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The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

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Kate Halfpenny

Streaming films was supposed to save us time. I’d rather take the long way

The video store used to be my favourite place in Melbourne. A time machine took me back.

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Brodie Lancaster

Every NRL team’s 2026 draw ranked – from easiest to toughest

NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo joked this was the “fairest draw in history” after the 2026 schedule was revealed on Friday. We’ll be the judge of...

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Dan Walsh

Everyone’s getting in on this trend, even Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau

Tracking the hard news about soft launches.

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David Astle

My Oma and Opa fled the Holocaust, so I live. Let’s stop the rise of Australia’s neo-Nazis

This threat can’t be stopped by policing and law enforcement. We have to work on their potential recruits.

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Amanda Cohn

The chilling story we’ve thrown everything at covering

I believe it is the media’s job to call out white supremacists and make sure the public knows how serious the threat is.

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Bevan Shields

Epstein is the one issue that keeps splitting Trump from his base

Donald Trump once promised to release the so-called Epstein files, but his administration has so far resisted.

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Karen Tumulty

Blood oil: How this Australia-bound ship is helping pay for Putin’s war

Australians will not see a Russian flag flying when an oil tanker sails into Botany Bay, but its cargo is tainted by war in Europe.

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David Crowe

There’s every reason to believe this Ashes series will live up to the hype

The traditional clash between Australia and England might not be as central to the world of cricket now, but there’s still something in it.

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Malcolm Knox

Mamdani’s New York win is like One Nation’s surge here. Both offer false hope

Consider two contrasting sensations of the past week: Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral election in New York City, and the admittedly...

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Waleed Aly

We may well be witnessing the disintegration of the Liberals

Sussan Ley has bought herself some time as Liberal leader after stepping back from the brink of net zero oblivion and surrendering to the pressure...

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James Massola

Reforms to rein in estate agents’ rorts need more teeth

One of the most rampant rorts encountered by people wanting to own a home – underquoting by real estate agents – has angered buyers and sellers for...

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The Herald&x27S View

How Graham Richardson got a Liberal MP’s high school debating team banned

In 2007, a fresh-faced Liberal MP got up in NSW parliament and began his maiden speech by recalling a high school debate between his Shore...

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Kishor Napier-Raman

Am I wasting my time by writing a cover letter?

I have been applying for jobs and have found some excellent ones. These are jobs I’m certain I’m well-suited to. In some cases, I can confidently...

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Jonathan Rivett

Five clear signs you’ve become indispensable at work

Most of us want to be useful at work. But, in the new working world, being useful is no longer enough. With global slowdown in productivity growth,...

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Roxanne Calder

My number one rule for parenting? Unlimited screen time

I have fed my kids crackers for dinner. I have cancelled their birthday parties out of sheer laziness. But the main source of my parental shame...

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Robert Moran

Thank you for not coaling, Canberra

In this edition of On Background, the National Press Club’s upcoming coal love-in, News Corp’s internal staff dash cams, the A-Leagues’...

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Calum Jaspan

China’s ‘Pilbara Killer’ is finally on the prowl

This week marked a key moment for the global iron industry. Twenty-eight years after Rio Tinto first identified one of the world’s richest...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

With a British blunder, Starmer catches an Australian political virus

London: A foolish briefing to the media has dragged Keir Starmer into a pit of political quicksand after his own allies thought they could help...

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David Crowe

Will Zuckerberg go crying to Trump about Albo’s media tax? You bet

The Australian government’s rebooted attempt to clip the ticket of the big US platforms that effectively siphon advertising revenue from Australian...

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Elizabeth Knight

The Democrats timed this bombshell perfectly – now there are signs the White House is panicking

New York: The White House Situation Room is home to a labyrinth of highly secure conference rooms where presidents oversee intelligence briefings...

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Michael Koziol

Postcard from America’s richest city, where hunger and poverty are mainstream

On a cold autumn morning last week, a security guard outside a food bank in the New York neighbourhood of Harlem was dealing with a steady stream...

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Liz Gooch

The silent crisis in our workplace no one’s talking about

Cast your mind back to the first job you had. It may have been decades ago, or closer in time, but I bet you can still remember some of the tasks...

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Tim Duggan

Attention England: It’s not personal, us ‘has-beens’ just want you to win the Ashes

There has rightly been much focus on England’s preparation for this Ashes series, which is so different to the traditional method. But the truth...

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Michael Vaughan

The AFL is selling controversy with its 2026 fixture as two tiers of supporter groups emerge

See you later Essendon. Carlton are on probation. Seven have married Hawthorn at first sight while St Kilda have been handed a rose with promise...

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Peter Ryan

Did women ruin the workplace? The dangerous irony of The New York Times’ viral opinion piece

“Did women ruin the workplace?” This was the question put forward by The New York Times, which, no surprise, quickly went viral. The main thrust of...

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Jacqueline Maley

Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

Liberal leader Sussan Ley ended her climate policy press conference on Thursday afternoon with an appropriately Trumpian flourish. She’d been asked...

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Nick O&x27Malley

Ignore these neo-Nazis at our peril: Evil left unchallenged will be normalised

It is almost impossible to find any silver lining in the neo-Nazi rally held outside NSW Parliament last Saturday. The fact that this rally – the...

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David Ossip

Want cheaper plane tickets? Here’s how we get them

I’ve been relatively lucky. I book the red-eye return flight every time I visit my family in Perth, and I always fly there from Sydney instead of...

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Millie Muroi

Time and again, the men in my life fail me when it comes to this simple task

The other day, my partner told me an anecdote about his daughters. “So they were driving home from the coast,” he said, “and they stopped at...

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Kerri Sackville

Qantas says no to ransom. 96 per cent of Australian businesses say yes

Qantas said it wouldn’t pay the ransom. Australia’s largest airline insisted it wouldn’t hand over money to cyber criminals – and it had the...

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David Swan

It’s a banana republic moment. We need to see more from Jim Chalmers

A treasurer’s words can pierce a political debate like a volley of bullets. The passing of Sydney radio star John Laws is a chance to remember the...

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Shane Wright

The wicked dilemma we face in confronting Sydney’s neo-Nazis

Sixty neo-Nazis in black fatigues with nothing better to do on a Saturday morning set out to achieve two things when they stood shoulder to...

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Alexandra Smith

Feeling wealthy? Thank the booming property market

There is nothing quite like a strong rise in the price of housing to increase our feeling of prosperity, drive consumer confidence and lift...

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Elizabeth Knight

There are no winners in the Tanner Bruhn case

No one has won here. On Tuesday, rape charges against footballer Tanner Bruhn and his co-accused Patrick Sinnott were dropped. That they were...

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Michael Gleeson

These numbers say net zero is doomed – and so is Sussan Ley

The text message from a Liberal MP landed at about 20 minutes to 5pm, nearly five hours after the start of a Liberal party room meeting that looked...

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James Massola

Anti-net zero MP casts 1975 shadow over Liberal energy policy

Andrew Hastie’s call for MPs to consider forcing a double dissolution if the Liberals won the next election and a hostile Senate repeatedly blocked...

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The Herald&x27S View

If Libs dump net zero, we’ll lose more than an election. We’ll lose a generation

Ten years ago, when I joined the Liberal Party, my state MP was the premier of NSW, and my federal MP was the prime minister. The Liberal Party was...

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