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Christmas Day with NFL, Beyoncé is just the beginning for Netflix and sport

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Calum Jaspan

How Travis Head decluttered and become the best batter in the world

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Greg Chappell

School drop-off parking cops, cricket fun police: it’s Australia’s punishment culture

When a kindly-looking elderly woman asked if she could share my table at a cafe not so long ago, I happily shifted seats, moved my computer and...

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Nick Bryant

Foxtel sale a Christmas miracle for the Murdochs

Flogging Foxtel for $3.4 billion is nothing short of a Christmas miracle for News Corporation and the Murdochs, who are not only freed from the...

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Calum Jaspan

I was hot, bothered and pregnant. Then my waters broke on Christmas morning, six weeks early

I’ve never been a big Christmas person, largely because my family didn’t celebrate it when I was growing up. Because of this, I didn’t have any...

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Zoya Patel

What’s happened to the cost of living is trickier than you think

It’s been a year of wearying in the fight against inflation. But if you think you know what it all proves, you’re probably kidding yourself. The...

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Ross Gittins

Why ‘Chrismukkah’ has come at the perfect time for my family

For the first time in almost two decades, Christmas and Chanukah will fall on the same date this year. When this last happened, in 2005, I was just...

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Ruby Kraner-Tucci

America and Australia tell a tale of two pandemics, and their political outcomes

On Friday, one of the biggest stories in Australia was the possible cancellation of New Year’s Eve fireworks in Sydney, as the result of a...

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Sean Kelly

It’s the year that woke broke, a victim of its own excess

Suddenly, one day, “woke” was over. From November 6 to 7 this year, in the aftermath of the US presidential election, the pretence disappeared....

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

‘Internal’ exile is in fashion, and that’s where I’m headed this summer

A few weeks ago we took a small tribe of children to see Home Alone at the Sydney Opera House, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the...

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Jacqueline Maley

The time for lights

The Jewish calendar follows the lunar calendar, so this year, during a Jewish leap year, all our festivals fell a little later than usual. Like...

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Nomi Kaltmann

The best and worst of sport in 2024: And that was only Raygun

What a sporting year. What a time to be alive. And so we approach the end of an extraordinary sporting year that had as much colour, movement,...

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Peter Fitzsimons

I knew when my time was up. Ageing greats Kohli and Smith will, too

“Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas MacArthur. When my brother Ian retired, I thought he was making a huge mistake....

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Greg Chappell

The moment I knew Sam Konstas was ready for Test cricket

There was no lengthy, intricate or divisive debate when Charlie Bannerman was named to open the batting for the Australians in the fixture that was...

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Geoff Lawson

This Christmas, Keira and Hugh take us from Love Actually to mass murder, actually

Well, thanks, Keira and Hugh. You’ve really killed the Christmas spirit in my house – with a little help from Paddington Bear. It’s been 21...

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Steve Meacham

Musk helped kill a bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

Washington: President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk played a key role this week in killing a bipartisan funding proposal that...

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Melissa Goldin

Let’s rethink The Lucky Country. Australia’s fortune was never dumb luck

Sixty summers ago, thousands of Australians were devouring a book published in the lead-up to Christmas which became an instant Aussie classic....

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Nick Bryant

In NRL clown town, can a Tiger turn into a Magpie? It’s not black and white...

You reckon perhaps it’s true; we’re all just existing in a clown world? Of course, why can’t a tiger shapeshift to transform into a magpie? The...

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Darren Kane

Public patience wearing thin on Labor’s economic vision

For Treasurer Jim Chalmers, a man who wrote his PhD thesis on how Paul Keating held power having risen from treasurer to prime minister, the recent...

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The Age&x27S View

Disunity is not death in the Liberal party. It is a lifestyle choice

It is a long time since normal rules applied to the Victorian Liberal Party. Anyone with a smidge of common sense and knowledge of political...

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Chip Le Grand

Why bribery is key to boosting our economic prosperity

Of all the incentives in the world, money must be among the most powerful. Since its birth thousands of years ago, dosh – chasing it, saving it,...

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Millie Muroi

Putin’s spectacular act of self-sabotage has killed the Kremlin’s biggest market

As talk of an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine grows among Western diplomats, and Volodymyr Zelensky comes round to the idea of what he calls a...

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Ben Marlow

‘Co-president’ Elon Musk? True power of Trump’s ally in the spotlight

Washington: Elon Musk has never been elected to office. President-elect Donald Trump has not tapped him to serve in any role inside the government....

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Cat Zakrzewski

We’re trying Christmas without presents. Blame my late Aunty Elspeth

The base of the Christmas tree looks a bit depleted in an empty nest. A white envelope. A couple of token efforts. Something from someone, but not...

20.12.2024 5

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Malcolm Knox

Our unhinged annual Christmas obsession is the one thing Aussies can’t control

A week out from Christmas, I wake to something unusual. My husband is awake first! Even without coffee, he seems pretty pumped. Leans – looms –...

20.12.2024 5

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Kate Halfpenny

‘Are you not entertained?’ Postecoglou is two steps away from vindication with Spurs

In 2005, back when he was still playing the character of a buffoonish right-wing television pundit, comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term ‘...

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Vince Rugari

To AI or not to AI? How chatbots can help revive the university essay

Generative AI does not signal the end of student writing. Even that time-honoured (if shop-soiled) form of writing – the “student essay” –...

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Huw Griffiths

What’s scarier than Trump suing to cow the media? The media caving in

ABC News in America has just settled a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network. ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15...

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Bill Wyman

Michael Leunig was my hero – then he became my colleague and friend

As a schoolkid, Michael Leunig was playing footy when he found himself with the ball running into an open goal. Had it been anyone else, the ball...

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Jim Pavlidis

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