Why so many cold and flu tablets don’t actually work
Pharmacists and researchers JACK JANETZKI and LAUREN CORTIS clear the air on why cold and flu tablets do not work for nasal congestion as well as they claim.
- Lifestyle
- Politics
Castley’s move gives Labor minority a choice
"Being able to rely on independents, rather than always the Greens, makes a more interesting minority government. Labor does not need to be dragged further left relying almost exclusively on support from the Greens," writes MICHAEL MOORE.
- Opinion
When will the minister get police to police their own?
Letter writer JANINE HASKINS has been following the case of a violent assault of an Aboriginal man, allegedly by police, and wonders why the police minister isn't demanding answers.
- Lifestyle
Why the pharmacy sector needs a shake up
From policy failures and unfair fees to low competition, Australia's pharmacy sector is being held back. Authors of a new Grattan Institute report show how the sector can be set up for the future.
- Update
PM’s shocking bonking revelations demean women
"By the PM’s behaviour, he has arguably demeaned women by subjecting them to judgment about whom he was willing to “shag, marry or date”. Whether they had a view on it or not." Columnist ROBERT McMAHON thinks Albanese has gone too far.
- Arts & Entertainment
There’s macabre and then there’s this shocker
Sometimes it feels like Netflix is trying to dig around for the most macabre concept it can find to push into a streaming doco hit. Well, they might have just found it with Maternal Instinct," writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
- Opinion
How quickly decency and fairness in public life have fallen
"Two matters in the legal arena illustrate how secret decision making is now suspect: that distrust has replaced trust." Columnist HUGH SELBY laments how quickly expectations of probity, decency and fairness in public life have fallen.
- Lifestyle
The trick is to keep bamboo under control
Bamboo can make an effective privacy screen, but in Canberra it is best grown in pots to avoid it becoming a long-term garden problem, writes gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
- Politics
AI’s opportunities and risks front and centre on Labor’s agenda
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN believes artificial intelligence offers the Albanese government its best hope of lifting productivity, but balancing its economic promise against its risks will be no easy task.
News
Australia mourns as Israeli ambassador visits Bondi
As the Jewish community mourns the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack Israel's ambassador has visited the site, as Australia considers tighter gun laws.
Update
‘Guilty’: mushroom cook convicted of triple murder
Mushroom cook Erin Patterson intentionally poisoned four members of her estranged husband's family, a jury has found after a week of deliberations.
News
Coroner finds cop who shot indigenous teen a racist
A coroner has found the death of a 19-year-old Warlpiri-Luritja man in a remote community was avoidable, and the former police officer who shot him was racist.
Update
Few clues to motive in ‘horrifying’ Bondi rampage
NSW Premier Chris Minns says women were targeted in the Bondi Junction mass stabbing but lengthy inquiries to come may never conclusively find a motive.
News
Liberal leader has ‘heavy heart’ criticising One Nation
Angus Taylor has been accused of "appalling" attacks on Pauline Hanson's right-wing party but has refused to condemn her meeting with a notorious UK activist.
Parolee charged over stolen dealership car
Motorists to pay price for US blockade, toll in strait
Police plea for answers, 25 years after outback murder
Early risers nudge night owls on metabolic health
Mothers pay the price for birth trauma costing billions
Fireside Festival returns to Canberra’s wine region
Lifestyle
A new fitness option arrives in Erindale
In this sponsored post, the team at Anytime Fitness talk about the club's new location in Erindale that opened its doors on June 22, providing local residents with opportunity to invest in their health closer home.
Sponsored Content
News
Could this be Australia’s warmest winter ever?
Could this be Australia’s warmest winter ever? And does a warm winter have consequences for Australia’s next summer?, ask climate experts MILTON SPEER and LANCE M LESLIE
Arts & Entertainment
Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon in harmony again
Singer Art Garfunkel says he and longtime musical partner Paul Simon have 'found peace' decades after the ups and downs of one of music's greatest duos.
