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EDITORIAL: Big business bashing has become one of Canberra’s favourite pastimes, and it’s not just Labor and the profit-hating Greens who are getting in on it. But big business has found its voice again.
JENI O’DOWD: Australia’s love affair with alcohol is no secret — coming into work hungover after a big night out used to earn you a badge of honour. But things are changing.
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Does the Chinese government or military see Australia as an enemy? That is a key question that follows the release by China of a propaganda video using that description.
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MARK ALMOND: For all the brutal ingeniousness of the pager attack, the consequences for regional security could be dire.
ISABELLE MULLEN: Kamala Harris may have won the US presidential debate, but the Democrats know much more needs to be done to beat Donald Trump. Especially now.
CAITLIN BASSETT: It seems no record is safe in the AFLW with players taking the game to a whole new level in season nine.
EDITORIAL: The overlaying of audio by the ABC of gunshots onto footage of an Australian commando — making it appear the soldier was firing at unarmed Afghan civilians — is a grave breach of standards.
SUSANNAH JOWITT: My childhood was a misery of diets as my mother told me I was fat, but new efforts to keep kids thin, like giving them weight-loss jabs of Ozempic or Saxenda will end up making them fatter.
THE FRONT DORE: A Federal Court case uncovered in graphic detail how a ‘hazy’ decade-old memory turned into a fake war crime expose. But rather than apologise, the ABC and Mark Willacy have dug their heels in.
DAVID FRENCH: It’s understandable that many millions of Americans have focused on Springfield, Ohio, after the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. But it wasn’t Trump’s only terrible debate moment.
DAN JERVIS-BARDY: The rare occurrence of Liberal and National candidates fighting over the same patch of electoral turf was bound to produce some tense and uncomfortable moments.
WATCH NOW: In tonight’s show, Ben Harvey lashes Greens Leader Adam Bandt as the most dangerous person in Australia and explains why the one-time useful idiot’s gas ban will have us living like the Amish.
EDITORIAL: It was the kind of cowboy journalist at its loosest and most damaging — the kind that has the potential to ruin careers and destroy reputations.
KATE EMERY: Having no mates isn’t just a bummer, it’s linked to a swag of health problems.