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The dictator next door: Why these dealmakers won’t stop Putin

In a leaked phone call, Steve Witkoff made peace in Ukraine sound simple. But anything that looks acceptable to Putin carries immense danger for...

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David Crowe

China’s electric car dominance is starting to falter

The West can still win the electric car war with China.

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

I could barely get all my children in the car with socks on, let alone create kids who understand that their responsibilities – to nature, to their...

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Kate Halfpenny

The Coalition is no friend of the environment. Neither are carbon credits

Typically, one credit compensates for one tonne of carbon, but the mechanism isn’t helping bring emissions down.

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Millie Muroi

My daughter is 12. This is the violent text her ex-boyfriend sent her

For all the gains women have made, girls are growing up in a digital age that allows men – and boys – to enact new forms of harm.

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Geraldine Bilston

Ashes combatants should forget golf and give fans what they want: more cricket

England’s unwillingness to play any cricket outside the Ashes Tests was always going to invite criticism once results went south.

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Malcolm Knox

Bazball v Angeball: Are they two sides of the same coin?

They are the ultra-attacking and oft-mocked philosophies that were supposed to revolutionise Test cricket and soccer respectively. Is Bazball just...

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Emma Kemp

Trump’s ‘golden age’ is a myth as America teeters on the financial brink

The US president is adamant that everything is rosy, but there are deep cracks that are spreading across the US economy.

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Melissa Lawford

Journalism is not a crime, Albanese said. He’s yet to prove he meant it

It’s six years since Anthony Albanese, as opposition leader, flew the flag for freedom of speech. He’s had 3½ years as PM – and still we’re waiting...

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Kerry O&x27Brien

As an Olympian, mum and doctor, I know our health system fails women

I’ve had patients who’ve been told, and I’ve been told, that pain is “just part of being a woman”.

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Jana Pittman

Gas, gambling and negative gearing: Husic challenges Albanese over policy ambition

This week, as Labor wrapped up the parliamentary year cock-a-hoop with its commanding majority, its new environmental laws passed and an extended...

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James Massola

The second-chance saloon: How one club’s trash becomes another’s treasure

It is the time of year for second (or third) chances in the AFL. This week, reigning wooden-spooners West Coast signed delisted trio Deven...

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Marc Mcgowan

Can an employer reject me because they think I’ll be ‘too bored’?

Some time ago, I was told after a job interview that an organisation would love to hire me but suspected I’d be bored in the job they were offering....

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Jonathan Rivett

Trump is about to pick the winner of his beauty parade

The lengthy beauty parade of prospective candidates to be the next chair of the US Federal Reserve Board is expected to end this week. It’s no...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Social media ban: A guide for Australian parents

From December 10, and likely earlier, the social media profiles of Australians under 16 will go dark. Platforms will be obliged to deny under-16s...

yesterday 9

Tim Biggs

Tax-free EVs run out of road as Britain drops a budget bombshell

London: A new tax on electric vehicles is just one of the shocks for British families in a national budget that has highlighted the grim state of...

yesterday 9

David Crowe

It’s official: Trump gets away with attempts to overturn 2020 election

He had already proven that attempting to overturn the results of a democratic election is an easily forgivable sin as far as voters are concerned....

yesterday 10

Michael Koziol

I know how to get the inflation monkey off our back. Here’s my Christmas wish list

If this week’s inflation report is anything to go by, our cost-of-living crisis could run through Christmas and beyond. Prices are up 3.8 per cent...

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Amy Auster

Did Taylor Greene see the light about Trump? There’s a simpler reason for their fall-out

Do you really have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene? America has come to know the congresswoman from Georgia as a political pit bull who’s...

yesterday 5

Tressie Mcmillan Cottom

It’s interest rates, not regulators, that will burst our housing bubble

Timing is everything. Had Australia’s prudential banking regulator announced plans to curb riskier lending on Monday, it might have caused pause...

yesterday 3

Elizabeth Knight

Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn’t so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they’d already left him. He stood up from the opposition...

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Rob Harris

Do mingle, don’t gossip: Six rules for your work Christmas party

Can someone please tell me how it is “that” time of year again already? The time when cicadas start dialling up to full volume, the air feels like...

yesterday 3

Tim Duggan

Could a Bazball Ashes become a multimillion-dollar headache for Seven?

