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It’s nearly 50 years since the last thrilling Ashes series Down Under. England need help

These Ashes have proven the folly of so much pre-series hype. England need help to break a cycle of uncompetitive bouts in Australia.

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Daniel Brettig

Test cricket doesn’t need five-day pitches to survive

The game wasn’t conceived to satisfy broadcast schedules or justify hotel bookings. It was invented to ask a single question: can you survive this?

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Darren Kane

Art of the deal: Melania is the first of White House ladies to milk it for millions

Unlike first ladies before her, Melania Trump manages to turn her official role into content for money-making ventures.

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Nia-Malika Henderson

Trump trapped as tensions between two powerful allies burst into the open

Growing animosity between a crown prince and a powerful sheikh reached a dramatic climax this week, in a development that could move markets and...

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Vivian Nereim

Jason Gillespie is right. Khawaja played the race card at the wrong time

Usman Khawaja’s belief that commentary about his preparation for the first Test carried racist undertones was inflammatory, and wide of the mark.

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Tom Decent

When rubbish science sends the innocent to jail

In a courtroom drama, the moment the hero lawyer stands to begin their cross-examination, the room falls silent with expectation. Fixing their...

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Michael Bachelard

Do you forget what day it is? Lucky you

Overheard at a coffee caravan in a country coastal town: “What day of the week is it? I never know at this time of year.” “Who cares? That’s...

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Malcolm Knox

Want to stick to your New Year’s resolutions? Here’s how economics can help

If you’ve set some New Year’s resolutions going into 2026, you’re not alone. And if by the second Friday of January – known by many as...

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Millie Muroi

Usman Khawaja played a fine innings on his own terms

Great opening batsmen come and go, but Usman Khawaja’s trailblazing role as Australia’s first Muslim Test cricketer and pathfinder for our growing...

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The Herald&x27S View

We are living through an utterly lamentable era of history

On the day that World War II began, September 1, 1939, the poet W.H. Auden described the preceding 10 years as a “low dishonest decade”. Might we...

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Dennis Glover

‘It happened in seconds’: How a night of youthful joy turned into tragedy

Geneva: Those who witnessed the inferno inside Le Constellation nightclub point to a single moment of celebration that brought horror to hundreds...

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David Crowe

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

Things escalated once my husband started dancing with the dog. New Year’s Eve, linking hands with Alfred the boofhead golden retriever at our...

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Kate Halfpenny

Here’s jeers to the $6 cafe latte (from a coffee philistine)

Six dollars is break-even now. For a cup of coffee, that is. For the cafe owner. That’s what the woman told her workmates, at a table I was reading...

yesterday 10

James Hughes

People are drowning because beach flags are too hard to understand

Every summer in Australia, millions of people head to the beach, and every year, thousands are rescued by lifeguards or surf lifesavers and even...

yesterday 10

Samuel Cornell

Bumbling Bazballers, two-day Tests and dead rubbers: These Ashes have over-promised and under-delivered

Steve Smith has not played in a competitive Ashes series in Australia. At the age of 36, chances are he never will. He wouldn’t remember one...

yesterday 10

Andrew Wu

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

One of the inescapable paradoxes of a terrorist attack is that we are most desperate for answers, and most moved to diagnose it, in its immediate...

yesterday 10

Waleed Aly

This selfish lifestyle choice is ruining this Sydney area. Why should I pay for it?

It is one of my favourite parts of Sydney: Victoria Street in Potts Point, lined with grand terraces and huge trees which arch sleepily and provide...

yesterday 3

Christopher Harris

Warnings about men who preach hate fell on deaf ears

Federal and state law enforcement agencies were apparently heedless of repeated warnings about radical Islamic hate preachers spreading their vile...

yesterday 10

The Herald&x27S View

If you have a problem with thong bikinis, the problem is you

The recent outbreak of thongs (G-strings, not flip-flops) at beaches and swimming pools has prompted a revival of prudish responses from casual...

yesterday 10

Damien Woolnough

These are my 20 definite, undeniable, guaranteed predictions for 2026

When it comes to predicting events in the year ahead, I confess to not having the best of records. In this spot last year I predicted that, in the...

yesterday 10

Richard Glover

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

I was batting against Mitchell Starc in a Big Bash game – Sydney Thunder versus the Sixers. I faced a few balls and every one of them came into me....

