Neuroscientist Matthew Walker on the “genius gap”, why dreaming is like a soothing balm – and a new practice to try an hour before you plan to hit the sack.
A fixture of the VFL and AFL for 50 years, Robert Walls died on May 15, 2025. He was also a longtime football columnist for The Age – read the best of his past columns here.
There is a rising threat to a key part of Trump’s economic strategy.
Ratten is under siege, but he doesn’t play politics, lay blame or pit personalities against each other, as some coaches do. He continues to put his players first.
The pop juggernaut had very little to do with It Ends With Us, but she has been subpoenaed as a witness in the director’s lawsuit.
As a coach, you like your young players to pull their heads in and do a lot of looking and listening. I thought Jason Akermanis would rub a few people the wrong way. And he did.
When it came to kicking, scratching, spitting, abusing and coat hanging, Kevin Sheedy and I were happy to accommodate each other. Out of that keen rivalry, a begrudging respect grew.
I want to see the Swans smash West Coast. I want good to triumph over evil. Perhaps that sounds a bit dramatic, but you cannot help how you feel.
There has been much to admire about Liberatore’s career. But it has been sad to see him desperately clinging to a career that he knows is slipping away fast.
Nathan Buckley annoyed a few of the older players because his unbridled enthusiasm embarrassed their not-so-full-on efforts. We played him everywhere – wing, centre, half-back.
Footage shows a group of teens attacking a boy, who tries to escape through the crowd at a community fireworks event, before repeatedly stomping on him.
NSW party heavyweights want to elevate housing to a “cause not a policy” and reject NIMBYism.
I feel let down. I’ve been shortchanged, fooled, duped and embarrassed. And I don’t even barrack for Collingwood. But I did tip it. And it did not give a yelp.
The unemployment rate has remained steady at 4.1 per cent, days out from the Reserve Bank's next meeting on interest rates.
I let Western Bulldogs dasher Rohan Smith down last week. I regret what I did and wish I could turn back time, but that can’t happen.
Putting the gloves on at the Bears was commonplace back in the early 1990s. Shane Strempel, who treated the club and his teammates with a lack of respect, needed to be put in a position of dealing with some controlled aggression.
Uncompromising as a player, coach and commentator, Robert Walls was a respected and influential figure in Australian football for more than 50 years.
When news broke of a 90-day trade truce between Washington and Beijing, a brief window of opportunity flew open and Chinese toy makers hit the phones immediately.
That Robert Walls would die soon, at a time of his choosing, was known to many of his friends within the football and media fraternities. He was one of the game’s most fabled figures.
A Tongan man is shown running along a Sydney street after he attacked Australian Border Force officials early today.
If Ange Postecoglou wins the Europa League final he’ll pocket $4 million - if he’s sacked he’ll get a generous compensation payout.
This one goes out to a few young superstars in the AFL, and my advice is to think long and hard when other clubs come calling.
Donald Trump has found the Israel prime minister too trigger-happy, and their relationship has taken a back-seat.
A mother and her teenage daughter were hospitalised after a blaze ripped through a townhouse in Melbourne’s south-east overnight.
The Crown Estate is one of the UK’s largest property managers, controlling half of the UK’s coastline.
