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 Treasurer Jim Chalmers will be the person pulling the economic levers upon which so much rests.

Inflation and rates rises leading to key moment

EDITORIAL: Treasurer Jim Chalmers will be the person pulling the economic levers upon which so much rests.

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Before her death, Katie Allen mapped a path back to legitimacy for her party. They’re not heeding her warnings.

How Katie Allen mapped the Liberals’ path back to legitimacy

MARK RILEY: Katie Allen’s experience showed that although much of the noise in politics rises from the angry edges, there is only one way elections are won.

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Mitchell Starc embraces Mitchell Marsh.

The Sydney Sixers whinge that irks me the most

MITCHELL JOHNSON: The east coast heavyweights would have performed better in the BBL final if they had not been fixated on this petty issue.

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If Alex Pretti’s death is a tragedy, what do Americans say or do in the face of the murder of thousands of Iranians?

Should Iran’s executioners go unpunished?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: If Alex Pretti’s death is a tragedy, what do Americans say or do in the face of the murder of thousands of Iranians?

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“A lot of blokes will be thinking there’s no crime here but they’re wrong” with Ben Harvey

Blokes will think there’s no crime here but they’re wrong

In tonight’s show, as a female teacher admits having sex with a 12-year-old student and having his baby, Ben Harvey looks at other paedophile teacher cases to guess how much time she will serve.

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Since COVID Australia has struggled to put the traditional economy back together.

The honeymoon is over as interest rate rise looms

EDITORIAL: It is hard to escape the thought that since COVID Australia has struggled to put the traditional economy back together.

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THE ECONOMIST: China’s Artificial Intelligence juggernaut is barrelling ahead, despite a Trumpian ban on chips from the US.

Beijing’s envoy says Australia’s AI resistance ‘great pity’

Beijing’s envoy to Canberra has described Australia’s resistance to artificial intelligence collaboration as a “great pity” and warned “to turn away from China, is to turn away from opportunities”.

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Going ‘no contact’ is the ultimate status symbol for the ultra-privileged.

Unlike Brooklyn Beckham, most of us can’t cut off our family

JENI O’DOWD: Going ‘no contact’ is the ultimate status symbol for the ultra-privileged.

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Mitch Marsh at his lowest in 2019.

How was this cricket star ever Australia’s most hated man?

DANE ELDRIDGE: He has had to carry the baggage of a very famous name, but he is now one of our most loved heroes and deservedly so.

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Sussan Ley and navigating the politics of a Coalition car-crash.

Sussan Ley has some explaining to do

AARON PATRICK: By pretending the Coalition split isn’t a political crisis, the Liberal Party Leader is insulting voters’ intelligence.

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The nation needs a strong Opposition with a clear plan to hold Mr Albanese and his Government to account.

Nation needs Liberals to put a stake in the ground

EDITORIAL: The nation needs a strong Opposition with a clear plan to hold Mr Albanese and his Government to account.

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The moment the Scorchers won the BBL title.

Major changes to BBL could be end of Scorchers as we know it

LISA STHALEKAR: They are the most successful Big Bash team in the country but moves are afoot that could put that in jeopardy.

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We needed the spirit of Australia Day to kick-start a sense of unity in the wake of the terrible slaughter of 15 innocents at Bondi Beach.

Australia Day gives us a moment to reset our direction

EDITORIAL: We needed the spirit of Australia Day to kick-start a sense of unity in the wake of the terrible Bondi massacre.

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People participate in the citizenship ceremony at the Opera House, during Australia Day 2026 celebrations.

How immigration is driving Australia Day’s resurgence

AARON PATRICK: About 30 per cent of Australia’s population was born overseas. So why is the national day so popular with immigrants?

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Australia doesn’t need lectures from debt-laden, high-taxing, bureaucracy-loving Europe on how to run its economy. Mathias Cormann, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation, during the Conference de Paris.

Australia doesn’t need an economics lecture from Europe

DIMITRI BURSHTEIN & PETER SWAN: Australia doesn’t need lectures from debt-laden, high-taxing, bureaucracy-loving Europe on how to run its economy.

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