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The four reasons Trump’s tariff threats won’t hand Greenland to him

Donald Trump’s tough talk about capturing Greenland for the US has so far used the slow pressure of tariff threats and social media posts. It is...

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David Crowe

My daughter set me a tough literary challenge. What a journey it’s been

I was tasked with reading 52 books from 52 countries in 52 weeks. I didn’t quite get there, but I still enjoyed the expedition. Here are some of...

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David Crowe

Westminster woes deepen for UK Labour. Sussan Ley should take note

UK politics is fracturing left, right and centre with febrile speculation about an imminent challenge to the PM Keir Starmer.

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George Brandis

Trump’s crackdown won’t solve credit cards’ many problems

Credit card interest rates are often painfully high, but there are better ways to protect consumers than the 10 per cent rate cap flagged by Donald...

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Clancy Yeates

The Big Bash has never seen more power hitters. Now it needs a hit of star power, too

Captivating centuries from David Warner and Steve Smith at a packed SCG showed the potential of a juiced-up T20 competition.

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Iain Payten

Trump puts NATO alliance at risk of collapse for first time since World War II

When eight European countries sent troops to Greenland this week, it was meant to show the US president that NATO was serious about security. He...

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Connor Stringer

Silicon Valley made us fear friction. But what if it is the secret to a better life?

Silicon Valley made us fear friction. But what if it is the secret to a better life?

Picture this: it’s Friday night, and you don’t have anything in the fridge. What do you do? If you’re anything like the 3.5 million Australians who...

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Lauren Ironmonger

Planning change a needed weapon against illegal tobacco trade

Planning change a needed weapon against illegal tobacco trade

This summer’s crackdown by the Minns government on the tobacco trade, with raids on retail outlets across NSW suspected of selling illicit...

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Albanese loves to ban things. But PM, your prohibition fixation’s not working

Albanese loves to ban things. But PM, your prohibition fixation’s not working

One slogan summed up the spirit of the 1968 youth uprisings in France: it is forbidden to forbid. It was the essence of the ’60s and ’70s, which...

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

I’m about to get my inheritance. Should I buy a Lamborghini?

I’m about to get my inheritance. Should I buy a Lamborghini?

I will be receiving a significant inheritance next month. My first port of call will be to clear the mortgage, but after that, I’m lost. Super,...

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Paul Benson

First, we mourn. And mourn again. Then, life must go on

First, we mourn. And mourn again. Then, life must go on

“And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.” - Deuteronomy...

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Ralph Genende

It’s a good thing Shakespeare wasn’t invited to Adelaide Writers’ Week

It’s a good thing Shakespeare wasn’t invited to Adelaide Writers’ Week

It’s a good thing William Shakespeare wasn’t on the guest list of Adelaide Writers’ Week. A community theatre performance of the Bard’s The...

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Malcolm Knox

To stand out among the standouts takes someone special. Alyssa Healy is just that

To stand out among the standouts takes someone special. Alyssa Healy is just that

On the back of the NSW Breakers’ training and playing apparel is the number 1934. It signifies the year the NSW women’s team was formally...

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Geoff Lawson

NRL’s new kick-off plan could backfire like basketball’s infamous slam dunk ban

NRL’s new kick-off plan could backfire like basketball’s infamous slam dunk ban

According to Danish law, parents of newborns must pick their baby’s first name off a government-approved list. Invented and non-listed monikers...

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Darren Kane

The viral sweet potato trend is a culinary scam

The viral sweet potato trend is a culinary scam

Wacky food trends have always been a thing (side-eyeing whoever thought it was a good idea to stick vegetables in jelly in the ’70s and call it a...

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Jenna Guillaume

Adelaide was to be my first big writers’ festival. Then it all went wrong

Adelaide was to be my first big writers’ festival. Then it all went wrong

Appearing at Adelaide Writers Week had always been a dream of mine – dating from the time when I was a school student, sitting on the lawns of the...

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Olivia De Zilva

Albanese’s capitulation is embarrassing, but at least it avoids moment of national shame

Albanese’s capitulation is embarrassing, but at least it avoids moment of national shame

Anthony Albanese just blinked in a high-stakes game of chicken. Stripping out controversial anti-vilification laws from a sprawling bill to counter...

