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The Bulldogs got their man. This is their plan for Lachlan Galvin

The 19-year-old rising star will be plunged into an intensive physical and mental training regime to transform him into the powerhouse player the...

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Danny Weidler

Albanese need not shy away from his Catholic roots

Politicians who are believers cannot help but bring their faith to their work because it shapes their values and convictions.

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Barney Zwartz

This film used to make Austria cringe. Now it brings in $1.8b

Residents used to wince when tourists asked directions to movie locations. Sixty years later, the city is embracing hordes of TikTokers channelling...

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Rob Harris

Like Frankenstein on steroids. Musk and Trump both created monsters

The spectacular falling out between the US president and the world’s richest man has been both jaw dropping and entirely predictable.

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Maureen Dowd

Why the Brumbies have been dudded by new Super Rugby playoffs system

The Brumbies won a hard-fought qualifying final on Saturday. Their reward? Travelling to New Zealand for a semi-final at the home ground of a team...

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Iain Payten

It takes an army to make democracy work. It’s time more of us enlisted

The election is done and dusted. Some people are delighted with the result, some relieved and some disappointed, as happens every cycle. But our...

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Jane Caro

Power bills got you sweating? Stay warm without spending a fortune

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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Dominic Powell

Why this Melbourne mayor’s got a big crush on Sydney

The new Lord Mayor of Melbourne Nick Reece made news this week for, extraordinarily, saying admiring things about Sydney. I talked to him on...

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Peter Fitzsimons

J.D. Vance chastised Europeans on free speech. He wasn’t wrong

There is a counterfactual fantasy, not much indulged but not dismissed entirely, in which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to his second...

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Out with the young and in with the old: A mid-year All-Australian team with a difference

Back in July of last year, Steele Sidebottom had a three-week stretch when his form dipped to a pedestrian level that would often spell the end for...

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Jake Niall

How do I know if I have enough money to retire?

How do you know if you have enough? My wife and I are both in our mid-50s and thinking about retirement around 60. We have $1.6 million in super,...

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Paul Benson

Ange will land on his feet. But Spurs have made an enormous mistake in sacking him

There is a popular meme on the internet – the “never give up” cartoon, it’s called – which shows two men mining underground for diamonds. The first...

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Vince Rugari

The one thing I really want is the one thing I can’t give myself

Two weeks ago, I caught up with a friend of mine who is an adult man with a very serious job as a corporate lawyer for a global bank, where he...

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Thomas Mitchell

Parisienne-style restaurant served with a twist: red paint running down naked bodies

Top restaurateur Chris Lucas and his wife Sarah wanted a Parisienne-style feel in their new four-level Melbourne dining house Maison Batard. The...

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Stephen Crafti

This is the Wallabies squad Schmidt should select to play the Lions

The window for Wallabies auditions is almost at a close. Depending on results, there could be one, two, or no Australian teams left in Super Rugby...

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Paul Cully

Shame on those who whip up hate against trans athletes for clicks and votes

I call it “hate-bait” – a vicious version of clickbait. It is when, in media and politics, you pick out with cold calculation the one target you...

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Peter Fitzsimons

By fighting Musk for the dark soul of MAGA, Trump has finally met his match

Dark Maga has seen the light. In a plot twist eerily reminiscent of The Phantom Menace, (also known as the worst Star Wars movie ever made)...

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Melanie La&x27Brooy

‘Progressive patriot’ prime minister faces his call to arms

Donald Trump’s Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was reported to be pressuring Australia this week to ramp up its military budget. Pressuring? He...

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Peter Hartcher

The life-changing money chat to have with your kids

I was asked a bunch of two-option questions in a podcast last week, including if I was a saver or a spender. “Saver,” I swiftly answered. But if my...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Retiring without $1 million? Don’t worry, so is everyone else

For years people planning for retirement have been haunted by a single goal: reaching $1 million in super before they retire. Apparently, that’s...

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Bec Wilson

Turns out breaking all the rules is my favourite part of being a grandparent

As a parent I was occasionally a naysayer. I’d veto ice-creams before breakfast. I had strong views about using crayons to draw rabbits on the...

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Richard Glover

David Beckham’s knighthood: a symbol of reinvention and quiet service

In Love Actually, Hugh Grant’s fictional prime minister famously declares Britain to be a nation of Shakespeare, Churchill, The Beatles – “David...

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Rob Harris

Our dogs have a human problem, and it’s becoming a pet hate

If you have a dog, love a dog, want a dog, support all things dog, maybe think of life from the dog’s point of view. The dog’s in the front yard. A...

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Malcolm Knox

Instagram has decided I’m a sad old sack. It’s only partly true

Fidgety while my husband drove us to the airport last Friday, I checked my email. A bald message from Instagram: my personal account had been...

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Kate Halfpenny

Run It Straight is anarchy in the guise of sport

Nothing in life is straightforward, however straight you run. The concept of freedom and personal choice should be the exception, but there is...

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Darren Kane

The Trump-Musk bandwagon was always going to crash, but it’s done so with impressive violence

And they seemed like such a happy couple … In reality, few are surprised by the public divorce between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Trump, the...

