Insurer’s ‘failing’ health system warning as costs soar
Australians continue to switch up their private health insurance cover as rising living costs bite ahead of one of the biggest government-approved premium increases in almost 10 years. At the…
Cafe of Dissent. When satire meets hate speech laws
Posters depicting world ‘leaders’ wearing Nazi uniforms have led to a cafe owner having to shut down an unrelated gig as Canberra police established a crime scene. On Wednesday, ACT…
Billionaire says ‘world-class conman’ Epstein duped him
The billionaire who built a retail empire that included Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch has told members of the US Congress he was “duped by a world-class con man”,…
Winter Olympics: USA and Canada narrowly avoid shocks in men’s ice-hockey quarter-finals
Americans rely on Quinn Hughes’s OT winner Mitch Marner seals Canada’s 4-3 overtime win Canadians lose star Sidney Crosby to injury With NHL players returning to the Winter Olympics for…
Soft toys and a jagged edge: how Russia is circling the Winter Olympics
Russia is back in love with the Games and a return to athletes competing under their own flag at LA in two years’ time seems highly likely First came the…
Australia teenager Ally Hickman feels brunt of horror fall in Winter Olympics snowboard final
16-year-old seventh in women’s slopestyle as Mari Fukada wins gold Sydney schoolgirl suffers bruised sternum in nasty crash in Livigno Ally Hickman has suffered a bruised sternum after the Australian…
Are you pretending you’re not waiting for your parents to die so you can flog the family home? You monster! | First Dog on the Moon
Australia’s ungrateful children can’t wait to get their grasping mitts on mum’s Royal Doulton Toby jugs Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get…
‘Populism’: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning | Oliver Eagleton
In the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate to account for the wildly diverging fates of the left and right “Populism” may well…
Without US military support, we need a European defence union. Here’s what that looks like | Paul Taylor
The fledgling ‘coalition of the willing’ assembled for Ukraine could form the basis for an urgent European security response After a year of Donald Trump’s second term and two Munich…
It’s said that Tony Blair thought he was Jesus. At least Jesus never thought he was Tony Blair | Emma Brockes
The idea of the former PM being driven by delusions of grandeur runs through Channel 4’s new documentary. Still, there is fun in seeing the world as it was There’s…