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Mike Hussey

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

Test cricket, the dictum has it, is a batsman’s game. Captaincy, administration and even commentary are all dominated by batsmen. Yet these...

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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 heady times of glitter hair gel, fluoro crop tops,...

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Fern Greig-Moore

This is the damage RFK Jnr has done in less than a year

In the days before Christmas, as measles, whooping cough and influenza continued to spread and surge across the United States, the Department of...

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Jeneen Interlandi

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

Revealed: The one big threat to the NSW economy in 2026

NSW has been stuck in the slow lane. The state economy expanded by just 0.9 per cent last financial year, the worst result since 1992, not...

previous day 10

Matt Wade

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 patently 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...

previous day 10

The Herald&x27S View

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...

wednesday 10

Andrew Wu

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...

wednesday 10

Kate Shaw

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

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

On our 125th birthday, let’s rise to the test of our national character

When the first platypus specimen arrived in England around 1799, the scientists at the British Museum thought it was a hoax. They spent hours...

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Anthony Albanese

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

New laws aim to make Australian campuses safer

Australian universities are being forced to confront and deal with the shocking fact that their campuses are often not the safe and welcoming...

wednesday 2

The Herald&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...

wednesday 2

David Fickling

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

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...

30.12.2025 2

Perry Duffin

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...

30.12.2025 1

Nick Hoult

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...

30.12.2025 1

Andreea Papuc

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

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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It’s nearly 50 years since the last thrilling Ashes series Down Under. England need help

Daniel Brettig

Test cricket doesn’t need five-day pitches to survive

Darren Kane

Art of the deal: Melania is the first of White House ladies to milk it for millions

Nia-Malika Henderson

Trump trapped as tensions between two powerful allies burst into the open

Vivian Nereim

Jason Gillespie is right. Khawaja played the race card at the wrong time

Tom Decent

When rubbish science sends the innocent to jail

Michael Bachelard

Do you forget what day it is? Lucky you

Malcolm Knox

Want to stick to your New Year’s resolutions? Here’s how economics can help

Millie Muroi

Usman Khawaja played a fine innings on his own terms

The Herald&x27S View

We are living through an utterly lamentable era of history

Dennis Glover

‘It happened in seconds’: How a night of youthful joy turned into tragedy

David Crowe

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

Kate Halfpenny

Here’s jeers to the $6 cafe latte (from a coffee philistine)

James Hughes

People are drowning because beach flags are too hard to understand

Samuel Cornell

Bumbling Bazballers, two-day Tests and dead rubbers: These Ashes have over-promised and under-delivered

Andrew Wu

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

Waleed Aly

This selfish lifestyle choice is ruining this Sydney area. Why should I pay for it?

Christopher Harris

Warnings about men who preach hate fell on deaf ears

The Herald&x27S View

If you have a problem with thong bikinis, the problem is you

Damien Woolnough

These are my 20 definite, undeniable, guaranteed predictions for 2026

Richard Glover

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

Mike Hussey

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

Tim Wigmore

Can you be a raver in your 40s? I decided to revive my life on the dance floor

Fern Greig-Moore

This is the damage RFK Jnr has done in less than a year

Jeneen Interlandi

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

Peter Ryan

Revealed: The one big threat to the NSW economy in 2026

Matt Wade

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

Shane Wright

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

Karishma Vaswani

The need for a federal royal commission is patently obvious

The Herald&x27S View

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

Andrew Wu

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

Kate Shaw

Sussexit? Harry and Meghan desperate to downplay staff exodus

Hannah Furness

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

Parmy Olson

On our 125th birthday, let’s rise to the test of our national character

Anthony Albanese

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

Cory Alpert

New laws aim to make Australian campuses safer

The Herald&x27S View

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

David Fickling

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

Jon Pierik

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