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The new world disorder where might is right

The future is an unhappy picture of great power competition and serious risk for Australia.

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David Crowe

When it comes to violence against protesters, this administration has a track record of lies

It is difficult to take ICE’s claims about Minneapolis seriously when it has already been called out for gross misrepresentations about its...

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Michael Koziol

The Lachie Neale saga and the one big question

Weeks on, I still can’t get my head around the Shakespearean scale of the implosion of Jules Neale’s marriage to AFL untouchable Lachie.

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Kate Halfpenny

From a ‘seaming viper’ that got Travis Head, to the MCG’s two-day stinker: The best and worst of these Ashes

It was hardly a vintage series, but there was still much to celebrate – and plenty to poke fun at – over the past six weeks.

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Daniel Brettig

Albanese has lost face and given ground. Ley should follow suit

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to call a royal commission after the Bondi attack is a huge concession to cap a politically damaging...

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Natassia Chrysanthos

Trump has pulled the US into a joint venture with a leftist kleptocracy

Russia and China are the net beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s gunboat plunder of Venezuela and the insouciant betrayal of the country’s democratic...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Four things you can do without to make 2026 less stressful

There’s a strange comfort in adding things. We add goals, habits, productivity hacks, subscriptions, responsibilities and expectations, hoping that...

latest 8

Donna Mcgeorge

To make sense of the Venezuela attack, look to the hotter heads around Trump

What exactly is this? It’s not regime change because, having unleashed a military raid to snatch Venezuela’s president from his bed, US President...

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Waleed Aly

Has Rachel Ward ‘let herself go’? No, she just looks her real age

We like to tell ourselves that we’ve evolved when it comes to ageing. That we’re more enlightened. Kinder. More accepting. Rachel Ward, in a still...

latest 9

Melissa Hoyer

England will not change until this arrogant regime is dismissed

England’s three wise men turned out to be the Three Stooges. Brendon McCullum, Rob Key and Ben Stokes sold a lie for three years. McCullum and Key...

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Geoffrey Boycott

I don’t want a reference from my terrible boss. What do I tell hirers?

I recently left my job after my team leader went out of their way to sabotage my career by not including me in important meetings with clients,...

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Jonathan Rivett

Working from home this summer? Avoid these five common traps

There’s something uniquely Australian about trying to finish a report while watching the ocean through a holiday rental window. January arrives,...

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Roxanne Calder

The sacred relics of the beach holiday (feat. Kellogg’s Variety Packs)

The British Museum once held an exhibition called A History of the World in 100 Objects . The idea was that these objects – sometimes humble,...

latest 8

Richard Glover

Thinking of quitting your job? You might regret it by February

It’s time to get back to work. It might be this week, next Monday, or even in a few weeks as the kids head back to school, but there comes a time...

yesterday 10

Tim Duggan

A heartfelt farewell to end one of the most meaningful careers in Australian cricket

Bowled through the gate by off-spin, a form of bowling about which he has been brutally sceptical, Steve Smith shook himself out of his bubble of...

yesterday 20

Malcolm Knox

England never recovered from Perth, and neither did this Ashes series

With a cover drive to the fence and a clenched fist of celebration in the middle of the SCG, Alex Carey brought the 2025-26 Ashes series to a close...

yesterday 20

Daniel Brettig

The Ashes fifth Test day four recap: The cold facts behind Boland’s 282-ball bid for revenge

For four years, not at all unreasonably and surprisingly successfully, England and Joe Root effectively put a big red bullseye on Scott Boland....

yesterday 10

Dan Walsh

The new TVs vying for your living room (and wallet) in 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada: Every year, TV manufacturers promise revolutionary picture quality. Usually, it’s marketing speak, but this year at the Consumer...

yesterday 10

David Swan

Two wildly varied reports of the same incident reflect the two Americas of our time

Washington: Twelve months of escalating tensions on the streets of various US cities have now led to a sad, predictable result: an American citizen...

yesterday 10

Michael Koziol

Ashes player ratings: The stars, standouts and those with reputations in tatters

Even allowing for a nervous day five run-chase in Sydney, Australia’s dominance of the Ashes was emphatic. Here’s how every player on both sides...

yesterday 10

Andrew Wu

I know how to lower road deaths, but politicians aren’t listening

We have just endured another year of rising road fatalities. NSW recorded its deadliest year since 2017, with 355 lives lost in 2025 – up sharply...

yesterday 10

Raphael Grzebieta

Keeping money from your partner? Why you could be onto a good thing

There are some secrets that should never be divulged to any human being other than your bank manager. How much you fork out on hairdressing, for...

