Opinion

In the aftermath of the Iranian women’s soccer team defection, Ben Harvey recounts famous instances of sport and diplomacy colliding and warns of Tehran’s record of oppression against women.

The Sydney Kings have narrowly won a tense first game of the NBL play-off series against the Perth Wildcats.

Can anybody really imagine we would now turn down a request from our most significant ally and security blanket?

Moments like these do not come around very often so let the crowd do their thing.

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The best that the Trump-Netanyahu bombs-away strategy can do is start that process, and the worst it can do is devastate Iran with endless aerial bombardments that it becomes ungovernable for anyone.

If confronted by the need to make a split-second decision, the Australian personnel in the region will not have time to sit back and ponder how to respond.

It was a fitting farewell, a triumphant win in front of a home crowd. This is why our departing skipper meant so much to the game and the nation.

They pencil themselves in for every September and take until about August to make sure they don’t get rubbed out of the competition.

The famous quote from a Bush official about how ‘when we act, we create our own reality’ directly anticipated the Trump-era belief that ‘you can just do things.’

New technologies make new political forms possible — for good and for ill.

Ben Harvey dissects the Aussie stock market’s $100 billion wipe out and explains why a reasoning disorder known as ‘myopic loss aversion’ means most investors sell shares when they should be buying.

Should they seek asylum in this country, their families in Iran face imprisonment or worse. If that has not happened already.

Iran is at a historic crossroads, and for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian people face a real opportunity for transformational change.