Working-class voters are swinging right. But can Dutton win the battle for the battlers?

Polling indicates that Australia’s working class – as in America and Europe – is turning more conservative. What will it mean for the next election?

  • Margot Saville

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Monster utes have taken over the roads. Now they’re coming for our car parks

I love my local supermarket,but these days the car park terrifies me.

  • Margot Saville
The author’s Pia Picanto,for which the NRMA’s proposed insurance premium soared by 17 per cent to

Who’d pay $3440 to insure my tiny car? My ex-insurer thought I would

My Kia Picanto is worth about as much as a Taylor Swift ticket. Check out the swifty my ex-insurer tried to pull.

  • Margot Saville
Susan Oryzak and her family are one of the small numbers in Melbourne who voluntarily do not own a car.

The EV revolution has stalled. Can these nifty bikes kick it back into gear?

If you can’t afford the latest electric car,there’s a smarter option that will also provide the required feelings of smug superiority we long for.

  • Margot Saville

Why Allegra Spender will never join the Liberal Party

If the Liberal Party wants any hope of winning back seats like Wentworth – and government – it’ll need new policies,not just the odd fresh candidate.

  • Margot Saville
Bon Scott fronts AC/DC in Hollywood in 1977 as lead guitarist Angus Young finds an alternative use for his school tie.

My retail job got me AC/DC tickets,chutzpah got me backstage

I hated my job at Pigott& Co in Toowoomba. But I earned enough to get me into an unforgettable AC/DC gig at Harristown High.

  • Margot Saville
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Chaos on Victoria Road and,inset,a confusing sign that will be changed.

Here in Rozelle,we can see the CBD,we just can’t get there

The traffic changes imposed on Victoria Road have caused chaos for the good folk of Balmain and Rozelle. Perhaps we should secede.

  • Margot Saville
French submarine pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet and British billionaire Hamish Harding are among the five passengers aboard the missing vessel.

Death clocks are ghoulish,whatever you think about billionaires in subs

Some news outlets had an oxygen countdown in their stories,just so you could feel the march to oblivion in real time – is that close enough for you?

  • Margot Saville

The new breed of politician too busy to play politics

The NSW Labor Party is moving away from classic party machine candidates and preselecting hard-working women who are deeply connected to their communities.

  • Margot Saville
The cost of putting a roof over our heads affects every aspect of our lives.

Fertility,obesity,productivity... The crazy cost of a Sydney house is not just financial

The price of putting a roof over our heads,a basic human right,affects every aspect of our lives.

  • Margot Saville