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- Meet the women of the NSW Liberal Party - 2 weeks ago
- Julian Burnside: “I have the utmost contempt for a party which tries to win votes by lies and hypocrisy” - 2 weeks ago
- Gretel Killeen on how to resolve conflict (like a tradie) - 4 weeks ago
- Bruce Notley-Smith: We have achieved a lot since the first Mardi Gras – but there is more to do - 1 month ago
- We’re all ageing, but we’re not talking about it - 2 months ago
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- Meet the dogs of the 2020 presidential campaign - 4 weeks ago
- In an Australian first, the ACT will legally recognise animals’ feelings - 1 month ago
- Government refuses release of live sheep video as FOI shows heat stress suffering - 2 months ago
- Dr Sam Kovac: Spending an Australia Day to remember for Sydney’s dogs - 2 months ago
- TBS Next Gen: Dolphin show protest sparks debate on performing animals - 3 months ago
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- Current Affairs Wrap: Brexit jumps shark, One Nation’s big week, the goodest boy of all - 16 hours ago
- Pauline Hanson’s gun platform gives us too much ammunition - 4 days ago
- No thanks, One Nation – Our gun laws work just fine - 5 days ago
- McGregor’s retirement has nothing to do with sexual assault: Conor’s legal team - 5 days ago
- The coalition is back – But delivering on promises won’t be easy - 7 days ago
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- I’m not a leftie…not anymore - 1 month ago
- I don’t blame Liam Neeson, I blame the culture that taught him - 2 months ago
- In America, fear will be the death of us all - 2 months ago
- Machteld Hali: One migrant who faced our racism, and did something about it - 3 months ago
- Dutton doubles down on distraction - 3 months ago
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- When it comes to women in parliament, Australia is 48th in the world - 4 weeks ago
- The scheme using sport to connect fathers and their daughters - 2 months ago
- In America, fear will be the death of us all - 2 months ago
- Australia can do more to keep women in parliament - 2 months ago
- There is a sharp decline of male teachers in this country – This is why - 2 months ago
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- We need a climate revolution, and we need it now - 3 days ago
- Know who you’re slaying: Charybdis and Scylla - 1 week ago
- Don’t reinvent the wheel Gladys, just fix the trains - 1 week ago
- Forget donkey voting, the NSW election is about DIY democracy - 2 weeks ago
- A nod to all the types of Instagram people we lost today - 2 weeks ago
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- Chinese social media platform WeChat could be key in the federal election - 3 days ago
- Should One Nation now be deregistered? - 6 days ago
- No, the NSW election wasn’t swung on the gun vote - 6 days ago
- NSW Votes: Labor deserved to lose, but we didn’t deserve Mark Latham - 1 week ago
- Antony Green calls the election for the Berejiklian government - 1 week ago
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- Gladys relaxes lockout laws to accomodate her election party - 1 week ago
- All peer-viewed studies to be replaced by CAPS LOCK - 1 week ago
- JK Rowling’s next book will be a list of who is banging who - 2 weeks ago
- Inmates prepare cutlery for Pell’s welcome party - 3 weeks ago
- Measles send gift baskets to Hollywood elite - 1 month ago
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- To save our future climate, we need to act today - 1 month ago
- This is why so many people believe in psychic powers - 2 months ago
- Articulating the war between science and religion - 3 months ago
- The Australian woman defending our night sky - 4 months ago
- Let’s not politicise climate change, it distracts us from the truth - 4 months ago
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- The scheme using sport to connect fathers and their daughters - 2 months ago
- The A-League expansion is a failure in business and football terms - 4 months ago
- David Wright: Farewelling a broken icon for a broken America - 5 months ago
- Sins of the father: Reflections on the loss of Tim Cahill - 9 months ago
- It’s not coming home, and I feel fine - 9 months ago
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- No good: Why we love our politicians two-faced - 1 year ago
- Cocoa and coffee: Science’s most influential duo - 2 years ago
- Hell, thy name is Tiny Kitchen - 2 years ago
- Christmas with our pollies: Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong and Arthur Sinodinos on how they spend Christmas - 2 years ago
- Try walking these meme streets in Lizzie’s shoes - 2 years ago
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- Emoji invades workplace, staff felled by passive-aggressiveness - 2 years ago
- Italian restaurant offers 5% discount to quiet kids - 2 years ago
- Man creates “Trump Against Humanity” card game – Lawyers say no - 2 years ago
- Know who you’re YouTubing: FND Films - 3 years ago
- Larry is back…and we celebrate by wasting our day watching Curb clips - 3 years ago
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Ladder.
