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Courts
‘I’m dealing with a lot right now’: Antony Catalano’s wife responds to husband’s assault charges
The media mogul was charged with assault late last week following a colourful business career.
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Resolve Political Monitor
One Nation now wrenching votes from Labor as it overtakes Coalition
Like Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, Pauline Hanson’s party is winning support at the right and left fringes as voters feel forgotten by the major parties.
Inquiry into Brethren election involvement calls on Dutton to appear
Committee chairman Jerome Laxale wants the former opposition leader to explain the nature of the relationship between the party and the church group.
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Aviation
Vape starts fire on Virgin flight to Melbourne, emergency crews respond
Flight VA328, which departed from Brisbane, issued a PAN call, which triggered a response from emergency services on the ground in Melbourne.
The ‘starfish’ city: How Melbourne’s shape is pushing young workers out
Planning expert Alain Bertaud warns that Melbourne’s rigid “starfish” growth and arbitrary planning controls are pricing out young workers and threatening the city’s economic future.
Trump wants countries to send warships to protect oil. The offers are not flooding in
The US president has not asked Canberra to send a warship to the critical choke point as he seeks to form a coalition to protect global oil trade.
Four Points
AFL 2026
McRae’s Magpies have a big problem and no obvious solution
No matter how good their defence is, Collingwood are going to struggle if they can only produce 11 goals a game. But a solution to their forward-line woes is not easy to identify.
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Formula 1
Piastri’s season goes from bad to worse; Mercedes prodigy Kimi Antonelli wins maiden GP
After crashing out of his home grand prix, Oscar Piastri has again suffered a major setback in Shanghai. Follow live.
Porn was turned off in Australia. Within hours, something else increased instead
New laws have forced Pornhub off our screens. But the harder question – what it has already done to a generation of young men – is only just beginning to be asked.
Stranger danger: With every Israeli airstrike, Lebanon pays a painful price
As the Israeli Defence Forces hunt down Hezbollah, their relentless pursuit of the Iranian-backed militia has shredded the secular fabric of Lebanese society.
Opinion
AI
Are bots coming for tech jobs, or is it ‘AI-washing’?
Some of Australia’s biggest tech success stories including Atlassian, Afterpay’s owner, and WiseTech have given their employees a bitter taste of AI reality.
Colin Kruger
Senior business reporter
Butlers, private pools and volcanic mud baths: The side of Bali you’ve been missing
Discover the island’s most serene stays, where healing, hedonism and high design collide.
Opinion
University
Lazy students are welching on our uni group assignments. It’s dragging down my marks
If a student isn’t at a level where they can pass a subject, they shouldn’t be able to sail by on the back of someone else’s work.
Saria Ratnam
Student
Your body skin is different to your face. Here’s how to treat it according to an expert
Plus, the five-minute shower challenge for a ritual that nourishes skin from neck to toe.
Explainer
Middle East at war
‘We will hunt you down’: Is Pete Hegseth for real?
It’s been a busy year for Donald Trump’s unconventional pick for secretary of war. Now, with the war in Iran, he’s firmly in the spotlight. Where did he come from? How is he performing so far?
Virginia Trioli thinks this hybrid style by Nike is the greatest shoe ever made
The ABC presenter and journalist stalks eBay for her favourite finds, and talks about her year of buying nothing new.
He’s sold 425 million books. She’s won an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy
James Patterson and Viola Davis are new partners in crime, teaming up to write one of the year’s biggest page-turners.
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War in the Middle East
Trump promises more pain for Iran as US embassy in Baghdad is bombed
The US president warned of military strikes on oil terminals in Kharg Island, threatening the economic lifeline of the Iranian regime.
‘These are war crimes’: The innocent victims paying the price of war
The threat of war is all around us, write David Crowe and Kate Geraghty from southern Lebanon.
Victoria
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Tobacco
Victoria to shut dodgy smoke shops, following $5m illegal tobacco haul
Under the proposed changes to be introduced this year, building owners who knowingly lease stores to illicit operators will face massive financial penalties.
Scientists had just hours to retrieve a 23-million-year-old fossil. Failure meant a year-long delay
Nature had already reclaimed the fossil site once, burying it beneath layers of sand. If the crew failed this time, they would have to wait another year to try again.
‘It’s the end of an era’: Beloved market bakery marks final day
After 52 years of trading, one of the most enduring fixtures of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market is shutting up shop.
