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Panicked missed calls and ‘silly’ seat demands: New texts expose Lehrmann interview tensions
Spotlight producers thought their interview with Bruce Lehrmann would be “the most amazing thing on Australian TV ever”. But new texts show a different story.
Opinion
Defamation
So much litigation, so little clarity: The Lehrmann case is a sordid labyrinth
For so many involved, the grimy details of this defamation trial have strayed far from natural justice.
Jacqueline Maley
Columnist and senior journalist
Israel pressed to co-operate with Australian probe into aid worker killings
The Albanese government is also urging Israel to take further action against the troops responsible for the death of Australian Zomi Frankcom and six fellow aid workers if they are found guilty of wrong-doing.
Opinion
Inside China
China blocked my visa. I spent three years getting as close as I could
Suddenly, like The New York Times, The Washington Post and the ABC, we were blocked. Why? We will never know for certain. But in the end, China’s actions amplified voices it had hoped to suppress.
Eryk Bagshaw
North Asia correspondent
Unprecedented spread of coral bleaching along Great Barrier Reef
Aerial survey results show massive bleaching along the 2300-kilometre ecosystem, which may trigger the announcement of a global event following similar incidents in the northern hemisphere.
Backlash over renewables rollout pushes projects into native species habitat
The Albanese government is caught between twin pledges to double renewable energy and to end Australia’s steady stream of native species extinctions.
‘I’m no longer the person who feels like they shouldn’t be at the party’: Kirsten Dunst
She’s been a movie star since she was 11, but it’s only now, 30 years later, that the actor feels that she’s arrived.
Exclusive
Title Deeds
Hemsworth plots $14.6 million designer digs in Byron Bay
The house won’t be nearly visible from space like his big brother Chris’s place, but including land cost it will set him back more than $20 million.
Seven’s deadly sins: the questionable culture of the network and Mark Llewellyn
The spotlight has been turned back onto Seven’s current affairs show.
Exclusive
Liberal Party
Liberal Party needs more women MPs: Tony Abbott
Former prime minister Abbott, who has a chequered history on gender relations, rejected quotas for the Liberal Party but said it needed greater ethnic and gender diversity.
Opinion
Live music
Kids have not ‘gone soft’ when it comes to music festivals
The rapid decline of music festivals in Australia is symptomatic of a bigger problem – and it’s not the fault of young people.
Millie Muroi
Business Reporter
Opinion
JK Rowling
This is how cancel culture ends. Thank you, JK Rowling
When the author dared police to arrest her – if they believed she’d broken new hate-speech laws – she struck a blow for freedom.
Parnell Palme McGuinness
Columnist and communications adviser
Opinion
Health insurance
How to manage now private health insurance costs are (seriously) rising
If you want to keep your coverage but can’t find the extra money, there are a number of options available to you.
Victoria Devine
Money columnist
‘It feels exposing’: Teaching Gen Z to pick up the phone
As employers continue to return staff to the office, the generation who started work in the pandemic is struggling at the water cooler. And on the phone.
This ‘Pearl of southern Italy’ is having a definite moment
Food is the beating heart of this part of the world, so to know Puglia is to know its cuisine.
I did one of Australia’s greatest treks the easy way (and it wasn’t that easy)
For 90 years, walkers have been discovering the Tasmanian bush, and perhaps something about themselves, as they trek the Overland Track’s 65 kilometres
There are books and films about grief but in the end, it was up to me
Amid the bewilderment of loss, art helps us navigate a way forward.
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Opinion
Gender equality
The sick joke that insults our new GG – and Beyonce
Julia Baird
Journalist, broadcaster, historian and author
Just in
Western Australia
Nine must-do highlights of Fremantle, Western Australia
It’s impossible not to be charmed by this eclectic port suburb, also known as the gateway to Rottnest Island.
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City life
Charm offensive: Chris Isaak conquers an adoring Kings Park crowd
For a singer celebrated for his heartbreaking romantic ballads Chris Isaak sure knows how to deliver a great gag.
Woodside, Pilbara fertiliser plant look at storing emissions underground
Woodside and Norway’s Yara are targeting injecting more than one million tonnes of carbon emissions a year under the seabed off the Pilbara coast.