yesterday 10

Rowan Pelling

Loyalty over common sense: Stokes’ decision-making contributed to England’s woe

Ben Stokes must sometimes feel like a modern Atlas, the man condemned to hold up the sky for eternity. So oppressive is the burden of propping up...

yesterday 10

Oliver Brown

A paean to the Sydney Cricket Ground Test

Beneath beautiful clear blue summer skies, the Sydney Cricket Ground looked the perfect venue for the New Year’s Test as the final act of the Ashes...

yesterday 10

The Herald&x27S View

Albanese finally met the mood. If only he’d done so weeks ago

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was emphatic about one thing as he stood in his courtyard on Thursday afternoon to announce a major reversal in his...

yesterday 6

Natassia Chrysanthos

This new Netflix show is righteously unhinged and clever with its dumbness

Intermittently in this murder-mystery, Tessa Thompson’s Anna Andrews delivers solemn, narration. “The most dangerous thing we do is lie to others,”...

yesterday 6

Craig Mathieson

Anti-Zionism does not have an issue with what Israel does but its very existence

Last weekend, I was in Sydney for a 48-hour visit, three weeks after the massacre at Bondi. My son and I went to the beach. Bondi is not merely...

yesterday 10

Tammy Reznik

ScoMo’s China blues comes back to bite our beef sector

Australian beef producers like billionaire Gina Rinehart should not have taken it personally when China wrecked their New Year’s Eve parties with...

yesterday 10

Colin Kruger

The mood on Iran’s streets seems to be desperation rather than hope

“I hope all of us in the streets can remove this evil, lying and criminal regime from the cycle of politics and decision-making forever. May the...

yesterday 10

Kylie Moore-Gilbert

The tab for MPs living away from home in their own homes

Less than a month after the controversy over travel entitlements for families of parliamentarians exposed the threadbare political sense of many...

yesterday 10

The Herald&x27S View

Kellie Sloane can’t beat Minns next time. But she has a winning factor to spook him

NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane’s new-look frontbench will not win her the next state election. The task is too big. There is too little time, too...

yesterday 10

Alexandra Smith

I know how to lower the road toll, but politicians aren’t listening

We have just endured another year of rising road fatalities. NSW recorded its deadliest year since 2017, with 355 lives lost in 2025 – up sharply...

yesterday 10

Raphael Grzebieta

Webster saves the day, but Australia reject spin at their peril

A few minutes before tea on day four, a cheer went up around the SCG, for Steve Smith had decided to try a spinner for the 40th over of England’s...

previous day 10

Daniel Brettig

We have seen the future of English cricket. But why did it take so long?

This England team’s most memorable brain explosions have occurred under the pressure of the contest. Equally impressive have been those that took...

previous day 10

Malcolm Knox

Melburnians are friendlier than Sydneysiders – except when they drive

After moving to Melbourne from Sydney 10 years ago, I can confirm that Melburnians are absolutely friendlier and more polite on average – except...

previous day 20

Dan Kaufman

Why Trump’s Venezuela gambit will not change Beijing’s calculus on Taiwan

Singapore: Hours before US forces seized Nicolás Maduro in his compound in Caracas, the Venezuelan dictator was entertaining Beijing’s special...

previous day 10

Lisa Visentin

I didn’t realise at the time, but it was the last summer I would spend with my little brother

That first year away from home I had teething troubles adapting to life in Perth and the pressures of law school. I couldn’t focus on textbooks or...

previous day 40

Lily Chan

Trump now has his very own oil empire

Let’s do the maths. Start with the oil production of the US and add Canada. Then include Venezuela and the rest of Latin America, from Mexico to...

previous day 40

Javier Blas

Why would you work hard? All some kids have to do is sit and wait

I was raised with a feverish work ethic typical of Australian working-class families preparing their kids to survive and build independent lives....

previous day 1

Alison Pennington

Populate and cherish, wonderful ideas for city’s growth

NSW and Sydney are at a crossroads. Five and a half million people call Sydney home and the NSW government estimates that number could top 6.3...

previous day 10

The Herald&x27S View

The fumbling, bumbling moments that sum up England’s miserable summer holiday

Like some miserable holiday slideshow, back from when people were subjected to those things, day three of the fifth Test featured a montage of...

previous day 1

Dan Walsh

Trump’s most evangelical warrior is having a come to Jesus moment

It seems that Marjorie Taylor Greene, once the darling of Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement and an avowed conspiracy theorist, has...

previous day 9

Katy Hall

Four conditions set the scene for catastrophic fire conditions. So far, there’s only two

A weeklong heatwave is frying south-eastern Australia to a crisp and our many nervous conversations begin again: how bad will the bushfires be this...

