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Throughout the expenses fiasco of the past week, which has cut through like nothing else, Anthony Albanese and his ministers have been remarkably tin-eared.

Fires, funerals and MPs’ expenses keep the Herald newsroom humming

It’s been a giant week of news as the stories keep coming.

  • Liam Phelan

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The Digital Freedom Project has launched a High Court challenge to the government’s under-16 social media ban.

The news story the eyes of the world will be watching

Most adults want it; teens say it won’t work. As Australia’s pioneering social media ban for under-16s comes into force, the world, and the Herald, will be scrutinising its impact.

  • Nick Ralston
The Sydney Morning Herald’s health editor Kate Aubusson, reporter Emily Kaine and Age investigative reporter Aisha Dow.

The story behind the Herald’s award-winning investigations

The Herald’s work has been recognised with national journalism awards – but who are the people behind these stories?

  • Liam Phelan
A residential building that was heavily damaged after a Russian strike on Ternopil in Ukraine on Wednesday.

It’s time to stop paying Putin

The Herald this week launched our latest campaign, “Blood Oil”, showing how oil imported to Australia is helping Vladimir Putin pursue his war on Ukraine. It’s sick, it’s wrong and it needs to end.

  • Bevan Shields
More than 60 members of the National Socialist Network attended the rally on Saturday.

The chilling story we’ve thrown everything at covering

I believe it is the media’s job to call out white supremacists and make sure the public knows how serious the threat is.

  • Bevan Shields
United States President Donald Trump takes questions during a press conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Attempts to silence reporters are becoming increasingly troubling

Threats and bullying of our journalists exist on a broad spectrum ranging from public derision to intimidation and acts of physical violence.

  • Patrick Elligett
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Construction workers, bottom right, atop the U.S. Treasury, watch as work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sorry, but I struggle to get outraged about Trump’s White House renos

There has been more outrage over the demolition of a boring building than there has been over the US president’s musings about a third term.

  • Bevan Shields
The Go West series culminates this week.

This is the population boom we’re not talking about – but should be

The population of Melbourne’s west is expected to almost double to 1.8 million people by 2050. That’s more than two-thirds the size of Brisbane.

  • Patrick Elligett
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Australia’s US ambassador Kevin Rudd arrive for a breakfast meeting in Washington on Tuesday.

Kevin Rudd is not everyone’s cup of tea. But is he effective? You bet

The successful meeting between Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese was bad news for those people in politics or in the media hoping for a spectacular Oval Office blow-up.

  • Bevan Shields
Mike Baird and Jay Weatherill will be joining forces at the Susan McKinnon Foundation.

In the debate about more federal MPs, let’s ask how we get better ones too

Amid the discussion about whether we need more MPs, we should also explore how to get better ones. 

  • Bevan Shields

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