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Well played, Headsy: Greats line up to farewell legend of the game

It was Wednesday arvo in the Members Stand at the SCG. Sports journalists and league administrators spanning several generations came from far and...

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Peter Fitzsimons

The everyday debates guaranteed to start an argument

In Rick Stein’s latest cookbook, Simple Suppers, he recounts a scene from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in which the two warring nations,...

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Richard Glover

Coach Joe Schmidt will pick fewer overseas Wallabies, not more

New Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt has repeatedly said it’s his preference to pick Wallabies from Australia, not overseas. Take that as read: there’s...

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Paul Cully

Israel and Iran are following the rules of the jungle, not the rule of law

The tail-spin of violence between Israel and Iran is a bitter lesson on what happens when we let the law of the jungle smother the rule of law....

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Ben Saul

ABC local radio just hit rock bottom. What’s next?

By the traditional metric, the ABC’s capital city network just hit rock bottom. Despite a board-approved plan to arrest an historical downturn in...

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Calum Jaspan

The art of the sporting apology, and how it became a business

Sorry to butt in here. Well, not really sorry, but sorry in the sense of the formality used to interject. Sorry, but at least now I’ve got your...

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Greg Baum

How to get a bit of breathing space on your home loan

Back in the blur of the COVID-19 conditions and economy, it’s possible you asked for – and received – a mortgage reprieve. No one quite knew at...

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Nicole Pedersen-Mckinnon

Rape myths are extremely dangerous. Did the Lehrmann verdict bust them?

It’s taken centuries to establish that women aren’t silently longing to be raped by men. By the Victorian era, a significant bulk of scientific...

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Julia Baird

After a week of mass-murder and terror, we must take a look in the mirror

Anthony Albanese expected that the week would be dominated by the unveiling of the government’s new defence strategy. But as the prime minister...

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Peter Hartcher

Feel like what you do at work goes unrecognised? You’re not alone

Sharni Wearne has no intentions of leaving her job. She was just handed a promotion, and her job means the world to her. Her manager leaves her to...

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Nina Hendy

Will the right to disconnect disrupt the way we work?

The “right to disconnect” gives employees the right to refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact from their employer outside their working...

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Amanda Lyras

The ‘gimmick’ that has sparked a cricket culture war

Major League Baseball introduced a designated hitter, replacing the pitcher for at bats, in the 1970s as a way of raising the likelihood of hits,...

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Daniel Brettig

Civil War is a movie. If Trump wins, could it be a reality?

To the burgeoning canon of dystopian dramas, that cultural byproduct of the Trump years, we can now add Alex Garland’s new movie Civil War . Set...

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Nick Bryant

Lisa Wilkinson has claimed victory. Who is she kidding?

Reading a prepared statement outside the Federal Court on Monday, broadcasting doyenne Lisa Wilkinson – very Meghan Markle stealth wealth in a...

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Kate Halfpenny

Could we all do without social media?

A few times a day I’ll unlock my phone, see a prominent notification bubble over the app icon for Facebook, Instagram or X, and open it up....

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Tim Biggs

Max’s wisdom and advice will stay with me beyond the track

Everyone in racing feels like they know Max Presnell. From newspapers to radio and television, Max has been a part of the sport for longer than...

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Chris Roots

Only one man can stop the world plunging into full-scale war

With all the blood and terror since last October, it is easy to forget that it took five back-to-back elections to put Bibi Netanyahu in the...

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Geraldine Brooks

In India elections are a matter of faith, and criticism is akin to blasphemy

Close to a billion Indians are eligible to vote in a 44-day national election beginning today. It will be the largest democratic exercise in history.

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Zach Hope

Should I have married my husband? Red flag culture would say no

Anyone who has walked down an aisle or stood under a 50-year-old gum to affirm a legally binding, lifelong pact has probably asked themselves at...

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Hannah Vanderheide

The pandemic pumped up productivity. Then the bubble burst

When COVID-19 erupted across the globe in 2020, we shifted where we spent our time: we watched more movies, baked, and spent more time sharing...

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Millie Muroi

There was no conspiracy, so why pursue Higgins over her payout?

A simple lesson should be clear now that Justice Michael Lee has ruled on the long dispute about whether Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins five...

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David Crowe

We’ve been told we need to work from the office full-time. Why?

We’ve been told we need to come back into the office every day of the week. I am, as are a lot of my colleagues, so disappointed with this...

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Jonathan Rivett

US and China’s mounting debts could hurt us all

If the financial positions of the world’s two largest economies are becoming unsustainable, should the rest of us be concerned? As the public debt...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Batters or batsman? Aggers, it’s not a hill to die on

Jonathan Agnew? “Aggers”, as the English cricket commentator is known? He is one of the greats, every bit as much a part of the ABC Ashes coverage...

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Peter Fitzsimons

Lust, power, politics, money: In court with Donald Trump

Greetings from New York. There is something incredibly surreal about watching a former US president walk into a courtroom as both a candidate for...

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Farrah Tomazin

The problem isn’t the definition of terrorism, it’s that the label determines our response

It might be hard to believe, but “terrorist” began as a term of pride: a label terrorists gave themselves to legitimise and explain their...

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Waleed Aly

Why Beveridge has to go – and the man who should replace him

The Dogs are barking, but not in a way that gives their premiership coach, Luke Beveridge, any comfort. And they might soon bite him, ending the...

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Kane Cornes

Are we waiting until someone is killed before we ban the illegal fat bike?

I saw it barrelling towards me, a few hundred metres away on the footpath. Wide, black, metallic, with a small human on its chunky seat. The fat...

