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The festive season is a time for lists. Shopping lists. Christmas card lists. (Of course I still send Christmas cards.) Lists of New Year’s...
In March 1977, the Centenary Test match between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground attracted nearly a quarter of a million...
The past year has been a wild ride for the global technology sector, which is already turbulent at the best of times. Cyberattacks and outages...
Vanilla, pale grey, pebble, bone, cream, crème, oatmeal, almond, biscuit, fresh white … It could be one of those whites and neutrals paint charts...
Mitch Marsh’s position in the Test side has become almost untenable. The feelgood story of Australian cricket of the past 18 months, Marsh has...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton recently admitted he was holding something back....
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If ever a year deserved to be summed up in a cheap meme, it was 2024. It was the...
Great politicians seem to have two main things in common: they pick the right time to be born and they pick the right time to leave office....
What will the new year bring? Based on this year, we can expect a wild ride. Here are 25 predictions for 2025. 1) President Trump, having run out...
Australia’s road to the Border-Gavaskar Trophy has taken a wicked turn, and it will take heroic effort from a tiring attack to navigate a path to...
Team Konstas shared an evening meal on Melbourne’s Southbank on Friday night. The brood comprised teenage Test debutant Sam, his family, mentor...
With the next federal election due by May, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are going to spend the coming months shamelessly seeking your vote. A...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One decision stands out from all others in what has been a grim year for Prime...
People often make a distinction between “good debt” and “bad debt” in terms of both personal finances and public spending: Good debt,...
“It’s just horrific. No matter how many times I say it, I find myself sitting there reading victim impact statements in tears because it never...
I’m not a fan of resolutions. They don’t last. But more on that later – it turns out some resolutions are more likely to work than others. The...
Three weeks ago, Tasmanian fast bowler Riley Meredith shaped the Sheffield Shield season when, in a moment of amnesia, he forgot he was not playing...
Growing up in a Tassie hotel motel, my New Year’s Eve had a set rhythm. During the day my brother and I would fold linen napkins into crowns for...
It is difficult for non-sailors to imagine the forces at play when a 10-tonne yacht is coping with 30 knots of wind and a lumpy sea. Accidents...
Tea was due on day two of the Boxing Day Test and the contest was at an absorbing pass. Australia spent the first half of the day making hay while...
It cannot be known whether Virat Kohli arrived in Melbourne looking for a fight. By accident or design, Kohli found himself in numerous scrapes...
Look, we’ve heard a lot about persons of the year, a category that is surely subjective and has long skewed to the powerful. But I’d like to...
Steve Smith and Virat Kohli are raging against the dying of the light. Pat Cummins and Jasprit Bumrah are the light, while Rohit Sharma’s is out...
Travelling interstate in a car with small children over the summer holidays is not for the faint-hearted, but some of us rise to the challenge....
Test cricket, that bastion of tradition, has been in a bind over the last two decades. It has wavered between clinging to its heritage of creams...
While the Foxtel-DAZN deal awaits the tick from regulators, the tie-up of the two billionaire-owned platforms is giving the bosses of the NRL and...
In late afternoon at the MCG, Test cricket was transported back several years or more in time. Steve Smith stood in firm occupation of the crease,...
It’s that time of the year when everyone starts planning, setting and reviewing their goals for 2025. Up there on the list with aspiring to save...
It took just 13 games for Lachlan West to land on the Brisbane Broncos’ radar. Signed to the Burleigh Bears, the 22-year-old was brought to Red...
After many years as a freelance writer and editor, the writing was on the wall for me to look for more stable work. My freelance gigs were drying...
Scroll down to read this article in Hindi. Last month was Diwali, the Hindu New Year, which is celebrated with great fervour and joy all over...