Donald Trump is planning on giving TikTok a temporary reprieve.

The dark truth about Trump’s bid to save TikTok

In his first day in office,Donald Trump signed an executive order that defies a US law and encourages others to breach it.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz

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At loggerheads over AI:Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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AI

What is Stargate? Trump’s $800b AI investment explained

The announcement is set to reshape the tech sector and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Where does Australia fit in,and what does Elon Musk have to say?

  • byDavid Swan
Demon defeated:Alex de Minaur waves to the crowd after his quarter-final loss.

Why we shouldn’t give up on de Minaur being more than ‘a quarter-final guy’

The Demon has reached four consecutive grand slam quarter-finals. Is that his level?

  • byMarc McGowan

Albanese now realises he’s on a rescue mission to save the sinking ship

The prime minister has finally switched into gear. But with at most four months to go until we vote,there’s a decent chance that he has moved too late.

  • byShaun Carney
A parking meter at Balmoral Beach,Mosman.
Editorial
Cars

Renters could get slice of parking on Sydney’s northern beaches

Home owners may have to share parking spaces at northern Sydney beaches with renters.

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The terrifying experience that made me a fierce supporter of vaccines

I don’t want any children,or any new parents,to go through what we did.

  • byJane Caro
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Jannik Sinner of Italy beat Alex de Minaur.

It was highly anticipated,but not unpredictable:Sinner was heavenly,the Demon exorcised

This was really no contest:Jannik Sinner showed Alex de Minaur just how big the gulf is between No.8 and No.1.

  • byGreg Baum
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Ladybirds,passion fruit and beaver tails,oh my

But no animals were harmed in the making of this column

Sayers is a former PwC chief executive.
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AFL 2025

Salacious corporeal material rather than suited corporate failings ends Sayers tenure

Had he clung to the presidency,Luke Sayers would have faced pressure to explain exactly what had transpired and the provenance of this embarrassing photo.

  • byJake Niall
Opinion
Censorship

Banning G-strings at public pools is a bummer for some,but it’s the right move

Blue Mountains City Council has banned G-string bikinis at its pools,causing online outrage. But not everyone wants to see your bare bum.

  • byCherie Gilmour
Images taken by family members of Ramia Abdo Sultan on their return to their homes in southern Gaza.

My family had to bury a relative in their courtyard. Their exhaustion is palpable

According to my cousins,uncles and aunts on the ground,the devastation of Gaza is so complete,so personal,that words and images fail to convey its depth.

  • byRamia Abdo-Sultan

Trump’s war on efforts to slow climate change futile

By doubling down on his cry to “drill,baby,drill” and removing all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry,the new president has once again declared war on the world’s climate mitigation efforts. But this is a war he can’t win.

Jordan De Goey (left) and Nick Daicos are working through injury.
Analysis
AFL 2025

Handle with care:Flags can’t be won in January,but they can be lost

High stakes apply for Collingwood and Carlton,as they nurse their injured stars such as Nick Daicos and Charlie Curnow.

  • byJake Niall
House listings have grown and prices are starting to fall.

How housing went from being a sellers’ market to a buyers’ market

The tight housing market supply that was responsible for two years of significant gains in national house prices is turning on its head.

  • byElizabeth Knight
Antisemitism and Islamophobia are nothing new in this country. But community and political leaders can help keep them in check by toning down their own rhetoric.
Opinion
Crime

More laws won’t stop hate speech. But there’s something else we can do

Antisemitism and Islamophobia are nothing new in this country. But community and political leaders can help keep them in check by toning down their own rhetoric.

  • byJenna Price
Most of the state is set to sizzle in the coming days as a heatwave sweeps over NSW.
Opinion
History

Twenty facts about Australian history that everyone should know

These are the achievements and failures we should never forget.

  • byRichard Glover
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US President Donald Trump listens to Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. “Not too exciting,” he said.
Analysis
US politics

Trump’s migrant deportations start as bishop pleads with him to have mercy

Bishop Mariann Budde led a service on Trump’s second day in office and told him people feared his executive order. He said her sermon was “not too exciting”.

  • byFarrah Tomazin
Novak Djokovic recovered... again.

The tactical injury is Novak’s intellectual property. So’s the immaculate recovery

He is the greatest men’s player of all time – but does Novak Djokovic bend the rules to his will?

  • byMalcolm Knox
Tom De Koning was the game’s most influential player during a purple patch midway through last season
Analysis
AFL 2025

As rival clubs circle,what price is right for Carlton to keep De Koning?

On Tuesday,Carlton announced two new re-signings. But neither was the man who looms as one of the most talked-about free agents of 2025.

  • byPeter Ryan
Trump’s antipathy towards EVs and the climate-related measures Biden introduced through the Inflation Reduction Act will,if he can implement it,be a major blow to the car industry’s ability to stay competitive.

Trump’s green attack threatens the future of the US car industry

Donald Trump’s plan to remove incentives for electric vehicles and their batteries’ production and sales could have severe ramifications.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Australian super funds are investing billions of dollars in assets and infrastructure overseas.

How your superannuation is becoming one of Australia’s biggest exports

There’s one major Australian export that is increasingly everywhere,but goes almost unnoticed,and it’s growing by the day.

  • byAlex Joiner
A tax imbalance in your relationship doesn’t have to sink your retirement.

I pay more tax than my husband. Will that affect our pension?

There are numerous factors for couples to consider when they start to get towards pensionable age.

  • byNoel Whittaker
It’s pointless to simply have the attitude that “you should stop spending on that.”

