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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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Jeneen Interlandi

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

For all the talk about the state of the pitches, the work of the bowlers has been just as telling.

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Tim Wigmore

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

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

I always knew he was talented, but when he first came into the Australian team for an ODI series in India he was very mild-mannered and shy.

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Mike Hussey

Ditch the music, and don’t lecture us: 10 resolutions the AFL should adopt in 2026

It had its moments, but if the 2025 AFL season had been a movie Margaret Pomeranz would have been hard-pressed to give it more than three stars as...

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Peter Ryan

Up in smoke: How one budget burnt a $115 billion hole in the nation’s finances

Too often, the state of the nation’s finances are looked at through the lens of a single budget. For all the words written about the 2025-26...

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Shane Wright

Buckle up for a volatile year of Trump-Xi bromance, Taiwan and Kim

This is the season when columnists turn to prophecy, and then congratulate themselves a year later for getting some of it right. I’m afraid I’m...

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Karishma Vaswani

The need for a federal royal commission is obvious

On Monday, the prime minister released a one-page “terms of reference” for the Richardson review to investigate the terrorist atrocity at Bondi on...

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The Age&x27S View

Sussexit? Harry and Meghan desperate to downplay staff exodus

London: Of all the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s staff departures of recent years – and there have been a few – this one will hit the hardest. James...

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Hannah Furness

The social media whipping boy, cult hero and unlikely captain in our Test team of 2025

Leave your Test XI of 2025 in the comments. The diminishing depth in Test cricket was laid bare when selecting the team of 2025, which includes...

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Andrew Wu

A billion chatbot users can’t be wrong … or can they? Let’s ask a human

Amelia Miller has an unusual business card. When I saw the title “Human-AI Relationship Coach” at a recent technology event, I presumed she was...

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Parmy Olson

What housing crisis? For most, there isn’t one – but look how the other third live

This may come as a surprise given the media narrative, but Australia is not in a generalised housing crisis. Two-thirds of the nation’s...

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Kate Shaw

History’s cruel ledger squared by a peek into 332 boxes from the past

A memorable front page of The Age, published on Monday, August 27, 1990, featured a telling photograph of Victorian Premier Joan Kirner and Federal...

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Tony Wright

Bondi attack must prompt a reflection on antisemitism in the arts

Shortly after the Bondi massacre, I joined an informal gathering of Jews who came together to share in our shock and grief. We were broad in age,...

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Benjamin Preiss

Trump has just sacked 30 ambassadors. The consequences for Australia are profound

Earlier this month, amid a slew of other news and on the same day as a botched release of comically almost-redacted files from the Epstein case,...

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Cory Alpert

A wish for 2026: Less grandstanding, more attempts to truly tackle nation’s challenges

The way that 2025 has ended – with the worst terrorist attack ever carried out on Australian soil – is likely to shape our understanding of the...

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The Age&x27S View

The future is electric: Hot metals are exposing the fossil fuel fantasy

The past year began with a promise from President Donald Trump to deliver a future of “peace through strength” by unleashing America’s fossil fuel...

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David Fickling

The six words from Trump that had Zelensky – and the world – wincing

New York: It was the moment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky nearly broke his studied composure. “Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed,”...

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Michael Koziol

Ignore Melbourne – Brendon McCullum needs a win in Sydney to save his job

Joe Root insists England’s players are “absolutely committed” to Brendon McCullum, but the hollowness of the win in Melbourne leaves the coach...

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Nick Hoult

I’m an SPF50+ redhead. Walk a mile in my shoes, but never in daylight

Every November, the first warm wind of the year sweeps in from the desert, across the coast, and carries out to sea my hopes of going outside again...

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Perry Duffin

I was wrong about Elon. But he was wrong too

I was wrong, as it turns out, about Elon Musk. At least on this occasion. A year ago, I’d predicted that Musk would quit Tesla. It was a bold...

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David Swan

Your mum and dad are influencers now too

You may never have heard of Aki and Koichi, but this sartorial couple in their 70s from California are a hit on social media. They are part of a...

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Andreea Papuc

Khawaja, Green, Healy and Perry. What does 2026 have in store for Australian cricket?

It’s been a very Merry Christmas for the Australian Test team with Ashes success well ‘urned’, but the new year shapes as being a testing time....

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Jon Pierik

Why our US alliance is under threat in 2026 – from Trump

As the year draws to a close, this country is in anguished mourning, distress, fear and uncertainty about the government’s ability to act on...

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Bruce Wolpe

After every economic norm is blithely tossed aside, what’s the future?

Ten years ago I praised a book by Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, on the subject of “radical uncertainty”. Back then, I agreed...

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Clive Crook

Less may be more as Zac Lomax prepares to chase a dream, not money

In an era when professional athletes are portrayed as mercenaries chasing the almighty dollar, the curious case of Zac Lomax is a reminder that...

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Robert Dillon

As some boycott Myanmar’s flawed election, others hope for change

Yangon: As voters went to the polls on Sunday for the first round of a heavily stage-managed election in Myanmar, the outcome was all but assured....

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Sui-Lee Wee

I was the mother of holiday invention ... until my kids went feral and I went to yoga

At the start of school holidays, like a good disciple of modern mindfulness, I set my intention: the summer holidays will be fun and relaxing – a...

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Cherie Gilmour

A royal commission into antisemitism is a risk, but Labor’s excuses are wearing thin

Royal commissions have become a symbolic way that Australia chooses to confront its ugliest problems, even if they do not solve them. At the...

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Natassia Chrysanthos

Let them eat cake: We have a fix for obesity, but only the wealthy can afford it

Modern medicine has, at last, developed the means to change the course of one of the great epidemics of our age, yet the fruits of that success...

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Vinay Rane

Bradman and co. knew toughness was part of Test cricket. Do today’s players?

In the annals of history, The Monuments Men stand as guardians of irreplaceable treasures. They were a group of male and female art historians,...

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Greg Chappell

2025, a year best to forget? We never will

The year 2025 will be forever defined in our history by the horror of December 14. But as it ends in sorrow, this is the time to reflect on all the...

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