News
Liberal leader has ‘heavy heart’ criticising One Nation
Angus Taylor has been accused of "appalling" attacks on Pauline Hanson's right-wing party but has refused to condemn her meeting with a notorious UK activist.
Police
Parolee charged over stolen dealership car
A 32-year-old Lyons man has been charged after allegedly stealing a car from a Mitchell dealership before being arrested at a Weston shopping centre.
National news
Motorists to pay price for US blockade, toll in strait
While the government is concerned about the impact on petrol prices, the opposition warns a US toll in the Strait of Hormuz would set a dangerous precedent.
Police
Police plea for answers, 25 years after outback murder
In one of Australia's most notorious murder cases, Peter Falconio disappeared while travelling through the remote desert with his girlfriend.
Health
Early risers nudge night owls on metabolic health
Sleeping in has its advantages but research suggests night owls might suffer poorer metabolic health as a result of when, not what, they eat.
Health
Mothers pay the price for birth trauma costing billions
Birth injuries are costing Australia $17.5 billion per year with more than one million mothers suffering ongoing physical and psychological conditions.
News
Fireside Festival returns to Canberra’s wine region
The Canberra District's annual Fireside Festival will return from July 24 to August 9, with wineries across the region hosting food, wine and fireside events.
News
Super funds accused of slow action on customer support
A study by a consumer advocacy group claims super funds are failing customers but the methods of the "mystery shopper" sting have been called into question.
Health
One million Aussies have cancer, under-40s rates rise
The most detailed analysis of how cancer affects Australians shows mortality rates are improving for some patients, including First Nations people.
Daily Puzzles
"Being able to rely on independents, rather than always the Greens, makes a more interesting minority government. Labor does not need to be dragged further left relying almost exclusively on support from the Greens," writes MICHAEL MOORE.
"By the PM’s behaviour, he has arguably demeaned women by subjecting them to judgment about whom he was willing to “shag, marry or date”. Whether they had a view on it or not." Columnist ROBERT McMAHON thinks Albanese has gone too far.
AI’s opportunities and risks front and centre on Labor’s agenda
That rumoured ‘third way’ is still to come forth
Responsibility, a lost cause with Labor ministers?
Hastie seat set for One Nation showdown
Budget misery as the chickens come home to roost
Albanese wants Labor unity sans AUKUS discord
Views
When will the minister get police to police their own?
Letter writer JANINE HASKINS has been following the case of a violent assault of an Aboriginal man, allegedly by police, and wonders why the police minister isn't demanding answers.
Opinion
How quickly decency and fairness in public life have fallen
"Two matters in the legal arena illustrate how secret decision making is now suspect: that distrust has replaced trust." Columnist HUGH SELBY laments how quickly expectations of probity, decency and fairness in public life have fallen.
Opinion
How the obsession with growth holds us back
"As another financial year begins, the national conversation should move beyond the assumption that bigger is always better." CLIVE WILLIAMS says the question is not how to make the economy bigger, but how to make Australians better off.
Opinion
KEEPING UP THE ACT
"I come not to bury Shane, but to compost him". New Greens leader Jo Clay shares her cure for the Rattenbury hangover with KEEPING UP THE ACT.
Opinion
Frequently cited, the phantom that was never seen
Labor's “Aquatic Strategy” promises that “options to deliver a new public 50-metre outdoor pool in Woden will be progressed”. But progressing options differs from a commitment, says BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY.
Opinion
Hold the arts, we’re pivoting to more apartments
With tenders called, with 'indecent haste', RICHARD JOHNSTON says we’re back pretty much at square one again, after 15 years of fruitless effort around the moribund Kingston Arts Precinct.
Letters
Break the law: what sort of democracy is this?
"The ACT Government can break the law, give false information, not listen to the community and all’s good." Letter writer PENNY MOYES, of Hughes, challenged a government minister.
