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Royal commissions are often used to buy time, not create change

The hardest part of any inquiry is not uncovering the truth; it is acting on it, as experience has shown.

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John Wallace

This is a warning to all world leaders who antagonise Trump

If the US president gets away with an illegal invasion of Venezuela, why not Xi Jinping, who has a flawed but genuine historical claim to Taiwan?

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Geoffrey Robertson

Five scenarios for a post-Maduro Venezuela – and what they could signal to the wider region

Where do the US and Venezuela go from here? Much depends on what Washington does next and how Venezuela’s fractured polity responds.

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Robert Muggah

By refusing a royal commission, what is the ALP covering up?

The government may be afraid of what could be revealed – especially in its own party.

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George Brandis

In my suburb you hear sirens and choppers all night long. But I know my neighbours by name

Our Life in the ’Burbs series highlights the good, bad and beautiful of Brisbane suburbs. Today, we look at a locale that’s diverse, dynamic and...

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Tammy Law

Bradman loved spin bowling. He would hate the pace monotony of this Ashes

On match eve at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia’s assistant coach and decorated former spin bowler Daniel Vettori shrugged his shoulders, in a...

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Daniel Brettig

Australia should not lie in bed with a shameless dictator like Trump

The US president should be met with strength, not with “fear, fawning and appeasement”.

yesterday 10

Ben Saul

In claiming American strength, Trump also highlights weakness

The US appears to have completed a bold act of regime change in unseating Nicolas Maduro, but what unfolds next for Venezuela and the world is not...

yesterday 10

David Crowe

Why the Sydney Test has dead rubber written all over it

The participants can deny it till they’re blue in the face, but there are telltale signs of a dead rubber at the end of a Test series. The players...

yesterday 10

Malcolm Knox

The Ashes fifth Test day one recap: Buy the ticket, take the Harry Brook ride. Just imagine when he works out Test cricket

In a previous, thoroughly unproductive batting life, Harry Brook scored just 113 runs from 14 innings in Australia. The miserable run stemmed from...

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Dan Walsh

This could be Trump’s Iraq, and Americans must ask: Is it what we voted for?

Donald Trump made it clear that oil is what his Venezuelan venture is about. But it is entirely unclear how he envisages the next few days – or few...

yesterday 10

Michael Koziol

De Minaur deflated after Ruud loss, but he’s been here before

It was a tough watch as Alex de Minaur walked into his press conference at 11.04pm on Saturday night. The Australian No.1 had just lost to Norway’s...

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Billie Eder

Beware energy plans chosen by your retailer: This trickery is filching hundreds of millions

Energy retailers should be compelled to act transparently and honestly in the best interests of their customers. Many don’t.

yesterday 10

Ted Woodley

The former bus driver who squeezed the life out of Latin America’s richest nation

Nicolás Maduro’s arrest by US special forces ends an unlikely 13-year presidency dressed up in myths and lies.

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Simeon Tegel

Google’s ‘chess master’ is working on AI’s killer app

A product breakthrough has long eluded Demis Hassabis, but that could change in 2026.

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Parmy Olson

When I was behind bars, time stopped. But you could never hide from the new year

When I was first arrested in Iran and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in Evin prison I would carve a line for each day into the soft...

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Kylie Moore-Gilbert

We’re a great nation. Let’s remind ourselves why that is

Compared with much of the world, everything “just works” in Australia, right? No, it doesn’t. It’s up to us to make sure it keeps working.

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Other sports have dead rubbers. Cricket has Test matches

The Ashes were decided two weeks ago, when Australia sprinted to a 3-0 lead in Adelaide needing only to draw the series to retain the title. The...

yesterday 10

Geoff Lawson

Forget the Ashes, these teams are batting for the future of Test cricket

In the fallout from Melbourne, the Sydney Test match has the feeling of a realigned contest. It’s not England versus Australia so much as bat...

yesterday 10

Malcolm Knox

Beware the generation gap: Is this Australia’s last hurrah?

