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

Already without Patrick Cummins and Josh Hazlewood, to voluntarily add Lyon smacked of overthinking.

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Malcolm Knox

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

Scanning a face to guess its age is likely to be a major part of the “waterfall” of methods used to comply with the social media ban.

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Tim Biggs

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

Amid the vulgarity, there are things about Sarah Ferguson I’ve long grudgingly appreciated. Her heaving jolly-hockey-sticks positivity....

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Kate Halfpenny

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

Some have warned the Australian economy is pushing up against its speed limit. But we might just be able to shift towards the fast lane if that...

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Millie Muroi

In Hong Kong, tragedy fuels a national security crackdown

The Wang Fuk Court towers were still smouldering when Hong Kong authorities shifted gear from crisis to crackdown.

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Lisa Visentin

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

The doom bell was ringing, and Joni was on her own.

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Anson Cameron

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

Two years after we celebrated the opening of the M4 tunnel comes a reminder of the vulnerability of our infrastructure.

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The Herald&x27S View

Forget awards season, these movies changed the way we speak

Who needs an Oscar when your movie title has entered our daily vocabulary?

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David Astle

Cronulla riots, 20 years on: the legacy of violence lingers in brazen silence

Neo-Nazi and anti-immigration posters are allowed to remain on the streets of Cronulla while they are removed or covered with anti-fascist stickers...

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Charlotte Feakins

‘The Politician’, his alleged lover and why we hate celebrity journalists

It’s the scandal that has Washington insiders and die-hard media watchers buzzing, with every new chapter highlighting why, at its worst, the...

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Calum Jaspan

The Xanax mistake that is still costing Medicare millions

Medicare wastes huge amounts of money and the public pays inflated premiums – the system needs reforming.

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Margaret Faux

The curse of Rupert: Lachlan Murdoch has a long way to go to match his dad

The empire is now safely in Lachlan Murdoch’s hands, but as his Christmas party showed, the shadow of his father looms large.

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Colin Kruger

Take the Weatherald with you: early forecast suggests Australia have found an opener

On Friday afternoon, it was possible to visualise Jake Weatherald as a proper Test opener. Australia may finally have found one.

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Daniel Brettig

Next, a Hanson-branded sandwich press and more defectors to follow Barnaby Joyce

One Nation is so pleased with itself at the moment, the party – which is on the brink of recruiting Barnaby Joyce – is planning to sell a Pauline...

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James Massola

Last week I travelled to Mecca, shaved my head and learnt a lesson about masculinity

Apologies for my absence last week (or alternatively: you’re welcome). I’ve spent most of this fortnight far away from the news cycle, in the...

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Waleed Aly

Want to get your dream job? You’ll need to impress AI first

Recruiters aren’t the only ones reading your CVs any more. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now screening, scoring and shortlisting candidates...

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Tracy Sheen

Will my colleague think my Secret Santa gift is ‘cheap’?

I started working in a new team this year and for the first time in my career I’ve been asked to participate in a Secret Santa. Our price limit is...

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Jonathan Rivett

It’s a narrow path to victory, but this is why Oscar Piastri can still win the Formula 1 world title

Oscar Piastri’s quest to become Australia’s third Formula 1 world champion reaches its last lap at the 2025 season finale in Abu Dhabi this...

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Matthew Clayton

Ukraine is running out of cash. Can Europe seize Russian money to help?

For more than two years, the Europeans have been wrangling over whether and how to use about $270 billion of frozen Russian funds to help fund...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why Usman Khawaja shouldn’t go quietly

“People do say I’m cocky. Some say I need a good whoopin’. Some say I talk too much. But, anything that I say I’m willing to back up.”...

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Daniel Brettig

If Australia are just messing with England’s heads, it’s a plan that’s worked before

There’s tricky, and there’s too tricky by half. On the morning of the start of the second Test match in Brisbane, Australia had still not announced...

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Malcolm Knox

The World Cup draw looms large. Here’s what fans, and the Socceroos, can expect

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A selection of sporting luminaries will, on Saturday morning (AEDT), reach into a...

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Vince Rugari

Is our new ‘museum’ brilliant, bonkers or just a big box?

