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News, results and expert analysis from the Paris Olympics sent daily during the Games.
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Allan appoints trusted bureaucrat for urgent construction sector review
Victoria’s independent review will provide an interim report within six weeks and a final report by the end of November.
God forgives, the CFMEU doesn’t: The warning for Labor after Setka
The union speaks to Labor’s working-class voters more than any other. Now the party fears the CFMEU has a long memory.
New push to end ‘ugly’ exploitation of older Australians
A $5 million media campaign aims to raise awareness of and eliminate elder abuse, which affects about one in six older people in Australia.
Opinion
US Votes 2024
While Trump is canonised by his party, Biden is flagellated by his
The insurrection against the decrepit president would be perfectly sensible if the Democrats had a compelling candidate to replace him.
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
Biden fumes at his beach house, resentful at Obama and those trying to drive him out
The president sees Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, as the main instigator. But he also considers Barack Obama a puppet master behind the scenes.
From honour student to the gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump
Thomas Crooks was a brainy and quiet young man who built computers and won honours at school, impressing his teachers. Then he became a would-be assassin.
Analysis
AFL 2024
How Jack Ginnivan is having his cake and eating it too
Jack Ginnivan departed Collingwood with a premiership medal around his neck, leaving behind a club whose finals hopes are in disarray and that is now going through the bleakest period of Craig McRae’s celebrated tenure.
Analysis
Paris 2024
‘Juiced to the gills’: Why an Australian swimmer is considering gene doping
No one has ever been busted gene doping, considered the next frontier in cheating in sport. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be happening at the Paris Olympics.
Updated
Match review
Why the AFL cleared Crow, Bombers over head knocks
The AFL has gone to extraordinary length in explaining why it cleared three players from Friday night’s Essendon-Adelaide clash for incidents involving head knocks.
Beach cottage smashes its reserve and changes hands for $3.9 million
A large crowd defied the cold to watch four bidders vie for the two-bedroom Williamstown home, which had been in the one family since it was built 60 years ago.
Melbourne uni students given warnings over pro-Palestine protests
Students involved in the occupation of a building in May have received warnings following hearings into their conduct.
Their companies owe billions, but this Australian family spent lavishly on a Tuscan wedding
Remon Fayad and the Fayad family spared no expense for their Florentine wedding. Back in Australia, their companies’ creditors have been left high and dry.
Australian ‘Whiskey’ and ‘Bourbon’ distillers accused of mislabelling
Complaints about Australian distillers mislabelling products as whiskey and bourbon risk triggering a trade dispute with the United States.
Nine in 10 people lie to their therapist. But why?
We pay hundreds of dollars to have people listen to our deepest truths. So why can’t we divulge our secrets?
Opinion
City life
Most of us fight with our neighbours. There’s an easy fix, but you won’t like it
Everyone seems to have a story about the neighbour from hell. Finding a way to live next door to each other is near-impossible.
Malcolm Knox
Journalist, author and columnist
Not far from the old Ford factory in Melbourne’s north, caravan-makers are booming
Almost a decade after the Australian car manufacturing industry died, caravan-makers now employ more workers than carmakers did at their peak.
Subtle and sublime, this album feels like it could have come from half a century ago
The 25-year-old’s new album is a grower that rewards careful listening.
Paris 2024
The swimmer who got to the Paris Olympics without training in the pool
Olympian Clementine Stoney Maconachie is headed for Paris, but not as a swimmer this time.
Protests, sabotage and terrorism: Inside the effort to make Paris safe
France is grappling with the potential for devastation on multiple fronts as it seeks to hold the most ambitious opening ceremony in history in the most volatile geopolitical environment since the 1930s.
Building Bad
Exclusive
More than 20 CFMEU officials stood down after organised crime allegations
Union officials and delegates have been called into meetings this week and stood down after damning revelations about the CFMEU and links to organised crime.
Editorial
Chance for a CFMEU clean-out – but the devil will be in the detail
The cronies, the corrupt, the violent and all underworld figures need to be banished from the construction union and a new generation of decent people must take their place.
Victoria
‘Very alienating places’: The state wants to almost double housing in this suburb. It may have a fight on its hands
They call Ivanhoe a “long-held suburb” for a reason. But residents are being asked to handle growth upwards, not outwards.
‘Should have been IOC president’: Gosper remembered for his profound impact
A long-time International Olympic Committee member, Kevan Gosper was also the inaugural chairman of the Australian Institute of Sport from 1980.