The worst Australia could do as the fifth Test plays out is to take their Test side for granted, for it is historically improbable that it will...

yesterday 10

Greg Baum

All you need to do is to look up

Creation is an act of wonder, and participating in it is not difficult.

yesterday 10

Ann Rennie

For years, the month everyone else looked forward to filled me with dread

There are ways to help make loss and grief bearable in the midst of the January break.

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Dr Lucy Hone

Test cricket doesn’t need five-day pitches to survive

There appears to be something of an existential crisis unfolding in Test cricket: the quest to preserve the idea of the five-day Test match, with...

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Darren Kane

They were dubbed ‘Dad’s Army’ before a ball was bowled. What next for this champion generation?

Almost inevitably, these Ashes-winning Australians were branded “Dad’s Army” before a ball of the summer was bowled. Almost as predictably, the...

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Dan Walsh

It’s nearly 50 years since the last thrilling Ashes series Down Under. England need help

By the time England return to Australia for their next Ashes tour in 2029, it will have been almost 50 years since the last truly competitive bout...

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Daniel Brettig

Trump trapped as tensions between two powerful allies burst into the open

Growing animosity between a crown prince and a powerful sheikh reached a dramatic climax this week, in a development that could move markets and...

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Vivian Nereim

Jason Gillespie is right. Khawaja played the race card at the wrong time

Usman Khawaja’s assertion that commentary from journalists and former players about his golf and subsequent back injury before the first Ashes Test...

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Tom Decent

Art of the deal: Melania is the first of White House ladies to milk it for millions

Unlike first ladies before her, Melania Trump manages to turn her official role into content for money-making ventures.

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Nia-Malika Henderson

When rubbish science sends the innocent to jail

Once rubbish science becomes accepted, weeding it out of the legal system is extremely difficult.

previous day 10

Michael Bachelard

Do you forget what day it is? Lucky you

The seven-day week is a Roman construct. It has no natural reason for being – especially in the week after Christmas.

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Malcolm Knox

Want to stick to your New Year’s resolutions? Here’s how economics can help

If by the second Friday of January — known as “Quitter’s Day” — you’ve dropped those ambitions, you’ll also be in good company.

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Millie Muroi

We are living through an utterly lamentable era of history

We now live in a more extreme, violent and savage world than a decade ago. Liberal democracy is being confronted with something quite evil. Wider...

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Dennis Glover

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

2025 was when celebrities stopped being famous for nothing or concentrating on wellness, and started living big, messy, operatic lives again.

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Kate Halfpenny

People are drowning because beach flags are too hard to understand

Large numbers of visitors to Australia misinterpret the signs, with deadly consequences. The warnings need to be clearer.

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Samuel Cornell

Here’s jeers to the $6 cafe latte (from a coffee philistine)

Just to save a few sad coins, I confess I’ve been trying those coffee sachets – permanently half-price in supermarkets.

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James Hughes

‘It happened in seconds’: How a night of youthful joy turned into tragedy

What was meant to be a night of joy has brought devastation to the families and friends of the victims.

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David Crowe

Bumbling Bazballers, two-day Tests and dead rubbers: These Ashes have over-promised and under-delivered

Steve Smith has not played in a competitive Ashes series in Australia. At the age of 36, chances are he never will. He wouldn’t remember one...

friday 1

Andrew Wu

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

Bondi does not seem to come from a world of “networks” and “cells”. All signs are it was much more self-driven than that.

friday 1

Waleed Aly

This selfish lifestyle choice is ruining this Sydney area. Why should I pay for it?

Many Sydney parks are so polluted, they’re unusable. And the cleanup costs are sky-high.

friday 4

Christopher Harris

If you have a problem with thong bikinis, the problem is you

From surf lifesavers to Love Island stars, the thong is a practical beach staple – so why are we only clutching our pearls when women wear them?

friday 3

Damien Woolnough

These are my 20 definite, undeniable, guaranteed predictions for 2026

Look, I’m often wrong. But not this time.

friday 1

Richard Glover

Can you be a raver in your 40s? I decided to revive my life on the dance floor

A few years ago, while battling another chaotic family meal prep, I dreamily reminisced about the ’90s. Those heady times of glitter hair gel,...

