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The Verdict

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Triple J is counting down the top 100 Australian songs of all time, and the arguments have begun.

What should win Triple J’s Hottest 100 of Australian Songs? The choice is obvious

Say it with us: “That boy needs therapy!”

  • Tom W. Clarke

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Too many apps!

The app-ocalypse: Please, I beg, don’t make me download one more app

I’ve had it app to here.

  • Jenna Guillaume
Yes Fifty Shades of Grey wasn’t great, but Dakota Johnson is.

Dakota Johnson is the most unfairly maligned actor in Hollywood

With more Materialists and far less Madame Web, her reputation deserves to be justly, gloriously restored.

  • Tom W. Clarke
It’s time to spruce up our video call backgrounds.

The one simple choice that could transform your workday

Why are we letting our video calls remain such a dull punishment?

  • Patrick Lenton
Phones at gigs are cool

Banning phones at gigs? That’s a bad call

Sabrina Carpenter wants to ban phones at gigs. Why don’t we just ban joy, too?

  • Robert Moran
It was a clever marketing ruse that made us think we needed to reach 10,000 steps a day.

Your step count is boring me to tears (and probably everyone else too)

It is a modern lifestyle choice to pin our personalities to how much activity we get up to every day. And then telling everybody about it.

  • Mali Waugh
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My happy place: TV without the remote.

The underrated pleasure of staying on one TV channel all night

The comfort of sticking with one free-to-air TV channel for hours is not just the heady nostalgia of the content, but the absence of decision-making.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
In this time of heaviness and bleakness and not that much laughter, I heartily recommend this show.

This TV series will appeal to anyone who likes to laugh

In this time of heaviness and bleakness and not that much laughter, I heartily recommend this show.

  • Rebecca Shaw
One of the most visible changes for consumers will be the phasing out of cheques by 2030.

The cheque is a dramatic (and dying) way to spend a dollar. We must keep it alive

Cash is king and tapping is convenient, but nothing is more satisfying than paying with a cheque, mate.

  • Thomas Mitchell
I now have big moustache energy.

My face needed help. The moustache delivered

There’s mo doubt about it. The moustache is having a moment.

  • Patrick Lenton

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