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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

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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 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
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
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‘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
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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
From battlers to basket weavers: a guide to Australian voters.

From battlers to basket weavers: A guide to Australia’s voter types

A rich vocabulary has emerged to describe different voter groups in increasingly complex electorates.

  • Matt Wade

‘The outsiders’: Who’s who in Trump’s new White House

Some are predictable picks for their roles, most are not. Meet the people you’ll be seeing a lot in the next three years.

  • Angus Holland
Scientists are hoping to find a way to save the coral on the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.

This is the heartbeat of efforts to save a global icon. Is it too late?

A new generation of scientists are refusing to give up on the Great Barrier Reef.

  • Angus Dalton and Janie Barrett

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