Telstra staff unaware of mass outage risk as critical software failure ‘rippled slowly across the network’
Telco outlines reasons for network failure that hit mobiles, trains and retailers ahead of appearance at Senate inquiry Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking…
What’s in a name? Steves once dominated the AFL but have now been reduced to one
The most common player names of the 1980s and 90s have made way for the rise of Jack, Tom, Sam and Lachlan The AFL was once rife with Steves, Stephens…
England had Lionel Messi under control … until one decisive and subtle shift
It was a statistically weird game for Argentina’s talisman against England, full of outliers. It didn’t matter Thomas Tuchel will have prepared for every eventuality before England’s match with Argentina.…
Our sensitive teen daughter’s self-worth is tested by social media and peers. What should we do? | Leading questions
The more unusual you are, the more unusual it is to find people like you, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. With time, her world will expand Read more Leading questions…
Our culture fears getting older. But there is a different way to think about the passing of time | Kelley Swain
We can choose to operate from the intuitive kairos sense of time rather than the relentless, often overwhelming chronos The compost-grown cherry tomatoes, sitting in a basket on my windowsill,…
Welcomed by Robinson, beckoned by Rinehart: Pauline’s Euro trip proves she is her own worst enemy | Malcolm Farr
No one else decided she should tour an English community to spout shallow insults then prance around a Mediterranean resort Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news…
Pauline Hanson and Tommy Robinson meeting becomes grist for News Corp’s social media mill | Weekly Beast
Video by far-right anti-Islamic activist is republished on Sydney tabloid’s social media accounts. Plus: Qantas has a speedy retort for commentator kept waiting Karl Stefanovic’s decision to interview with Tommy…
Surviving extreme heat increasingly boils down to this: access to air conditioning | Mark Wolfe
The next great climate divide will be between countries that have the resources to adapt and those that don’t This summer, much of the media’s attention has focused on record…
Ali G is back. I really wish he wasn’t | Arwa Mahdawi
Back in the day, he was funny. But that day was 24 years ago – and the character sits uncomfortably in a post-shame world Have we not suffered enough? The…
A classicist’s verdict on Nolan’s Odyssey: a soulful hero flatters our times as women and nuance pushed overboard
Matt Damon’s sensitive and repentant Odysseus might come as a surprise to Homer, likewise some significant omissions concerning the poem’s female characters Peter Bradshaw’s five star review It would be…