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Fashion flaunts its true colours

By Susan Schwartz Shopping for clothes once seemed to be such a simple thing. You’d be drawn in by certain colours and styles, and things that brought you joy found

Rates on hold. Why is the RBA so cautious?

By Stella Huangfu The Reserve Bank of Australia has kept the cash rate at 3.85 percent, after cutting it in February and May. Those earlier moves were aimed at

The legal reasons behind Erin Patterson’s guilty verdicts

By Rick Sarre and Ben Livings After seven weeks of evidence, six days of summing up, and six and a half days of jury deliberation in the Victorian Supreme Court sitting

Social media activity shaping your political passport

By Samuel Cornell, Daniel Angus and T.J. Thomson In recent weeks, the US State Department implemented a policy requiring all university, technical training, or exchange

Are we missing the real impact of AI?

By Shane Rodgers The current frenzy around the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence reminds me a bit of the dot.com boom in the 1990s and the 3D printing fever

Questions for parents to ask when choosing childcare

By Danielle Arlanda Harris Parents have been left reeling by news a male Melbourne childcare worker has been charged with 70 counts related to the alleged sexual abuse

Fewer tariff headlines, but July 8 deadline looms

By Peter Draper, Kumuthini Sivathas and Nathan Howard Gray US President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on implementing so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on some 180

10 trends to watch over the next 10 years

Business leaders will need to adopt the mindset of a futurist, as the pace of change accelerates over the coming decade. Research services company McCrindle has released

In defence of the Welcome to Country

By Steve Zeppa I don’t identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, I don’t speak for Anglo-Australians, nor represent the thoughts of our wide and

Will NATO’s 5% defence commitment impact Australia?

By Jennifer Parker After lobbying by US President Donald Trump, NATO leaders have promised to boost annual defence spending to 5 percent of their countries’ gross

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