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How sober curious and Ozempic gave Aussie wines a Christmas hangover

If you’re sober curious, California sober or taking weight-loss drugs, you’re giving Australia’s winemakers a headache.

26.12.2025 3

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Colin Kruger

Why Albanese is plain wrong on a Bondi royal commission

Australians need many answers concerning this atrocity – and they need them with much less background noise.

26.12.2025 3

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James Massola

The fight for the Ashes is over. But the Boxing Day Test is definitely not dead

Boxing Day at the cricket is a tradition, which makes it significant outside the scoreline in any one series. It’s a secular feast day, with all...

26.12.2025 3

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Greg Baum

Bondi shows us that politics is the very worst forum for us to try to stand together

Overcoming this horror, grief and division requires something far more radical than politics can offer.

26.12.2025 4

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Waleed Aly

Ben Stokes’ leadership is fracturing. Has it cracked or fully shattered?

There has been a cult of personality around the England captain for years. When cults of personality collapse, they do so suddenly and in the most...

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Malcolm Knox

Looking for a Christmas Day movie? Try A Dingo Ate My Christmas Spirit

There are great Christmas movies to enjoy this time of year. And then there are the offerings from Hallmark – an industry unto itself.

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Shane Wright

I’m not going to judge Ben Duckett for drinking. I did the same

I am not going to point the finger at a group of young people who have had a few beers on a couple of days off.

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Michael Vaughan

Who suffers FOMO any more? I’m more likely to have ROMO

Ever found out that you had two things on at the same time, and secretly felt relief that the gods had given you an excuse to skip one?

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Claire Heaney

The Doomsday Clock: Counting down to the next apocalypse

You can dismiss this timepiece trope as a gimmick, but you’d do so at your own intellectual risk.

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Andreas Kluth

Sometimes, childlike wonder points to something adults don’t allow ourselves to see

Nearly 92 per cent of us believe that people have a soul or spirit or that there’s something beyond this world.

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Abby Mccloskey

Remember Elon Musk’s DOGE? Here’s how it caused so much chaos but saved so little money

The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, while its many smaller cuts added up to few savings.

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Emily Badger

There’s a place near you where problems are solved. You can even borrow a book

Modern libraries are community hubs where knowledge – and friendship – is free to all.

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Brodie Lancaster

America’s increasingly ‘K-shaped’ economy is difficult to reconcile

Donald Trump was excited by a sizzling estimate of US economic growth in the September quarter. He might be disappointed by the Federal Reserve...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

From sinister to prime minister? The surprise candidate putting his hand up to lead Thailand

In this post-truth, Trumpian world, seemingly nothing can stop a political career. Certainly not a few years in a Sydney jail back in the 1990s for...

yesterday 10

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Michael Ruffles

I’ve seen jihadist training camps on the island visited by the Bondi shooters. The memory will never leave me

“No filming!” shouted teenagers, their eyes shielded by sunglasses on a cloudy day, AK-47s slung over their shoulders. 

yesterday 1

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Irris Makler

Holidays are cheaper, thanks to the RBA. Here’s why

One Australian dollar is worth about US66¢ this month - up from US62¢ earlier this year.

yesterday 9

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Millie Muroi

Flawed strategy, ill-advised batting, bowling like millionaires: How England got it so wrong

Flawed strategy, ill-advised batting, bowling like millionaires: How England got it so wrong

Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910 stands as a stark example of how overconfidence in a flawed strategy can lead...

yesterday 9

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Greg Chappell

Loss of Russian, Venezuelan oil a drop in ocean for world’s crude glut

Oil prices are at about $US60 a barrel, Russia’s crude is selling below $US35, and there’s a lot of oil floating around the world in tankers...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

Australia were ripe for the picking. England failed to lay a glove on them

Let’s go back a couple of months and lay out some doomsday Ashes scenarios for the first three Tests. Let’s say that Australia’s two best...

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Greg Baum

Trump has set America up to be the biggest loser in the energy race

The prospect of cheap energy across the globe is big trouble for the US president, as his country is going to lose on two fronts.

previous day 10

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

‘Fundamental looseness’: Why England’s Noosa ‘stag do’ sums their Ashes woe

‘Fundamental looseness’: Why England’s Noosa ‘stag do’ sums their Ashes woe

On England’s penultimate day in the idyllic Queensland seaside resort of Noosa, their popular strength and conditioning coach Pete Sim put a...

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Will Macpherson

What to believe in this Christmas, even if you don’t believe in anything

However you plan to spend the next few days, it’s important we refocus our collective hopes.

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Michael Idato

I went to Bondi and hugged people who’d never spoken to a Muslim before

We share with the Jewish community the burden of fear and exclusion, and we must work together to overcome it. 

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Ahmed Ouf

Myanmar’s elections will be neither free nor fair. But could they rattle the deadly status quo?

Min Aung Hlaing is desperate for his regime to be seen as legitimate, and he believes elections starting on December 28 are a means to that end.