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Paul Sakkal

Michele Bullock is standing her ground against Trump. Here’s why it matters

Michele Bullock is standing her ground against Trump. Here’s why it matters

Plenty of people have a bone to pick with Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock: interest rates being too high, interest rates being too low…and a...

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Millie Muroi

Loved and unloved: Behind the relationship between Djokovic and Australia

Loved and unloved: Behind the relationship between Djokovic and Australia

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. To win the Australian Open for the 11th time and become the first to reach 25 grand...

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Jake Niall

Global warning: Trump’s war on the planet heats up

Global warning: Trump’s war on the planet heats up

High up on the northern flank of the world’s largest volcano, Mauna Loa on Hawaii’s Big Island, lies an observatory that was first scraped into the...

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Nick O&x27Malley

Women’s super gap isn’t just a data point. It’s a ticking time bomb

Women’s super gap isn’t just a data point. It’s a ticking time bomb

There’s new data out this week on retirement confidence in Australia, and it makes for uncomfortable reading. Only 41 per cent of women say they...

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Bec Wilson

Should you fix your home loan before it’s too late?

Should you fix your home loan before it’s too late?

Until the latest inflation reading, an interest rate hike next month looked like a done deal. Now, the date has probably pushed back a bit. But,...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Being sick was bad enough, but did everyone else need to be so jolly?

Being sick was bad enough, but did everyone else need to be so jolly?

On Christmas Day I felt a dullness, a something’s-not-rightness. On Boxing Day, this viral overture launched into fatigue and a tightness of chest...

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Anson Cameron

There’s a dinner party game we play about disaster. But when fire bears down the choice is stark

There’s a dinner party game we play about disaster. But when fire bears down the choice is stark

Last Friday. The fire was so close the sky was an endless orange blur. An expected wind change could bring the rampaging front to the farmhouse....

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Kate Halfpenny

Climate whiplash: We can no longer pretend this isn’t a crisis

Climate whiplash: We can no longer pretend this isn’t a crisis

What will it take for policymakers to take this more seriously? That’s the question a desperate-sounding Jeremy posed on local ABC talkback radio...

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Bianca Hall

Steve Smith v David Warner: Why Sydney cricket fans should enjoy it while they can

Steve Smith v David Warner: Why Sydney cricket fans should enjoy it while they can

They played hundreds of games together, sharing partnerships and helping the Australian cricket team win world championships in all three formats...

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Robert Dillon

US Congress wants Inman Grant on control alt delete

US Congress wants Inman Grant on control alt delete

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly on his government’s leading-edge teen social media...

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My health app cheated on me, so I dumped it

My health app cheated on me, so I dumped it

I became addicted. Hopelessly addicted. The more I succeeded, the more I wanted. The streak went 100 days, then 200. Neil Breen with his dog, Katy....

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Neil Breen

Wall Street CEOs staying silent on Trump is no longer an option

Wall Street CEOs staying silent on Trump is no longer an option

This week the Trump administration threatened a two-front war, with one against America’s allies and another against its own central bank. The...

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Gautam Mukunda

Too fast, too slow, too broad, too narrow... Albanese’s hate speech critics agree on one thing

Too fast, too slow, too broad, too narrow... Albanese’s hate speech critics agree on one thing

And now the cracks appear. Having called for the Albanese government to introduce tougher hate-speech laws, the Ley opposition considers the...

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Waleed Aly

We should not sleepwalk into an attack on freedom of expression

We should not sleepwalk into an attack on freedom of expression

One of the aims of terrorism is to break civic norms such as free speech. But the Albanese government’s well-intentioned Combating Antisemitism,...

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My work moved office. Why won’t they pay for my travel costs?

My work moved office. Why won’t they pay for my travel costs?

The company I work for has just undergone a major change. This has affected my role, and I’m now being asked to travel much further every week than...

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Jonathan Rivett

Trump’s trade war with China is a $1.8 trillion fail

Trump’s trade war with China is a $1.8 trillion fail

A year ago, Donald Trump waged a tariff war to curtail China’s relentless industrial manufacturing growth in a bid to revive US factories. One...

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Elizabeth Knight

After Bondi, time must be taken to get race hate law changes right

After Bondi, time must be taken to get race hate law changes right

A week after the Bondi Beach massacre, and just three days before Christmas, Sussan Ley was insistent. The nation’s federal parliamentarians ought...

