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Anika Wells is pulling focus

This week was supposed to be a triumph for Wells. Instead, it is a trial

While the polls are still terrible for the Coalition, the developing furore over Wells’ use of expenses is a reminder of how quickly politics can change gears.

  • James Massola

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Ben Stokes has implored his England players to keep faith.

England were humbled, and it’s about to get worse

Claims that this was an England team which would outclass Australia have been emphatically silenced. What should scare the old enemy is that it can only get worse.

  • Nick Wright
Oscar Piastri celebrates second place in Abu Dhabi – and third in the drivers’ championship.

Piastri led the F1 title race by 34 points, but ended up third. One moment in his slide will hurt more than most

For now, Oscar Piastri will process 2025, wonder if he could have handled the tough times better, and keep his fingers crossed that McLaren’s policy of letting its drivers fight fairly persists now one of them has the world champion’s No.1 on the nosecone of his car next year.

  • Matthew Clayton
Children watch a St Nicholas Day performance in a basement in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the weekend. In this area near the Russian border, children study online, have to spend significant time in shelters, and suffer from the stress of daily air raid alerts.

First, the alarm goes off. Then my iPhone starts talking in an American accent

It’s 1.23am and our correspondent is about to witness what is a routine night for millions of people here.

  • David Crowe
Mitch Starc cuts on his way to 77.

Player ratings: The Aussie with a perfect 10 and the Englishman who embodies Bazball without brains

The second Test at the Gabba delivered many moments that will go down in Ashes history. We rate every Australian and English player from an unforgettable match.

  • Andrew Wu
Ben Stokes in the moments after his dismissal.

Where has this been, England? Too late for the Ashes now

Would Australia already be 2-0 up in the series if England had deigned to be even a little more sensible? Why had the visitors waited until the game was almost gone to try to respect the match situation?

  • Daniel Brettig
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Mitchell Starc roared to life in the final hour of day three, after his worst opening spell of the series.

Starc is super, but still human. It makes the return of Lyon a must

As if anyone needed a reminder, Mitchell Starc proved once again in Brisbane just how super he was. But how much can one man do?

  • Nick Wright
Queensland Council of Unions general secretary Jacqueline King and Australian Workers’ Union state secretary Stacey Schinnerl.

The union code cracks that shed wider light on a CFMEU power push

Two weeks of hearings from Queensland’s inquiry into the troubled union and construction sector has seen clearer pictures begin to form – but much yet to come.

  • Matt Dennien
Duckett chopped on off Scott Boland’s bowling.

The Ashes 2025 second Test, day three recap: What happens when you take boldness, as well as brains, out of Bazball

Of all the bad days England have had in the field on these shores, few would have matched Saturday for meekness and mindlessness.

  • Andrew Wu
Mitchell Starc during another Ashes star turn, this time with the willow at the Gabba.

Relentless Starc turns Gabba into England’s Ashes Death Star

So thoroughly did the left-hander torment Ben Stokes and his team that the Ashes look as good as gone. England had been taken to the Starc side.

  • Daniel Brettig

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