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Australia is right to support a two-state solution: former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert

Benjamin Netanyahu had no right to claim Australia “poured fuel on the antisemitic fire” that caused the Bondi massacre, writes Israel’s former...

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Ehud Olmert

Trump has changed the future of the car industry

Donald Trump’s re-entry to the White House has put some of the biggest car brands in the world at risk of being left out of a key market.

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Howard has gone too far. His comments about Albanese tear us apart

The public space in Australia has never been quite right since Hamas inflicted its barbarism on Israel on October 7, 2023. Truly shocking in its...

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Shaun Carney

Albanese has a moment in history to do something big. He’s wasting it

Australia and the United States share a tragic anniversary. On December 14 on Bondi Beach, 15 people were murdered at a Hanukkah celebration. On...

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Chip Le Grand

Trump’s two Americas are getting further apart

The US unemployment rate is now at its highest since the pandemic, but the White House says “the best is yet to come”. The disparity between the...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Parents, here’s why you should stop steering your kids away from the humanities

Is your child passionate about the arts and humanities? Strong in English, history, philosophy or a foreign language? Considering a humanities...

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Julia Kindt

What Albanese could do to prove he isn’t dithering on terror

Anthony Albanese likes to be in control and comfortable, but this national crisis transcends the normal way of doing things and demands a proper...

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Paul Sakkal

PM’s inaction on antisemitism comes back to haunt him

A new marriage and world acclaim over the teen social media ban put Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on top of the world just a few days ago. But...

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The Herald&x27S View

A hundred in Test cricket heaven: Carey, Khawaja save Australia’s blushes

Adelaide: A red ball, a hot day, and a raucous crowd that swelled to 56,298: a bigger gathering even than the throng who piled in here for...

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Daniel Brettig

Cam Green might be worth $4m in the IPL, but should he be in the Test team?

Australia will have more chances to retain the Ashes, and maybe it was the knowledge of this luxury that led to their wastefulness on Wednesday. If...

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Malcolm Knox

As media moguls show Warner Bros the money, keep an eye on CNN – and US democracy

Hollywood is back in the news. Fabled names (Paramount! Warner Brothers!) are on the auction block, and much newer big names (the Ellisons!...

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Bill Wyman

Our college dumped the ATAR – because it doesn’t measure anything useful

By the end of this week, year 12 students from Victoria and NSW will have received their official examination results. As they begin to make...

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Sam Jacob

Police were young and outgunned: Where was the back-up at Bondi?

On Tuesday, the NSW Police Force sent its heavy-hitters to Bondi. The ones trained for violent conflict, with access to the state’s most serious...

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Jordan Baker

Move over, Boomers – Gen X is next up for retirement

It passed without much fanfare, but during 2025 the first wave of Gen X hit 60. The oldest members of that grouping – born between 1965 and 1980 –...

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Matt Wade

China’s property cancer is spreading through its economy

Four years after property developer China Evergrande defaulted on its sky-high debts and marked the beginning of China’s property crisis, the...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

He’s prolific, pioneering, easy on the eye. But Usman Khawaja should retire now

Follow our live blog of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide from 9.30am AEDT Wednesday. Usman Khawaja has been an ornament to Australian cricket, but...

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Greg Baum

Bondi terrorist attack lobs a grenade into an already febrile world

Washington: The worst terrorist attack ever on Australian soil was always going to command headlines in the United States. But in this febrile and...

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Michael Koziol

Howard’s criticism shows the moment is slipping away from Albanese

In the 48 hours since the Bondi massacre, Australia’s social cohesion has been tested as never before. Rather than coming together in a bipartisan...

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James Massola

Our political dialogue has become too vicious, too absolute, and just too much

Finally it has happened: our words have started turning into bullets. The sentences carelessly flung around by the holders of megaphones, convinced...

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Dennis Glover

Mourn for Bondi Beach, but now hard questions must be asked

Revelations that the two Bondi Beach shooters travelled to the Philippines, parts of which are notorious for Islamic extremism, just weeks before...

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The Herald&x27S View

The Ashes’ power to distract is strong. For that, we can be thankful

If an Ashes Test match had been scheduled in Sydney this week, serious questions would be asked about whether it should go ahead. Only after high-...

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Malcolm Knox

Why did it take violent deaths for our fears to be acknowledged?

At what point does allyship cease to be empathetic and instead become performative? In Australia, gun violence is not part of our daily life. Its...

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Alexandra Senter

Good riddance to Mark Zuckerberg’s $105 billion distraction

Say goodbye to the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg’s personal obsession. In 2021, the Facebook founder declared that we would all soon meet, shop and do...

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Andrew Orlowski

Australia is not a nation familiar with massacre on its streets, and we must never become one

It is counter-intuitive and possibly wise on a day like this to reflect that Australia is not a nation familiar with massacre on its streets. The...

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Tony Wright

I told a friend the world was trembling, then Bondi erupted

It was only on Saturday that I commented to a friend that it felt like the world was trembling; as if we were all birds taking flight, or animals...

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David Leser

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

December 14, 2025, will go down as one of the darkest days in Australian history. It can and must also be the start of a new reckoning of how we...

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Allegra Spender

As a trauma expert, here’s how to look after yourself and others after a tragedy like Bondi

Like most of Australia, I spent much of Sunday night locked to the news with a nauseated sense of recognition as I watched the attacks in Bondi...

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Ahona Guha

Trump loves a deal, but these two are not going to plan

Donald Trump has been planning to get his hands on some of the $370 billion of Russian funds frozen within Europe while also taking a multibillion-...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Dark day hurts us all: now we must show unity and resolve

Australia was the happy land where freedom of worship, free speech and freedom of assembly promised a new life for some and a better life for all....

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The Herald&x27S View

Albanese’s response to the Bondi massacre will shape Australia’s future

The massacre at Bondi Beach is already Albanese’s Port Arthur moment, the worst catastrophe he’s had to confront as prime minister. It’s not a time...

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James Massola

‘To be so close that you can hear it happening is terrifying’

First and foremost, my thoughts are with all the innocent people who lost their lives or were injured in the horrific attack in Bondi on Sunday. It...

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Michael Vaughan

Australia has gun control under control, right? Looks like we were wrong

News of the Bondi massacre led bulletins around the world, even in the United States, where mass shootings are common as dirt. They are so common...

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Jacqueline Maley

The war crimes case against Trump and Hegseth

On a day in early September, Pete Hegseth – the US Secretary of State for War (no longer for “Defence”) – ordered the firing of a precision-guided...

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Geoffrey Robertson

Albanese talks about his ‘five biggest things’: What’s next?

Right at the end of his press conference on Thursday, hit with yet another question on travel expenses, the prime minister said: “What I’m focused...

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Sean Kelly

Sydney Metro line appears to be off the rails again

The Minns government is running a slow-train-coming strategy on building vital transport infrastructure, repeatedly missing its own timetable for...

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The Herald&x27S View

Desperate vibes as under-16s crowd into Yope and Lemon8

Previously little-known social media platforms are stuck at the top of app store charts as young Australians seek shelter from the social media ban...

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Tim Biggs

How a dorky prime minister and a nation of rule abiders is changing the world

When Australia’s social media ban for under 16s came into effect last Wednesday, I got a call from a friend back home asking me about it. It’s been...

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