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Trump’s MAGA dream could end in disaster

The US president’s trade wars are the centrepiece of his economic strategy. If the US Supreme Court ends them, all the chaos, dysfunction and angst...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Let’s be blunt: Putin has called Trump’s bluff on Ukraine

As alarm grew over Ukraine’s rising death toll from Russian attacks, the Pope took to social media at the weekend to plead for a ceasefire. Trump,...

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David Crowe

Sunshine, lollipops and scandal: NRL’s oldest rivalry still breaking new ground

Brandon Smith helped give away a car to a Souths fan on Sunday. Come Friday, he will be front and centre of a tale that now includes turf wars and...

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Dan Walsh

Radley, Politis’ zero tolerance with drugs edict and an inconvenient truth

Brandon Smith has been accused of supplying drugs to Victor Radley. That is a fact. But, the Roosters seem to believe the problem is everyone...

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Neil Breen

Secret refugee deal with Nauru just moves the problem out of sight

Australia has been sending asylum-seekers to the tiny Pacific nation since 2001. It doesn’t solve the issue.

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Jane Mcadam

Praise from Jo Haylen’s powerful ally points to her return

Premier Chris Minns says that former transport minister Jo Haylen’s best days are ahead of her - surely a sign of her imminent return.

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Anthony Segaert

Away from Melbourne, I’ve developed strange feelings about Novak Djokovic

The Serb great may never be compared to a religious experience, but in this most excellent twilight of his career he is giving us something just as...

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Michael Koziol

Worry turned to hope as Fyfe eyes final hurrah for Freo

Dockers veteran Nat Fyfe looms as either the fairytale or heartbreak story of the upcoming AFL finals series.

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Justin Chadwick

There’s a nasty collision of hate and housing

Immigration is only one of the housing issues that has pitted groups in society against each other.

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Elizabeth Knight

A narrow legal definition with significant consequences: What exactly is genocide, and what is not?

An Australian politician was crucial to establishing the strict criterion that confirms genocide. Israel is using it to strenuously deny it’s...

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Samantha Selinger-Morris

Beijing invited me to this special celebration. Here’s why I’m happy to go

Australians in 1945 would have seen China’s victory over Japan as a win for humanity. That’s worth commemorating,

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Bob Carr

Hey, Bob Katter, try being a teacher. I reckon you wouldn’t last five minutes

Every day, teachers deal with challenging situations without issuing threats or holding up their fists. Katter should know better.

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Melanie Ralph

The one big reform no one discussed at Labor’s roundtable

Despite the strong support for tax reform at last month’s economic reform roundtable, perhaps the most important single reform hardly rated a...

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Ross Gittins

To keep MAHA happy, Trump must do the impossible: keep quiet

I almost died of rubella when I was three. I was very weak and wouldn’t eat. My mother was frantic. The doctor prescribed mashed lima beans and I...

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Maureen Dowd

After a holiday romance with dictatorship, Trump is returning to reality

August in Washington is a humid, miserable affair. There aren’t many tourists, and anyone who can escape from the city will use any excuse to do...

yesterday 10

Cory Alpert

Unsung heroes: The quiet achievers holding the key to their team’s finals hopes

September is the best time to play footy. The mood shifts, the days get warmer and longer and there is a buzz at every training session. The stakes...

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Jimmy Bartel

‘We demand a habitable planet’: Our 21-year-old senator steps up

Charlotte Walker was elected third on the ALP’s Senate ticket for South Australia on her 21 st birthday. She gave her first speech on Monday. I...

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Peter Fitzsimons

My top 30 of 2025: These two AFL superstars were in the pre-season top five, now they’re nowhere to be seen

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On an evening of somewhat surprising selections – 28-year-old Shaun Mannagh winning...

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Jake Niall

Rabbitohs knew about Brandon Smith’s gambling problem when they signed him

South Sydney were well aware of Brandon Smith’s gambling problem when they negotiated a deal to sign him from the Roosters in May. The Rabbitohs...

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Danny Weidler

Rude awakening: Retail workers are copping more abuse, but why?

Scott Harris spent 26 years in the Queensland police force before he established his consultancy training retail staff how to de-escalate and...

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Jacqueline Maley

The vital new money lessons to give kids at every age

Real Money, a free weekly newsletter giving expert tips on how to save, invest and make the most of your money, is sent every Sunday. You’re...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

I’m confused. What do all the superannuation terms mean?

