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The Age and SMH staff to strike after pay offer rejected
Staff at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review will down tools for the first time since 2017 after last-minute talks and an improved pay offer failed to deliver a resolution.
- by Calum Jaspan
Sydney’s tolls debacle is driving us to distraction
If Sydneysiders were like Parisians, we would be taking to the streets this weekend to demand the government rectify the motorway and tolling systems that bedevil motorists all over the city.
The Herald welcomes six new trainee journalists
Six new trainee journalists have joined The Sydney Morning Herald newsroom for a 12-month program to hone their reporting skills.
These are the cartoons that kept Australians laughing for a century
A new show at the State Library of NSW celebrates a century of Australian cartooning.
- by Helen Pitt
Growing up, he didn’t know what a lawyer was. Now he’s celebrating 50 years as a partner
Peter Bartlett has notched up a milestone unlikely to be surpassed.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
‘Ready to take on the world’: Former editor Judith Whelan remembered
Judith Whelan was remembered by 500 mourners at the University of Sydney on Friday.
- by Harriet Alexander
Judith Whelan, former Herald editor and ABC executive, remembered as a trailblazer for women
Judith Whelan, a former editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, died on Wednesday afternoon surrounded by her family.
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When rats ruled The Rocks and fear stalked the streets of Sydney
The year was 1900 and public enemy number one in Sydney was the plague-infected rat.
- by Tim Barlass
Dutton’s nuclear nonsense will scare any voter
By refusing to adhere to emissions targets should he win next year’s election, Peter Dutton appears willing to put at risk Australia’s international reputation. He also risks our economic future as a reputable and reliable country in which to invest and do business.
When it comes to the economy, voters have short memories
After nearly 10 years of the Coalition having many opportunities to deliver surpluses, it not only failed to do so but managed to leave us with a trillion-dollar debt. On the other hand, Jim Chalmers will be the first treasurer in nearly two decades to bring in back-to-back surpluses.