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Carlo Tizzano Jac Morgan incident
Opinion
Wallabies

Rugby rediscovered common sense - and it robbed the Wallabies

Anyone who has watched rugby knows that the Wallabies should have been awarded a penalty when Jac Morgan hit Carlo Tizzano.

  • by Paul Cully

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Tiffany Salmond has spoken about her departure from Fox League.
Opinion
NRL 2025

‘Too sexy’: Salmond left seeking answers after messy Fox League departure

A former sideline reporter for New Zealand Warriors home games, Tiffany Salmond says she has been left in the dark over why her time in the job ended.

  • by Danny Weidler
Compassion.
Opinion
Religion

Compassion is not a feeling, it is an action

What is the deeper meaning of the parable of the Good Samaritan?

  • by John Chesterman
Hugo Keenan of the British & Irish Lions scores the winning try.
Opinion
Wallabies

A rugby Test for the ages - and a decision that will be debated for years

What a match! Two magnificent teams delivering 80 minutes of skill, guts and a finish full of controversy as the Wallabies go down swinging against the Lions.

  • by Peter FitzSimons
Women shouldn’t be forced to choose between a secure retirement or having kids.
Opinion
IVF

Having kids shouldn’t be a luxury. It’s time we cut the cost of IVF

Women shouldn’t be forced to choose between a secure retirement or having kids. Something needs to change.

  • by Victoria Devine
Planning to live and retire rich thanks to the wealth of your partner is not a viable goal.

How do I tell my friends that finding a rich husband isn’t a financial plan?

It is difficult to be financially secure and independent as a single person. But entering a relationship with an expectation of financial dependency isn’t healthy.

  • by Paul Benson
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Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley in first question time.

With Coalition comeback stalled, the government’s become its own opposition

The Labor optics of dynamism and the Coalition optics of renewal only emphasise the ways in which both parties are falling short.

  • by Parnell Palme McGuinness
D23 EXPO 2022 - The Ultimate Disney Fan Event.
Analysis
Pop culture

Pop culture at breaking point: Is the multibillion-dollar fan machine about to overheat?

Despite the absence of Star Wars, DC Studios and Marvel Studios, this year’s Comic-Con is still doing big business.

  • by Michael Idato
Ananya Birla,31, has her own interests that are independent of the sprawling commodities behemoth led by her father.
Analysis
Billionaires

The Gen Z billionaires who are bored with business

Some of India’s most successful tycoons have a problem. Their children don’t want to take over.

  • by Andy Mukherjee
Your employer should be paying 12 per cent of your before-tax earnings in super.
Opinion
Hip pocket

The $1700 question: Is your super being paid correctly?

In recent years, 3.3 million Australians missed out on $5.7 billion in super due to their entitlements being unpaid or underpaid.

  • by Dominic Powell
Fans from Collingwood and Fremantle show their colours.
Opinion
Friendship

A footy text tested the limits of our friendship. She should know there are rules

I used to be a great hater of rival footy clubs. I laughed at the cheese platter Melbourne jibes and found Hawthorn fans in your face. But I’ve changed my tune.

  • by Claire Heaney
Letters
Letters

Enough is enough. End the starvation in Gaza

Age readers respond to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Donald Trump and his future wife, Melania, with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000.

America’s shame is that Trump can remain shameless

If anything, the moral outrage over Trump’s doings only galvanises his fervent supporters in his defence.

  • by Jacqueline Maley
Thomas Müller and Harry Kane after one of Bayern Munich’s matches at the Club World Cup.
Analysis
A-League Men

It’s a long shot. But Sydney FC should be applauded for having a crack at Thomas Müller

To ask the question of Thomas Müller, even if you think you know the answer, is to send a message to the rest of the football world.

  • by Vince Rugari
Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, Tino Fa’asuamaleaui and Harry Grant

Let them go – Samoa defectors might just save international footy

Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, Tino Fa’asuamaleaui and Payne Haas want to represent the country of their forefathers. If they do, it will boost rugby league the way State of Origin did in 1980.

  • by Peter FitzSimons
Emma Thompson in 1995’s Sense and Sensibility. If there’s a bonnet in it, I’m watching.
Opinion
Streaming

It is a truth universally acknowledged that I’m suddenly addicted to period dramas

Persuasion? I don’t need it. If there’s a bonnet in it, I’m watching.

  • by Richard Glover
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The Reserve Bank wants to ban surcharges for debit and credit card transactions.

Credit card companies are hoarding rate cuts. Shame on them

It’s nothing short of a scandal that credit card interest rates barely budge, no matter what is happening with official rates.

