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Trump’s billionaire oil industry donors aren’t getting what they wished for

Donald Trump urged the US oil industry to “drill, baby, drill”, but his tariffs sank the oil price and could reduce, not increase, production.

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

To McRae’s Magpies, we’ve got an apology to make: Key takeouts from round seven

There was plenty of doom-and-gloom coverage centred on the Pies over the off-season. Right now, there’s no side better-placed to contend for this...

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Marc Mcgowan

Has he finally realised Putin is playing him, or is Trump just blowing in the wind?

Trump’s comments after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky at the Vatican marked a shift in tone. But the US president is prone to adopt the rhetoric of...

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Michael Koziol

Why referees are in a no-win situation with high-tackle crackdown

Rugby league is a game of over-the-top reaction and the pursuit of perfection. The referees are caught in the middle.

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Roy Masters

Canary in the plane cabin: How Trump is changing where Australians travel

Australian companies operating on the global stage, such as Flight Centre, are becoming prone to infection from the global trade malaise.

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Elizabeth Knight

The other poll where Trump looms large

Canadian voters will choose their next government largely based on who they think is the best person to deal with the upheaval, threats and...

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Michael Koziol

Rugby in Australia is under attack. But it’s not from the NRL

At least 25 young Australian players have moved, or are moving, to France as the brutal realities of professionalism hit Australia.

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Paul Cully

Trump’s macho crew, it turns out, is a vicious little sewing circle

One hundred days into Trump’s second term, cracks are appearing in the testosterone-filled White House manosphere.

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Maureen Dowd

The PM is my local member. I don’t believe he or Dutton gets young people

Politicians court the youth vote, but their inaction speaks louder than words.

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Natasha Abhayawickrama

My generation could learn a lot from Boomers about gratitude

I admit I have a slight tendency to spiral into negativity. So it’s a pleasure to look to a generation that has mastered the art of finding joy in...

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Lucia Frazzetto

Climate report adds heat to political pressure cooker in battleground seat of Bullwinkel

All eyes are on the fiercely contested new federal seat of Bullwinkel, where a curious collision of suburbs on Perth’s eastern fringe and Wheatbelt...

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Sarah Brookes

What fuelled Dutton’s rise is now derailing his bid to be PM

How did the Coalition enter this campaign so poorly prepared? The second-most remarkable thing about this election is how far in advance we all...

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Sean Kelly

Voters’ unasked question: Which party do I want deciding wages policy?

The craziest thing about this election is that we’re into the last week of the campaign without anyone much bothering to mention the word “wages”....

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Ross Gittins

They came to bury a pope, but ended up negotiating to end a war

Fifteen minutes. No aides. No flags, no formalities – just two men locked in a contest over Ukraine’s future, in the most unlikely of arenas....

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Rob Harris

My wife and I have separate finances. Can I get a higher pension?

I have $250,000 in super and want to apply for an age pension if eligible. My partner of 20 years has ample savings and super, but we are totally...

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Paul Benson

A tale of two porkies: Why cash splashes won’t save politicians this time around

It was US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart who coined the term “I know it when I see it”. In that instance, Stewart was ruling on the...

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Shane Wright

Wests Tigers boss takes holiday in US as Galvin crisis engulfs club

The timing of Shane Richardson’s attempt to bring the Lachie Galvin situation to a head has been widely condemned. Now we may be able to shed light...

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Danny Weidler

Wanted: A rental without a leaky roof or wine stains on the carpet. Am I too fussy?

My first living out-of-home experience was in a terrace in the inner-city. It was a decaying, mould-riddled property that probably should have been...

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Melissa Mason

Young voters, stop picking your own pockets

It’s the great heist of our times. At this federal election, “the youth” will seize the initiative from the old folks and vote on the issues which...

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

Thinking of repaying your HECS? Here’s how to do it

Real Money, a free weekly newsletter giving expert tips on how to save, invest and make the most of your money, is sent every Sunday. You’re...

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Dominic Powell

Galvin-ised: Thrills, spills and drama in Tigers’ golden point triumph

Never a dull day in Tiger Town. Not when Adam Doueihi nails an 87th-minute, golden-point penalty goal to deliver a “season-defining win” over...

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Dan Walsh

I’m an election lover, but in Australia, they just come along too often

There’s a viral clip brilliantly capturing election fatigue that lives rent-free in my head. Brenda from Bristol is informed by a BBC reporter that...

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Gary Nunn

It took just eight minutes for Lachlan Galvin to win back the Tigers faithful

He was booed, as expected. There was no way a full Sunday afternoon house at Leichhardt was going to do anything else. But it was the man-of-the-...

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Neil Breen

Virginia Giuffre’s suicide draws line under Prince Andrew’s hopes of redemption

The death of Virginia Giuffre brings to a tragic close the most unedifying and damaging royal scandal in living memory. Giuffre, who has died by...

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Hannah Furness

The war on woke has been won, but Trump doesn’t behave like it

If a striking thing about the period just before Donald Trump’s second inauguration was the feeling that America was genuinely shifting to the...