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Michael Lind

Why your chippy has a ‘toolbox’ and bullet trains ‘fang it’

Tools, fangs, roots, pubs – the mailbag had a distinct ocker slant in May. William Ryan, a former publican, and keen word-watcher, wrote, “I’d...

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David Astle

Trump agrees to visit China after ice-breaking call with Xi

Washington: US President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to visit Beijing, as he declared a trade deal with China was in good shape after a...

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Michael Koziol

‘Over my dead body’: Fight to keep Healthscope’s hospitals alive just getting started

If we are to believe the words of former Qantas high-flyer and current Healthscope boss Tino La Spina, there remains no love lost between the...

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Colin Kruger

Perfectly imperfect: Unlikely hero takes Socceroos to brink of another World Cup

In the end, it was perfectly imperfect. A goal that almost didn’t happen, off the non-preferred right boot of an unfashionable left-back, at the...

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Vince Rugari

My to-do list for the man about to become football’s Mr Fix It

As difficult as it was for The Fonz to say “s ... s ... s ... s ... sor ... sorry” in TV’s Happy Days, some critics of the AFL might be equally...

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Jimmy Bartel

Chalmers has earned the right to snub the Coalition, but here’s why he shouldn’t

Jim Chalmers slammed the door shut this week on doing a deal with the Coalition on tax changes to superannuation. The treasurer is perfectly...

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James Massola

Someone’s doing the heavy lifting – and it’s not the government (any more)

In the goldmine of numbers unearthed this week, we learned a lot of things. Among them: that gold diggers (not those ones) stepped up while the...

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Millie Muroi

I think my colleague is exploiting a work policy. Is my resentment fair?

I work in the medical field and I have a colleague who is claiming long COVID exemptions. They no longer work during certain times. Aside from long...

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Jonathan Rivett

Want a secure, high-paying job? Don’t expect university will get you there

I often debate with my university friends whether the debt and opportunity cost of going to university was worth it, especially now that the rise...

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William Bennett

At home and work, women are burning out. Why are we letting it happen?

It’s hard to find someone who isn’t feeling overwhelmed these days. Between work, family, and the constant juggle of everyday life, everyone I...

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Lynda Chalmers

Master of deception: How Trump is fudging the numbers

When looking at the latest US Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Trump administration’s proposed budget and tariff policies, the saying...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

The $400 million sting that could snuff out Star for good

The adage “you do the crime you do the time” springs to mind when listening to Star Entertainment’s protestations that if stung with a legal...

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Elizabeth Knight

Could Anthony Albanese be caught up in Trump’s new US visa ban?

It’s no secret President Donald Trump’s reach extends beyond the United States, but a key element of his second presidency could have unprecedented...

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Peter Hartcher

Why your fancy new job title is probably a lie

Let’s begin with a simple three-question quiz, and I don’t want any cheating. First question: if someone has ‘Executive’ in their job title,...

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Tim Duggan

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Since the October 7 butchery of Jews by Gaza’s reigning death cult, the anti-Zionist left and the antisemitic right have indulged in a masterclass...

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Josh Szeps

Kim Kardashian’s $148 pierced nipple bra is not a stunt – it’s empowerment

Kim Kardashian’s Skims clothing brand announced a new product last month, and it’s pretty wild. The “pierced nipple bra” has fabric nipples pierced...

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Cat Woods

They were meant for each other, but Trump and Musk were always going to blow up like a SpaceX rocket

Elon Musk exploded like a SpaceX rocket. The debris rained down across Washington. Everyone has been awaiting the breakup of the most public...

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Bruce Wolpe

The Liberals are not just going through a phase – this is a full-blown identity crisis

How do you solve a problem like the Liberals? A good start would be to get the party at every level – parliamentary, organisational and, most...

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Shaun Carney

The budding Blues playmakers who will dominate Origin’s future

Nathan Cleary and Mitchell Moses promise so much as the NSW halves pairing right now. At 27 and 30 years old respectively, the Cleary-Moses combo...

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Andrew Johns

Minns’ backroom deal won’t fix the feral animal problem

NSW Premier Chris Minns didn’t announce a plan to fix NSW’s feral animal crisis last week – he floated an idea that would be a taxpayer-funded...

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Jack Gough

Hailey Bieber’s ‘glazed donut’ is a $1.5 billion gamble

Celebrity beauty is back. Elf Beauty last week agreed to buy Hailey Bieber’s Rhode, whose trademark look is its glossy, dewy skin, for $US1 billion...

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Andrea Felsted

Trump’s stupid obsession will unleash pain on America

Perhaps the most striking conclusion of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s revisions to its global growth forecasts is...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

In this fragile union of colossal egos, it was always going to end in tears

One doesn’t need to have possessed the powers of Nostradamus to predict that the greatest bromance of the modern era, between Donald Trump and Elon...

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Elizabeth Knight

Is the RBA a glass-half-full type of place? Its next rate decision will tell us

The hopes of home buyers and businesses for further interest rate relief depend on whether the Reserve Bank takes a glass half full or a glass half...

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Shane Wright