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the Powerhouse Parramatta opens next year, it won’t just be the largest museum...

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Linda Morris

My Spotify listening age is 73 years old? I demand a recount

I never thought Spotify’s Wrapped list would be the thing that led me to an existential crisis, but here we are. The streaming giant’s annual...

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Robert Moran

Princess of Wales chooses tiara with love story for state banquet

London: Leave it to the Princess of Wales to deliver a wow fashion moment in the same week as the Fashion Awards in Britain and an A-list Chanel...

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Tamara Abraham

‘Is this Soviet Russia?’ Australia is getting smoked by its tobacco fail

The underground trade in illegal tobacco has become a growing cancer for the Australian economy, inflating the cost of healthcare and law...

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Elizabeth Knight

Breathing new life into Bondi Junction

Sydney’s chronic housing shortage crisis offers developers a guilt-edged guarantee that if they build, they will come. But Bondi Junction is torn...

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The Herald&x27S View

Instead of procrastinating at work, try ‘eating the frog’

Can you hear that? The sound in the distance? It’s the faint drum of a rapidly approaching deadline, and it’s getting louder every minute. The...

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Tim Duggan

O Christmas tree, I’d stuff you in the green bin. Now sing that, Mariah Carey

O Christmas tree, how desperately Do I suddenly wish it was January. O Christmas tree, how readily Would I stuff you in the green bin, seriously....

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Michelle Cazzulino

It started as a sweet cafe moment with a lovely lady. Then she followed me

I was at a cafe in Melbourne with a friend on a quiet weekday afternoon when a lovely older woman with silver-speckled hair beside us smiled and...

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Najma Sambul

Yes, cutting uni staff and courses is painful – but we must to keep running

Across Australia, many universities are facing real financial strain, making it difficult to deliver the education and research our communities...

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Andrew Parfitt

Root takes full advantage of Australia’s Lyon-shaped hole

Brisbane: Joe Root might easily have made a hundred in just his second Test match in Australia had it not been for Nathan Lyon. At Adelaide Oval in...

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Daniel Brettig

Five years on, Australia is calling out the thugs who jailed me for what they are

Last week I quietly marked the fifth anniversary of my freedom from prison in Iran. November 25 was on the surface a day like any other,...

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Kylie Moore-Gilbert

An e-bike for Christmas? That would be a big fat no

As my three kids dutifully prepare their Christmas wish lists, I am glad for one big omission. Yes, the bikini my daughter is hoping for seems to...

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Alexandra Smith

A fix looking for a problem: Why the Ashes doesn’t need a pink-ball Test

For England, proceeding from a two-day Test in Perth to a pink-ball encounter at the Gabba must seem like jumping from frying pan to fire, albeit...

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Greg Baum

Marital tension? It’s time to bring in a third party

I’ve been quite sick this last week, so I have been delegating my parenting responsibilities to Disney . While my kids mainlined Tangled and...

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Mali Cornish

Bruce Lehrmann went back for his hat a second time – and paid the price

It is difficult to imagine a more excoriating judgment. The circumstances before Bruce Lehrmann in the early hours of March 23, 2019, “screamed...

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Michaela Whitbourn

‘Fog of war’ might excuse an admiral, but it won’t let Hegseth off the hook

On Monday, just as the Trump administration was facing fresh scrutiny over its war on foreign boats allegedly smuggling drugs to the United States,...

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Michael Koziol

It’s a Code Red moment for the dominant AI players

Only a few weeks ago, an apparently stellar quarterly result from Nvidia was hailed as dispelling fears of an artificial intelligence bubble while...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s latest thought bubble: Mimic our superannuation system

Tuesday was a historic day for philanthropy in the US. But bizarrely the announcement of the largest-ever private donation to America’s kids put...

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Elizabeth Knight

Wells’ Big Apple trip suggests something beginning to rot at the core

Communications Minister Anika Wells’ costly $190,000 jaunt to New York has needlessly distracted attention from the teen social media ban she is...

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The Herald&x27S View

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

In Canberra, the most dangerous political scandals are never the labyrinthine ones requiring whiteboards and flow charts. It’s the simple ones, the...

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