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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 1

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 1

James Massola

The evil secrets of the Great Haunted Ocean Road

Decades ago, Elmer Crawford tried and failed to dispose of the bodies of his murdered family into the depths of a blowhole. Then he went missing –...

26.12.2025 1

Tony Wright

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 1

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 1

Waleed Aly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All my life, visits to the library were relatively transactional. I picked out books as a kid then, later, CDs as teenager and took them home to...

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Brodie Lancaster

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. A few years in a Sydney jail back in the 1990s certainly failed...

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Michael Ruffles

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

It’s difficult to reconcile US data that showed the economy was growing at a breakneck speed in the September quarter despite a deteriorating...

yesterday 10

Stephen Bartholomeusz

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

Mindanao, the second-largest island in the Philippines, has white beaches, turquoise waters, and a lush tropical hinterland. It could be up there...

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Irris Makler

Emerging from the darkness, we must keep flame of kindness alight

On Sunday, people around Australia lit a candle. Whether this is the time you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas or simply a break at the end of one...

yesterday 7

The Age&x27S View

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

If you’re reading this from an overseas destination – or planning to jet overseas these holidays – kudos, first of all, for keeping up with the...

yesterday 8

Millie Muroi

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...

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Greg Chappell

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

Oil prices are hovering around their lowest point for the year despite the unexpectedly severe impact of US sanctions on Russia’s oil exports and...

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘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

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

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

Christmas is here. After a week in which our collective emotional paralysis effectively stopped the clock, what follows now seems strangely...

previous day 2

Michael Idato

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

Energy is suddenly becoming much cheaper in the UK and Europe, rapidly narrowing the gap in industrial competitiveness with America and rescuing...

previous day 8

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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?

On December 28, war-torn Myanmar will go to the polls. In a way. No one really believes the long-promised elections will be free, fair or even...

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Zach Hope

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

The events that occurred at Bondi have awoken Australia from a complacency about the risk and threat of extremism. This, tragically, was our 9/11...

monday 20

Cameron Watts

My suburb has its own unofficial suburb – with a completely different vibe

Growing up in Rowville, a place that desperately lacks public transport, there was an obvious non-negotiable for me when it came to moving out of...

monday 10

Jess Burke

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

What do Donald Trump’s social media company and a leading fusion energy researcher have in common? Nothing, but that hasn’t stopped them from...

monday 10

Stephen Bartholomeusz

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

“Am I right in thinking you threw a birthday party for Epstein’s girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham?” journalist Emily Maitlis asked...

monday 10

Robert Jobson

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 3

Daniel Brettig

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

NSW Premier Chris Minns typically takes every opportunity to sledge the member for Vaucluse, Kellie Sloane, on the floors of parliament. But on...

monday 10

Natassia Chrysanthos

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 10

Geoffrey Boycott

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

Angela Pippos

We can break the cycle by responding to hate with love

On Sunday in Bondi we saw a tremendous outpouring of grief, support and determined resolution. Most remarkably, we witnessed a Jewish community...

monday 2

Mark Connelly

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

I can’t quite remember when a David Walliams book first entered our house, but I do remember my reaction. On the surface, it looked fine....

monday 20

Lucy Denyer

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

When you think of cryptocurrencies, the one that probably comes to mind is bitcoin. It’s the best-known and by far the largest digital asset, and...

monday 1

Clancy Yeates

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

Australians want answers and reassurance. They want to believe that tragedy could have been prevented if only someone had acted differently....

monday 10

John Coyne

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

The partisanship that has dominated federal politics since the terror attack at Bondi Beach has not created any winners. Not Prime Minister Anthony...

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