  • by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Retirement is confusing enough without the piles of jargon from super funds.

To stop retirees going mad, super funds must agree on these three things

At present, retirement income is being delivered like IKEA furniture – only the instructions are in five languages, and one of the legs is mislabelled.

  • by Bec Wilson
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the first Question Time of the 48th parliament in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

‘Pregnant moment’ for Albanese government. But can Labor deliver?

Anthony Albanese’s second term and commanding majority provide the chance to make structural change to keep Australia’s wealth machine going.

  • by Peter Hartcher
Lynne for the win? After 33 years playing Irene on Home and Away, Lynne McGranger is the hot favourite to win the TV Week Gold Logie.
Analysis
Logies

Who will win the Gold Logie? And why will it be Lynne McGranger?

Recent history suggests that the Gold Logie winner typically comes from the network that broadcasts the Logies, which is excellent news for Channel Seven and Lynne McGranger.

  • by Thomas Mitchell
This is not the first time Rupert Murdoch has faced off with Donald Trump in a battle over control of the Republican Party.

Trump stumbled on Epstein, and Rupert Murdoch has pounced

Rupert Murdoch’s marriage of convenience with Donald Trump might finally be unravelling, and there can only be one winner in their long-running battle for the Republican heartland.

  • by Colin Kruger
US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

A China shock 2.0 is emerging to rock America

Xi Jinping is winning a new battle while Donald Trump is still fighting an old one.

  • by Jeremy Warner
Prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers, SC walks through fog on June 10.

How The Age covered the biggest stories of the month

Some of the year’s most important, troubling and powerful stories have unfolded in recent weeks. The Age editor looks back at how they were covered.

  • by Patrick Elligett
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie.

Enough is enough: the CFMEU stain on our society must be removed

It’s a year since The Age’s investigation blew the lid on the union’s rotten conduct. Too little has changed.

  • by The Age's View

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

  • by Nick O'Malley
Palestinian child Yazan Abu Foul, 2, who is suffering from severe malnutrition, is held by his mother, Naima.

I saw starving children every day in Gaza. It makes you question humanity

I’m going back in the coming months and I don’t know how I will be able to do my job. It’s become so dangerous.

  • by Claire Manera
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Plans to double the minimum wage will make it tough for Penrith to retain Stephen Crichton.
Opinion
NRL 2025

The NRL’s representative eligibility rules are broken. Here’s how to fix them

Samoa-born Stephen Crichton represents NSW. WA-born Kalyn Ponga wears the Maroons jersey. But Sydney-born Addin Fonua-Blake can’t play Origin. Go figure.

  • by Michael Chammas

The key sign Trump is losing the plot over Epstein

Donald Trump is flailing. The self-proclaimed slayer of the deep state stands accused of becoming its mouthpiece.

  • by Nick Bryant
Then-chief executive of Astronomer, Andy Byron, and the company’s chief people officer, Kirstin Cabot, at the Coldplay concert.

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

I live in real life, not on the Jumbotron. Like many others, I’ve been betrayed and a betrayer. I know what those early days feel like.

  • by Kate Halfpenny
Police hero Wayne Sherwell.
Analysis
Naked City

Is this the way to treat a police hero?

Former police officer Wayne Sherwell, a Valour Award recipient, was recently arrested, fingerprinted and formally interviewed. It was over a Facebook post.

  • by John Silvester
Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii of the Wallabies is tackled by Tom Curry.
Analysis
Wallabies

Stagger then strike: What the Wallabies need to do to keep the series alive

The Wallabies were dismantled physically early but showed just enough fight and found just enough fixes to believe a turnaround is possible at the MCG.

  • by Jonathan Drennan
Best of the best ... Darren Lockyer, Andrew Johns, Sonny Bill Williams, Mark Gasnier, Brian To’om Sam Burgess and Greg Inglis.
Opinion
NRL 2025

Why Nathan Cleary didn’t make the best NRL team since 2000

The Western Suburbs coach of the century and former Dragons coach selects his best squad of the quarter-century. Do you agree?

  • by Roy Masters
ABS

The ABS just had to bin some statistics. Here’s what went wrong

Data collected from 30,000 households failed to meet the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ standards and was never released. It’s a particularly bad time for it, too.

  • by Millie Muroi
hiring

My company hired a dud, despite my warnings. Should I have said more?

You did everything right according to the corporate textbook, but despite all of this, the panel clearly made the wrong decision.

  • by Jonathan Rivett
Palestinian children are starving in Gaza amid an ongoing Israeli blockade on aid.

