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Cooper Woods was revelation with his gold medal win.

It makes zero sense we are this good at the Winter Olympics

Many of our athletes come from areas with no snow, making their feats even more incredible.

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Daly Cherry-Evans could win the Dally M this year.

I ripped into him in 2025 now I think DCE will win the comp

The Roosters have the pieces to go all the way with Daly Cherry-Evans in the Tricolours.

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Anthony Albanese has cranked up his rhetoric against the 11 women stuck in Syria. 

The real reason behind Albanese’s tough talk on ISIS brides

The Prime Minister’s words against the ISIS brides are surprisingly strong from a leader who historically has been anything but. Here’s what’s driving them.

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Donald Trump’s tariff scheme is spelling economic uncertainty across the world.

Trump’s response to tariff ruling opens new uncertain era

The supreme court’s ruling wasn’t a reset and redesigning the United State’s tariff schedule for the third time in little more than a year will produce commercial winners and losers.

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What 58,141 people saw from the stands, and through millions of TV screens, the AFL State of Origin was something far deeper than a pre-season exhibition match, says Justin Langer.

Flag or franchise? What Origin says about modern-day sport

What 58,141 people saw from the stands, and through millions of TV screens, was something far deeper than a pre-season exhibition match, says Justin Langer.

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Donald Trump has ordered an enormous military build-up in the Middle East. Yet he has seemed unwilling to order a risky strike.

Americans don’t want war with Iran. Trump doesn’t care

Should Donald Trump pull the United States into a needless war with Iran, the fallout could be horrific.

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The British public’s revulsion at Andrew’s sordid lifestyle will mean little tolerance of any further royal misbehaviour.

Andrew’s sordid behaviour puts heat on monarchy

The British public’s revulsion at Andrew’s sordid lifestyle will mean little tolerance of any further royal misbehaviour.

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Jim Chalmers did a PhD on Paul Keating as prime minister. Now he’s rehearsing the same kind of attack lines his hero deployed against the Liberal Party’s John Hewson.

Chalmers copying Keating to distract from economic bad news

Jim Chalmers wrote a thesis on Paul Keating as prime minister and now he’s rehearsing the same kind of attack lines his hero deployed against the Liberal Party with his takedown of shadow treasurer Tim Wilson.

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The ISIS brides travelled overseas in support of a caliphate

ISIS brides furore not black and white

What kind of an idiotic country would agree to take back citizens who have waged jihad against everything we hold dear? This kind of idiotic country

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Donald Trump’s possible military campaign in Iran could begin this weekend.

US strike on Iran risky but could deliver freedom

It could be one of the great moments of modern history which delivers the Iranian people freedom from an Islamist regime which has brutally repressed them.

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Cameron Green has been scapegoated over Australia’s T20 World Cup woes.

Who’s really to blame for World Cup disaster & it’s not Cam

It’s easy to lay it all at the feet of the struggling all‑rounder, but others deserve the real blame for the T20 debacle.

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Anthony Albanese is going further than John Howard did in 2001.

Why Albo is trying to out-Howard the Liberals on ISIS brides

By saying he has ‘nothing but contempt’ for women stranded in Syria, Anthony Albanese is pushing his national security rhetoric further even than John Howard did.

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The American right often identifies powerfully with Europe.

What the American right wants from Europe

American conservatives should be clear about the tensions inherent in their appeal for European change. 

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There are growing signs that the economic policy wagon is not rattling along smoothly as Labor forecast before its re-election, but is going off the rails.

Real wages reversal another blow for workers

There are growing signs that the economic policy wagon is not rattling along smoothly as Labor forecast before its re-election, but is going off the rails.

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The academic’s invitation to the Sydney Writers’ Festival demonstrates how arts festivals have been ideologically captured, Jewish leaders say.

Palestinian Randa Abdel-Fattah has seized power in the arts

AARON PATRICK: The academic’s invitation to the Sydney Writers’ Festival demonstrates how arts festivals have been ideologically captured, Jewish leaders say.

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