How you helped The Age change the world this year
The metric most important to The Age’s journalists has no numerical value. But you’ll know it when you see it.
- by Patrick Elligett
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‘One of the great newspapers’: The Age celebrates its grand history, and looks to a bright future
As The Age reaches a significant milestone, its editor makes a commitment to readers on behalf of the publication’s dedicated staff.
- by Patrick Elligett
Series
The Age 170
Celebrating 170 years of The Age
We’ve been asking the questions you want answered since 1854. In this collection, we reflect on the tradition of courageous journalism as we look to the future.
A simple guide to time travel and a farewell from a household name
Michael Leunig has filed his final cartoon for the readers of The Age. For nostalgia’s sake, we went and found his first.
- by Patrick Elligett
Quizzing the quizmaster: How The Age sets the Superquiz
The Age has some of the best and toughest quizzes in the business. This is how we compile them.
- by Patrick Elligett and Chris Berry
How The Age chooses which letters to publish
Deputy opinion editor Damien Nowicki reveals how The Age chooses which letters to run, and tips on getting yours published.
- by Patrick Elligett and Damien Nowicki
What Treasury and its friends spend on branded keep cups and commemorative coins
Liberal senator Jane Hume asked Treasury and its associated agencies the tough question on branded merchandise. The answers caught CBD’s eye.
- by Mathew Dunckley and Patrick Elligett
Understanding the world and our place in it
Our foreign correspondents face innumerable challenges in their quest to help us make sense of the world, but in strange times like these, their reporting is something we certainly need.
- by Patrick Elligett
Opinion
Note From The Editor
In the modern-day duel, journalists always lose
Australia’s defamation laws make journalism harder. Even when the media wins.
- by Patrick Elligett
Into the fire zone – and after the smoke clears
When disaster strikes, The Age has a crucial role to play both during and after the crisis.
- by Patrick Elligett
Exclusive
Property prices
State government windfall tax stalls plans for new suburb
A plan to turn Sandown Racecourse into a new suburb the size of Wangaratta has stalled as a result of a new state government tax that would cost the site’s owners hundreds of millions of dollars.
- by Damien Ractliffe, Patrick Elligett and Michael Fowler
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