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North greats have had enough, but is Clarkson the man to turn it around?

In what should have been a season where the Kangaroos showed marked signs of a rebirth, they again find themselves having to explain what’s gone...

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Jon Pierik

Ten policies that would make me the perfect prime minister

From mandating the “generous pour” to banning the social kiss, I’ll make these changes on day one.

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Richard Glover

There’s a bear in where? Why Perth is wrong spot for club’s return

The Bears’ comeback brings to a conclusion a long and sad saga, but there was a far more obvious location for their new home than Western Australia.

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Peter Fitzsimons

Agents juggling players and coaches are afforded plenty of leeway

Some should count themselves fortunate that they don’t represent clowns and acrobats.

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Darren Kane

‘Haven’t learnt our lesson’: Inside the Dutton campaign as it enters the final stretch

Peter Dutton’s long-awaited military spending plan was supposed to be the Coalition’s chance to shift the election debate onto the former defence...

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Paul Sakkal

Support for Labor in its heartland has been waning. Can it win the battlers back?

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Johnson Mirzai is an Australian citizen with opinions, and whether they reflect a...

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Gay Alcorn

The next Pope could be even ‘worse’ than Francis. Let’s hope so

For a diverse religion with 1.4 billion followers and centuries of history, the Catholic Church left by Pope Francis has a clear identity in the...

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Malcolm Knox

Code’s fortunes, as always, depend on the success of the Wallabies

In the latest Rugby Australia annual report, Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh trumpets the fact they have secured an increase of about 40...

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Paul Cully

After polling day, our leaders will come clean about the trouble we’re in

Australia is in a Truman Show election campaign. Both major parties are carefully, wilfully myopic. They direct our attention to details of...

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Peter Hartcher

This couple used Labor’s first home buyer scheme – here’s what happened

“We bought a townhouse so small you could accidentally lose it under a rug or something,” jokes an – in fact – very grateful Jordy Lawrence. A...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Not ready to retire yet? This could be the strategy for you

What if retirement wasn’t a line you crossed, but a lifestyle you eased into – deliberately and on your own terms? For decades, retirement has been...

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Bec Wilson

Trump’s strength is also his greatest weakness

I’ve detested at least three-quarters of what the Trump administration has done so far, but it possesses one quality I can’t help admiring:...

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David Brooks

It may not be trendy, but I’d still send my kids to single-sex schools

Look, I fancy myself as being as modern as anyone who remembers chanting “Peace, Charger, Fosters Lager” in the 1970s or drinking Tang while...

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Kate Halfpenny

Pope’s funeral set to be one of the most historically charged in living memory

Rome: As the world teeters under the weight of war, displacement and disillusionment, the death of Pope Francis this week was not just a religious...

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Rob Harris

‘Benji Ball’ is apparently why Galvin wants out of Wests Tigers. What is ‘Benji Ball’?

Even before Lachlan Galvin, Benji Marshall, the lawyers and all their not-so merry men, Tiger Town was already one of the most fascinating watches...

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Dan Walsh

Courts have to prioritise protecting women rather than their attackers

The death in custody of a man who allegedly murdered a Central Coast teenager after he had been spared jail and placed on a supervision order...

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Disruption of dawn service was an affront to decency and values we hold dear

They came at dawn on Anzac Day, to mock a commemoration sacred to many Australians, and particularly to reject the idea of being welcomed to this...

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Good old Collingwood: On a day to honour veterans, Pies show 34 is the new 30

Essendon, whatever their shortcomings, have found reserves of belief and pluck on Anzac Day in Brad Scott’s time, drawing a stunning game last year...

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Jake Niall

A week out, Albanese insists he’s not complacent. But he’s certainly something close

Anthony Albanese wants it on the record: he is not feeling cocky about Labor’s election prospects. “There’s no complacency from my camp, I...

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Matthew Knott

Anger at Anzac Day backfire holds lessons for cultural warriors

The far-right hecklers who disrupted the Welcome to Country ceremonies at Friday morning’s Anzac Day services in Melbourne and Perth were quickly...

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Natassia Chrysanthos

Pope now part of the endless scroll, as phones steal from stillness and silence of grief

Vatican City: Even with the gravity of death in the air, it’s hard not to marvel at Michelangelo’s dome, an impossible structure suspended above us...

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Rob Harris

Dutton almost had a good policy. Here’s why he probably chickened out

Taxes are a necessary evil – which is why neither side of politics is willing to sign themselves up to the best way to keep them in check. While...

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Millie Muroi

How can you tell you’re in a teal seat? Dutton is nowhere to be seen

Liberal loyalists are adamant that Peter Dutton has been visiting teal seats in the run-up to the election to reclaim the prized territory that...

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David Crowe

Lest we forget history. Has the next world war already begun?

On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker, and just over a week later on May 8, Germany surrendered. This year’s Anzac...

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Dennis Glover

My boss wants me to ‘step up’ without any compensation. Is that fair?

I was wondering about your view on the phrase “stepping up”. In my experience, the term has been used to pressure already overworked and underpaid...

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Jonathan Rivett

Our jobs are being continually disrupted. How can we cope?

