The surprising prediction for Australia in 40 years

What will our future look like 40 years from now? How, in a world growing in complexity, will we be faring economically and otherwise? Ahead of the release of the government's latest intergenerational report, Treasurer Jim Chalmers had warned of some "confronting" findings, but there were also some…

Introducing Virginia: Our latest investigative podcast

Today we're sharing the first episode of Virginia – The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald's latest investigative podcast on Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent victim. Walkley-award winning journalist Melissa Fyfe and WA Today reporter Carla Hildebrandt spent more than six months investigating Virgini…

The new terror stalking Ukraine

For many Ukrainians, daily life continues four years and six months since Russia’s full-scale invasion. But something has shifted in the war recently, as Europe correspondent David Crowe reports from Kyiv. Today, Crowe discusses the new and dangerous phase of this war and what the rest of the worl…

Migration plan revealed: Who comes, who leaves and what it all means

Today we’re hot off the press, to use an old newsroom cliche, to talk about the federal government’s new plan for migration. Immigration Minister Tony Burke gave a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday where he announced significant changes. These changes included curtailing vi…

Could Australia join the European Union?

When Donald Trump announced his so-called Liberation Day tariffs in April last year, one question seemed to dominate: which country would suffer the most economic pain? But since then, one country after the next seems to have awoken to a starkly hopeful realisation: the United States accounts for …

Bestselling author Caitlin Moran on how to have hope when Trump and the world drives you 'crackers"

For nearly 35 years, hundreds of thousands of readers around the world have turned to Caitlin Moran for laughter and her signature nouse about how to cope with life's worst bits. Having grown up in poverty in a down-at-heels English town and helping to support her siblings from the age of 15, Mora…

One Nation has revealed its migration policy

Pauline Hanson has finally announced her party’s migration policy, after weeks in which various One Nation MPs publicly contradicted one another on the plan. Today, hear federal political reporter Brittany Busch on which visa holders Pauline Hanson has in her sights – and whether her plan could ri…

Australia’s ‘Moneyball’: Finding the next big thing in footy

Finals in Australia’s major sporting codes are in full swing. And six weeks after the AFL grand final is played, the other biggest show of the year - the men’s, and women’s, draft - begins. But the work to find the next big thing starts years earlier, when scouts hunt for teenagers who possess un…

Superannuation and the One Nation press conference that had everyone watching

This week we’re joining the dots between two different stories: the fight over superannuation, and the colourful past of One Nation’s leader in Victoria, Warren Pickering. On Monday, Pauline Hanson told voters her party would allow renters and prospective home buyers to withdraw their superannuati…

From 9/11 to Donald Trump: Why Australia can’t afford to abandon the US

This week marks twenty-five years since the United States suffered a terrorist attack that was predicted to change the world forever. Today, international and political editor Peter Hartcher talks about the lessons that the US learned – and failed to learn – and examines the costs and rewards of A…