Penbo: How much of your life is a KitKat worth?
Ever wondered how much more time you’d get if you never touched another chocolate? Now we know, writes David Penberthy.
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Goers: The life-saving lesson that keeps your head above water
It’s one of life’s great pleasure and comes with a lifetime’s worth of rewards, writes Peter Goers.
Clever fix goes to waste in Aussie gas dilemma
With a little ingenuity, an unglamorous resource could help solve a big problem for Australia, writes David Gillespie.
Maiden: Rattled Albo has lost his mojo
The pressure is getting to the Prime Minister, writes Samantha Maiden, after a very shaky week under the shadow of an anti-Semitism storm.
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George Christensen is taking the piss and you’re paying for him to do it
Most readers would agree a $117,000 salary should come with the expectation you’re dedicating yourself full time to your constituents. But George Christensen seems to think he doesn’t need to be in the country to be a local councillor.
Penbo: UK riots expose the nuts ASIO warned us about
In this era of fake news and alternate facts, a factually-based account of a news event will be seen by the angry nuts as a big con job, writes David Penberthy.
Penbo: WFH was just another mad Covid mistake
It seemed like a good idea back when a pandemic loomed over Australia but it’s become a city-killing catastrophe, writes David Penberthy.
Maiden: ‘Repugnant’ tweet exposes Labor weakness
If ever there was a case to haul in an ambassador for a meeting with Penny Wong or kick him out of the country this was it, writes Samantha Maiden.
Harris’s VP pick as risky as Trump’s
Kamala Harris is hoping folksy Midwestern dad Tim Walz can help the Democrats reconnect to voters. But there is one big risk with her pick.
WFH is and has been a free pass
Covid ended more than two years ago and the assumption that workers en masse could choose home over the workplace is laughable, writes Patrick Carlyon.
Maiden: Albo doubles down on a big misstep
Sending in Tony Burke to clean up a mess is a tried and true Labor tactic but lost opportunities in the PM’s first reshuffle will be closely watched, writes Samantha Maiden.
Trump’s VP is feeling the ‘wrath of every woman’
You know you’re in real trouble when you’ve angered Taylor Swift’s fans, writes Julie Cross, as she reflects on just how quickly things can change in US politics in a week.
‘Double haters’: Big advantage for Harris
There is one big opportunity Kamala Harris can exploit as she vies for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Bond: Labor’s laughable CFMEU ‘shock’ fools no one
To pretend thuggery and corruption within the CFMEU is new is like suggesting that Malcolm Turnbull is the most humble PM in history, writes Caleb Bond.
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