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Seven ambulances outside Royal Perth Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

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Labor’s health failures a festering sore

Frightening figures reveal the number of category-one cases forced to wait longer than the recommended 30 days has surged 288 per cent in the past eight years.

Keeping things in proportion is challenging these days, so I hatched an idea that a road trip might refresh my perspective. 

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Andrew MillerComments
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Why the road trip to Broome with my son was so valuable

Unlike some brazen lands, the Australian continent does not readily reveal its naked form.

Andrew Miller

As phone chats become routine on trains, personal conversations spill over in cafes and workplace discussions echo through open-plan offices, conversations which were once considered private are increasingly becoming public.

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Gary MartinComments
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How to turn down the volume on your eavesdropping habit

Confusion about how to act when overhearing sensitive information has led some to call for ‘ethical eavesdropping’.

Gary Martin

Lanna Hill is a strategist, speaker and founder of Leverage Media

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Ambition is admirable, but stepping back is not a failure

Plenty of people talk about exiting the rat race. They dream of moving regional, simplifying their careers, and buying back their time. But most don’t make the shift.

Lanna Hill

Possible end of mining windfall because of Tariffs Illustration: Don lindsay

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Even in good times, fiscal discipline can’t be neglected

No economist predicted the gravity of the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic or the current trade disruptions. All we can do is prepare for this uncertainty.

Paula Gadsby

There’s more at stake than just wellbeing in the spate of dental wrongdoing exposed recently by The Sunday Times. 

EditorialCommentsPremiumSeries about dental malpractice reveals stunning complacency

There’s more at stake than just wellbeing in the spate of dental wrongdoing exposed recently by The Sunday Times. 

Our Reserve Bank governor is worried about Australia’s long-term economic outlook, going so far as to raise the spectre of global recession. 

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What Dan Murphy’s cheapest red has to do with your super

In cutting rates by 0.25 percentage points last week, the Reserve’s board warned “geopolitical uncertainties remain pronounced”, which is code for “Donald still be cray”.

Ben Harvey

Ben Harvey

Nationals leader David Littleproud and Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie.

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Nationals must heed debacle in WA

David Littleproud need only to look across the Nullarbor to see just how not to do it.

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Nat Locke pictured in the studio

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If connection is so important, why are we so bad at it? 

I suspect part of the problem is that whenever we are in a situation where previously we might have struck up a conversation with a stranger, we now doomscroll furiously while avoiding eye contact.

Nat Locke

Aqua aerobics.

Anxiety Aunt PremiumRude members are ruining group fitness experience

No one wants a class that is rigid or without an aspect of socialising, but we pay for the classes and we have the right to participate without constant distraction.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Face Dunk Bowl.

Useless stuffWould you spend $99 on a bowl?

There is a lot of useless stuff in the world. And I’m buying all of it.

Belle Taylor

Belle Taylor

Nationals leader David Littleproud and Liberals counterpart Sussan Ley may be getting the Coalition back together, but there’s likely still trouble ahead.

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Michelle GrattanComments
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Liberals and Nationals split off but damage done

Remember that cliche about the Nationals tail wagging the Liberal dog? That tail wagged very vigorously this week, and smashed a lot of crockery, as it sought to bring Liberal leader Sussan Ley to heel.

Michelle Grattan

It’s doubtful that many West Australians will be losing sleep over the Cook Government’s decision not to set a carbon emissions reduction target for 2030. 

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Renewables fantasyland is just throwing good money after bad

We’ve reached a very interesting stage in our social development when the academic left expects the essence of capitalism — banks and corporate boards — to act as their climate change policemen.

Paul Murray

Paul Murray

Sussan Ley has been elected Liberal leader in the wake of the party’s May 3 defeat.

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We already know the Liberal’s problems so let’s fix them

On Saturday morning, the Liberal Party’s State Council will meet for the first time since its historic Federal election loss three weeks ago. It will vote to formally authorise a post-election review.

Richard Wilson

West Coast Eagles wear black armbands and pay tribute to 2006 premiership player Adam Selwood.

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Selwood tragedy shines spotlight on how men must change

It’s the problem that seems to be entrenched into the core of male mentality for generations upon generations — don’t show your vulnerability. 

Justin Langer

David Littleproud.

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Littleproud the biggest loser of foolish Coalition chaos

With the Coalition split now looking likely to be healed, the question begs: what on earth was the point?

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“Change is generational. And the next generation, which has received education in schools about Aboriginal history, is in a great position.” says Emma Garlett.

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Emma GarlettComments
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As Reconciliation Week nears, I’m optimistic for our future

Labor’s re-election offers Anthony Albanese another chance to follow through on his so far-unfulfilled commitment to implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full. 

Emma Garlett

Illustration: Don Lindsay

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Debbie ChildsCommentsPremium
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Hospital crisis should be a political and moral priority

When we read that the minister is ‘confident’ she can fix the health system, it stings a little. Confidence is not what I need today. I need compassion backed by action.

Debbie Childs

after a Comanchero was shot by one of his own and had his club tattoos blowtorched off, Ben Harvey outlines the two main reasons bikies are expelled from their gangs.

WATCH VideoPremiumLethal Les has done something offensive to his bikie gang

After a Comanchero was shot by one of his own and had his club tattoos blowtorched off, Ben Harvey outlines the two main reasons bikies are expelled from their gangs.

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MARK RILEY: It seems there’s a chance the Coalition might be put back together by the end of next week — if the Liberals agree to endorse the Nationals’ policy demands. But at what cost?

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There’s still a huge unsolved problem for the Nationals

MARK RILEY: It seems there’s a chance the Coalition might be put back together by the end of next week — if the Liberals agree to endorse the Nationals’ policy demands. But at what cost?

Mark Riley

Mark Riley

A man draped with an Israeli flag sits where two people were killed near the Capital Jewish Museum.

OpinionCommentsShootings a tragic consequence of anti-Semitism

EDITORIAL: The two Israeli embassy staffers killed by a gunman in Washington DC had the right to expect to be safe. They weren’t in a war zone. They were at a museum in America’s heart of democracy. 

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Two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were killed Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said.

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DC Jewish tragedy could happen anywhere. Even here

DVIR ABRAMOVICH: Radicalisation doesn’t begin with weapons. It begins with words — repeated, unchallenged, and unleashed into public life. What happened in Washington today could happen anywhere.

Dvir Abramovich

Premier Roger Cook and Transport Minister Rita Saffioti at Volgren in Malaga with the last diesel bus

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Rita SaffiotiComments
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Last ever diesel bus manufactured in WA leaves the depot

Every bus manufactured from this day forward will be electric. It’s the start of a cheaper, cleaner and more efficient public transport system.

Rita Saffioti

Last year, there were 1556 assaults against police officers — that’s more than four each and every day.

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Editorial: Assaults on police leave us all less safe

Increasing assaults on police isn’t only a problem for the force and individual officers, it leaves us all less safe.

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