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Pat Stringa

Star shows it has dud hand in bid to keep licence

It seems like the only thing saving The Star Sydney from losing its licence is the NSW government’s desire to save the jobs of the thousands of...

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Elizabeth Knight

If the Reserve Bank were a football coach, it would have been sacked eons ago

If the Reserve Bank were a football coach, it would have been sacked eons ago. The bank’s job is to hold inflation between 2 and 3 per cent. Since...

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Shane Wright

Why the Roosters are the NRL’s most perplexing team

If there’s one team I haven’t been able to get a proper read on this season, it’s the Roosters. Are they title heavyweights? Top-four material?...

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Andrew Johns

Star centre is doubly destructive at fullback. So what do Roosters do about Manu?

At the end of 2022, New Zealand’s World Cup campaign was based in Leeds, not far from where Donald Bradman once rewrote the record books with 309...

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Dan Walsh

I made mistakes at university, just not enough of them

When I went to university, I spent three years trying not to make mistakes. So, naturally, I made a load of them. Here are some of the biggest....

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Bella Westaway

Starvation is true horror. Sanctions against Israel are Australia’s only choice

Following the October 7 attacks in Israel, the Australian government was quick to unequivocally condemn Hamas’ acts as brutal and inhumane. Both...

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Marc Purcell

Mystery gold buyer is betting on geopolitical and financial mayhem

A powerful force is stalking the world’s gold market. It is operating in the shadows. None of the normal footprints are visible on the London...

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

China’s Xi Jinping might have to revise his five-year plan

The stronger-than-expected growth in China’s economy in the March quarter hasn’t assuaged concerns over the nature of that growth and its...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Debt-saturated markets may soon face a ‘Minsky’ moment

Markets are once again at a possible inflection point – and a deeply negative one at that. Last week’s sudden escalation in hostilities in the...

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Jeremy Warner

Taylor Swift’s poetic licence: why all the fuss around her new album title?

Seldom has a squiggle caused such a fuss, or more a squiggle’s absence. Three weeks back, this masthead’s own “word-herder” Joanne Anderson...

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David Astle

In the rare earths Game of Thrones, Gina Rinehart grabs the crown

An important piece of Gina Rinehart’s strategic jigsaw puzzle was publicly placed this week when the iron ore billionaire grabbed a 5.8 per cent...

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Elizabeth Knight

Albanese’s big funding problem has been diagnosed but not yet cured

It hit with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Anthony Albanese hadn’t been long elected when the number crunchers came knocking with unwelcome...

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Chris Richardson

Eager investors push Australian ETF market to near $200 billion

The Australian exchange-traded funds (ETFs) market has surged from strength to strength in the past 12 months reaching a total value of just under...

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John Collett

Should we use savings to pay down mortgage or invest in shares?

For the past five years my husband and I, age 28 and 27, have been putting as much as we possibly can into extra mortgage repayments. For some time...

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Noel Whittaker

Want to retire early? Consider these things first

Have you ever noticed the common patterns in mainstream personal finance narratives? Remember The 4-Hour Work Week, the bestselling book that...

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Paridhi Jain

Australia must not lose the war within over religion, ideology and politics

Early on Tuesday morning, Mottel Gestetner awoke to distressing news. Sometime during the night, a mural at a prominent Melbourne intersection...

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Chip Le Grand

Our museum is thriving because we do things differently

When primatologist Jane Goodall first observed chimps using sticks as tools and fishing for termites back in 1960, there were those who didn’t want...

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Kim Mckay

What the Lehrmann case means for the future of defamation law in Australia

Who are the winners and losers in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case? Freedom of speech and the public’s right to know are winners. Bruce...

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Peter Bartlett

The chart that shows how happy you are, just as long as you’re old enough

There hasn’t been much room for good news lately, so you might have missed the stellar month Australia’s had in some key global rankings. In...

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Matt Wade

WA’s unlikely poster child can help it ditch ‘dig and ship’ reputation

With the Australian government’s recent unveiling of its landmark Future Made in Australia Act, the nation is on the cusp of a green industrial...

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Heidi Lee

Lehrmann’s lies and Lisa’s angry text flag possible new skirmishes

At 10.48 on a Sunday night in June 2023, Spotlight executive producer Mark Llewellyn’s phone pinged. It was a furious text message from Lisa...

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Kate Mcclymont

‘New Competition’? It’s protectionism with an industry policy veneer

The pandemic, the intensifying geopolitical collisions between the US and China, and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are reversing decades...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Unlicensed aged care advice could hinder your later retirement years

Older Australians and their families are being warned to be careful about seeking the help of unlicensed and unregulated advisers and consultants...

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John Collett

Belting Brad: Senate turns supermarket CEO flogging into Olympic sport

A photo finish was needed to decide the winner of the gold medal for the most ridiculous performance at a Senate Inquiry – the contenders being...

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Elizabeth Knight

A stabbing, a riot, a nation divided: Albanese’s toughest test

Division is easy when a video goes viral of a young man striding toward a bishop and appearing to stab him on an altar as he falls to the floor....

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David Crowe

Church stabbing, Bondi Junction highlight X’s failure to moderate

Extreme conservative influencer Andrew Tate is among those using footage of the Wakeley stabbing to push hateful rants and conspiracies on X, days...

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Tim Biggs

The secret to success on dating apps is economical

One in four Aussies under the age of 44 met their partner online. Oddly enough, as a 19-year-old woman, I do not know any of them. My experiences...

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Siena Fagan

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