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- It’s time for social media whingers to toughen up - 7 days ago
- Don’t be fooled, we’re having a faux debate on climate change - 2 weeks ago
- The Rush ruling’s clear message to victims - 3 weeks ago
- Hinch: Our government passed a social media gag bill without debate - 4 weeks ago
- How to Marie Kondo your friends - 1 month ago
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- Meet the dogs of the 2020 presidential campaign - 2 months ago
- In an Australian first, the ACT will legally recognise animals’ feelings - 3 months ago
- Government refuses release of live sheep video as FOI shows heat stress suffering - 3 months ago
- Dr Sam Kovac: Spending an Australia Day to remember for Sydney’s dogs - 3 months ago
- TBS Next Gen: Dolphin show protest sparks debate on performing animals - 4 months ago
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- I’m not a leftie…not anymore - 3 months ago
- I don’t blame Liam Neeson, I blame the culture that taught him - 3 months ago
- In America, fear will be the death of us all - 3 months ago
- Machteld Hali: One migrant who faced our racism, and did something about it - 4 months ago
- Dutton doubles down on distraction - 4 months ago
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- TBS Next Gen: The objectification of girls starts early, it needs to stop - 3 weeks ago
- When it comes to women in parliament, Australia is 48th in the world - 2 months ago
- The scheme using sport to connect fathers and their daughters - 3 months ago
- In America, fear will be the death of us all - 3 months ago
- Australia can do more to keep women in parliament - 3 months ago
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- Federalism, the “F-word” we should be saying this election - 2 days ago
- Japan’s mysterious tsuchinoko: Real or nah? - 3 days ago
- Yellow Vests Australia: Not who you think they are - 4 days ago
- 40,000: The number of Venezuelans killed by Trump’s sanctions - 6 days ago
- The Yeelirrie uranium mine is wiping out a species – Is it worth it? - 7 days ago
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- Dawn of the dread: Why so many candidates resigning in disgrace is a good thing - 3 days ago
- Lunatic fringe or secret progressive: What does Clive Palmer actually want? - 3 days ago
- What refereeing your kids taught me about our politics - 7 days ago
- Lyra McKee’s murder merely proves that the troubles are not behind us - 1 week ago
- Our own Watergate: A deluge of scandal our media ignored - 2 weeks ago
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- Israel Folau quits rubgy…to represent One Nation - 4 days ago
- Measles overjoyed that so many people are giving it a second chance - 1 week ago
- Local mum still unsure what celebrity she’ll get medical advice from - 2 weeks ago
- Gladys relaxes lockout laws to accomodate her election party - 1 month ago
- All peer-viewed studies to be replaced by CAPS LOCK - 1 month ago
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- Study finds that shrimp in the UK are on all the drugs - 2 days ago
- Measles overjoyed that so many people are giving it a second chance - 1 week ago
- An incomplete list of the times science was used for evil - 2 weeks ago
- Regarding climate change, and the great dying we’re living through - 2 weeks ago
- Reanimating that pig illustrates our elastic definition of death - 2 weeks ago
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- The cricketer jailed for rape should be the start of the discussion - 5 days ago
- Par-adise lost: The complicated redemption of Tiger Woods - 3 weeks ago
- The scheme using sport to connect fathers and their daughters - 3 months ago
- The A-League expansion is a failure in business and football terms - 5 months ago
- David Wright: Farewelling a broken icon for a broken America - 7 months ago
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- No good: Why we love our politicians two-faced - 2 years 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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- Globalism v Nationalism: Do we protect the worker or the product? - 11 hours ago
- Practifi’s Emily Wilcox: The Australian COO disrupting the American fintech space - 6 days ago
- B1G1: Helping business discover the dimension that’s been missing - 2 weeks ago
- Jewish House and Project HoPe: Helping families, pets and all - 2 weeks ago
- The drivers of Uber want their data, Uber doesn’t want them to have it - 1 month ago
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- Meet a CEO: Harry Chemay, Clover.com.au - 2 days ago
- AI believes we express emotions the same six ways – That is a problem - 1 week ago
- When do we start treating humanoid robots like people? - 3 weeks ago
- Customer experience in SaaS – Build real relationships and the customers will come - 3 weeks ago
