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Sarah Harris (left), Carrie Bickmore, Sam Taunton, Dave Hughes, Georgie Tunny and Waleed Aly farewell The Project on Friday night.

‘I do have pants on’: The Project says goodbye with teary and funny final episode

Axed after 16 years and more than 4000 episodes, Friday night’s 90-minute farewell was tear-stained yet joyful, a celebration of everything that made The Project truly different.

  • Louise Rugendyke

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The Project Host Sarah Harris.

‘When did people get so frightened of ideas’: Inside the final days of The Project

Waleed Aly, Sarah Harris and Kate Langbroek reflect on the end of the panel show and what led to its demise.

  • Michael Lallo
Peter Meakin: “Our budgets were so big you could try 10 things, and if two of them worked, you were a superstar”.

Is this the end of free-to-air TV? A veteran weighs in

Peter Meakin has been producing news and current affairs programs on commercial TV for 60 years. He knows what works.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Waleed Aly challenged his viewers to pay attention to immigration policy.

This is the column I never wanted to have to write

As an industry stares into the abyss, there are bigger things at stake than the fate of this or that television show. What’s concerning is the unfettered domination of foreign tech companies.

  • Waleed Aly
Journalists Amelia Brace and Denham Hitchcock are the hosts of Ten’s new investigative news program, Ten News+.

Fewer car crashes, meatier news: Ten unveils bold Project replacement

The network says its ambitious new program will contain “no opinion and no filler, just the facts”.

  • Michael Lallo
Dave Hughes (left), Charlie Pickering and Carrie Bickmore in the early days of The 7PM Project.

The Project is gone – but the battle to attract younger viewers to news continues

When Ten’s ambitious news program launched there were no smartphones and social media was in its infancy. Attracting a Gen Z audience will be a lot tougher.

  • Louise Rugendyke
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The Project (clockwise from left): Susie Youssef; Georgie Tunny, Sam Taunton, Rove McManus, Hamish Macdonald; Sarah Harris and Waleed Aly. 

The Project’s stars leave Ten as program is axed, replacement announced

Hosts Waleed Aly and Sarah Harris will leave Ten in the biggest change to the network’s prime-time schedule in years.

  • Michael Lallo
Lisa Wilkinson, Brittany Higgins and Linda Reynolds.

The Project meeting that had Brittany Higgins in tears and put Linda Reynolds in the spotlight

Recordings reveal how Brittany Higgins confided in TV journalist Lisa Wilkinson about her former boss, Linda Reynolds.

  • Michaela Whitbourn and The Visual Stories Team
Sue Chrysanthou, SC, hugs Lisa Wilkinson as they emerge from the Federal Court on Monday.

Lisa Wilkinson has claimed victory. Who is she kidding?

If you’re going to be for all women, you have to acknowledge when you f--- over other women.

  • Kate Halfpenny
Lisa Wilkinson and Brittany Higgins.

There was no conspiracy, so why pursue Higgins over her payout?

The court decision has made essential findings about what took place, but it is already being used to justify yet another hunt for targets.

  • David Crowe

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