Insight
‘I thought I was friends with Nova’: Craig Foster on the spat that rocked the republican movement
The ex-Socceroo goes “all in” on the things he cares about, but it comes at a cost.
- by Ben Cubby
Latest
Trump weaponised the border crisis to get elected. Now he must deliver
A 12-year-old was raped and killed by illegal immigrants. Her mother’s pain served as an illustration for Trump’s signature policy. But will he succeed in deporting 11 million people?
- by Farrah Tomazin
NZ’s anti-woke warrior Winston Peters is the Trump of the south
Once described as like “the drunk uncle at the wedding”, NZ’s deputy prime minister has proved the wiliest political survivor in the Pacific.
- by Matthew Knott
Analysis
Naked City
The cop, the career and the cold case that exonerated a mother
The original investigators believed they knew the killer of six-year-old Bonnie Clarke, but lacked sufficient evidence. They were horribly wrong.
- by John Silvester
Tony Wright’s Column
Indigenous
Hume and Hovell 200 years on: Is it time to reassess their epic trek?
Hamilton Hume and William Hovell became the first Europeans to travel from Sydney to Corio Bay – despite their argument over a frying pan.
- by Tony Wright
Hostile environment: The changing climate within the Australian Greens
A party with vaulting ambitions for grabbing hold of the balance of power with a big picture agenda has discovered the script has been hijacked from within.
- by James Massola
Bob Geldof once said he wanted to get ‘rich, famous and laid’. Here’s how that worked out for him
The musician and global activist still has plenty more to say.
- by Nick Galvin
‘So many off-field issues’: Life at one of Saudi Arabia’s richest clubs
Saudi Arabian football has undergone a recent revolution that has attracted stars even as big as Cristiano Ronaldo - as well as some Australian representation.
- by Vince Rugari
‘I’m pretty boring and sort of straight-laced’ – how sobriety improved a musician’s work
Indie darling turned bona fide star Waxahatchee returns to Australia later this month.
- by Brodie Lancaster
‘Two tears in a bucket’: Why voters flocked to Trump, and why some might regret it
Working-class Americans have voted with a mixture of fatalist resignation and up-yours defiance for an economic remedy likely to leave them worse off.
- by Chip Le Grand
Analysis
Naked City
Bodyguards for billionaires: Inside the secret world
The super rich are spending big on super security, including elite protection teams with counter-surveillance skills to thwart kidnappings, and panic rooms marketed as nuclear and germ-warfare resistant.
- by John Silvester
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