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Nicho Hynes is already struggling. And Ricky Stuart is about to make life even harder

Craig Fitzgibbon has been coached by Ricky Stuart at club, state and international level, and the Sharks coach will know what he’s walking into on...

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Andrew Johns

Lunch is sangers, dinner is bangers. Learn the rules, people!

Last week, a friend suggested we catch up for lunch. I love lunch! I agreed. The friend suggested we catch up at a fancy burger joint for our lunch....

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Kerri Sackville

Dennis Lillee rang me up this week. Suddenly, I was 10 years old again

Dennis Lillee to me, yesterday, over the blower, as I sat in the carpark: “Is that you, Fitzy?” (Fitzy? FITZY?) Yes, Mr Lillee, it is me, all these...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Wakey, wakey: Dutton looks shaky as his aptitude is put to the ultimate test

Last year, some people felt comfortable predicting the winner of the 2025 election campaign was more likely to be Peter Dutton. Not because he had...

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Niki Savva

Elon Musk just had his own Liberation Day

With all the focus on Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” and his tariffs on everything and everyone, the other great liberation in America hasn’t...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Albanese slips up but Dutton picks the wrong fight

Peter Dutton is staying true to his brand as the hard man of Australian politics by telling voters he wants to make the ABC more efficient, stop the...

yesterday 10

David Crowe

This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years

Donald Trump has achieved his first global peace deal. China, Japan and South Korea have kissed and made up after years of trade quarrels. They...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

More fossil fuels? Inside Peter Dutton’s shock new gas proposal

Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election here. Australians now have a shock new gas policy to consider when going to the polls on May...

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Bronte Gossling

Victim or criminal? Le Pen appeal could deliver Trump-style shock to France

For over a decade, Marine Le Pen has fought, scrapped, and clawed her way towards the Elysee Palace. After three failed attempts, the 2027 French...

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Rob Harris

You had me at October. Breaking down Eddie McGuire’s AFL grand final plan

The AFL grand final could be pushed back to the second week of October? Sold. Is it time to push the AFL season back, with the grand final held in...

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Michael Gleeson

Elon Musk bet it all on a judicial election in Wisconsin. He just lost

With just a few hours to go until polls closed in Wisconsin, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, declared the Supreme Court election in the US...

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Michael Koziol

It’s time to open up the outdated State of Origin eligibility rules

In the 2005 State of Origin series, NSW used 22 players. None of them were eligible to play for any regularly playing rugby league nation other...

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Michael Chammas

The leader most likely to lose their job after the federal election? Jacinta Allan

This week’s column is being written from a place unknown. Having joined the prime minister’s travelling press corps, I am in a state of suspended...

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Chip Le Grand

I was an absent father until WFH changed everything

The history of fatherhood is, too often, a history of absence. Being a dad was something I always aspired to do well, but what that meant in...

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David Halliday

What Dolphins need to reverse horror start and ignite their biggest star

Dolphins coach Kristian Woolf has leapt to Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow’s defence, but he also needs his star fullback to make his presence felt if the team...

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Nick Wright

The Liberals have a Malcolm problem. It’s not their first

When I was a staffer with the Howard government – many moons, hair follicles and pants sizes ago – the government had a bit of a “Malcolm”...

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Brad Emery

Dutton wants to know if you’re better off now. It’s a trick question

For most people, the simple answer to Peter Dutton’s repeated question – are you better off today than you were three years ago? – is “no,...

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Ross Gittins

The next Wallabies coach is a mystery, and the current one is on a vow of silence

With Rugby Australia still searching for a new Wallabies coach as the calendar turned to April 1, the chance for the marketing pigeon to post a...

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Iain Payten

Before they leave home, teach your kids these nine things about money

Parents can have a profound impact on their child’s relationship with money throughout their lifetime. In fact, teaching your kids to be...

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Nina Hendy

Once I start getting my super, can I never work again?

I’m 62 and retired from full-time work at age 60. Last year, I did a four-week temporary role at another company. To convert my super to an...

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Noel Whittaker

Was Li Ka-shing pushed to sell Panama ports, or did he jump?

