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Play School has been here for 60 years. Can it survive another 60?
22+ min ago (882+ words) On a Wednesday morning in March, tucked away in the ABC’s Studio 22, Play School hosts Zindzi Okenyo and Kaeng Chan are performing Rock Around the Clock again. And again. And again. A live band is accompanying them nearby, while the…...
Why Julia Roberts joined this unexpected Irish TV show
22+ min ago (451+ words) Who gets fan mail from Julia Roberts? Irish civil servant Rónán Hession certainly didn’t anticipate it in response to his debut novel. But that’s what happened after Leonard & Hungry Paul was published in 2019. Six years later, the Oscar-winning American actor…...
ASX set to edge up, Wall Street rises as oil prices swing
34+ min ago (893+ words) July 16, 2026 — 5:18am US stocks are gaining ground following strong profit reports from BlackRock and other big companies and an update on the path of inflation. The S&P 500 rose 0.4 per cent and was on track for a fourth gain in five…...
Labor threatens oil giants with emergency offshore clean-up levy
52+ min ago (510+ words) July 16, 2026 — 5:00am Major oil and gas companies have been put on notice that Labor will have “no hesitation” extending an emergency sector-wide levy to pay for the $200 million removal of a disused oil platform from Australian waters if its cash-constrained owners…...
This nation’s coffee myth must be confronted. It’s overrated and at $6 a cup, overpriced
52+ min ago (909+ words) July 16, 2026 — 5:00am If you want something emblematic of the post-truth era in which we live, look no further than Melbourne’s claim to be a world leader in coffee. Something demonstrably false has been willed into existence by marketing spivs. The city’s…...
Taskforce chair worries LNP has ‘abandoned’ key DV recommendations
52+ min ago (814+ words) July 16, 2026 — 5:00am Queensland’s leading figure on domestic violence reform says the government seems to have ditched key recommendations from her work, as the alleged murder of a mother heaped pressure on the LNP over its funding priorities. In rare public remarks…...
‘It’s dirty’: Stoush over whether burning waste for energy is renewable
52+ min ago (692+ words) July 16, 2026 — 5:00am A heated dispute has erupted in the renewable energy sector over whether generating electricity from incinerating waste should count as clean energy, with one of the peak bodies slamming it as dirty and deceptive. The Smart Energy Council will…...
Australian property prices: Shibboleth about house prices has just been shattered
52+ min ago (1076+ words) July 16, 2026 — 5:00am It is – or was – the bedrock conventional wisdom of Australian politics. As John Howard noted in a radio interview back in 2003, the nation’s voters want the value of their houses to keep going up and up and up. “Anybody…...
Smart planning gets you through one of the busiest airports
52+ min ago (124+ words) July 16, 2026 — 5:00am American Airlines AA5003 to Los Angeles (LAX) As a major hub for United, I book American Airlines instead, hoping to find shorter check-in queues for economy class. It pays off – AA serves a small handful of domestic destinations from Denver…...
A baby, a barbershop and a title tilt: How Crichton saved his Roosters swansong
52+ min ago (707+ words) July 16, 2026 — 5:00am Angus Crichton has a new baby, a new barbershop and a new lease on life after fearing he had ended his time in the NRL with the Roosters by playing for several weeks with a stress fracture in his…...
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