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

What was meant to be a night of joy has brought devastation to the families and friends of the victims.

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David Crowe

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

2025 was when celebrities stopped being famous for nothing or concentrating on wellness, and started living big, messy, operatic lives again.

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Kate Halfpenny

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 30

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 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...

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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...

previous day 20

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...

previous day 10

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,...

previous day 10

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...

previous day 10

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...

previous day 10

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....

tuesday 20

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...

tuesday 10

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...

tuesday 10

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...

tuesday 10

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...

tuesday 20

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,”...

tuesday 30

Michael Koziol

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...

tuesday 10

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...

tuesday 10

Clive Crook

Clouds appear over Albanese’s promised transparency

When he was opposition leader, Anthony Albanese set himself squarely against the secrecy of the Scott Morrison administration, promising a new era...

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The Herald&x27S View

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...

29.12.2025 10

Cherie Gilmour

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...

29.12.2025 9

Vinay Rane

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....

29.12.2025 2

Sui-Lee Wee

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...

29.12.2025 10

Natassia Chrysanthos

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...

29.12.2025 6

Robert Dillon

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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‘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

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

Perry Duffin

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

Nick Hoult

Your mum and dad are influencers now too

Andreea Papuc

I was wrong about Elon. But he was wrong too

David Swan

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

Michael Koziol

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

Bruce Wolpe

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

Clive Crook

Clouds appear over Albanese’s promised transparency

The Herald&x27S View

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

Cherie Gilmour

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

Vinay Rane

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

Sui-Lee Wee

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

Natassia Chrysanthos

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