In this week’s On Background, why England’s rapid style of cricket (and capitulation) is bad news for Cricket Australia’s broadcasters, Fevola...

yesterday 3

Calum Jaspan

In the game that really matters, Australia is smashing NZ

New Zealand’s grip on the Bledisloe Cup looks permanent. But in the great economic game they play in heaven, Australia is utterly dominating the...

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Shane Wright

An Australian powerhouse tried to kill a start-up. It failed

Two years, 30 hearings, 9 million seized documents and dozens of affidavits later, one of the dirtiest and most personal legal battles – between...

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Elizabeth Knight

Suddenly it’s blokes akimbo on ABC radio. Loyal female listeners are noticing

There’s a nickname for the man who runs ABC radio these days. Some jokingly call him a Black Thunder bro – a nod to the time when Ben Latimer, now...

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Jenna Price

China’s banning influencers. They’re putting me out of a job

Well it’s official: I’m not moving to China. OK, I never had any plan to — I live so close to Shanghai Dumplings anyway — but their strict new...

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Simon Taylor

Takaichi’s gamble: Japan is trying to escape the debt trap

Japan’s bond yields have been hitting decades-long highs. Its sharemarket is sliding. The yen is slumping. The country’s new prime minister has...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

England’s Test team is at odds with its past players. It could explode into a war

In the minutes after Travis Head completed his demolition of England in the first Ashes Test, Ben Stokes sidled up to Jonathan Agnew for a...

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Daniel Brettig

The big social media experiment is starting. What will young men do? You won’t like the answer

Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s takes effect in less than a fortnight. Meta has promised to shut down teen accounts on...

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Zac Seidler

It’s not migration causing unaffordable houses, it’s tax and planning

If there were ever two topics so closely linked in the public consciousness that conversation about one was impossible without mention of the...

previous day 10

Millie Muroi

Can I keep adding to my super once I retire?

I’ve seen you recommend adding money to super after retirement. I thought you had to be employed to make contributions. How does it work? You can...

previous day 2

Noel Whittaker

There are five stages to modern retirement. Which one are you in?

There are five important stages to almost everyone’s retirement. These have nothing to do with your age and everything to do with how you feel, and...

previous day 1

Bec Wilson

Should retirement village residents be able to buy now, pay later?

In retirement villages, choice is supposed to be at the heart of the experience – choice of community, lifestyle and care. Yet, when it comes to...

previous day 2

Rachel Lane

America’s new sanctions on Russian oil may be biting too late

The most effective sanctions yet on Russia’s oil exports since the start of the war in Ukraine are set to become irrelevant if Donald Trump...

tuesday 2

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Have a poor diet? It’s not you, it’s them

Cheetos and Doritos have been “reinvented”, according to parent company PepsiCo. In the United States, versions of the ultra-processed snacks...

tuesday 8

Sarah Berry

Our pension system rewards the rich but punishes the poor

We’ve seen so many government blunders over the years that most of us have become numb to them. Another headline, another policy misfire – and we...

tuesday 1

Noel Whittaker

War of the megaphones: Australian billionaires push their climate agendas

For years one of the most hazardous places to stand was between mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and a microphone. These days the even-wealthier...

tuesday 3

Elizabeth Knight

My parents are pushing me to buy an investment property. Should I?

I’m in my 20s, and I have a good job. My parents are encouraging me to buy an investment property. I get that I should invest my money in...

tuesday 8

Paridhi Jain

England after dark: When Stokes is half the player and half the squad hasn’t played

Ben Stokes is, statistically, barely half the player in day-night Tests. Jofra Archer has bowled just five overs with the pink ball. Mark Wood is...

tuesday 1

Dan Walsh

Pragmatism has to replace ideology for England to avoid Ashes thrashing

I am not sure what we witnessed at Optus Stadium in Perth, but it was not Test cricket as I know it. Five-day Tests between Australia and England...

tuesday 2

Greg Chappell

Favouring Lando now isn’t an anti-Piastri conspiracy, it’s the right thing to do

McLaren have spent the 2025 season aiming for total fairness between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. At times, it has made them look silly and...

tuesday 1

Luke Slater

My boyfriend just proposed and I’m terrified. 28 is too young to get married, isn’t it?

I have been with my partner for over a year-and-a-half, and he’s been allergic to the concept of marriage for the entire time I’ve known him. From...

tuesday 1

Liam Heitmann-Ryce-Lemercier

The West has started a pain contest with Putin – and he’s tough as nails

Berlin: Ukrainian and European officials sprang into a frenzy at the weekend to alter US President Donald Trump’s 28-point peace plan to end the...

tuesday 3

Paul Sonne

Is my chocolate snack making me hungrier?

Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical, evidence-based eye, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – sign...

tuesday 1

Liam Mannix

Pauline Hanson pulls a stunt and Muslims pay the price

It is Groundhog Day for Muslims in Australia. More than eight years since her first attempt, Pauline Hanson, fresh from rubbing shoulders with far-...

tuesday 2

Mehreen Faruqi

The Great National Koala Park is not a firebomb. It’s the opposite.

Recent print and radio media, together with comments from several (sadly ill-informed) politicians, have raised the (false) alarm that the proposed...

tuesday 1

David Lindenmayer

Should Usman Khawaja walk away from Test cricket … before he’s pushed?

Usman Khawaja flew from Perth to his home town of Brisbane on Sunday with his international career at a critical point. After 85 games in the baggy...

tuesday 2

Tom Decent

BHP’s ‘Hail Mary’ bid to gatecrash a $92 billion deal fails

Mike Henry had to have another crack at Anglo American, but would have realised that a second tilt at the company was a long shot after its board...

24.11.2025 2

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump fails the history test on Ukraine. Time for a second draft

History classes are often full of students learning about how wars begin. Only some of them teach lessons about how wars end. Now, as Ukraine...

24.11.2025 1

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The dictator next door: Why these dealmakers won’t stop Putin

David Crowe

China’s electric car dominance is starting to falter

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

Kate Halfpenny

The Coalition is no friend of the environment. Neither are carbon credits

Millie Muroi

My daughter is 12. This is the violent text her ex-boyfriend sent her

Geraldine Bilston

Ashes combatants should forget golf and give fans what they want: more cricket

Malcolm Knox

Bazball v Angeball: Are they two sides of the same coin?

Emma Kemp

Trump’s ‘golden age’ is a myth as America teeters on the financial brink

Melissa Lawford

Journalism is not a crime, Albanese said. He’s yet to prove he meant it

Kerry O&x27Brien

As an Olympian, mum and doctor, I know our health system fails women

Jana Pittman

Gas, gambling and negative gearing: Husic challenges Albanese over policy ambition

James Massola

The second-chance saloon: How one club’s trash becomes another’s treasure

Marc Mcgowan

Can an employer reject me because they think I’ll be ‘too bored’?

Jonathan Rivett

Trump is about to pick the winner of his beauty parade

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Social media ban: A guide for Australian parents

Tim Biggs

Tax-free EVs run out of road as Britain drops a budget bombshell

David Crowe

It’s official: Trump gets away with attempts to overturn 2020 election

Michael Koziol

I know how to get the inflation monkey off our back. Here’s my Christmas wish list

Amy Auster

Did Taylor Greene see the light about Trump? There’s a simpler reason for their fall-out

Tressie Mcmillan Cottom

It’s interest rates, not regulators, that will burst our housing bubble

Elizabeth Knight

Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

Rob Harris

Do mingle, don’t gossip: Six rules for your work Christmas party

Tim Duggan

Could a Bazball Ashes become a multimillion-dollar headache for Seven?

Calum Jaspan

In the game that really matters, Australia is smashing NZ

Shane Wright

An Australian powerhouse tried to kill a start-up. It failed

Elizabeth Knight

Suddenly it’s blokes akimbo on ABC radio. Loyal female listeners are noticing

Jenna Price

China’s banning influencers. They’re putting me out of a job

Simon Taylor

Takaichi’s gamble: Japan is trying to escape the debt trap

Stephen Bartholomeusz

England’s Test team is at odds with its past players. It could explode into a war

Daniel Brettig

The big social media experiment is starting. What will young men do? You won’t like the answer

Zac Seidler

It’s not migration causing unaffordable houses, it’s tax and planning

Millie Muroi

Can I keep adding to my super once I retire?

Noel Whittaker

There are five stages to modern retirement. Which one are you in?

Bec Wilson

Should retirement village residents be able to buy now, pay later?

Rachel Lane

America’s new sanctions on Russian oil may be biting too late

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Have a poor diet? It’s not you, it’s them

Sarah Berry

Our pension system rewards the rich but punishes the poor

Noel Whittaker

War of the megaphones: Australian billionaires push their climate agendas

Elizabeth Knight

My parents are pushing me to buy an investment property. Should I?