Drug runner in WA cocaine mega-bust cops lengthy jail term
A New South Wales man embroiled in Australia’s largest ever drug sting will spend at least 12 years behind bars for transporting and hoarding 200 kilograms of plaster he believed to be $100 million worth of cocaine.
Youth wing in high-security prison ‘set up to fail’
The corrections worker who found Cleveland Dodd after he self-harmed says the prison unit where the incident happened “was set up to fail”.
Politics
Husic accuses Israeli government of ‘systemic failure’ over aid worker deaths
The Albanese government’s most senior minister of Muslim faith has delivered a stinging rebuke to the Israeli government after the deaths of seven aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom.
Business
Opinion
Hip pocket
The overlooked tool that can guarantee your retirement income
Retirees are often wary of annuities, also known as a lifetime or fixed-term pension. Here’s what you need to know.
Dominic Powell
Money Editor
World
Opinion
Inside China
China blocked my visa. I spent three years getting as close as I could
In the end, its actions amplified voices it had hoped to suppress.
Eryk Bagshaw
North Asia correspondent
Opinion
Channel Seven’s grubby Spotlight ‘exclusive’ puts my beloved trade to shame
Ray Martin
Veteran broadcaster and journalist
Making sense of health headlines shouldn’t be so difficult – or dangerous
Sarah Berry
Lifestyle Health Editor
Forget siblings, the best family relationship is cousins
Richard Glover
Broadcaster and columnist
Explore
Property
The median cost of a Perth house just hit a new record high
While there is a lot of talk about eastern states investors paying top-dollar for homes in WA, REIWA members report it’s usually local buyers willing to pay more.
How two brothers created one of the skinniest houses in the world
It’s six feet wide at its thinnest and took 24 goes to get through the local council, but the result is clever and intriguing.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Before a girls’ night out, this is the cheat sheet I left for my husband
Although he has always been a hands-on dad, he works long hours and doesn’t get home until after the kids are in bed during the week. So, he needed help.
Culture
Don Lane, the Devil, and why Aussie horror is taking over the world
Hot on the heels of breakout hit Talk To Me, Late Night With the Devil is the latest Aussie horror flick to attract worldwide buzz, and box office results.
Opinion
Reality TV
Polyamory should be a gold mine for reality TV. What went wrong?
Ariel Fowkes
Contributing writer
Traveller
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Sport
Why the hottest basketball player in the world is a 22-year-old university student
Steph Curry and LeBron James move aside: Caitlin Clark is the most famous basketball player in the world right now, and she’s only just getting started.
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Hockey
Fight night on ice: All 10 players in mass brawl from opening face-off in NHL
The puck had barely touched the ice to start Wednesday night’s New York Rangers v New Jersey Devils clash when the players squared off and began trading punches in a wild, all-in fight.
‘He was like a three year-old’: A secret skill made Mark Blicavs football’s Mr Versatile
Sure, he’s 198 centimetres tall and can run like the wind. But at Geelong, when teammates and coaches are asked what sets Mark Blicavs apart, they invariably identify qualities that can’t be measured or timed.
Marvel’s $225m upgrade improved women’s facilities. But AFLW still won’t play there
Marvel Stadium will not be used for AFLW matches in 2024 despite recently being upgraded with $225 million of state government funding, in part for “improved facilities to support professional women’s sport”.
Former AFL star Sam Fisher admits to role in drug smuggling plot
The former St Kilda footballer is facing a significant stint behind bars after admitting his role in trafficking illicit drugs across the country hidden in a kitchen appliance.
AFL round four teams: Hardwick dumps seven players for GWS clash
Our experts have entered their tips for the nine games of round four. See which way they’re predicting each match will turn out, and come back on Thursday night for all the ins and outs.
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Paris 2024
‘We don’t want to damage him’: Vidmar explains Irankunda Olympic snub
He’s coming off a record-breaking hat-trick and is bound for Bayern Munich – but the hottest talent in Australia won’t be part of this month’s qualifiers.
Have Your Say
Please, Teddy, after 10 concussions you need to call it a day
James Tedesco was knocked out again on Friday night. I fear it leaves him in the early stages of what fellow Roosters Jake Friend and Boyd Cordner went through.
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author