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Trump’s deception exposed as US giants sue

US companies are queuing up to sue the Trump administration as they shoot down one of his key declarations about his trade war.

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘May the force be with you’: A relentless night in a Ukrainian bomb shelter

The air raid alarm goes off and the iPhone starts talking in an American accent, urging listeners to seek shelter. It’s 1.23am and our...

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David Crowe

From Tim Tam to Four’N Twenty: Aussie icons enjoy government sweeteners

The federal government’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is typically associated with funding cutting-edge local ventures, so why is it...

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Elizabeth Knight

This week was supposed to be a triumph for Wells. Instead, it is a trial

While the polls are still terrible for the Coalition, the developing furore over Wells’ use of expenses is a reminder of how quickly politics can...

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James Massola

Archer copped a brutal Ashes ‘champing’. It was sledging in the right spirit

The heated exchange between Steve Smith and Jofra Archer was refreshing because the pair were having a dig without crossing the line. It was also...

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Emma Kemp

Won’t listen. Won’t change. This England team are up their own backsides

This Australian team was there to be beaten. But after just two Tests, England now need a miracle.

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Geoffrey Boycott

Gen Zs like me have stopped dating altogether. We’re opting for friends with (other) benefits

And we’ve consecrated this as our Summer of Friendship.

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Grace Lagan

England were humbled, and it’s about to get worse

Claims that this was an England team which would outclass Australia have been emphatically silenced. What should scare the old enemy is that it can...

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Nick Wright

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

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Rob Harris

Piastri led the F1 title race by 34 points, but ended up third. One moment in his slide will hurt more than most

For now, Oscar Piastri will process 2025, wonder if he could have handled the tough times better, and keep his fingers crossed that McLaren’s...

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Matthew Clayton

Why Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is set to go global

The new law will not solve every problem with “surveillance capitalism” and predatory online behaviour, but it shows governments can address public...

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Terry Flew

The costs are eye-watering, but our city is worth its infrastructure investments

There is nothing simple about building roads and railways – especially when those builds are enormous modifications of existing and vital Sydney...

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The Herald&x27S View

Albanese is miles ahead, right? Hastie may yet expose this as an illusion

Last week I was in Adelaide. Someone put me up at a hotel – I’ve been promoting my Quarterly Essay , you might recall me mentioning it – and it was...

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Sean Kelly

Why we’ll probably never see rock-bottom interest rates again

The recent message from financial markets to mortgage customers has been pretty clear: don’t expect further cuts in your home loan interest rate....

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Clancy Yeates

Libs have no plan for immigration tensions, so Labor must act before it gets ugly

If Hamlet had been a pundit, he might have pondered whether it’s worse to be wrong, or to be disbelieved. With classical Greek sadism, the myth...

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Why did I have to pay $18,000 in tax when consolidating my super?

I had two superannuation accounts and recently consolidated them to save on fees. The receiving fund has informed me that I will lose $18,500 to...

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Paul Benson

Money-making gifts: The Real Money guide to presents you can bank on

Real Money, a free weekly newsletter giving expert tips on how to save, invest and make the most of your money, is sent every Sunday. You’re...

yesterday 10

Dominic Powell

The Ashes 2025 second test, day three recap: What happens when you take boldness, as well as brains, out of Bazball

Recap all the action from day three of the Gabba Test here Brisbane: Australians saw in Perth what happens when Bazball is played without brains....

yesterday 10

Andrew Wu

Australia has produced some terrific left-armers. Starc is the best of the best

Stability, balance, alignment – the holy trinity of athletic performance. Everyone from golfers to gymnasts to tennis players and boxers train and...

yesterday 10

Geoff Lawson

When one man dies, a world ends

People at the Drop-In die all the time. And we who work here — we don’t always know that they’ve died, at least not straight away. Sometimes it...

yesterday 1

Alexandra Sangster

Liberals ignore, despise and knife their leaders – and drive their party over a cliff

John Faulkner, Labor’s respected former Senate leader and keeper of the Whitlam flame, once said to me that one of the biggest differences between...

yesterday 10

George Brandis

Starc is super, but still human. It makes the return of Lyon a must

As if anyone needed a reminder, Mitchell Starc proved once again in Brisbane just how super he was. But the champion left-armer is still human, and...

yesterday 2

Nick Wright

‘This will be my dream project.’ How we got Frank Gehry to design the UTS ‘paper bag’

“I’m up for it” was the response of arguably the most famous architect in the world to our hesitant inquiry. “This will be my dream...

yesterday 4

Roy Green

Trump was expected to enforce hard Christian values. The reality has been different

As soon as he was nominated to be secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, with his Crusader cross tattoo and his attendance at a hard-edge Calvinist...

yesterday 3

Ross Douthat

The one moment Wayne Bennett considered quitting coaching

South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett has revealed the only moment in his rugby league career when he wanted to quit the game that has been his life. He...

