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NRL 2022
‘It’s not good enough’: The point Bulldogs realised Barrett had to go
The coach’s exit came after another humiliation on the field, a frantic weekend of discussions between powerbrokers and an emotional phone call with club supremo Phil Gould.
- by Adam Pengilly
Analysis
Arts
Labor’s arts policy is a plan to develop a policy. Is that enough?
In 2019 Labor came up with a $320 million plan to boost the arts. This election it’s promising to... consult widely.
- by Nick Miller
Opinion
Digital transformation
That syncing feeling: How I sparked a Twitter intervention
No matter if you’re Kim Kardashian or a columnist’s mild-mannered partner, you can be analysed and criticised by complete strangers.
- by Kerri Sackville
Opinion
Australia votes
Morrison ignites superannuation culture war in final stretch
The prime minister has gained the political fight he wanted by promising a housing policy that the superannuation industry, the union movement and Labor cannot abide.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
First-home buyers
Just another nightmare for first home buyers
The Coalition’s superannuation policy will do little, if anything, to help first home buyers but may affect Australians’ standard of living in retirement.
- by Angela Jackson
Opinion
First-home buyers
Super scheme won’t wreck the housing market, but won’t fix it either
There’s no meaningful difference in retirement between holding $50,000 of equity in a home or in super. Given the home is exempt from the pension assets test and is untaxed, it could be the better choice.
- by Steven Hamilton
Analysis
Essendon
Transition trouble: The numbers that place the Bombers below North and the Eagles
Essendon ranks below even North Melbourne and West Coast for defending teams transitioning the ball out of the Bombers’ forward line to the other end of the ground.
- by Michael Gleeson
Editorial
Property prices
Aspiring young buyers must have a voice in housing policy
Scott Morrison’s super-for-housing plan has drawn criticism, but the idea might appeal to first time home buyers
- The Herald's View
Analysis
Australia votes
Morrison kicking into the wind in the final quarter, but the siren hasn’t sounded
Scott Morrison could be entering the final days of his prime ministership. But he isn’t done yet, and found himself on firm ground talking about housing policy on Monday.
- by James Massola
Opinion
Real Footy Podcast
‘Everyone will be looked at’: Is big change coming at Essendon?
This week on the Real Footy podcast, Michael Gleeson, Caroline Wilson and Jake Niall discuss the Bombers and their loss to the Swans - their worst defeat of the season.
Opinion
Australia votes
House now, super later: Life is too short to delay purchase
I’ve been on a decade-long journey that transformed me from a super fan to super’s biggest critic.
- by Cameron Murray
Opinion
Mergers & acquisitions
Who knew CHEP pallets were sexy prey. Corporate vultures, of course
Corporate vultures’ nostrils are flaring as they size up Australia’s $17 billion pallet maker Brambles.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Mergers & acquisitions
Elon Musk needs an exit from his ill-timed Twitter bid
You don’t have to look hard for the reason for Elon Musk’s decision to put his $US44 billion bid for Twitter “temporarily on hold.” A check on two share prices would do the trick.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
NRL 2022
Trent Barrett is gone - who should coach the Bulldogs?
It would require a supercoach to turn the broken Bulldogs around.
- by Andrew Webster
Analysis
Australia votes
Will first home buyers be better off using the Liberal or Labor low-deposit schemes?
First home buyers are being offered a chance to buy a home on a low deposit through a Coalition program. Labor will match it and offer its own, where it co-purchases with the buyer. Which is better?
- by Elizabeth Redman
Analysis
NRL 2022
NRL round 10: Key takeouts from Magic Round at Suncorp Stadium
Everything we learned from the annual rugby league extravaganza in the Olympic city.
- by Phil Lutton, Christian Nicolussi, Adam Pengilly and Dan Walsh
Opinion
Child safety
Victims of crime flirt with vigilantism while the Kimberley kids known as ‘ghosts’ are left behind
Locals whose houses have been broken into or vandalised are flirting with vigilantism. This isn’t small talk about giving a kid a hiding if they trespass on private property; we’re talking open discussions around gun use and electrifying fences.
- by Anonymous
Tight Five
Super Rugby
The NRL doesn’t sell what you need to win a Rugby World Cup
Before Rugby Australia start chasing league targets for 2027, they should look at the 34-year-old who beat up NSW at Leichhardt Oval. And has won two World Cups.
- by Paul Cully
Opinion
Wage growth
Corporate chiefs should back wage hikes - because cheating customers ain’t smart business
The business community risks shooting itself in the foot by opposing wage increases.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
Cost of living
Make no mistake, poverty is a policy choice
The question we should be asking those running for public office is how many Australians will come out of poverty if they win?
- by Travers McLeod
Opinion
Australia votes
Could this be the election in which News Corp’s impotence is exposed?
All media outlets are guilty at times of outbreaks of stupidity, errors of fact and judgment and egregious omissions. News Corporation is in a different class. But is it having an impact?
- by Margaret Simons
Opinion
Australia votes
Why women should vote for the Coalition
Female voters should take a hard look at the track record of both parties before casting their ballot at the federal election.
- by Roshena Campbell
Opinion
Australia votes
Without radical reform, the prognosis for our health system is grim
Healthcare workers are leaving the sector in droves, not because they want to, but because they are being asked to work beyond their capacity.
