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Time to get off X, prime minister. It’s repulsive

Now would be a great time for the federal government and the opposition to review their use of the platform they condemn.

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Michelle Griffin

What if the fastest way to ‘build’ homes is to stop building?

One of the solutions to the housing crisis could be right under our noses – or over our heads.

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Dr Ehsan Noroozinejad

After Bondi, our leaders needed to draw breath. Now, so do we all

Some years ago, a friend began referring to the period between Christmas and New Year’s Day as “the interregnum”: a pause between two things. To...

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Sean Kelly

Why Trump’s jackboots and AI’s trillions won’t shake giddy investors

Anyone fretting about how fragile global financial markets might be in 2026 got an early and robust response from investors who have lost none of...

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Colin Kruger

In Trump’s America, smart robots and AI mask an uncomfortable future

Las Vegas, Nevada – The first thing you notice at CES, the world’s largest tech show, is how seamlessly everything is supposed to work. The...

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David Swan

The next Ashes series is only 18 months away. Here’s what Australia must do to win again

Suitcases packed, hotel rooms vacated, sore heads and red eyes hidden under baseball caps and behind sunglasses, winners and losers alike face the...

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Geoff Lawson

Can anyone stop Sabalenka? It will take a bold, brave and fearless player to step up

There will be no denying Aryna Sabalenka’s standing as favourite to clinch a third Australian Open mantle, but even the world No.1 has issued a...

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Nick Wright

Wilcox cartoon was divisive – and we apologise for the hurt it has caused

In the days after the Bondi massacre, this masthead took the editorial decision to lead calls for a royal commission into this murderous attack on...

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Iran has brutally crushed protests before. This time could be different

After 35 years of ruling Iran, Ali Khamenei is running out of options fast. The 86-year-old supreme leader is facing his most serious challenge...

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Akhtar Makoii

The data doesn’t lie: it’s getting hotter and fossil fuels are fanning the flames

I’m writing this as the CEO of the Climate Council, and also as a mum of two young children. Every time the temperature is forecast to soar into...

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Amanda Mckenzie

The abomination on Bondi Beach is a failure that extends beyond any politician or party

One year after the horrors of October 7, 2023, I gave a speech to the University of NSW warning that Australia was sleepwalking into a period of...

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Steven Lowy

The childcare crackdown is welcome, but this is no time for a victory lap

If 2025 was the year the childcare sector faced a reckoning, then 2026 should be a year of action. A litany of failures and a lack of transparency...

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Voters thought Albanese was weak on Bondi. Now he risks being seen as tricky

Anthony Albanese’s plan to brazen out calls for a royal commission into antisemitism in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack was always flawed....

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Greenlanders tell ‘absolutely insane’ Trump what they really think

Nuuk: The people of Greenland have a simple message for Donald Trump: no deal. On the streets of their capital, Greenlanders dismiss the US...

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David Crowe

We have $1.2m in super. Should we try to qualify for the age pension?

My wife and I disagree about whether we should adjust our assets to qualify for a part age pension. I’m 67 and still working full-time on a good...

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Paul Benson

Flowers in the gutter. The father is not alone

I am picking up sodden scraps of decomposing plastic, from a gutter, by the side of the road. It is the middle of the day, hot now, and I still...

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Alexandra Sangster

Starc, Head and Carey were outstanding, but they weren’t why Australia hammered England

The problem with my Best Combined XI from the 2025-26 Ashes is that it only has VI players in it. Travis Head opens the batting, and then we have...

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Malcolm Knox

The official temperature was 42 degrees – but western Sydney felt as hot as 55 degrees

If you didn’t know otherwise, you might think Box Hill was abandoned. Not a single person was sighted in the north-west Sydney suburb on Saturday...

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Anthony Segaert

The inside story of the booze-fuelled Ashes tour that divided Stokes and McCullum

The morning after England’s sucker-punch of an opening Ashes defeat in Perth, Brydon Carse was sitting at a riverside cafe with his teammates Zak...

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Nick Hoult

Brendon McCullum’s latest absurd claim should spell the end of his tenure

An alarming sign of Brendon McCullum’s attitude to coaching England came on the Adelaide outfield, where, with Australian players uncorking the...

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Oliver Brown

My love letter to ye olde postie … Will he mind if I email it?

In a world first, a seal has broken on one of the pillars of public life. Denmark’s PostNord, the Danish equivalent of Australia Post, has ceased...

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Jo Pybus

The 7 things I’ll never do again: my reverse-bucket list

Now that I’ve reached middle age, when the time I have left to me is dwarfed by the time I’ve squandered in unproductive activities like having a...

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Margot Saville

As a stubborn PM dug in, one Jewish leader had his ear

After 15 innocent people were gunned down at Bondi Beach on a Sunday afternoon, a Hebrew word came to Peter Wertheim’s mind: teshuvah. Often...

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Matthew Knott

This $30bn investment is a form of gambling. But young buyers love it

There are plenty of unusual things people buy with the expectation that they will be able to sell them for more in the future. Among these “...

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Millie Muroi

Six surprising habits only the happiest retirees get right

Ask anyone in their 50s or 60s how they picture their retirement, and you’ll usually get a vague image of “more freedom”, definitely “more travel”,...

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Bec Wilson

Three strategies to put $500 back in your pocket every month

They say the average New Year’s resolution lasts 11 days – and guess what? It’s January 10. So it’s just about time to forget any vague overhaul...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

The new world disorder where might is right

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The security of the old world order is being blasted away with every airstrike to...

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David Crowe

Albanese has acted at last but attacking commissioner is Trumpian

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to call a royal commission into the Bondi Beach shootings is a belated recognition of the community’s...

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

Washington: The more you watch the chilling video of an ICE officer shooting Renee Nicole Good dead in Minneapolis, the more you can’t help but...

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Michael Koziol

The Lachie Neale saga and the one big question

Former AFL WAG Amie Rohan was on my radar at the gym weeks before we spoke. I clocked how one minute she’d be deadlifting hilariously heavy bars,...

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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 Ashes series, but there was still much to celebrate – and plenty to poke fun at – over the past six weeks. Here’s our...

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Daniel Brettig

If Tony Abbott is welcome at Adelaide Writers’ Week, Randa Abdel-Fattah should be too

“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression,” wrote the great Jewish-American writer Saul Bellow, “if you hold down one...

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Richard Flanagan

With the Ashes secured, now it’s time to start regenerating this Australian side

If building a winning cricket team were simply a matter of examining statistics, we could give the job to a computer and let algorithms dictate the...

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Greg Chappell

Politicians shouldn’t decide who appears at writers’ festivals. It’s a dangerous path

“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression,” wrote the great Jewish-American writer Saul Bellow, “if you hold down one...

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Richard Flanagan

My dream share house turned into a bucket-filled nightmare. It wasn’t a leak

It was 1999 and it wasn’t just the ’90s that were coming to an end. My uni friends were leaving campus life, cutting their hair and moving into the...

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Damien Nowicki

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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Michael Koziol