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RICHO’S TOP 10: Why a NT team could spell disaster, who the Blues need to target tomorrow night and why we should not be putting a ring on it.
OLIVIA SENIOR: In a recent viral video, a hypothetical question is posed: if you had to choose, would you rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear?
EDITORIAL: Dr Chalmers wants us to believe he’s motivated purely by the economics, but this is a political Budget driven by Labor’s desire to hang on at next year’s election.
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SIMON BIRMINGHAM: What do Bathurst and Devonport have in common? There are plenty of car lovers in both, but they are also about the same size as the increase in public servants employed by the Government.
MICHAEL USHER: Cars are safer than ever and driver training standards have never been more stringent. So, why does the road toll keep climbing? How do we stop the carnage?
JENI O’DOWD: The best way to fight cyber fraud is to hold our financial institutions liable for losses.
Family and money appear to be at the heart of David Fifita’s decision to stay at the Titans but a very angry chook may have also played a part.
GEMMA ACTON: Consumers do not switch service providers often enough — particularly on the items where it can make a real difference to household finances.
UP LATE: Ben Harvey reveals the one page of the Federal Budget Jim Chalmers doesn’t want you to see, decoding the bottom line and explaining why high-fiving tax cuts is a ploy to gloss over Australia’s debt.
More money for doing your job. Better help if your internal plumbing is a bit iffy. Less chance of being murdered by your partner. That’s the promise to women under the Albanese Government.
BEN HARVEY: This would have been a superb Budget if Australia was in recession. We are not. We are about to pump-prime an economy that is full to bursting.
Getting the score right should not be that hard. The blunder at the weekend showed that Super Netball can be super amateurish. It would never happen in men’s professional sport.
The fan who spoke out against racial slurs at the weekend deserves a medal but they exposed a flaw in the system that every club needs to look at.
ANDREW CARSWELL: Kevin Rudd lost them. Julia Gillard never connected with them. Bill Shorten lied to them. Anthony Albanese desperately wants blue-collar workers back. But don’t be fooled.
The invitation to Nigeria may have first been extended to Prince Harry to spruik the Invictus Games, but he likely can’t shake the feeling his wife stole the show and made it her own — deliberately or not.