- by Dr Neela Janakiramanan
Opinion
Australia votes
After labouring the point, Albanese finally gets his story straight
In this age of too many vague political words, can clear and specific beliefs still reach people?
- by Sean Kelly
Opinion
National security
Political leaders ignoring the biggest threat to our national security
In a rapidly warming climate, geo-strategic competition between China and Australia will be like trying to manoeuvre chess pieces on a toppling chessboard.
- by Robert Glasser
Letters
Letters
Progressive Liberals can step up if they choose to
Matt Kean talks about voters stripping the Liberal Party of progressives, yet the solution is in the hands of the “Progressives”.
Opinion
Australia votes
My trans truth is not a cosmetic choice, it’s a brutal imperative
Uncaring politicians talking about transgender issues without seeking to understand the complexities are playing with a fire they cannot see.
- by Liska Fell
Analysis
Australia votes
Morrison repositions himself with pitch to younger voters in final week of campaign
The PM who spent most of the last five weeks sledging his opponent and arguing over past decisions, has been replaced by someone who wants to talk about his optimism.
- by David Crowe
Analysis
Mass shooting
Biden will do ‘everything in his power’ to end hate crimes. But can he do anything?
The Buffalo mass shooting was inspired by the horrors of the Christchurch massacre. But America won’t respond with sweeping gun law reforms the way NZ did.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Analysis
Australia votes
I’ll get out of your lives, promises Morrison. Just re-elect me first
The prime minister was warm and loquacious at Sunday’s official campaign launch. For a bloke who believes in minimal government, he sure spoke for a long time.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Analysis
Australia votes
Superannuation housing ‘solution’ will drive up prices
Coming to a Saturday auction near you - first time buyers with an extra $50,000 in their pockets that will push up prices and make housing more unaffordable.
- by Shane Wright
Opinion
AFL grand final
It’s time to reward AFL fans with a day grand final
Despite footy fans’ undying support during two years of COVID interruptions, the AFL Commission may opt for a twilight grand final - against fans’ wishes.
- by Cheryl Critchley
Analysis
Australian cricket
Why Andrew Symonds meant so much to us
In a spiritual sense, Andrew Symonds occupied the same wondrous place in Australian cricket dreams as Shane Warne and Rod Marsh.
- by Daniel Brettig
Analysis
Web culture
Stronger parental controls only one piece of phone safety puzzle
The government wants to force Apple and Google to make stronger tools for parental oversight, but a cultural and educational shift is also needed.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
NRL 2022
Bulldogs directors losing patience with struggling Barrett
Trent Barrett has barely won a game as Bulldogs coach, and no club or board can tolerate that.
- by Danny Weidler
Opinion
Investing
I started investing in shares a year ago, so how am I doing?
After investing in shares for the first time last year, I’m treading water with my Australian portfolio, but I’m in for the long haul with history on my side.
- by Jessica Irvine
Opinion
AFL 2022
Peak AFL socialism: Why West Coast v Melbourne is a landmark
The bookies and the punters have assessed that Demons can’t lose, and that West Coast has less than Buckley’s hope. It’s incredible to think that these teams have diverged so sharply, given that Sunday’s West Coast team has the same goal-to-goal line as the 2018 preliminary final.
- by Jake Niall
Opinion
Scott Morrison
Politicians’ pay has gone up by a third in a decade, but a wage rise in line with inflation is too much?
A near-decade of wage stagnation has afflicted most of us, but not politicians.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
The vulnerable v the entitled: how VAD has become a ‘hugely unfair fight’
Andrew Denton’s passionate advocacy for voluntary assisted dying has been fuelled by the realisation the most powerful people in the country were opposing VAD.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Opinion
Australia votes
Danger for the Liberal Party coming from the right as well as the ‘teals’
Even a Liberal Party reduced to a conservative rump may be optimistic as others position themselves to attract the traditional conservative base.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Healthcare
Time to fix our health system that’s as broken as my leg
A broken leg took Helen Pitt to the emergency room who returned with a diagnosis: our healthcare system is sick.
- by Helen Pitt
Analysis
Cryptocurrencies
Crypto exchange-traded funds a fizzer on debut
It was a disappointing start to the sharemarket trading of units in ETFs that track the prices of cryptocurrencies, as investors held back against a background of plunging crypto prices.
- by John Collett
Opinion
Private Sydney
The man who helped Thorpe take his first steps out of the closet
His mysterious death - now the subject of social media conjecture - quickly became a news story largely thanks to his relationship with Thorpe.
- by Andrew Hornery
Letters
Letters
Grape degradations offer a sobering insight
It was an insight to learn that grapes, and therefore wine, are so sensitive to climate change.
Opinion
Opinion
Swift action required for nation hurt by lockdowns
We must do more to support those suffering with their mental health in the aftermath of the pandemic.
- by The Herald's View
Opinion
Investing
Tracking down long-lost investments
Tracking down lost investments can be complex, so it usually pays to get some help from a financial professional.
- by George Cochrane
Analysis
Australia votes
Key seats Bass and Braddon become victims of their own loveliness
Tasmania’s neighbouring electorates of Braddon and Bass, key to elections, have attracted those searching for natural beauty. The influx has caused problems.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Australia votes
Can a bulldozer vault out of this? Morrison has seven days to try
The prime minister told me in December that “elections are always about the future”. He seems to have forgotten that.
- by Peter Hartcher