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Pat Cummins didn’t declare. That says a lot about Australia’s state of mind

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Daniel Brettig

Jimmy Carter: a challenged presidency, a life of moral courage

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Bruce Wolpe

South Korea’s Jeju Air crash: The most pressing questions facing investigators

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Richard De Crespigny

Luckless Souttar’s latest injury a killer blow to Socceroos’ World Cup hopes

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Vince Rugari

Player ratings: Australia won the Test, but we’re giving the only 10/10 to an Indian player

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Tom Decent

The best – and worst – of 2024: My list isn’t objective, but that’s the fun of it

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...

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George Brandis

Why brightest stars of T20 generation will ensure Test cricket remains pinnacle of sport

In March 1977, the Centenary Test match between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground attracted nearly a quarter of a million...

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Geoff Lawson

Elon Musk quits Tesla, flying cars take off: The predictions for tech in 2025

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...

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David Swan

This beige generation (or is it vanilla?) is throwing out the baby joy

Vanilla, pale grey, pebble, bone, cream, crème, oatmeal, almond, biscuit, fresh white … It could be one of those whites and neutrals paint charts...

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Claire Heaney

The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is on the line. So is Mitch Marsh’s Test career

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...

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Andrew Wu

Dutton’s had a great year, but 2025 will test his one great weakness

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton recently admitted he was holding something back....

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James Massola

The year girl power got a joyous update

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...

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Neil Mcmahon

Politics, like comedy, is about timing. Albanese will be a victim of the liberal era’s fall

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....

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Parnell Palme Mcguinness

From Raygun to Rinehart: 25 predictions for 2025

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...

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Richard Glover

The moment the Boxing Day Test took a turn for the worse for Australia

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...

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Andrew Wu

Their ‘little gladiator’: Team Konstas absorbs Sam’s supernova debut

Team Konstas shared an evening meal on Melbourne’s Southbank on Friday night. The brood comprised teenage Test debutant Sam, his family, mentor...

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Daniel Brettig

Voter perceptions of Albanese and Dutton are set in cement. Let’s shake things up, fellas

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...

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James Massola

The Albanese report card: A grim year but don’t write him off

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...

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David Crowe

The dirtiest word in economics is neither good nor bad

People often make a distinction between “good debt” and “bad debt” in terms of both personal finances and public spending: Good debt,...

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Allison Schrager

Not too late to win road toll fight

“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...

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The Age&x27S View

Guilt gets a bad rap. I’m guilty, but my new year’s resolution is to be OK with it

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...

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Jenna Price

In one innings, Konstas has made us care about Test cricket again

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...

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Malcolm Knox

Resolutions? I’ve broken a few. This year I’m doing it differently

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...

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Kate Halfpenny

This race is no place for beginners, yet trainee sailors buy their way onto boats

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...

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David Salter

If this Pat Cummins ball is up for auction, buy it. It belongs in a collection

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...

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Greg Baum

Virat Kohli came looking for a fight, but found a humbling

It cannot be known whether Virat Kohli arrived in Melbourne looking for a fight. By accident or design, Kohli found himself in numerous scrapes...

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Daniel Brettig

The objects of 2024 and the people they made – or brought down

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...

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Julia Baird

How India’s captain became a walking wicket

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...

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Andrew Wu

On our next road trip, Bluey can babysit the kids for the whole 900km

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....

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Cherie Gilmour

Test cricket had been in stasis for 20 years. Now, it hasn’t felt this alive since Bodyline

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...

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Greg Chappell

Foxtel’s sale could change the game for two sports in Australia

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...

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Calum Jaspan

What Sam Konstas’ searing debut means for Australia’s future

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,...

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Daniel Brettig

Ready for resolutions? A psychologist recommends you prioritise this

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...

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Ahona Guha

‘One of the best I’ve seen’: The fight to become Walsh’s understudy

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...

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Nick Wright

I knew finding a job wouldn’t be easy, but I didn’t expect to come up against so many robots

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...

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Samantha Allemann

The gift that Jasprit Bumrah wants to get on Boxing Day

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...

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Sunil Gavaskar

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