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- The drivers of Uber want their data, Uber doesn’t want them to have it - 4 days ago
- Morfus: A new exercise in business building for personal trainers - 1 week ago
- Kaspersky Lab combines with comedian Joe White to get serious about cybersecurity - 2 weeks ago
- America’s cash-for-college scam is not about education – it’s about status - 2 weeks ago
- Steve Madden gets his motor running with Harry’s Café de Wheels - 3 weeks ago
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- NASA will pay you to lie in bed for two months - 3 days ago
- Our voice assistants hear things we don’t - 1 month ago
- Kerb: Oh, what a feeling to win the Toyota Hackathon - 1 month ago
- Google is the confession booth of the modern age - 1 month ago
- There are three types of Internet ideologies we cling to - 2 months ago
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- Chinese social media platform WeChat could be key in the federal election - 3 days ago
- Apple relying on bloodless combat to beat Netflix - 4 days ago
- The EU will not ban memes – they’ll let the tech companies do it - 5 days ago
- Kaspersky’s Margrith Appleby: The ease of doing business - 7 days ago
- Blaming social media for Christchurch is clickbait logic - 2 weeks ago
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- Labor’s plan to kill negative gearing impacts the wrong people - 3 days ago
- That dead crypto CEO’s laptop was empty – so where’s the money? - 4 weeks ago
- Savvy: Do you have enough life insurance? - 1 month ago
- Four years on from the Panama Papers and nothing has changed - 1 month ago
- Franking credits, dividend imputation and “retiree tax” explained! - 2 months ago
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- Women of the Labor Party: Terri Butler – Shadow Minister for Employment - 2 weeks ago
- Women of the Labor Party: Catherine King – Shadow Health Minister - 2 weeks ago
- Julian Burnside: “I have the utmost contempt for a party which tries to win votes by lies and hypocrisy” - 2 weeks ago
- Meet an Influencer: Behind the photograph with Mike Emery - 3 weeks ago
- The Royal Commission missed the banks and bashed the mortgage brokers - 4 weeks ago
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- Privately-run prisons to be returned to Queensland government - 2 days ago
- Police charge notable white supremacist after repeated online threats - 2 days ago
- “An ugly precedent”: Critics slam police strip searching at train stations - 1 week ago
- John Pat’s death in custody got our attention, but the issue remains - 2 weeks ago
- UK makes organ donation default, we should follow suit - 2 weeks ago
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- The media banked on Russiagate – Now they need to get over it - 6 days ago
- In banning the shooter’s manifesto, is NZ impacting ‘free speech’ - 7 days ago
- In a week where we’ve been calling for media balance, Channel 7 has done this - 2 weeks ago
- If we want better journalism, make the industry more diverse - 2 weeks ago
- We mustn’t use our political power to kick Anning out of parliament - 2 weeks ago
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- Millennials work harder and smarter than you, get over it - 1 month ago
- Undoing the concept of living on “borrowed” time - 3 months ago
- “Sales Ninja” or “Product Evangelist” – Do we need a dressed-up job title to feel better about work - 4 months ago
- A salute to all the jobs I’ve lost along the way - 5 months ago
- Does the train to work qualify as work? No, but it can feel like it - 6 months ago
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Society.
From Underground
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- Make no mistake – Autumn Christian’s “Girl Like a Bomb” is a future classic - 1 day ago
- Ann Weisgarber: The Glovemaker – A Mormon tale of striving and revenge with great meaning - 1 week ago
- Women in fiction: Political incorrectness versus banality - 3 weeks ago
- “Zebra” – Debra Adelaide’s collection of short stories earns its stripes - 2 months ago
- Gabino Iglesias on “Coyote Songs” and the lit genre he created for himself - 2 months ago
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- Mandela’s ally to touch down in Melbourne to discuss South Africa’s struggle - 5 months ago
- While you were asleep: Trump comes clean, Australia’s mortal wounding, Avril’s Beatle cover - 2 years ago
- Survival of the Fittest: 5 Reasons Why Redheads are Scientifically Superior - 2 years ago
- Adler ban triggers police forming policy, not legislators - 2 years ago
- #AusPol winners and losers: Who guessed the correct number of jellybeans? - 2 years ago
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- New York – the city where ‘making it’ takes many forms - 3 days ago
- Parents and kids who allow screen time spend more time together - 2 weeks ago
- Sonic the Hedgehog is a plagiarist – And I have proof - 2 weeks ago
- These Australian women dominated Hollywood before Hollywood - 3 weeks ago
- Quick MAFS: The horrors of homestay week continue… - 4 weeks ago
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- Tito and the Birds: A grim examination of life through the eyes of the innocent - 3 weeks ago
- Black metal is painted on the screen in “Lords of Chaos” - 1 month ago
- On Netflix: The Ritual is a deep examination of judgement and escapism - 2 months ago
- The practical perfection of “Mary Poppins Returns” - 2 months ago
- Lars von Trier and Panos Cosmatos: The pair redefining good and evil - 2 months ago
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- Black metal is painted on the screen in “Lords of Chaos” - 1 month ago
- Dave Brubeck: The white jazz musician who fought segregation - 1 month ago
- Casey Golden: The genius subverting jazz from within - 2 months ago