I’m a wee bit confused by some terminology, and would love a simple-to-understand explanation. What is the transfer balance cap? What is the...

yesterday 10

Paul Benson

The young are haemorrhaging hope. Please, no more Band-Aids

It was a bad week for Band-Aids. Inflation jumped more than expected because households in Sydney and Melbourne didn’t receive their quarterly...

yesterday 9

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

‘I owe that knob my life’: My brush with death on the M1

Have you ever had a near-death experience? I’ve had a couple, most recently last year. It involved a nasty bout of COVID, a massive thunderstorm,...

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Kerri Sackville

Olympic gold changed the country. Now we need pre-Games bold

This time 25 years ago, Sydney, and Australian officialdom, were exhibiting signs of performance anxiety. The opening of the 2000 Olympic Games was...

yesterday 9

Nick Bryant

‘Saying no was hard’: How to deal with the unspoken expectation to drink

As the working week comes to an end, for many it signals a time to unwind and share a drink with work colleagues. For estate lawyer Oliver Morrisey...

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Emily Chantiri

Snoop Dogg at the AFL grand final? Those days should be long gone

The Snoop Dogg thing? I never quite got why, from the first, he would be a good choice to sing at the AFL grand final. And yes, I know we can’t...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Democracy was on the defensive before Trump 2.0. Now it may be dying

The experts have been charting a continuous global democratic decline since 2006. Now we have entered the days of the dictators. Not every country...

previous day 10

Peter Hartcher

Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Adam Lindsay who? The ‘shining soul’ a nation forgot

They were racing in the Adam Lindsay Gordon Hurdle at the lovely old Great Western Steeplechase course at Coleraine, south-west Victoria, only a...

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Tony Wright

The two traps of ‘unlocking money’ by downsizing you home

Downsizing is a popular planned approach to fund retirement fun. The dream might be to swap the big family home you are rattling around in to...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

A police gun battle is nothing like a movie. I know from bitter experience

I was not in Porepunkah on Tuesday. I have not been a serving police officer since 1995. Yet the news shook me more deeply than I had expected and...

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Keith Banks

The real reasons why our nation is so unproductive

In all the talk this week about the nation’s productivity, no one has pointed to the lack of competition within the productivity sector itself. Why...

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Richard Glover

Labubu, skibidi and delulu enter their dictionary era, for better or worse

If you think a Labubu is the solulu, you’re delulu. And if that sentence boils your blood, then best to skip this column for health reasons. What...

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David Astle

‘Drowning in jargon’: The words we need to remove from our vocabulary

Last week I was on top of a mountain. My husband and I had spent a few sweaty hours slogging our way up the peak, solving the world’s problems...

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Tim Duggan

Next stop, Woollahra! The joys of having a train station in your suburb

My high school girlfriend had a very religious mother who didn’t much like me because I didn’t give off very religious vibes. We were star-crossed...

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Thomas Mitchell

Super’s big test is working, but there is a fatal flaw

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) dropped its 2025 superannuation performance test results on Friday morning. And let’s be...

previous day 2

Bec Wilson

I work with someone who lies a lot. It’s causing serious problems

I have a work colleague who tells tall tales. Often they’re entertaining – especially when they’re about life outside work. Occasionally,...

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Jonathan Rivett

If you think you had it harder back in the day, think again

Whenever I write about intergenerational fairness, or lack thereof, there are a heartening number of supportive responses. But, without fail,...

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Millie Muroi

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime

If round 26 could talk, it would turn to round 25 and say: “That’s not a knife, that’s a knife.” There was a tiny sliver of a moment on Monday...

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Emma Kemp

Why net zero could be ground zero for Sussan Ley

Sussan Ley is hurtling towards a political showdown over Australia’s net zero target that could make, or end, her leadership. After three years of...

friday 3

James Massola

No fire sale: North Sydney’s Firehouse Hotel changes hands in $35m-plus deal

Sonnel Hospitality, run by pub baron Simon Meers, has swooped on the popular Firehouse Hotel in North Sydney, paying more than $35 million for the...

friday 3

Carolyn Cummins

How Trump’s bitter war for control of America’s money risks unleashing global chaos

It could take the National Guard blocking Lisa Cook from entering the Federal Reserve next month before financial markets wake up to the economic...

friday 2

Shane Wright

Many celebrity couples are doomed. But Taylor-Travis will be different

For decades, I’ve watched and written about countless celebrity love stories. My strike rate in predicting if they’d go the distance is pretty...

friday 4

Kate Halfpenny

Why Tony Popovic’s latest Socceroos squad is the most exciting in years

The future begins now. Later than many would have liked, but that is Tony Popovic’s way. With the tension and jeopardy of World Cup qualification...

friday 1

Vince Rugari

World Boxing must keep its fighters safe, but its gene test was discredited 30 years ago

Everything old is new again. In the 1960s, the International Olympic Committee introduced “sex testing”, to weed out the pretend women from the...

friday 3

Darren Kane

Mitch Brown is not the only hero of this story

Mitch Brown’s coming out as bisexual has made history in more ways than it first seems. Until this week, no AFL male player had ever publicly...

friday 3

Gary Nunn

If there’s a war in the Pacific, who defends Australia?