Segal’s antisemitism plan takes us down a path we should fear to tread

What if the proposals made by Australia’s antisemitism envoy were made in the name of a range of other prejudices: transphobia, homophobia, anti-Indigenous racism, sexism?

  • by Waleed Aly
Third-generation Blue Jack Silvagni.
Opinion
AFL 2025

From a Lygon era: Why I can’t cop a Silvagni at Collingwood

In terms of family name and connection to a club, the Silvagnis are comparable to the Kennedys at Hawthorn. Josh Kennedy, though, had good reason to go. Jack Silvagni has no need to leave the Blues for opportunity.

  • by Jake Niall
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Jane Caro on the front porch of her new (old) house.

The upsides of downsizing: ‘It’s the best move we’ve ever made’

When the large family home no longer suited her lifestyle, Jane Caro knew what to do.

  • by Jane Caro
Who needs mental health experts when there are hundreds of people offering advice from the palm of your hand?

We’re awash with mental health advice. Meanwhile, a generation is getting sadder

The outcomes of mistaking an influencer for a trained health professional are anything but good. Why are so many of us consuming scam content?

  • by Clare Stephens
The run home: How far can Penrith actually go in 2025?
Analysis
NRL 2025

Why the NRL finals should start next weekend

Our predicted NRL ladder and every club’s run home paints a pretty picture for the current top eight. For everyone else though, they might as well start their Mad Mondays now.

  • by Dan Walsh and Billie Eder
The Macquarie headquarters in Sydney.

Macquarie’s day of reckoning: Millionaires’ factory shareholders draw the line

In a humiliating first strike, management has been reminded that in achieving its objectives, executives also need to colour within the lines.

  • by Elizabeth Knight
Does Anthony Albanese (right) really want to follow Donald Trump’s lead on defence spending?
Political sketch
Trade

Pistol and Boo should have disguised themselves as (maybe mad) cows

Australia’s strict quarantine authorities famously booted out the movie star dogs. A few years later they are overturning a ban on US beef. We’re truly living in Trumpworld now.

  • by Tony Wright
Remember the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Opinion
Jobs

Why older workers can be ‘too qualified’ to get a new job

The higher you climb up the corporate ladder, complete with larger salaries and expectations, the fewer jobs there are.

  • by Tim Duggan
The best returns over the past five years were not from the typical home in Sydney or Melbourne.

A new book aims to fix housing affordability, but there’s a better solution for Victoria

Abundance has captured the attention of economists and politicians alike, but could a simple solution be sitting right under their noses?

  • by Jim Malo
Palestinians, including children, line up this week in Gaza City to receive food.

Overkill in Gaza: Penny Wong was right to call out Israel

In an issue as complex as the Israel-Palestine question, it should come as no surprise that Australia and like-minded nations should hold both sides to account.

  • by Rodger Shanahan
Trump says the deal is a “big” win for the US.
Opinion
Trade wars

Lost in translation: Trump doesn’t seem to understand the ‘massive’ deal he just made

Donald Trump says there has never been anything like the trade deal just struck with Japan. He’s probably right, but not in the way he thinks.

  • by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump, seen cooking a hamburger, is a champion of the US cattle industry.

Albanese and Rudd will have to sell very different messages on US beef ban’s end

Donald Trump has been peeved by restrictions on beef exports to Australia, but a change to biosecurity rules is unlikely to prove a tariff game changer.

  • by Matthew Knott
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Charlie Curnow might have considered a move to the Gold Coast Suns, but it won’t happen.
Analysis
AFL 2025

Charlie Curnow was feeling unhappy. Sydney and Geelong are keeping watch

Charlie Curnow would like to play for Gold Coast. Not that he has formally told Carlton or the Gold Coast that. It might be a nice thought for Charlie, but it won’t happen.

  • by Michael Gleeson
Harry Grant was penalised for this contact on Luke Brooks.
Opinion
NRL 2025

Playmakers are now a protected species. It’s making rugby league boring

In 2025, halfbacks can do as they please without worrying about being whacked. The flow-on effect is a boring, predictable game.

  • by Andrew Johns
It’s still called a lightbulb moment 150 years later for good reason.

Albanese’s guru talkfest won’t make you richer – he’s chosen the wrong people

Anthony Albanese’s three-day talkfest on the economy is heavy on tax and policies. But it’s missing what has made our lives better for 200 years - invention.

  • by Shane Wright
Australia has maintained tight restrictions on the use of vapes, even as other countries use them to help wean smokers off tobacco.

Australia has become the global village idiot on quitting smoking

Every day, 66 Australians die from the effects of smoking – not from an addiction to nicotine, but from the toxic delivery mechanism of cigarettes.

  • by Fiona Patten

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