When CK Hutchison and a consortium led by BlackRock announced a $US22.8 billion ($36.5 billion) deal involving most of Hutchison’s sprawling ports...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Detaining school parents is a bit much, but banning them makes sense

I spent years trying to stop my daughter from becoming a teacher. Sure, teaching is a noble profession. Sure, our schools need to be properly...

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Jenna Price

Think investing is like gambling? You’re dead wrong. Here’s why.

This weekend, it happened again. I try to avoid it, but once in a while, some poor unsuspecting person gets caught in one of my passionate...

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Paridhi Jain

$15 per food delivery? These new aged care prices are outrageous

Last week the government released a report showing the indicative prices of Support at Home – aged care offered in your own home – services from...

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Rachel Lane

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is a trillion-dollar promise that can’t all be true

Washington: In a day or two, US President Donald Trump and his cabinet secretaries will unveil their plans for a new wave of tariffs on America’s...

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Michael Koziol

Murdoch’s $30b property jewel faces rebel rich-lister with a cause

Donald Trump is keeping faith with Rupert Murdoch’s money machine Fox News, but our home-grown media mogul surely would be noticing the barbarian...

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Colin Kruger

Dutton’s ‘me too’ election strategy is great … unless you’re a woman

In his budget reply speech on Thursday evening, Peter Dutton declared that “every election is important, but this election does matter more than...

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Katy Hall

I grieve for the childhood my abuser took from me

Two truths and a lie. My go-to; “I put a man in jail” is sure to win me the game but when this game is played as an icebreaker, “I put a man in...

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Harriet Snaith

The scientists working to keep the ‘lights’ on at the Great Barrier Reef

Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical, evidence-based eye, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – sign...

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Angus Dalton

Australians are clear on our biggest threats. But our leaders don’t want to discuss it

As the pincers of Australia’s geopolitical position continue to close in on the Complacent Country, our leadership would rather not talk about it....

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Peter Hartcher

More Broadway than Brookvale: How Seibold ended up in hot seat at Manly

Anthony Seibold sat to Daly Cherry-Evans’ right during one of rugby league’s most extraordinary press conferences on Sunday night. But now in his...

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Dan Walsh

Thirty years on, the Super League war still impacts the game

April Fool’s Day lived up to its name 30 years ago when the News Limited-backed Super League officially declared war on the establishment ARL,...

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Roy Masters

The ‘Oracle’ and ‘Superman’ are holding on to their billions. It could be a bad sign for all of us

One is known as the “Oracle of Omaha”, the other as “Superman”. Warren Buffett and Li Ka-shing are the two most revered investors in the West...

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Shuli Ren

The Trump fire is burning on Wall Street

American consumer sentiment is plunging, consumers expect inflation to surge, and the US sharemarket is tanking. All this is occurring before this...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Debt and deficit: Labor’s budget naysayers ignore the cold hard facts

The independent economist and former Treasury officer Chris Richardson, the leader of Treasury-in-Exile and thus chief apostle of fiscal rectitude,...

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Ross Gittins

Hip-drop tackles are a blight on the game and rugby bosses need to stamp them out

If Max Jorgensen misses the British and Irish Lions series with the ankle injury he sustained against the Hurricanes on Saturday, Rugby Australia...

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Paul Cully

From yum cha to a mosque: Dutton sells himself as a multicultural champion

Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election here. It’s a sight few would have had on their bingo card for the second full day of the...

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Matthew Knott

PM Dutton would dodge The Lodge for Kirribilli. Can’t blame him. But is this WFH or WTF?

Sheesh, spare a thought for the good burghers of Kallangur (QLD, 4503). Barely one morning into the first working day of a federal election...

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Michelle Cazzulino

Why Football Australia made the right call in keeping Sam Kerr as captain

Sam Kerr’s Matildas return has come earlier than anyone expected. She secretly flew into Sydney late on Sunday night – just hours before Football...

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Vince Rugari

Quake disaster has exposed a Trump-sized void on the world stage. China is stepping in

If you follow money to find true sources of power, you discover China and Russia behind the brutal regime that has for four years presided over...

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Michael Ruffles

Cripps, Bont and Petracca better watch out; the kids are coming for them

We are witnessing a generational takeover. Nick Daicos’ rapid ascension into the conversation as the AFL’s best player, alongside relative veterans...

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