road to final
Jannik Sinner’s “safe place”, as his Australian super coach Darren Cahill puts it, has been a little less so this past fortnight in Melbourne.
- by Marc McGowan
Opinion
Religion
There are few elections more political than the one to choose a new pope
They say politics should be separate from religion – but is that possible?
- by Barney Zwartz
Opinion
Cryptocurrencies
Trump’s ridiculous ‘meme coin’ lays bare crypto’s rotten underbelly
What if I told you about a great investment opportunity that involves putting your hard-earned savings into a product that, two weeks ago, didn’t exist?
- by Victoria Devine
Opinion
Jobs
This year, think twice when it comes to setting career goals
We tend to see the headlines on goals and career success and conclude the most useful thing to do is to set many goals or advise others to do the same.
- by Jim Bright
Playing hard or being ‘reckless’? Dutton ramps up attack
The opposition leader’s rhetoric has prompted opponents to accuse him of “grotesque”, trumped-up politics. But do the times suit him?
- by Paul Sakkal
Opinion
Political leadership
Trump is showing us the true cost of liberalism
Now that Donald Trump is dismantling so many government programs, we might find out their ultimate cost.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Australia Day
How Trump’s win has fired up Dutton’s culture war, starting with Australia Day
Donald Trump’s re-election has been called a “vibe shift”. Peter Dutton prefers to think of it as a “near revolution”.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Opinion
Hip pocket
No job? No worries. This insurance gives peace of mind if you can no longer work
The prospect of finding yourself out of work through illness or injury is frightening. There’s an insurance for that − but many don’t have it.
- by Dominic Powell
Opinion
Australia Day
Not celebrating Australia Day shouldn’t mean discounting our good fortune
While older Australians could learn from my generation’s compassion, it’s clear that Gen Z-ers could learn from them, too. Namely, about national pride.
- by Daniel Cash
Opinion
Sociology
Why are we so obsessed with taking the high road?
Based on all available evidence, the low road is more satisfying and equally successful at achieving your goals.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Opinion
Australian Open
The Australian Open is deeply compromised. It has to be to survive
Hosting one of the four grand slams is a fragile privilege. It’s under ever-growing threat from ambitious and cashed-up rivals.
- by Malcolm Knox
Opinion
Australian cricket
Sam Konstas must play in Sri Lanka. Cooper Connolly should not
With the World Test Championship five months away and the Ashes defence back home next summer, the Australian Test team needs Konstas to get as much game time as possible. Connolly just needs to prove himself.
- by Geoff Lawson
Opinion
Population
Should we really go forth and multiply?
A drop in migration and a global slide in birth rates won’t stop Australia’s population growth. That will come with its challenges.
- by Millie Muroi
Opinion
Loyalty programs
How to make the most of Qantas’ new points overhaul
With the points cost, when you redeem them for flights rising, how do you get the best value now?
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Opinion
Superannuation
Could annuities solve our retirement woes?
A new report has suggested that a little-known and oft misunderstood financial product might be the magic formula we need.
- by Bec Wilson
Analysis
Australia votes
Three sharp jabs and one blunt question: Albanese fights to win you back
Albanese, who once said he loves fighting Tories, used his appearance at the National Press Club on Friday to hit back.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Trump's White House
With God and tech bros on his side, Trump’s ‘golden age’ has just begun
God, the back-again US president and pliant princes from Silicon Valley are the new Trumpian trinity.
- by Nick Bryant
Opinion
Australia Day
Learning my own family history ended my indifference to Australia Day
How do I reconcile being a proud white Australian who benefited from the English taking this land with knowing what that meant for the people whose land they took?
- by Jo Pybus
Editorial
Editorial
Is the Australian Open the country’s best event? Consider the facts
The Open shines like no other grand slam tournament. Only a few local events come close as a spectacle – and they’re almost all in Victoria.
- The Age's View
Opinion
Australian Open
No 25th, and no guarantees for Novak
Having retired hurt from the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic is beginning to face his tennis mortality.
- by Greg Baum
Opinion
Aviation
China’s audacious plot to rule the skies
China is pushing forward with its plans to dominate the world of aviation. Its latest move has sceptics shaking their heads.
- by Ben Marlow
Opinion
US politics
A brave bishop stumped Trump. You could call it a Bible bashing
Donald Trump has presented himself as a Christian champion, but a Washington cleric just reminded him what Christianity is actually about.
- by Julia Baird
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