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Alex began as a sport reporter at news.com.au before shifting to news in recent years. He has a keen interest in global affairs, painfully obscure rock music, Italian meats and Formula 1. As an eternal pest, he spends most of his time deleting sentences that simply won’t fly in civilised society.

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Politics

Bandt unleashes: ‘The face of hard-right hate’

Adam Bandt has launched at the two major parties in a fiery speech to kick off the Greens campaign tonight.

Social Media

AI experiment exposes shocking truth

A university has copped backlash over a controversial experiment that exposed an uncomfortable truth after infiltrating an online community.

OPINIONPolitics

Proof Dutton just doesn’t get it

With just days to go before droves of still-undecided voters pick up the pencil, this one awkward guess from Peter Dutton has proved disastrous.

Red Bull submits evidence to strip Piastri

One of the sport’s most controversial figures caught the attention of millions with a frantic last-ditch attempt to steal Oscar Piastri’s race.

World Economy

‘Welcome to the real world’: China trolls US

Chinese manufacturers are pushing back against the gratuitous world of consumerism as the US tariff war picks up steam.

Entertainment

‘Spreading bulls**t’: Rogan guest unleashes

A commentator who confronted Joe Rogan on air has penned an icy response to the seismic fallout that followed.

Politics

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have squared off in a tense debate held at the ABC’s Parramatta studio, discussing a wide range of topics from housing affordability to the country’s dilemma with foreign superpowers US and China.

What Australia really thinks of Trump

Standing in front of millions of voters, the Prime Minister and his challenger have danced around the elephant in the room as global relations sit on a knife’s edge.

Leaders

Elon Musk’s vision of a future teetering on the brink of collapse has long fuelled his personal crusade to populate the planet with what he deems “high intelligence” offspring.

‘$23m’: Musk’s wild birth demands emerge

Behind Elon Musk’s mission to “repopulate” the earth lies an alleged web of secrecy and financial coercion, particularly when it comes to the mothers of his children.

Military

According to Militarnyi, the Russian assault involved two infantry platoons supported by a dozen infantry fighting vehicles and tanks. The convoy’s poor formation — rigid, linear, and on open terrain — turned it into the kind of target artillery officers dream of. Ukrainian defenders, including members of the 46th Airmobile Brigade, obliged with a barrage of heavy artillery and drone-directed fire.

Chilling clip reveals Russia’s deadly failure

Intense new vision has shown how an armoured column was obliterated in what appears to be another deadly miscalculation by Putin’s commanders.

US Politics

Speaking aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Mr Trump said the White House was working to “uncomplicate” its wildly ambiguous policies to encourage domestic chip manufacturing, while leaving room for some exceptions.

Chinese item causing chaos for US

Donald Trump has announced an urgent national security investigation as one of the world’s largest sectors sits nervously on the cusp of a devastating new tariff.

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