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• Inside 'sandpapergate' – cricket's greatest scandal

  October 6, 2026 · 24 min

  Australians woke up on a Sunday morning in 2018 to extraordinary vision plastered across their television screens and mobile phones: Cameron Bancroft, the opening batsman on the Australian men’s cricket team, caught on camera using a piece…

• The royals have a rich history of lawsuits, but Andrew’s action is different

  October 5, 2026 · 25 min

  There’s been big news from the UK overnight, with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, launching legal action against police over his arrest in relation to the Epstein files. Not since the 1649 trial of King…

• I was a teenage boy online. It took 13 minutes for the manosphere to come

  October 4, 2026 · 15 min

  According to new analysis, screen time could damage children more than being born into poverty. The findings from the University of Calgary say higher doses of screen exposure are associated with lower overall academic achievement, poorer…

• Interest rates and Labor's spending, and the Greens look to Mamdani

  October 1, 2026 · 31 min

  Anthony Albanese is back from the United Nations in New York to a slump in his approval rating and more economic pain. On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank raised interest rates to a 15-year-high due to continued inflation pressure. So what's…

• Did Trump offer arms to Xi Jinping? What happened on the White House tour

  September 30, 2026 · 24 min

  When the competing leaders of the world's two biggest economies gather for a summit, there's usually a lot to tussle over – military build-up, trade, critical minerals or AI. But that's not what happened when Donald Trump and Xi Jinping…

• Bogong moths are swarming homes, and their story is miraculous

  September 29, 2026 · 11 min

  If you live in a certain part of Australia, you have probably noticed them – big moths flying around, clinging to glass doors and gathering around lights in massive numbers. But for all the freak-outs across the east coast, naturalists…

• Another interest rate hike? Experts say there are other ways to curb inflation

  September 28, 2026 · 19 min

  Interest rate hikes are stressing Australian mortgage holders across the country.But are higher rates the only way to get inflation down? Or are there alternatives to the Reserve Bank’s go-to, blunt-force measure?Today, senior economics…

• How real is Australia's immigration problem?

  September 27, 2026 · 24 min

  The past five decades have witnessed immigration on a scale the globe has never seen before, and countries around the world are convulsing with anti-immigration sentiment. Australia might be an island, but it's no different. This is a…