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Postcard: 'Tourists stop eating here if they see so much garbage'
Stretches of those beaches, from Nusa Dua, Kuta to Canggu, are now often covered in rubbish – drawing the sort of headlines that no tourism mecca would want
- by Amilia Rosa
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What would Suharto think of Indonesia's 2019 election?
When I started covering politics in 1997, no one paid any attention to the actual elections. How things have changed in Indonesia.
- by Karuni Rompies
A note on the federal election from our National Editor
With the election imminent, our team will cover the campaign with an approach that will enable you to cut through the noise and make up you own mind about key issues.
- by Tory Maguire
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Postcard: Shark attack 'to shock people' lives on in Oxford suburb
A bit over a year ago my one year old daughter threw up all over both of us on a bus from London to Oxford.
- by Nick Miller
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In New York, a historic bookshop at risk of being loved to death
Rising rents and the creep of online retailers are not what's threatening New York's most famous bookstore. Rather, it's at risk of being loved to death.
- by Rachel Olding
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Why the Herald does editorials and why they can be controversial
I will admit it came as something of a surprise to me the fervour with which many Herald readers responded to last Friday’s pre-state election editorial.
- by Lisa Davies
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What is Data Journalism?
A subscriber-only piece for online that explains what data journalism is with reference to our recent 'Schools that Excel' project.
- by Craig Butt
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Postcard: How a 127-year-old sauna helped me survive New York winter
At New York's Russian and Turkish Baths, which have operated since 1892, you can sweat in 87 degree heat and be thrashed with oak branches. What's not to love?
- by Matthew Knott
How to pick your 2019 AFL ladder
Predicting what will happen in the course of an AFL season is a fraught task, and and bound to be wrong on several counts, but I've based my ladder on these four factors.
- by Jake Niall
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Postcard: It's an ice day for a bike ride in Beijing
Forget about your lace-up boots or toboggans. We skate around Beijing's frozen lakes in a very different way.
- by Kirsty Needham
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How my hopes of reporting from Syria were stamped out
Sometimes it's the small things that throw well laid plans into disarray. Late last year it was the absence of a Sydney Morning Herald stamp.
- by Michael Bachelard