- App that highlights danger spots for women is not the issue - 3 weeks ago
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- Tech giants aren’t listening to our conversations…they don’t need to - 4 days ago
- The law is fine with you creating AI that rips off copyrighted material - 2 weeks ago
- Michelle Joosse: Journey from a non-tech background to IT CEO - 3 weeks ago
- This sucks: China’s $13,000 ‘sperm extractor’ comes with a load of problems - 3 weeks ago
- Mellissa Larkin shortlisted for the prestigious ‘Partner of the Year Awards 2019’ - 4 weeks ago
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- Meet a CEO: Harry Chemay, Clover.com.au - 2 days ago
- Good government is addicted to cashing in on our vices - 3 weeks ago
- Raise the rate: The AUWU’s Jeremy Poxon talks welfare - 3 weeks ago
- Mediscare 2.0: Here’s what you need to know about hospital “cuts” and cancer funding - 3 weeks ago
- In Australia, we have our taxes backwards - 3 weeks ago
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- Raise the rate: The AUWU’s Jeremy Poxon talks welfare - 3 weeks ago
- Women of the Labor Party: Terri Butler – Shadow Minister for Employment - 2 months ago
- Women of the Labor Party: Catherine King – Shadow Health Minister - 2 months ago
- Julian Burnside: “I have the utmost contempt for a party which tries to win votes by lies and hypocrisy” - 2 months ago
- Meet an Influencer: Behind the photograph with Mike Emery - 2 months ago
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- “Coercive control” is legal in Australia – It shouldn’t be - 5 days ago
- Repeat sex offender on parole “slipped through the net” claim NSW police - 5 days ago
- Another catholic priest charged with numerous child sex offences - 3 weeks ago
- New Zealand gun owners fire back with NRA tropes - 3 weeks ago
- NSW police conduct yet more public strip searches - 4 weeks ago
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- ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ is the crest of a very dorky wave - 1 week ago
- When faced with tragedy, social media shares its happy snaps - 2 weeks ago
- The problem with smart journalists and dumb politicians - 3 weeks ago
- ‘Journalism of the very worst kind’ judge rules in favour of Geoffrey Rush - 3 weeks ago
- Men are having less sex…this is why - 4 weeks ago
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- Millennials work harder and smarter than you, get over it - 2 months ago
- Undoing the concept of living on “borrowed” time - 4 months ago
- “Sales Ninja” or “Product Evangelist” – Do we need a dressed-up job title to feel better about work - 6 months ago
- A salute to all the jobs I’ve lost along the way - 6 months ago
- Does the train to work qualify as work? No, but it can feel like it - 7 months ago
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Society.
From Underground
to Mainstream
- Violet LeVoit’s new novel is a dazzling narrative not usually told - 2 weeks ago
- The Finally Famous Book Club visits the office of Dr Seuss - 2 weeks ago
- Michelle Arrow’s ‘The Seventies’ is a living slice of our history - 3 weeks ago
- Make no mistake – Autumn Christian’s “Girl Like a Bomb” is a future classic - 1 month ago
- Ann Weisgarber: The Glovemaker – A Mormon tale of striving and revenge with great meaning - 1 month ago
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- Mandela’s ally to touch down in Melbourne to discuss South Africa’s struggle - 6 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? - 3 years ago
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- My top ten Australian films of the 21st century (so far) - 1 day ago
- After the internet complained, the live-action Sonic will be changed - 2 days ago
- Avengers: Endgame – The most fun you can have responsibly in a cinema - 6 days ago
- The Beach Bum: Nearly unreviewable - 1 week ago
- Attenborough’s latest masterpiece comes with a prescient message - 1 week ago
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- Avengers: Endgame – The most fun you can have responsibly in a cinema - 6 days ago
- The Beach Bum: Nearly unreviewable - 1 week ago
- A tale of two cinemas illuminated in “The Gospel of Eureka” - 2 weeks ago
- Jordan Peele’s “Us” is genius in horror form - 4 weeks ago
- Tito and the Birds: A grim examination of life through the eyes of the innocent - 2 months ago
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- The Dandy Warhols’ Zia McCabe on living the high life - 1 week ago
- Black metal is painted on the screen in “Lords of Chaos” - 2 months ago
- Dave Brubeck: The white jazz musician who fought segregation - 2 months ago
- Casey Golden: The genius subverting jazz from within - 3 months ago