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Zach Hope

Strategy, smarts and people skills: The man behind ‘Ronball’ and why he’d hate the attention

Strategy, smarts and people skills: The man behind ‘Ronball’ and why he’d hate the attention

Bazball: A style of Test cricket in which the batting side attempts to gain the initiative by playing in a highly aggressive manner. Origin:...

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Mike Hussey

I’m a former cop. The Bondi police actions were entirely correct

Allegations of police running away, hiding and not returning fire were social media clickbait – and completely wrong.

monday 5

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Cameron Watts

‘Holy Grail’: Trump goes nuclear with a very peculiar deal

Donald Trump has never been afraid to make a deal. Some are more curious than others.

monday 10

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

England called this Ashes ‘Everest’. Perhaps that’s why they never got out of base camp

England called this Ashes ‘Everest’. Perhaps that’s why they never got out of base camp

One of the many observations made amid the wreckage of England’s last tour of Australia in 2021-22 was that the tourists needed to consider getting...

monday 10

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Daniel Brettig

Why Sabalenka and Kyrgios’ battle of the sexes is an insult to women’s sport

Why Sabalenka and Kyrgios’ battle of the sexes is an insult to women’s sport

Dust off the fondue set – the “battle of the sexes” is back. Women’s tennis world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka will take on Australian Nick Kyrgios,...

monday 10

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Angela Pippos

Stokes and McCullum are digging a hole to nowhere. England need to change

Stokes and McCullum are digging a hole to nowhere. England need to change

A lot of credit should go to Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes for what they have done for our cricket, but it is obvious that Bazball has run its...

monday 1

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Geoffrey Boycott

Fat stepmothers and tacky gold-diggers – David Walliams’ books should have worried any parent

The best-selling children’s author and Little Britain star was dropped by his publisher for alleged inappropriate behaviour towards young women.

monday 10

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Lucy Denyer

Sex toys and shotguns: What happened when Andrew invited Epstein to Sandringham

Andrew claimed it was “just a straightforward shooting weekend”, but what staff found in the guest rooms of the Queen’s private estate left them...

monday 10

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Robert Jobson

We can break the cycle by responding to hate with love

If Jewish people saw this message – Love from Australia – they’d know they were safe and supported.

monday 5

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Mark Connelly

As recriminations in Canberra grow, Chris Minns has what Anthony Albanese wants

The NSW premier has come together with state opposition leader Kellie Sloane over the Bondi tragedy. Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley could not seem...

monday 10

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Natassia Chrysanthos

The $393 billion crypto craze that could one day threaten banks

Donald Trump is a fan of these digital assets, and some analysts agree they are genuinely useful for moving money and could challenge lending giants.

monday 8

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Clancy Yeates

After Bondi, we crave certainty – but quick fixes are dangerous

We won’t make Australia safer with rapidly conceived solutions for the massacre. They could make us less safe.

monday 1

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John Coyne

One leader has handled the Bondi attack aftermath well. It’s not Anthony Albanese or Sussan Ley

Australians expect strong leadership, and they have not seen that anywhere in the federal political sphere.

monday 3

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Natassia Chrysanthos

McRae can free two Magpies with one move. It’s the switch he must make this off-season

McRae can free two Magpies with one move. It’s the switch he must make this off-season

It should have been the most devastating double-barrelled attack coming out of their back line. In the end, it cannibalised itself. To salvage...

monday 1

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Michael Gleeson

A Bazballing tragedy: The tactical forensics of an Ashes capitulation

A Bazballing tragedy: The tactical forensics of an Ashes capitulation

“All sound and fury signifying nothing”. The Macbeth-inspired quote was aptly left in the Facebook comments of a BBC Test Match Special post,...

monday 9

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Dan Walsh

Fixers, ‘sensible Greens’ and falling stars: 2025’s best, worst and most embarrassing

Who croaked out a rendition of “It’s Time” with all the gusto of a nursing home singalong? We reveal all.

21.12.2025 3

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George Brandis

Ashes player ratings: The Australian match-winners and England’s missing men

Ashes player ratings: The Australian match-winners and England’s missing men

The Ashes are officially staying with Australia, in near-record time, thanks to brilliance from the South Australian locals and fine bowling...

21.12.2025 2

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Andrew Wu

They were called Australia’s worst Ashes team in 15 years. Eleven days of cricket later, the urn is theirs

They were called Australia’s worst Ashes team in 15 years. Eleven days of cricket later, the urn is theirs

Adelaide: This team was supposed to be Australia’s weakest Ashes side since 2010-11. This team has repeatedly been referred to as “not the...

21.12.2025 1

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Daniel Brettig

Who’d dare put a dumb phone under the tree for a kid? You should do it for adults, too

All I want for Christmas is connection – genuine, human connection.

21.12.2025 10

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Simon Smart

I liked my boyfriend and his man-bun, but had to end it. He didn’t understand public ridicule

Naomi would still be up at 3am without understanding how ridiculous the situation was. Nigel had much more in common with me, apart from his lack...

21.12.2025 3

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Rosie Beaumont