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Danny Weidler

Have you heard? The invisible difference that separates Sydney and Melbourne

I visited Sydney recently, for the first time in nine years, and was stunned at how different it is from Melbourne. The weather was a lot better –...

yesterday 30

Liam Heitmann-Ryce-Lemercier

When will the Australia/US critical minerals deal bear fruit? Let’s ask a player

In a week when PwC Australia released a report saying just seven of 124 investment-ready critical mineral projects have received the green light...

yesterday 10

Peter Fitzsimons

I used to think my family’s Christmas rituals were normal. Until I met my husband

I love Christmas. Not in a “midnight Mass, stained glass and soaring carols echoing through the rafters” kind of way. No, I love the other...

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Jamila Rizvi

I learnt a scary lesson while living in France. Playing it safe can be risky

I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I’ve led a safe life. I haven’t jumped out of a plane, or off anything with a bungee rope attached to...

yesterday 3

Julia Pound

Energy producers want to reserve gas for Australia – but it must come from new supplies

The federal government is expected any day to announce the biggest shake-up of the east coast gas market in years. Ordinarily, gas producers would...

yesterday 4

Samantha Mcculloch

Where has this been, England? Too late for the Ashes now

Brisbane: Oh how they tried. Ben Stokes, not unexpectedly, and Will Jacks very much surprisingly, defied Australia for more than three hours of...

yesterday 2

Daniel Brettig

Player ratings: The Aussie with a perfect 10 and the Englishman who embodies Bazball without brains

Jake Weatherald: The opener set the tempo for Australia’s innings with a blistering 72 off 78 balls that brought back memories of David Warner in...

yesterday 3

Andrew Wu

Amid a propaganda extravaganza, FIFA finally gets round to a World Cup draw

Tony Popovic was an hour late for his virtual media conference with Australian journalists, and it was not his fault. The Socceroos coach could not...

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Emma Kemp

Last drinks at the Omani cantina: The shadow fleet behind Australia’s fuel supply

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Situated on the coast of Oman with desert on one side and the Arabian Sea on the...

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Mark Corrigan

Trump has orchestrated a golden age for Australia

Australia has been riding an extraordinary financial boom for so long that it is difficult to remember what life was like without it. It has been...

previous day 20

Colin Kruger

Relentless Starc turns Gabba into England’s Ashes Death Star

Brisbane: A quirk of Brisbane Test matches is the Saturday presence of the “Gabbatroopers”, a bunch of spectators dressed in the uniforms of the...

previous day 7

Daniel Brettig

That $4000 e-bike for your teenager almost killed me (but worry most for your kid)

Nearly getting bowled over yet again by an e-bike in a pedestrian area, it’s hard for me to know whether to be more worried about myself or the...

previous day 1

Malcolm Knox

Here’s an unpopular view about politicians: we need to give them post-politics jobs

In 2015, former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill defended a pay rise that had just been awarded to state MPs by the state’s remuneration...

previous day 2

Jacqueline Maley

Why Christmas lunch is the perfect time to start retirement planning

The countdown is on. Christmas is coming, and tucked in between the prawns, the cricket and the long lunches is something we rarely make room for:...

previous day 4

Bec Wilson

How to convert your Christmas spend into bulk Qantas points

In the throes of the most expensive and hectic time of year, it’s easy to succumb to spending frenzy. Naturally, that threatens to cost you more,...

previous day 5

Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

England vowed they wouldn’t abandon Bazball. They did, and look what happened

Doctor, come quick, English cricket might have a pulse after all! Good. As discussed last week, while it was a great and joyous thing to so smash...

previous day 3

Peter Fitzsimons

Guests are coming to stay for Christmas. Let the charade begin

I’m flat on my stomach in the bathroom, my nose pressed against the floor drain. There’s been an elusive smell in here for months. It can’t be the...

previous day 1

Richard Glover

It’s not until Nathan Lyon is missing that Australia realises how much they need him

Follow along to our live coverage of day two of the second Ashes test here. The first time Australia missed Nathan Lyon was the time he usually...

friday 6

Malcolm Knox

Facial age verification: Can it be fooled and how safe is it?