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Cancer
This cancer is on the rise – but few want to talk about it
Simone Annis was about to turn 50 when she was diagnosed with a disease she knew nothing about.
‘A lot of sadness’: Fears for safety at Geelong hospital after series of patient deaths
Soaring episodes of violence and assaults have been reported inside the Geelong psychiatric unit.
WEEKEND READS
Meet Australia’s most persistent scammer, now ascending to the cloud
Dominique Eva Grubisa made a career and a fortune out of what courts now say was misleading and deceptive conduct. Nothing, so far, can stop her.
Moviemaking at -50 degrees. The Australian film crew that survived one of the world’s deadliest winters
Documenting the annual winter migration of thousands of horses in Mongolia proved just as tough a test for the Australian filmmakers as for the herders and their animals themselves.
Politics
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Middle East at war
Three more Iranian soccer team members return home, amid fears of group infiltration
The news will come as a blow to the Iranian diaspora in Australia, which fears more reversals could follow.
Business
Opinion
Budgeting
Wondering how to make money from your savings? I have three suggestions
One question I’ve been asked a lot recently is what to do with savings right now, so here are three solid options.
Victoria Devine
Money columnist
World
The US-Iran war is making Putin richer and stronger
The mood in Moscow is triumphant as elevated oil prices force the US to ease restrictions of Russian oil entering the market and help fund attacks on Ukraine.
Opinion
The Matt Canavan I know is an intellectual with ‘raw political talent’
George Brandis
Former high commissioner to the UK and federal attorney-general
Canavan and the male breadwinner model: A throwback to the ’50s
Jacqueline Maley
Columnist and senior journalist
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Property
Rundown Carlton terraces fetch $1.7 million at auction
Developers battled it out at Saturday’s auction for a pair of Victorian workers’ cottages on a single title in Carlton, with the winner forking out $355,000 above the reserve.
Inside the stunning homes three Melbourne architects designed for themselves
There is an element of fascination – and satisfaction – when architects flip the brief onto themselves.
Good Food
Lifestyle
We live in a world of radical transparency. So why are we so bad at discussing this?
It took decades for us to become “body positive”. We need to take the same approach when talking about death.
Culture
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Review
It’s based on a best-selling series, but Nicole Kidman seems almost bored in this TV adaptation
Scarpetta is mid-TV, the kind that gives the impression of being prestige, but it leaves you felling, well, meh. You watch it, you move on. It doesn’t stick.
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Sport
‘With these guys all the way’: Clarkson doesn’t want to miss out as Roos head north
After a summer of talk about it being time, North Melbourne delivered in their first match of a season, beating a pathetic Port Adelaide side by 46 points.
Four Points
AFL 2026
McRae’s Magpies have a big problem and no obvious solution
No matter how good their defence is, Collingwood are going to struggle if they can only produce 11 goals a game. But a solution to their forward-line woes is not easy to identify.
Sick but still slick: Gout overcomes illness, caps title win with hug from mum
The Australian sprint star wasn’t at his best at the Queensland Athletics Championships, but he says his performance was an important stepping stone to achieving higher goals.
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Formula 1
F1 Chinese Grand Prix LIVE: Piastri’s season goes from bad to worse; Mercedes prodigy Kimi Antonelli wins maiden GP
After crashing out of his home grand prix, the Australian’s bad luck continues after car issues in Shanghai. He and his teammate Norris were ruled out of the Chinese Grand Prix before it had begun.
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AFL 2026
King-sized win: New-look Demons on song, edge St Kilda’s rich recruits
Melbourne’s Steven King era is off to a perfect start, consigning St Kilda and their band of rich recruits to a second consecutive defeat at the MCG on Sunday.
‘The players didn’t really like me’: How a sex symbol paved the way for Australia’s female golfers
Australian golfer Jan Stephenson was a sex symbol in the ’80s. Her profile helped the world appreciate the skill of female golfers. Now, as the current generation of Australian women golfers begin to make their presence felt on the world stage, her legacy is being appreciated.
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Match review
Scott Pendlebury has played 427 games. He’s facing his first suspension
After an extraordinary 427 games, Collingwood veteran Scott Pendlebury has been served a career-first, one-match suspension for an incident during Saturday night’s loss to Adelaide.
Have Your Say
The three clubs that could entice John Longmire back to coaching
The premiership coach is “a new man”, looking younger and healthier after embracing a new role. His youngest child has finished school. So what’s next?
