Graham Young

Running and jumping at the Division-I level is one thing. Doing it exceptionally well and earning a place in the Miami University record books is another. Ella Scally, a junior sprints and jumps athlete on Miami’s track and field team, is off the charts.

Almost 39 years after Paul Keating said Australia was on the way to becoming a ‘Banana Republic’ this year’s Budget shows Australia has its sails set and is heading in that direction.

Anthony Albanese may think he’s being smart by announcing the election the day after Peter Dutton’s reply-to-the-Budget speech, but because the decision has leaked, he’s handed the starters gun…

Goodness knows why the Chinese government would want to put pressure on the Albanese government during an election campaign, but that’s what they are doing. Research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao…

If Prime Minister Albanese does not outright reject Adam Bandt’s demand to Grandfather negative gearing and scrap 50 per cent capital gains tax discount, it will be a tacit admission that a re-elected…

Under the Greens’ housing proposal, rent could rise by an average $83 a week, on top of the rent increases likely to happen anyway.

Post-election there is always jockeying to write the narrative. Frequently these are either complete fantasy, or ‘faction' – fiction based on

‘This election…is a sliding doors moment for our nation,’ declared Peter Dutton, and maybe he was right, and in ways he didn’t quite intend. Sliding Doors refers to the 1998 British film of the same…

One is dead and likely to be proclaimed a saint at some time, and the other is alive and performing miracles now. They both come from the same country.

Past performance is the best predictor of future performance, so the business chiefs heading to Anthony Albanese’s Productivity Summit should know they are about to be carved up and handed to the…