If life and work feel increasingly chaotic and unpredictable, as if the rug is constantly being pulled out from under you – you’re not imagining...

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Dr Sarah Cotton

The Trump administration is just making it up as it goes

The gyrations in financial markets this month tell us a lot about the nature of the Trump administration: it is flying by the seat of its pants....

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

The cyclone that took the wind out of Peter Dutton’s sails

As Australians stagger towards the federal election campaign’s final days, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton must surely spend restless nights...

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Tony Wright

I lived through Fukushima. Australia should think twice about nuclear

I was just 14 when, on the morning of March 13, 2011, I woke to a blaring siren and a chilling announcement echoing through my neighbourhood: “Stay...

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Ayumi Honda

Just not kosher. The diabolical dilemma facing Jewish voters in Macnamara

Jewish Australia’s relationship with the Albanese government is, to put it mildly, complicated. Nowhere is this more acutely felt than in...

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Chip Le Grand

Can this ‘boring’ country teach us how to be happier at work?

Finland is a country that punches well above its weight. The northern European nation is less than half the size of NSW, has a population of just...

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Tim Duggan

The more hostile the bowling, the more Keith liked it

Australian cricket has farewelled one of its most combative and charismatic characters with the passing of Keith Stackpole on Tuesday. A fierce...

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Greg Chappell

Why so many Diggers voted ‘no’ to conscription in WWI

Democracy as we know is under siege. The US is tumbling towards a constitutional crisis and some developing countries are abandoning democracy....

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Oliver Sinclair

In our troubled times, Anzac Day has a profound meaning

As we commemorate the thousands of our countrymen and countrywomen who have given their lives or served in the nation’s armed forces, at home and...

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Dutton’s angry-man mistakes leave Albanese looking the better devil

The federal election campaign is getting some bad press. Critics say it’s a damaging, depressing charade in which the main participants refuse to...

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Shaun Carney

The missing 37kg and genius game plan that make Bulldogs so good

The Bulldogs forwards will be giving away roughly five kilos on average to their Broncos opponent when they clash in Brisbane on Thursday night....

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Andrew Johns

The MAGA crew is waving white flags towards the Fed, China and Tesla investors

Donald Trump has backed off his threats to sack Fed chair Jerome Powell. His Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, flew a white flag in the trade...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Elon Musk’s DOGE backdown won’t put Tesla back on track

Elon Musk defined the fine line between genius and insanity, between hope and delusion, when he test-drove his brand of cognitive dissonance on...

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Elizabeth Knight

Trump shift on China tariffs only adds to the confusion he creates

The bluff and bluster hallmarks of President Donald Trump’s presidencies have morphed into blunder in the retreat from his incautious imposition of...

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‘Text me when you’re home safe’: How a sweet text is a sinister reminder of Australia’s crisis

Shortly after my friend leaves, shutting the door to my apartment, I pick up my phone and send a message I’ve sent 1000 times: “Text me when you’re...

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Amber Schultz

Why Galvin’s mum will skip watching her son step into a Leichhardt Oval cauldron

When Lachlan Galvin runs onto Leichhardt Oval on Sunday afternoon, his mother won’t be in the stands. Tracey Galvin fears the reception from the...

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Adrian Proszenko

The Nintendo Switch 2 is $700 – are video games getting more expensive?

While Nintendo’s reveal of its coming Switch 2 console was overshadowed in the US by the carnage of President Trump’s tariff talk, the subject of...

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Tim Biggs

Petracca helped Melbourne realise a need for change. Can they keep it going?

Someone with a good sense of humour at Melbourne added Queen’s classic I Want To Break Free to the playlist that blasted over Casey Fields as...

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Peter Ryan

There is a solution to Donald Trump’s baby problem - he should resign

Long before Donald Trump said he wanted to be known as the “fertilisation president”, Hungary was trying mightily to promote traditional families...

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Michelle Goldberg

Pope Francis’ care for others reflected the best of all of us

When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, it was a reflection across the world of a kind of optimism, a relaxing of the old ways that gave hope that a...

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Cory Alpert

The data that shows Piastri has edge over Verstappen and Norris in F1 title fight

Five races into the Formula 1 season, and Oscar Piastri leads Lando Norris by 10 points, with Max Verstappen a further two behind. It looks like a...

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Luke Slater

Grand Sydney Central Station plans may not be so grand

Sydney’s Central Station precinct was poised to be an economic driver, but the NSW government now plans to ditch the rezoning of a key part of the...

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The million-dollar question about Jamarra Ugle-Hagan

Money Talks Credit: The Age The Western Bulldogs are not yet prepared to draw a line through Jamarra Ugle-Hagan’s name despite ongoing concern and...

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Marc Mcgowan

Our democracy’s not working as it should. Here are some good ideas to fix it

This limp, uninspiring election campaign is a sign our democracy isn’t working as well as it should. The voters’ preoccupation with the cost of...

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Ross Gittins

A message to the major parties: Embrace reform, or end up like the Romans

With both parties having now announced their flagship policies, it appears that Australia today is following the path of the late Roman Empire:...

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William Bennett