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Inside Shein, the fast-fashion giant extolling ‘the future of retail’

Behind the scenes of its first foray into the Australian fashion industry, with a highly competitive label where appearances are everything.

  • Jessica Yun and Lauren Ironmonger

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Salmon farming in Tasmania has become central to the federal election campaign.

Troubled waters: Tasmania goes to the polls for the ‘salmon election’

Tasmania has just five federal seats. But many locals think the smallest state could be crucial to deciding who forms government in May.

  • Bianca Hall
It takes an incredible range of skills to make it politics if you’re new to it.

When brilliance is not enough: What it takes for an outsider to become one of the political greats

Mark Carney is leaning heavily on his outsider status in his appeal to Canadian voters, but it may not be an advantage in the long run.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
The stakes are high, and the swing is on in safe seats held by Labor ministers.

Hostile and deeply divided: In south-west Sydney, it’s an election campaign like never before

Harnessing anger over Gaza, independents are posing an unprecedented threat to Labor in heartland seats.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Kayla Olaya
Pope Francis has an outstanding wish to visit China. How far will the Vatican go to deliver it?

Pope Francis has an outstanding wish. How far will the Vatican go to deliver it?

No Pope has set foot in China, but Francis wants that to change. Critics say the cost of doing deals with Beijing has already been too high.

  • Lisa Visentin

In a medical crisis, who will speak for you? Here’s how people plan ahead

It can happen in an instant. When you can’t make decisions about your own medical treatment, who steps into your shoes? And how do doctors know what you want (and don’t want)?

  • Nick Newling and Felicity Lewis
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Death of a Unicorn is a bonkers film about killer unicorns, but it’s drawing on real-life source material.

This bonkers film about killer unicorns is less far-fetched than you’d think

Death of a Unicorn is inspired by real-life artworks that still perplex art historians to this day.

  • Nell Geraets

‘Elbows up!’ How Canada stopped playing nice with Trump

Donald Trump has suggested making Canada the 51st US state. Could he? And how are (usually polite) Canadians fighting back?

  • Angus Holland
Black Mirror has a lot to say about advancing technologies

From bestiality to AI Miley Cyrus: The best, worst and weirdest episodes of Black Mirror

As a new Back Mirror season lands, we look back at more than a decade of the genre-flipping anthology TV series. It’s a wild ride.

  • Nell Geraets
Clive Lloyd and Bob Hawke in 1985.

Hawke, Packer and ‘Supercat’: Cricket’s secret Kirribilli meeting and the end of apartheid

Forty years after the rebel tours of South Africa, we reveal one of the great sliding doors moments in Australian cricket.

  • Daniel Brettig

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