- Country songs, designer clothes, bondage: Percy Grainger was one-of-a-kind - 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 - 7 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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- Restraints, drugging, apathy: The awful truth about dementia care - 3 days ago
- It’s official: We’re sadder, angrier and more worried than ever before - 4 days ago
- Drugs exist that allow you to forget bad memories – but should you take them? - 2 weeks ago
- Good government is addicted to cashing in on our vices - 3 weeks ago
- Reflections on losing your father in the vibrant sun of Sacramento - 3 weeks ago
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- Restraints, drugging, apathy: The awful truth about dementia care - 3 days ago
- It’s official: We’re sadder, angrier and more worried than ever before - 4 days ago
- Drugs exist that allow you to forget bad memories – but should you take them? - 2 weeks ago
- Good government is addicted to cashing in on our vices - 3 weeks ago
- Anti-vaxxers slammed for using Star of David badge - 4 weeks ago
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- Drugs exist that allow you to forget bad memories – but should you take them? - 2 weeks ago
- Reflections on losing your father in the vibrant sun of Sacramento - 3 weeks ago
- Breaking news: The world is a good place - 3 weeks ago
- The date that didn’t ask me any questions - 4 weeks ago
- Those who ghost actually believe in love - 1 month ago
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- Star Wars fandom is turning to the dark side - 1 day ago
- The great sleep problem: Why we’re getting too much (and not enough) - 4 days ago
- I lived through the school holidays, but I didn’t survive it - 5 days ago
- A woman discovered the greenhouse effect – We don’t know her name - 6 days ago
- Science believes we’re showering far too much - 1 week ago
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Wander.
From $5
to Five Hats
- Clicking keys behind bars: The writers who experienced prison - 3 weeks ago
- Meet an Influencer: Behind the photograph with Mike Emery - 2 months ago
- Julie Mehretu: Epigraph, Damascus – Syrian Civil War comes to life in art - 2 months ago
- Decoding the messages left in ancient art - 3 months ago
- The extremely weird traits of extremely famous creatives - 3 months ago
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- Ask Dotty: How do I get our celebrity neighbour to come over? - 3 weeks ago
- Momo isn’t targeting our kids, it is targeting us - 2 months ago
- Quick MAFS: Girls night, boys night…if there’s no fight, I’m done - 2 months ago
- Wanna be a dictator? Try totalitarianism…in five easy steps - 6 months ago
- “It’s been a long time coming” – Group re-radicalising Mardi Gras - 6 months ago
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- Our rage against the church: Powerful, but misguided - 8 months ago
- As a foster parent, we need to look to children in our backyard too - 8 months ago
- Sex for survival is a reality for homeless women like me - 9 months ago
- I ran from my abusive husband – Social media found me - 9 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 - 2 months ago
- According to research, your food allergy is BS - 4 months ago
- TBS Foodie: Eight ways to quietly manage your holiday overeating - 4 months ago
- According to the internet, your avocado wants to kill you - 5 months ago
- I’m an adult. I order from the kid’s menu. I am enlightened. - 5 months ago
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- Meeting the stateless children of Lebanon - 3 months ago
- I couldn’t afford a hostel, so I slept rough in Trafalgar Square - 4 months ago
- Are Australian tourists really that bad? - 6 months ago
- Ahmed, Arabic pop and hiding from the prostitutes of the Western Sahara - 8 months ago
- That time I got conned into buying the Dead Sea - 9 months ago
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TBS Gen.
From Next Gen to Boomers
- The Big Smoke Next Generation
- TBS Boomers
- TBS Next Gen: The objectification of girls starts early, it needs to stop - 3 weeks ago
- TBS Next Gen: If I could speak with Scott Morrison, this is what I’d say - 1 month ago
- TBS Next Gen: We can all be captains of this planet – here’s how - 3 months ago
- TBS Next Gen: Dolphin show protest sparks debate on performing animals - 4 months ago
- TBS Next Gen: This Christmas, let us extend a hand to those who need it - 5 months ago
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- World Health Day: For everyone, everywhere - 4 weeks ago
- #BalanceforBetter: International Women’s Day and the major health myths many Australian women still believe - 2 months ago
- Senior citizens turn to Uber-style grandkids app - 2 months ago
- TBS Boomers: Hormonal changes and the heat – five ways to help Australians over 50 survive summer 2019 - 3 months ago
- Ian Henderson reflects on 40 years in the news - 5 months ago
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