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It’s been 21 years since the two combined to conjure the most loved Christmas movie of the 21st century, but now they have turned to a new “blood...
Cautiousness and a creeping self-doubt that stems from poor performances and heightened scrutiny: it’s the story of every great batter who faces...
On a gloomy afternoon at the SCG the cricketing prodigy proved that he has what it takes.
At the end of another extraordinary sporting year, it’s time to celebrate the best and worst athletes, moments and quotes from 2024.
Sixty summers ago, thousands of Australians were devouring a book published in the lead-up to Christmas which became an instant Aussie classic....
You reckon perhaps it’s true; we’re all just existing in a clown world? Of course, why can’t a tiger shapeshift to transform into a magpie? The...
For Treasurer Jim Chalmers, a man who wrote his PhD thesis on how Paul Keating held power having risen from treasurer to prime minister, the recent...
Generative AI does not signal the end of student writing. Even that time-honoured (if shop-soiled) form of writing – the “student essay” –...
The base of the Christmas tree looks a bit depleted in an empty nest. A white envelope. A couple of token efforts. Something from someone, but not...
As talk of an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine grows among Western diplomats, and Volodymyr Zelensky comes round to the idea of what he calls a...
A week out from Christmas, I wake to something unusual. My husband is awake first! Even without coffee, he seems pretty pumped. Leans – looms –...
In 2005, back when he was still playing the character of a buffoonish right-wing television pundit, comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term ‘...
ABC News in America has just settled a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network. ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15...
Washington: Elon Musk has never been elected to office. President-elect Donald Trump has not tapped him to serve in any role inside the government....
Of all the incentives in the world, money must be among the most powerful. Since its birth thousands of years ago, dosh – chasing it, saving it,...
Australia heads into the summer lull with enormous pressures bearing down on households and no substantial answers on how the country will jump out...
When my brother and sister sent me my niblings’ Christmas lists this year – instruction manuals to keep this out-of-state, out-of-touch aunt on a...
Investors got what they expected from the Federal Reserve Board when it cut US interest rates for the third time this year – but promptly spat...
Those bloody Kiwis. There they go again, showing us the way. What makes them so smart and progressive, making us of the “West Island” look like we...
We’ve been so busy talking about Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith and Nathan McSweeney that we’ve hardly gotten around to talking about Usman...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is at a perilous moment, when it feels like the electorate has summed him up – in a word, gutless – checked out,...
A bond-trading scandal, a culture crisis, environmental remonstration, human rights concerns related to the funding of arms maker Lockheed Martin...
Travis Head dropped during a Test series. Mitchell Starc dropped during a World Cup. David Warner on notice for his spot. These were a few of the...
As Mariah Carey once again defrosts to bring All I Want for Christmas is You into every shopping centre, there’s something else that’s warming...
I just spent a week in Beijing and Shanghai, meeting with Chinese officials, economists and entrepreneurs, and let me get right to the point: While...
I sometimes take my clothes off for money. There’s usually 10 or so people with me when I do, and it’s a good way to earn some money on the side....
Earlier this month, my occupation disappeared. There I was, strutting around Parliament House as a print journalist, pen behind my ear, a dog-eared...
From where I sat, high in the rickety bleachers of the Olympic breaking stadium in Paris on that hot August day, Rachael Gunn’s performance...
Jim Chalmers has delivered a set of budget numbers covered in red – that’s bad news for Anthony Albanese and also for Peter Dutton. In the run-up...
BP and Shell led Big Oil’s push into renewable energy. Now, they are leading the retreat. Last week BP announced that it had sold its offshore...
The news of the Melbourne Storm reviewing their Welcome to Country policy is good, but hardly controversial. What we know is the Storm are not...
Josh Hazlewood’s misfortune is Scott Boland’s good fortune – and it’s likely to force Australia into a potentially series-winning move they...
Eighteen months ago, Canterbury’s coaching staff were accused of leaving Jackson Topine with “psychiatric injury” and “physical and mental...
The third Test in Brisbane was heavily affected by rain and ended in a draw on the fifth day. Here’s how players from both teams rated. Usman...
The lack of any middle ground in commentary about Gaza is striking. Advocates press hard for their side without conceding any ground to the other....
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s bromance could be rekindled in 2025 if both sides play their cards right. This is positive and would help create...
Brisbane: When Jasprit Bumrah peers down from the top of his mark at the MCG on Boxing Day, he will like what he sees. For all the Australian...
The holiday season marks its arrival in many ways: the sound of cicadas, the appearance of mince pies in bakery windows, a Netflix romcom in which...
Of all the people in all of the world, the ABC board landed on a local candidate when it went looking for a replacement for David Anderson,...
Brisbane: If less dramatic than the ball Glenn McGrath trod on at Edgbaston in 2005, team warm-ups before day four at the Gabba will not be...
Sometimes I think I should appoint myself chief ageing reporter for this august organ. Why? Because I’m the only one left around here to know about...
Wowser. Kill-joy. Helen Lovejoy from The Simpsons. No one likes a scold – especially when they’re half-right. On this day 130 years ago –...
China’s final data dump for the year contained one optimistic note amid a set of economic numbers that showed the spate of actions its government...
The ABC will have a new boss in the new year and the big question is not what Hugh Marks will do for Aunty, but whether the former Nine...
Melbourne remain focused on building a training and administration base at Caulfield Racecourse and will tell their members that at their AGM on...
The weeks before Christmas are traditionally a period where meaningful work is dialled down and hangovers are dialled up. But Rugby Australia...
When my partner received a call in February saying he was the successful candidate for a job in the remote Northern Territory, my initial reaction...