With Defence Minister Richard Marles back from a mysterious trip to the US, the alliance is back in the spotlight, as it has been since the second...

friday 1

Jennifer Parker

The grudge match that could bring the pre-finals bye to life

Sport is built on great rivalries. Think Roger and Rafa. The Celtics and the Lakers. Man U and Liverpool. In its 10th season, the AFLW is starting...

friday 3

Kelli Underwood

They want to silence the ANU’s music school. This is tone-deaf vandalism

Rock drummers, jazz singers. Children with fiddles. Physicists with cellos. Law students from Hong Kong at the piano. Clarinettists from...

friday 3

Richard Tognetti

I searched ‘Trump’ and ‘golf’. Now the algorithms think I’m a white supremacist

My social media algorithm thinks I’m a white supremacist, but that’s all right. It thinks I want to attend Sunday’s “March for Australia:...

friday 4

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Trump’s MAGA dream could end in disaster

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Let’s be blunt: Putin has called Trump’s bluff on Ukraine

David Crowe

Sunshine, lollipops and scandal: NRL’s oldest rivalry still breaking new ground

Dan Walsh

Radley, Politis’ zero tolerance with drugs edict and an inconvenient truth

Neil Breen

Secret refugee deal with Nauru just moves the problem out of sight

Jane Mcadam

Praise from Jo Haylen’s powerful ally points to her return

Anthony Segaert

Away from Melbourne, I’ve developed strange feelings about Novak Djokovic

Michael Koziol

Worry turned to hope as Fyfe eyes final hurrah for Freo

Justin Chadwick

There’s a nasty collision of hate and housing

Elizabeth Knight

A narrow legal definition with significant consequences: What exactly is genocide, and what is not?

Samantha Selinger-Morris

Beijing invited me to this special celebration. Here’s why I’m happy to go

Bob Carr

Hey, Bob Katter, try being a teacher. I reckon you wouldn’t last five minutes

Melanie Ralph

The one big reform no one discussed at Labor’s roundtable

Ross Gittins

To keep MAHA happy, Trump must do the impossible: keep quiet

Maureen Dowd

After a holiday romance with dictatorship, Trump is returning to reality

Cory Alpert

Unsung heroes: The quiet achievers holding the key to their team’s finals hopes

Jimmy Bartel

‘We demand a habitable planet’: Our 21-year-old senator steps up

Peter Fitzsimons

My top 30 of 2025: These two AFL superstars were in the pre-season top five, now they’re nowhere to be seen

Jake Niall

Rabbitohs knew about Brandon Smith’s gambling problem when they signed him

Danny Weidler

Rude awakening: Retail workers are copping more abuse, but why?

Jacqueline Maley

The vital new money lessons to give kids at every age

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

I’m confused. What do all the superannuation terms mean?

Paul Benson

The young are haemorrhaging hope. Please, no more Band-Aids

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

‘I owe that knob my life’: My brush with death on the M1

Kerri Sackville

Olympic gold changed the country. Now we need pre-Games bold

Nick Bryant

‘Saying no was hard’: How to deal with the unspoken expectation to drink

Emily Chantiri

Snoop Dogg at the AFL grand final? Those days should be long gone

Peter Fitzsimons

Democracy was on the defensive before Trump 2.0. Now it may be dying

Peter Hartcher

Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Adam Lindsay who? The ‘shining soul’ a nation forgot

Tony Wright

The two traps of ‘unlocking money’ by downsizing you home

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

A police gun battle is nothing like a movie. I know from bitter experience

Keith Banks

The real reasons why our nation is so unproductive

Richard Glover

Labubu, skibidi and delulu enter their dictionary era, for better or worse

David Astle

‘Drowning in jargon’: The words we need to remove from our vocabulary

Tim Duggan

Next stop, Woollahra! The joys of having a train station in your suburb

Thomas Mitchell

Super’s big test is working, but there is a fatal flaw

Bec Wilson

I work with someone who lies a lot. It’s causing serious problems

Jonathan Rivett

If you think you had it harder back in the day, think again

Millie Muroi

The NRL isn’t a soap opera – it’s many, and they’re all competing for airtime