- Country songs, designer clothes, bondage: Percy Grainger was one-of-a-kind - 3 months ago
- I’m homeless – you buskers need to change your tune - 4 months ago
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- Know who you’re Youtubing: Painter Robin Clonts - 2 years ago
- Know Who You’re Instagramming: Jessica Hirsch of @cheatdayeats - 2 years ago
- Know Who You’re Instagramming: Larone Thompson of @tastethisnext - 2 years ago
- Know Who You’re Instagramming: Ricky Sam from @forksake - 2 years ago
- Know who you’re Instagramming: Keely and Cassandra of @fknaussie - 2 years ago
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- Hailing Ada Lovelace, the 19th century mother of computer science - 6 months ago
- Know who you’re Googling: Al Bowlly – History’s first crooner - 2 years ago
- Know who you’re Googling: Émile Zola - 2 years ago
- Know who you’re Googling: Sappho – Feminist trailblazer, ancient poetess, mystery - 2 years ago
- Know who you’re Googling: James Baldwin - 2 years ago
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- Do smart foods actually make you smarter? - 11 hours ago
- There’s a link between poor gut health and depression - 5 days ago
- Lessons I learned when I buried my father - 5 days ago
- Why do men who ghost you still follow you on social media? - 6 days ago
- Morfus: A new exercise in business building for personal trainers - 1 week ago
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- Do smart foods actually make you smarter? - 11 hours ago
- There’s a link between poor gut health and depression - 5 days ago
- Morfus: A new exercise in business building for personal trainers - 1 week ago
- Depression, mental health and falling apart together - 2 weeks ago
- Are alcohol-free music festivals the answer? - 3 weeks ago
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- Lessons I learned when I buried my father - 5 days ago
- Why do men who ghost you still follow you on social media? - 6 days ago
- The secret to a lasting marriage is in your genes - 3 weeks ago
- Love, that four letter word - 1 month ago
- Is social media killing love? - 1 month ago
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- Ask Dotty: How do I manage this stressful life? - 4 days ago
- May promises to quit if Brexit passes, finally kills off logic - 4 days ago
- As a barista, I say bring on the coffee making robots - 6 days ago
- The internet’s black pill is an evil we all have to swallow - 7 days ago
- Are you a voting replicant? Take our test and find out! - 1 week ago
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Wander.
From $5
to Five Hats
- Meet an Influencer: Behind the photograph with Mike Emery - 3 weeks ago
- Julie Mehretu: Epigraph, Damascus – Syrian Civil War comes to life in art - 3 weeks ago
- Decoding the messages left in ancient art - 2 months ago
- The extremely weird traits of extremely famous creatives - 2 months ago
- Gabino Iglesias on “Coyote Songs” and the lit genre he created for himself - 2 months ago
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- Momo isn’t targeting our kids, it is targeting us - 4 weeks ago
- Quick MAFS: Girls night, boys night…if there’s no fight, I’m done - 1 month ago
- Wanna be a dictator? Try totalitarianism…in five easy steps - 5 months ago
- “It’s been a long time coming” – Group re-radicalising Mardi Gras - 5 months ago
- Why has Halloween become so popular among adults? - 5 months ago
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- Our rage against the church: Powerful, but misguided - 7 months ago
- As a foster parent, we need to look to children in our backyard too - 7 months ago
- Sex for survival is a reality for homeless women like me - 8 months ago
- I ran from my abusive husband – Social media found me - 8 months ago
- TBS Anon: Reflections on my evening smuggling Krispy Kremes - 2 years ago
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- Cheese will now save your life, apparently - 1 month ago
- According to research, your food allergy is BS - 3 months ago
- TBS Foodie: Eight ways to quietly manage your holiday overeating - 3 months ago
- According to the internet, your avocado wants to kill you - 4 months ago
- I’m an adult. I order from the kid’s menu. I am enlightened. - 4 months ago
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- Meeting the stateless children of Lebanon - 1 month ago
- I couldn’t afford a hostel, so I slept rough in Trafalgar Square - 3 months ago
- Are Australian tourists really that bad? - 5 months ago
- Ahmed, Arabic pop and hiding from the prostitutes of the Western Sahara - 7 months ago
- That time I got conned into buying the Dead Sea - 8 months ago
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TBS Gen.
From Next Gen to Boomers
- The Big Smoke Next Generation
- TBS Boomers
- TBS Next Gen: If I could speak with Scott Morrison, this is what I’d say - 5 days ago
- TBS Next Gen: We can all be captains of this planet – here’s how - 2 months ago
- TBS Next Gen: Dolphin show protest sparks debate on performing animals - 3 months ago
- TBS Next Gen: This Christmas, let us extend a hand to those who need it - 3 months ago
- TBS Next Gen: At 11, reading is already my life – and will continue to be - 4 months ago
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- #BalanceforBetter: International Women’s Day and the major health myths many Australian women still believe - 4 weeks ago
- Senior citizens turn to Uber-style grandkids app - 4 weeks ago
- TBS Boomers: Hormonal changes and the heat – five ways to help Australians over 50 survive summer 2019 - 2 months ago
- Ian Henderson reflects on 40 years in the news - 4 months ago
- Thanks, coach: Reflections on funerals I’ve attended on the way to mine - 7 months ago
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