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Ross Douthat

‘Stop welcoming me to my own country’? You’re missing the point

This year on Anzac Day, at ceremonies across the country and replayed over and over in the news, we heard something that came as a surprise to some...

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Jessa Rogers

From Trump’s phone number to the price of eggs, our experts give their verdicts on the final debate

Both leaders lost a key point of the final debate of the federal election when a simple question produced two unbelievable answers. The host of the...

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David Crowe

Ten policies that would make me the perfect prime minister

There are so many policies from all sides, and yet nothing that makes the average person sit up and pay attention. So, vote for me! Here are the 10...

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Richard Glover

North greats have had enough, but is Clarkson the man to turn it around?

Dual North Melbourne premiership star Corey McKernan has an idea for how the Kangaroos can start to address their form woes. “Put on a tape of...

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Jon Pierik

There’s a bear in where? Why Perth is wrong spot for club’s return

The good news, of course, is that the Bears are back in town, or at least a town – with the news confirmed on Thursday that the WA government is...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Pope Francis ‘gave his life for all’ but he failed on one crucial challenge

Frank Brennan is a Jesuit priest, rector of Newman College at the University of Melbourne and an officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Agents juggling players and coaches are afforded plenty of leeway

In a legal context, there are two key ways of defining what actually is meant by the term conflict of interest. First off, a conflict of interest...

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Darren Kane

How Jews are people of the book

At the centre of the shul (synagogue) is the holy ark. Over the front of the ark is a curtain. Open the curtains and there stands the Torah scroll,...

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Sidra Kranz Moshinsky

In the square, smartphones were held beside prayer cards. Then came Francis’ final act of quiet rebellion

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A simple wooden coffin lined with zinc sat before the altar, a book of the gospels...

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Rob Harris

‘Haven’t learnt our lesson’: Inside the Dutton campaign as it enters the final stretch

Peter Dutton’s long-awaited military spending plan was supposed to be the Coalition’s chance to shift the election debate onto the former defence...

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Paul Sakkal

Support for Labor in its heartland has been waning. Can it win the battlers back?

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Johnson Mirzai is an Australian citizen with opinions, and whether they reflect a...

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Gay Alcorn

The next Pope could be even ‘worse’ than Francis. Let’s hope so

For a diverse religion with 1.4 billion followers and centuries of history, the Catholic Church left by Pope Francis has a clear identity in the...

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Malcolm Knox

Code’s fortunes, as always, depend on the success of the Wallabies

In the latest Rugby Australia annual report, Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh trumpets the fact they have secured an increase of about 40...

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Paul Cully

After polling day, our leaders will come clean about the trouble we’re in

Australia is in a Truman Show election campaign. Both major parties are carefully, wilfully myopic. They direct our attention to details of...

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Peter Hartcher

This couple used Labor’s first home buyer scheme – here’s what happened

“We bought a townhouse so small you could accidentally lose it under a rug or something,” jokes an – in fact – very grateful Jordy Lawrence. A...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Not ready to retire yet? This could be the strategy for you

What if retirement wasn’t a line you crossed, but a lifestyle you eased into – deliberately and on your own terms? For decades, retirement has been...

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Bec Wilson

Pope’s funeral set to be one of the most historically charged in living memory

Rome: As the world teeters under the weight of war, displacement and disillusionment, the death of Pope Francis this week was not just a religious...

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Rob Harris

Trump’s strength is also his greatest weakness

I’ve detested at least three-quarters of what the Trump administration has done so far, but it possesses one quality I can’t help admiring:...

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David Brooks

It may not be trendy, but I’d still send my kids to single-sex schools

Look, I fancy myself as being as modern as anyone who remembers chanting “Peace, Charger, Fosters Lager” in the 1970s or drinking Tang while...

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Kate Halfpenny

‘Benji Ball’ is apparently why Galvin wants out of Wests Tigers. What is ‘Benji Ball’?

Even before Lachlan Galvin, Benji Marshall, the lawyers and all their not-so merry men, Tiger Town was already one of the most fascinating watches...

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Dan Walsh

Disruption of dawn service was an affront to decency and values we hold dear

They came at dawn on Anzac Day, to mock a commemoration sacred to many Australians, and particularly to reject the idea of being welcomed to this...

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The Age&x27S View

Good old Collingwood: On a day to honour veterans, Pies show 34 is the new 30

Essendon, whatever their shortcomings, have found reserves of belief and pluck on Anzac Day in Brad Scott’s time, drawing a stunning game last year...

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Jake Niall

A week out, Albanese insists he’s not complacent. But he’s certainly something close

Anthony Albanese wants it on the record: he is not feeling cocky about Labor’s election prospects. “There’s no complacency from my camp, I...

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Matthew Knott

Anger at Anzac Day backfire holds lessons for cultural warriors

The far-right hecklers who disrupted the Welcome to Country ceremonies at Friday morning’s Anzac Day services in Melbourne and Perth were quickly...

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Natassia Chrysanthos

Pope now part of the endless scroll, as phones steal from stillness and silence of grief

Vatican City: Even with the gravity of death in the air, it’s hard not to marvel at Michelangelo’s dome, an impossible structure suspended above us...

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Rob Harris