Though we’ve had a full year to contemplate the idea of age-restricted social media platforms, in some ways it feels as though certain questions...

friday 10

Tim Biggs

Fergie’s moving into Princess Beatrice’s cowshed? I want in

She’s not to everyone’s taste – sucking up to Jeffrey Epstein, having her toes sucked by her financial adviser, sucking dry her own and others’...

friday 4

Kate Halfpenny

The economy is picking up pace. What about the speed limit?

There’s always debate over speed limits in Australia. Some say speed kills. Others say that leaps in car safety over the decades mean our speed...

friday 5

Millie Muroi

In Hong Kong, tragedy fuels a national security crackdown

The burnt-out towers of the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex were still smouldering when Hong Kong authorities shifted gear. As grief turned to...

friday 5

Lisa Visentin

Out in the deep, I was tested. Turns out I’m not the hero I’d hoped for

The water was opaque, its surface calm and tinted silver by a typically silver Otways sky. Four of us had started swimming together, but two had...

friday 3

Anson Cameron

The M4 tunnel is no place to be kept in the dark

The trapping of motorists underground in the M4 Motorway Tunnel during the morning peak and gridlocking traffic across the city for hours is a...

friday 3

The Herald&x27S View

Forget awards season, these movies changed the way we speak

Alexi Indris-Santana wasn’t really Alexi Indris-Santana. Instead, the Princeton athlete was born James Hogue, not a self-educated orphan from Utah...

friday 4

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Trump’s deception exposed as US giants sue

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘May the force be with you’: A relentless night in a Ukrainian bomb shelter

David Crowe

From Tim Tam to Four’N Twenty: Aussie icons enjoy government sweeteners

Elizabeth Knight

This week was supposed to be a triumph for Wells. Instead, it is a trial

James Massola

Archer copped a brutal Ashes ‘champing’. It was sledging in the right spirit

Emma Kemp

Won’t listen. Won’t change. This England team are up their own backsides

Geoffrey Boycott

Gen Zs like me have stopped dating altogether. We’re opting for friends with (other) benefits

Grace Lagan

England were humbled, and it’s about to get worse

Nick Wright

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Rob Harris

Piastri led the F1 title race by 34 points, but ended up third. One moment in his slide will hurt more than most

Matthew Clayton

Why Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is set to go global

Terry Flew

The costs are eye-watering, but our city is worth its infrastructure investments

The Herald&x27S View

Albanese is miles ahead, right? Hastie may yet expose this as an illusion

Sean Kelly

Why we’ll probably never see rock-bottom interest rates again

Clancy Yeates

Libs have no plan for immigration tensions, so Labor must act before it gets ugly

Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Why did I have to pay $18,000 in tax when consolidating my super?

Paul Benson

Money-making gifts: The Real Money guide to presents you can bank on

Dominic Powell

The Ashes 2025 second test, day three recap: What happens when you take boldness, as well as brains, out of Bazball

Andrew Wu

Australia has produced some terrific left-armers. Starc is the best of the best

Geoff Lawson

When one man dies, a world ends

Alexandra Sangster

Liberals ignore, despise and knife their leaders – and drive their party over a cliff

George Brandis

Starc is super, but still human. It makes the return of Lyon a must

Nick Wright

‘This will be my dream project.’ How we got Frank Gehry to design the UTS ‘paper bag’

Roy Green

Trump was expected to enforce hard Christian values. The reality has been different

Ross Douthat

The one moment Wayne Bennett considered quitting coaching

Danny Weidler

Have you heard? The invisible difference that separates Sydney and Melbourne

Liam Heitmann-Ryce-Lemercier

When will the Australia/US critical minerals deal bear fruit? Let’s ask a player

Peter Fitzsimons

I used to think my family’s Christmas rituals were normal. Until I met my husband

Jamila Rizvi

I learnt a scary lesson while living in France. Playing it safe can be risky

Julia Pound

Energy producers want to reserve gas for Australia – but it must come from new supplies

Samantha Mcculloch

Where has this been, England? Too late for the Ashes now

Daniel Brettig

Player ratings: The Aussie with a perfect 10 and the Englishman who embodies Bazball without brains

Andrew Wu

Amid a propaganda extravaganza, FIFA finally gets round to a World Cup draw

Emma Kemp

Last drinks at the Omani cantina: The shadow fleet behind Australia’s fuel supply

Mark Corrigan

Trump has orchestrated a golden age for Australia

Colin Kruger

Relentless Starc turns Gabba into England’s Ashes Death Star

Daniel Brettig

That $4000 e-bike for your teenager almost killed me (but worry most for your kid)

Malcolm Knox

Here’s an unpopular view about politicians: we need to give them post-politics jobs

Jacqueline Maley

Why Christmas lunch is the perfect time to start retirement planning