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Fern Greig-Moore

It’s not just the pitch: Why Ashes batters are having a nightmare

Test cricket, the dictum has it, is a batsman’s game. Captaincy, administration and even commentary are all dominated by batsmen. Yet these...

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Tim Wigmore

‘Oh no, what have I done?’ The time I got Mitchell Starc terribly wrong

I was batting against Mitchell Starc in a Big Bash game – Sydney Thunder versus the Sixers. I faced a few balls and every one of them came into me....

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Mike Hussey

This is the damage RFK Jnr has done in less than a year

If Kennedy continues the course he’s now set, we will be left to explain to future generations how we came to abandon them.

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Royal commissions are often used to buy time, not create change

John Wallace

This is a warning to all world leaders who antagonise Trump

Geoffrey Robertson

Five scenarios for a post-Maduro Venezuela – and what they could signal to the wider region

Robert Muggah

By refusing a royal commission, what is the ALP covering up?

George Brandis

In my suburb you hear sirens and choppers all night long. But I know my neighbours by name

Tammy Law

Bradman loved spin bowling. He would hate the pace monotony of this Ashes

Daniel Brettig

Australia should not lie in bed with a shameless dictator like Trump

Ben Saul

In claiming American strength, Trump also highlights weakness

David Crowe

Why the Sydney Test has dead rubber written all over it

Malcolm Knox

The Ashes fifth Test day one recap: Buy the ticket, take the Harry Brook ride. Just imagine when he works out Test cricket

Dan Walsh

This could be Trump’s Iraq, and Americans must ask: Is it what we voted for?

Michael Koziol

De Minaur deflated after Ruud loss, but he’s been here before

Billie Eder

Beware energy plans chosen by your retailer: This trickery is filching hundreds of millions

Ted Woodley

The former bus driver who squeezed the life out of Latin America’s richest nation

Simeon Tegel

Google’s ‘chess master’ is working on AI’s killer app

Parmy Olson

When I was behind bars, time stopped. But you could never hide from the new year

Kylie Moore-Gilbert

We’re a great nation. Let’s remind ourselves why that is

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Other sports have dead rubbers. Cricket has Test matches

Geoff Lawson

Forget the Ashes, these teams are batting for the future of Test cricket

Malcolm Knox

Beware the generation gap: Is this Australia’s last hurrah?

Greg Baum

All you need to do is to look up

Ann Rennie

For years, the month everyone else looked forward to filled me with dread

Dr Lucy Hone

Test cricket doesn’t need five-day pitches to survive

Darren Kane

They were dubbed ‘Dad’s Army’ before a ball was bowled. What next for this champion generation?

Dan Walsh

It’s nearly 50 years since the last thrilling Ashes series Down Under. England need help

Daniel Brettig

Trump trapped as tensions between two powerful allies burst into the open

Vivian Nereim

Jason Gillespie is right. Khawaja played the race card at the wrong time

Tom Decent

Art of the deal: Melania is the first of White House ladies to milk it for millions

Nia-Malika Henderson

When rubbish science sends the innocent to jail

Michael Bachelard

Do you forget what day it is? Lucky you

Malcolm Knox

Want to stick to your New Year’s resolutions? Here’s how economics can help

Millie Muroi

We are living through an utterly lamentable era of history

Dennis Glover

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

Kate Halfpenny

People are drowning because beach flags are too hard to understand

Samuel Cornell

Here’s jeers to the $6 cafe latte (from a coffee philistine)

James Hughes

‘It happened in seconds’: How a night of youthful joy turned into tragedy

David Crowe

Bumbling Bazballers, two-day Tests and dead rubbers: These Ashes have over-promised and under-delivered

Andrew Wu

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

Waleed Aly

This selfish lifestyle choice is ruining this Sydney area. Why should I pay for it?