Tapping into home equity for lump sums or income could solve some retirement problems. But expert advice is needed.

Blaming Baby Boomers for your money woes is unfair,lazy and wrong

Generational scapegoating places blame on a malevolent generation rather than the political and economic system that creates and perpetuates inequalities between rich and poor.

  • Clive Hamilton andMyra Hamilton

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Illustration by Simon Letch

Wake up,lefties,and reject wokeness

Fear of being publicly shamed,bullied,cancelled or even fired is stifling sincere dialogue – and there’s nothing left-wing about that.

  • Clive Hamilton
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is at the centre of the controversy.

Suddenly the ‘lab leak’ theory can’t be so readily dismissed:the stifled search for COVID’s Patient Zero

At last the World Health Organisation realises playing nice with China won’t work.

  • Clive Hamilton
Brumbies off the Snowy Mountain highway,Kosciuszko National Park.

Barilaro’s ‘brumby bill’ has been a catastrophe for the high country

Despite the many warnings,political bloody-mindedness over the culling of feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park has created an environmental disaster.

  • Clive Hamilton
A security guard moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the WHO team arrives for a field visit in February.

Where did COVID come from? The case for a leak of a virus engineered in a Wuhan lab

Many were scepitcal,but now the US President wants to know whether the original coronavirus was made in a Wuhan laboratory - then accidentally leaked.

  • Clive Hamilton
The long reach of Operation Fox Hunt ... these men are among six accused fugitives taken back to China under escort from Indonesia in June 2015.

Why we should suspect China’s secret police are at work on our streets

Xi Jinping’s “Operation Fox Hunt” has been caught tracking down Chinese citizens living in the US. We have strong reasons to believe they are doing the same here.

  • Clive Hamilton
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Cheng Lei,the Australian anchor for China's government-run English news channel CGTN.

Cheng Lei is a strange choice for a diplomatic hostage

Cheng is not a well-known Australian and has worked for many years as part of the Communist Party's propaganda apparatus.

  • Clive Hamilton
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Bulls in a China shop:How Beijing cultivated Wall Street's giants

The titans of US finance have for decades been guiding the nation’s China policy. But then US manufacturers grew tired of waiting for the promised land.

  • Clive Hamilton andMareike Ohlberg
Has Daniel Andrews gone too far with China?

China has been successful in ramping up its influence in Victoria

China's Belt and Road Initiative agreement with Victoria is the golden fruit of a long process of cultivation of Melbourne’s political elite.

  • Clive Hamilton
75,000 dead:US President Donald Trump

It would be unwise to dismiss Donald Trump's Wuhan lab leak theory

We wait to see if he can back it up,but the President’s claim is not without basis.

  • Clive Hamilton