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Labubu dolls first hit the market in 2019, but in 2025 they’re sustaining a viral moment. We should ask ourselves why. News.com.au reports that...
Labor swept to victory on 3 May after a campaign dominated by concerns about the cost of living. But the latest wage and home lending data should...
It certainly looks as if policy is for sale in the Trump administration. After all, the president’s primary domestic policy deputy, Elon Musk,...
There was a time when I never left a pub before last orders. Whether or not I was enjoying myself – and on reflection I often wasn’t – I’d be...
When the true-crime documentary Menendez Brothers: Misjudged? aired in 2022 on Discovery , its impact was not immediate, except on TikTok, where –...
In a short space of time, the British government has made two decisions that will negatively affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people...
Keir Starmer is embattled but not threatened. It is a strange combination. He is not challenged by Kemi Badenoch, who is weak in parliament and...
My train rolled into Kyiv last week as Russian ballistic missiles and drones hit the city, killing a mother and her son. I had last been in Ukraine...
In 2018, Scott Morrison addressed the Liberal party room with an evangelical Trumpian fervour. Having just blown up Malcolm Turnbull’s government...
Should cars be illegal? Are drivers evil? The way some councils have been imposing “low-traffic neighbourhoods” over the past five years, it seems...
Shall we take a brief moment to forget the hellworld outside and focus on something utterly inane? That was a rhetorical question, because you’re...
Amer Mohammed Rabea was 14 years old. He was a US citizen. On 7 April 2025, he was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city...
You’ve been deceived by the campaign for assisted dying. It has told you who the proposed law is for: people on their metaphorical deathbeds, no...
The latest viral skincare routine involves no skincare at all. Dubbed the “caveman method”, it involves shunning any kind of skincare products, as...
If you’re familiar with your folklore, you’ll know the story of The Emperor’s New Plane, in which some barely-even-wily out-of-towners turn up...
Where are all the free speech warriors on the right now? Hasan Piker, a popular streamer with 4.5 million followers across YouTube and Twitch, who...
Ivanka Trump has had her manicured fingers in many pies. She’s designed jewellery and shoes. She’s written a book called Women Who Work, marketed...
On his first day back in the White House, reporters asked Donald Trump where he might go on his maiden overseas trip. The US president saw it as an...
On Friday, the Democratic mayor of Newark was arrested and detained in his own city by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents. His crime?...
How do you reduce immigration while at the same time boosting growth? Labour’s recent immigration white paper sets out a supposedly clear answer....
On Sunday night, the US announced that it was cutting tariffs on Chinese imports from 145% to 30%, for 90 days, and the Chinese are dropping...
Australia has consummated a second man date with the prime minister. Now it’s time to clear the air about what we have consented to and the nature...
Friday is a holy day for practising Muslims – a time to observe the faith more deeply and, where possible, attend prayers at the mosque. That’s...
It’s boomerang season again. Or to put it another way, the time of year when adult children you imagined might be flying the nest come home instead...
How does Xi Jinping view the circus Donald Trump is ring-mastering in Washington? There is no denying that the new president has created an...
‘Why you might be given the ‘second-best’ weight-loss drug”, ran the i’s coverage of the most recent research findings: Mounjaro is officially more...
While most good Catholics spent the early days of this week in solemn contemplation, praying that the church’s new leader would be a person of...
Immigration is a tinderbox. No one listening to voters on doorsteps in recent local elections could deny this. Nothing Labour does will satisfy...
On Tuesday, the British government will be in the high court defending the indefensible: its continuing approval of arms exports to Israel. As the...
Almost two-thirds of US abortions are induced with pills. The drug mifepristone blocks the pregnancy hormone progesterone, ending the growth of the...
Long overdue reform of national environment laws is unfinished business for the 48th parliament and the re-elected Albanese government. Senator...
I would love to know what exactly happens, in the top-level meetings where the prime minister decides to be even tougher on immigration. Is there...
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s confirmation she will run for Liberal deputy has put the members of an already shell-shocked party into a new spin....
Cranes are finally whirling over a long-blighted stretch of wasteland on the Athens Riviera, just 6 miles from the Acropolis, which has been a...