Camper killer Greg Lynn’s extraordinary plan to have murder conviction quashed
To clear their client of Carol Clay’s murder the former pilot’s lawyers are considering using a law successfully applied in the state only once before.
‘She’d steal her grandma’s false teeth’: Notorious conwoman jailed after decades of fraud
Athena Razos, one of many names she used, has defrauded and stolen from law firms, major banks, her first husband and friends over three decades.
Exclusive
City life
Victoria is spending $50 billion on three big projects. None of them are the project people want most
A new survey has found which infrastructure projects residents want for Melbourne, and it’s not what the Allan government is prioritising.
AFL 2024
Analysis
Could this be the night the Dons blew their finals hopes?
For the second year in a row, a finals flame that burned so brightly for much of the season is threatening to be extinguished.
‘We should be better’: Bombers annoyed after giving up late goals in costly loss
In a game of significant fluctuations, a late goal from Adelaide’s Josh Rachele ensured the Crows pulled off a stunning win over Essendon on Friday night.
Politics
Scam warning for Australians after worldwide IT outage
Australia’s cyber security minister says it’s “absolutely possible” that Friday’s IT outage was the largest in history, as banks, airports and retailers come back online.
Business
Opinion
Work therapy
My company got sold and no one told us. Is that fair?
Your employer may not have a legal responsibility to tell you about the sale of the business, but it’s clear they may not value you appropriately.
Jonathan Rivett
Careers contributor
World
Adidas ‘revising’ Bella Hadid campaign after criticism from Israel
Israel’s official social media account had objected to the involvement of the supermodel in a new campaign for retro-inspired running shoes.
Opinion
Trump 2024 is at his zenith and looks unstoppable
Bruce Wolpe
Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer
‘For the first time, I feel unsafe.’ Trump attack has Australian MPs on edge
David Crowe
Chief political correspondent
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‘People don’t know it exists’: Melbourne suburbs people never want to leave
Green space, a sense of community and plenty of family homes – home owners in these suburbs would never dream of moving away.
Our 13 favourite homes for sale in Victoria right now
Looking for your next home? From a luxurious period home to a sub-penthouse with $400,000 worth of marble, we’ve got you covered.
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Lifestyle
‘Young guys are going hard’: Are perms for men the new mullet?
More men are asking for perms that look different but smell the same as their ’80s incarnations.
Opinion
WordPlay
You might not know it, but you’re probably a ‘citizen scientist’
David Astle
Crossword compiler and ABC Radio Melbourne presenter
Culture
Megalopolis to a ‘must-squatch’: 13 highlights at the Melbourne International Film Festival
From Francis Ford Coppola’s extravagant folly to a movie about Bigfoot and the premiere of Adam Elliot’s new animation, here are our top MIFF picks.
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Analysis
AFL 2024
How Jack Ginnivan is having his cake and eating it too
Jack Ginnivan departed Collingwood with a premiership medal around his neck, leaving behind a club whose finals hopes are in disarray and that is now going through the bleakest period of Craig McRae’s celebrated tenure.
More finals intrigue as Dogs win in the mud; Pies ‘right on the edge’ of being ‘losers’
On an uber-soggy day in Melbourne, Hawthorn had a landmark win over the reigning premiers and the Western Bulldogs dumped Geelong in the mud. Port Adelaide found some touch by beating Richmond and St Kilda beat up on West Coast.
Analysis
Paris 2024
Why gene doping is the next great Olympic threat
No one has ever been busted gene doping, considered the next frontier in cheating in sport. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be happening at the Paris Olympics.
Wallabies 40 Georgia 29
Wallabies
Wallabies make it three out of three after surviving Georgian scare
The Wallabies are unbeaten so far in 2024, but they made life difficult for themselves against a granite-tough Georgia team.
Updated
Match review
Why the AFL cleared Crow, Bombers over head knocks
The AFL has gone to extraordinary length in explaining why it cleared three players from Friday night’s Essendon-Adelaide clash for incidents involving head knocks.
Saints bounce back by thumping low-flying Eagles
St Kilda have rebounded in front of their home fans with a crushing 72-point win against West Coast in a clash of AFL ladder stragglers at Marvel Stadium.
GWS crush road strugglers Gold Coast
Greater Western Sydney have inflicted Gold Coast more pain on the road, beating them by 39 points for their third consecutive win.
Have Your Say
The moment the room went quiet: Inside the meeting of some of the AFL’s most powerful figures
All 18 AFL club chiefs gathered in Perth for a crucial meeting with league bosses as the season nears its conclusion. Their agenda included some of the game’s biggest issues.