previous day 8

Mike Foley

Ruthless Smith shuts the door on England, and retirement

When Steve Smith walked to the middle of the SCG on day three, Australia still trailed England by 150 runs on first innings. It is true that the...

tuesday 10

Daniel Brettig

Captains maintain the rage as series meanders towards finish line

The Ashes captains, Steve Smith and Ben Stokes, were so expressive on Tuesday at the Sydney Cricket Ground that they formed two poles drawing the...

tuesday 2

Malcolm Knox

Looking for a better work-life balance? Start wearing a tie

I’ve recently embraced a simple wardrobe hack that’s unlocked a new level of work-life balance and made me feel more switched on in the office. I...

tuesday 10

Elias Visontay

Albanese, Wells no-shows at the SCG for McGrath Foundation high tea

Over the past two decades, Australian prime ministers have become reliable guests of the McGrath Foundation’s high tea, the high-powered annual...

tuesday 10

John Buckley

Trump’s dramatic show of force is an old-school move – and a risky one

Follow our live coverage of the Venezuela crisis here The night-time raid that ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this weekend was the most...

tuesday 1

Michael Birnbaum

I wanted to hitchhike to Sydney. The pill-gobbling truckie had other ideas

This piece is part of a summer opinion series from our writers about a year of their youth when they had trying times. We’d been rolling up the...

tuesday 8

Tony Wright

The Greenland alarm is sounding. Europe needs to hear it

London: Denmark was worried about US intentions towards Greenland even before Donald Trump sent his troops and bombers into Venezuela over the...

tuesday 8

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The new world disorder where might is right

David Crowe

When it comes to violence against protesters, this administration has a track record of lies

Michael Koziol

The Lachie Neale saga and the one big question

Kate Halfpenny

From a ‘seaming viper’ that got Travis Head, to the MCG’s two-day stinker: The best and worst of these Ashes

Daniel Brettig

Albanese has lost face and given ground. Ley should follow suit

Natassia Chrysanthos

Trump has pulled the US into a joint venture with a leftist kleptocracy

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Four things you can do without to make 2026 less stressful

Donna Mcgeorge

To make sense of the Venezuela attack, look to the hotter heads around Trump

Waleed Aly

Has Rachel Ward ‘let herself go’? No, she just looks her real age

Melissa Hoyer

England will not change until this arrogant regime is dismissed

Geoffrey Boycott

I don’t want a reference from my terrible boss. What do I tell hirers?

Jonathan Rivett

Working from home this summer? Avoid these five common traps

Roxanne Calder

The sacred relics of the beach holiday (feat. Kellogg’s Variety Packs)

Richard Glover

Thinking of quitting your job? You might regret it by February

Tim Duggan

A heartfelt farewell to end one of the most meaningful careers in Australian cricket

Malcolm Knox

England never recovered from Perth, and neither did this Ashes series

Daniel Brettig

The Ashes fifth Test day four recap: The cold facts behind Boland’s 282-ball bid for revenge

Dan Walsh

The new TVs vying for your living room (and wallet) in 2026

David Swan

Two wildly varied reports of the same incident reflect the two Americas of our time

Michael Koziol

Ashes player ratings: The stars, standouts and those with reputations in tatters

Andrew Wu

I know how to lower road deaths, but politicians aren’t listening

Raphael Grzebieta

Keeping money from your partner? Why you could be onto a good thing

Rowan Pelling

Loyalty over common sense: Stokes’ decision-making contributed to England’s woe

Oliver Brown

A paean to the Sydney Cricket Ground Test

The Herald&x27S View

Albanese finally met the mood. If only he’d done so weeks ago

Natassia Chrysanthos

This new Netflix show is righteously unhinged and clever with its dumbness

Craig Mathieson

Anti-Zionism does not have an issue with what Israel does but its very existence

Tammy Reznik

ScoMo’s China blues comes back to bite our beef sector

Colin Kruger

The mood on Iran’s streets seems to be desperation rather than hope

Kylie Moore-Gilbert

The tab for MPs living away from home in their own homes

The Herald&x27S View

Kellie Sloane can’t beat Minns next time. But she has a winning factor to spook him

Alexandra Smith

I know how to lower the road toll, but politicians aren’t listening

Raphael Grzebieta

Webster saves the day, but Australia reject spin at their peril

Daniel Brettig

We have seen the future of English cricket. But why did it take so long?

Malcolm Knox

Melburnians are friendlier than Sydneysiders – except when they drive

Dan Kaufman

Why Trump’s Venezuela gambit will not change Beijing’s calculus on Taiwan

Lisa Visentin

I didn’t realise at the time, but it was the last summer I would spend with my little brother

Lily Chan

Trump now has his very own oil empire

Javier Blas

Why would you work hard? All some kids have to do is sit and wait