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Matthew Knott

FA counting on bold new management structure to help revive domestic game

FA counting on bold new management structure to help revive domestic game

Most of the time, when a sporting organisation appoints a new chief executive, there are two seats at the press conference. That’s the standard...

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Vince Rugari

The not-so-subtle message in cheesy moment between two leaders

The not-so-subtle message in cheesy moment between two leaders

Singapore: Wearing matching blue tracksuits emblazoned with their names, Japan’s Sanae Takaichi and South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung found their tempo...

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Lisa Visentin

Heated Rivalry proves hot is hot, romance is romance and sex is sexy

Heated Rivalry proves hot is hot, romance is romance and sex is sexy

Nearly 20 per cent of my first day back in the office was spent trying to remember my password. For the other 80 per cent, I was caught up in...

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Damien Woolnough

The five surprising skills you’ll need to get a promotion this year

The five surprising skills you’ll need to get a promotion this year

The old saying goes that there are decades where nothing happens, then weeks where decades happen. If I can take that phrase and butcher it...

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Tim Duggan

It’s the accepted wisdom on reducing bushfire risk, but doubts are growing

It’s the accepted wisdom on reducing bushfire risk, but doubts are growing

Generations of accepted wisdom tells us that hazard reduction burns – reducing undergrowth, or “fuel loads” through targeted burning – reduces the...

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Bianca Hall

The world watched as Australia kicked under-16s off social media. The results are in

The world watched as Australia kicked under-16s off social media. The results are in

Wyatt Thompson was locked out of YouTube once Australia’s landmark under-16s social media ban was activated on December 10, but the 11-year-old...

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Bronte Gossling

The Islamic Republic of Iran is crumbling. Miscalculations have pushed it to this terminal frenzy

The Islamic Republic of Iran is crumbling. Miscalculations have pushed it to this terminal frenzy

The decline of the Islamic Republic of Iran is now terminal. The periodic waves of mass popular unrest the country has experienced since the 1979...

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Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Alyssa Healy leaves cricket much bigger than she found it

Alyssa Healy leaves cricket much bigger than she found it

In the summer of 2006, 16-year-old Alyssa Healy was selected as wicketkeeper for the Barker College First XI – the first girl to play in the NSW...

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We love to hate a tantrum, but where would tennis be without them?

We love to hate a tantrum, but where would tennis be without them?

Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys left with the trophies, but the two most memorable moments from the 2025 Australian Open were Daniil Medvedev’s...

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Billie Eder

Australia’s big but unloved companies will test investors’ mettle

Australia’s big but unloved companies will test investors’ mettle

It’s difficult to get excited about this year’s share price prospects for most of the heavyweight companies that dominate the Australian market –...

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Elizabeth Knight

Like Dr Frankenstein, we built a monster. This is the ultimate tennis player

Like Dr Frankenstein, we built a monster. This is the ultimate tennis player

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We know the perfect tennis player doesn’t exist. Of course, in men’s tennis, Jannik...

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Peter Ryan

Trump in dangerous territory as he encourages Iran protesters while criticising his own

Trump in dangerous territory as he encourages Iran protesters while criticising his own

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, as they say, which is certainly true for Donald Trump when it comes to protesters. Brave...

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Michael Koziol

AUKUS is not on the rocks, despite the UK’s submarine troubles

AUKUS is not on the rocks, despite the UK’s submarine troubles

As with 2025, early 2026 again sees AUKUS, Australia’s plan to acquire a nuclear-powered submarine capability, back in the headlines. This time the...

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Jennifer Parker

It may be awkward, but a prenup could save your relationship (and wallet)

It may be awkward, but a prenup could save your relationship (and wallet)

For anyone planning a major, exciting life milestone this year – like moving in with a partner, getting married or starting a family – thinking...

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Will Stidston

One word makes proposed race hate law changes problematic

One word makes proposed race hate law changes problematic

In 1995, the Keating government tried to enact a criminal offence of inciting racial hatred, with a maximum penalty of one year’s prison. It was...

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Anne Twomey

My childhood swimming pool has barely changed. Sydney needs more like it

My childhood swimming pool has barely changed. Sydney needs more like it

The suburban pool in southern Sydney where I learnt to swim was a simple affair. Built in the 1970s, it featured a small kiosk selling hot chips...

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Megan Gorrey