Opinion
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Sardonic, but is this a sad sign of the times, wonders cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Arts
Director Lachlan Houen heads to Melbourne
One of Canberra's busiest young theatre directors, Lachlan Houen, is leaving the capital for Melbourne after several years in which he has become a familiar figure both onstage and behind the scenes.
Musical Theatre
Murphy brings fresh sparkle to The Merry Widow
The revival of Graeme Murphy’s exquisite staging of Franz Lehár’s 120-year-old operetta, The Merry Widow, at the Sydney Opera House powerfully demonstrates why it was destined to become an audience favourite, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
Arts & Entertainment
Dancers prepare to show their Mettle
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Music
Recital in the style of 19th century bel canto singing
NICK HORN reviews Muse and Musings: The Chopin-Viardot Mazurka Dialogues, a performance by Anna Fraser, Claire Burrell-McDonald and Giulio Biddau.
Arts & Entertainment
Venice Biennale faces EU funding cuts over Russia
The European Commission is threatening to cut vital funding to The Venice Biennale over the reopening of the Russian pavilion at the celebrated art show.
Streaming
There’s macabre and then there’s this shocker
Sometimes it feels like Netflix is trying to dig around for the most macabre concept it can find to push into a streaming doco hit. Well, they might have just found it with Maternal Instinct," writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
Musical Theatre
Middle Raged turns menopause into shared theatre
A post-covid 50th birthday party conversation about middle age and menopause was the catalyst behind the musical Middle Raged, directed by Priscilla Jackman, reviews SAMARA PURNELL.
Music
Musica Viva duo blends virtuosity with musical curiosity
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Musica Viva Australia's frequent collaborators over forty years, Leila Josefowicz (violin) and John Novacek (piano) meet for an "intriguing and ambitious assembly of works which challenged musical convention".
Dance
Australian dance troupe earns deadly international gong
A First Nations dance company is set to be awarded a major accolade at the Venice Biennale - but says it represents just 35 of 65,000 years of stories.
Lifestyle
Why so many cold and flu tablets don’t actually work
Pharmacists and researchers JACK JANETZKI and LAUREN CORTIS clear the air on why cold and flu tablets do not work for nasal congestion as well as they claim.
Health & Fitness
Why the pharmacy sector needs a shake up
From policy failures and unfair fees to low competition, Australia's pharmacy sector is being held back. Authors of a new Grattan Institute report show how the sector can be set up for the future.
Gardening
The trick is to keep bamboo under control
Bamboo can make an effective privacy screen, but in Canberra it is best grown in pots to avoid it becoming a long-term garden problem, writes gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
Lifestyle
A new fitness option arrives in Erindale
In this sponsored post, the team at Anytime Fitness talk about the club's new location in Erindale that opened its doors on June 22, providing local residents with opportunity to invest in their health closer home.
Sponsored Content
Wine
Here’s where the government sells the booze
"The prices in Nordic countries for wine are eye-watering. In Iceland, the most expensive destination an average glass of white wine (an unimpressive pinot grigio) was $28 a glass," bemoans our travelling wine writer RICHARD CALVER.
Dining
Lunch began with a bang, but…
A true local with a solid following, Gryphons Caffe Bar has held a prime possie on the dining scene at Griffith shops since 2012, writes dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
Lifestyle
Grandparents and the memories that last a lifetime
"We visited my grandparents as often as we could. They couldn’t have been more different: on my dad’s side, it felt like an etiquette school; on my mum’s, a fun park. I loved being at both" writes PAUL DORIN.
Health & Fitness
What exercises will keep my ageing joints healthy?
Our joints are subject to the inevitable wear-and-tear of age, but low-impact exercise can help and are worth trying, writes GORDON WADDINGTON.
History
Egypt uncovers lost Byzantine-era city in the desert
Archaeologists say they have unearthed fourth-century quarters in Egypt, revealing residential and religious structures including a basilica church.