Being shamed for spending money won’t help you. Here’s what will

It seems patronising at best,and woefully ignorant at worst,to suggest that educated,grown adults don’t understand these basics.

  • byParidhi Jain
Opinion
Fertility

Falling fertility rates will hurt the economy. But a new baby boom is not the answer

Australia’s fertility rates have been falling fast and are now at rock bottom. The economic consequences will be far-reaching.

  • byMatt Wade
Novak Djokovic embraces Carlos Alcaraz after their quarter-final.

He didn’t just beat Alcaraz,he mastered him:Novak Djokovic stalls the march of time

Djokovic does it again – defying predictions,the years and an injury to outlast 21-year-old Carlos Alcaraz,who is still missing only the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup from his major collection.

  • byGreg Baum
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Memories of Morse Code continue apace

With currant news about squashed fly pie

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NSW Premier Chris Minns arrives to visit the scene of the Only About Children child care centre on storey Street in Maroubra which was damaged in an antisemitic attack overnight. Maroubra,NSW. January 21,2025.
Analysis
Antisemitism

Minns says antisemitism doesn’t start with a firebombing. Will his new laws find where it does?

As acts of violence against Sydney’s Jewish community escalate,condemnation isn’t enough. Now the premier is reaching for the law.

  • byMichael McGowan

‘Children of the elite’ send tech broligarchy to the right

Members of the tech broligarchy used to vote Democrat and lean left. Now they’re lining up for Trump. What happened?

  • byJanine Perrett
Women’s birth plans have become increasingly elaborate in recent years.
Opinion
Pregnancy

Looking back,my birth plan was delusional. I wouldn’t change a thing

When I went into labour,I wasn’t cracking jokes in the delivery suite. But now,I recognise absurd mirth in the day,and in the expectations I held for how it would go.

  • byWendy Syfret
Donald Trump holds a sabre after using it to cut a cake,as Vice President J.D. Vance looks on,at the Commander-in-Chief Ball,part of the 60th Presidential Inauguration.

Trump lines his pockets and leaves his supporters out in the cold

Donald Trump has made a flurry of executive orders hours after taking office that will cause havoc in the US and around the world.

  • byCory Alpert
The four Donalds:Trump takes the oath at the US Capitol,speaks off the cuff outside the ceremony,takes the stage at the Capitol One Arena and returns to the Oval Office.
Analysis
US politics

We saw four Donalds in one day,but there’s a fifth we need to watch

The calm,chatty,discursive and,above all,confident Trump we witnessed in the Oval Office after the day of ceremonies and speeches was different to the Trumps we saw earlier.

  • byMichael Koziol
President Donald Trump during his address at his inauguration.
Analysis
US politics

Moments after he was sworn in,Trump wasted no time demonstrating his presidential power

Six months after he was almost assassinated,Donald Trump embarked on one of the most expansive displays of presidential power in years.

  • byFarrah Tomazin
Wesfarmers chief executive Rob Scott

The $230m experiment that Wesfarmers would rather forget

How the online marketplace Catch.com.au became a (shopping) basket case,posting years of losses.

  • byElizabeth Knight
Ozempic injection pens move along a conveyor at the Novo Nordisk production facilities in Hillerod,Denmark.
Analysis
Investing

Nine top stock picks to prepare your portfolio for 2025

Health care,ride sharing,and the emerging world of YouTube entertainers are among industries leading investors have picked for growth in 2025.

President Donald Trump speaks.

Trump 2.0 means what he says. His delirious base expects nothing else

President Donald Trump knows exactly what he is doing. And so do his fervent supporters. He intends to do it all. And they want him to.

  • byBruce Wolpe
Political events overseas,including the election of President Donald Trump,have made a political football of investor sustainability issues.
Editorial
US politics

Mars,you’ve been warned:Donald Trump launches second term like a rocket

With rambling,ranting and retribution,the 21st century’s foremost political showman has given us a good glimpse at the next four years.

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Penny Wong joined foreign ministers from the Quad to represent Australia at President Trump’s inauguration.
Analysis
US politics

Penny Wong’s golden ticket to the Trump show signals Australia’s strength

Penny Wong and Donald Trump hardly sound like a match made in political heaven,but there was Australia’s foreign minister in prime position.

  • byMatthew Knott
Adding an extra person to your home could help tip the scales on your mortgage.

Could a boarder help you pay your mortgage?

The immediate solution to the housing shortage is fitting more people into existing houses,but for those of us who own our home,there can be some hurdles.

  • byJulia Hartman
Donald Trump has pumped the brakes on starting a new trade war.
Opinion
Trade wars

Trump’s ‘day one’ promise has been broken

Donald Trump had threatened to launch an economic war on the world on the first day of his new presidency. He has backed down - for now.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Glenn Maxwell dons the baggy green in 2017.

How Glenn Maxwell’s unfulfilled Test career helped save the BBL

We’ll never know how good a Test cricketer Glenn Maxwell may have been. That’s a shame for Tests,but a blessing for the BBL.

  • byDaniel Brettig
Speaking at a presidential rally in Washington,Musk twice extended his arm out with his palm facing down,drawing comparisons to the Nazi salute.
Analysis
US politics

Musk’s shocking salute and other key moments from Trump’s first day back

We’re in for four wild years,but here’s how day one started:with the world put on notice and an end to “wokeism” in the White House.

  • byMatthew Knott
Running repairs to the hot water system in Millie Muroi’s former Sydney apartment.

I’ve lived in three cities in three years. Returning to Sydney is the one I fear

Two types of blockage have played unpleasant roles in my housing affordability awakening. Here’s what we need to do differently.

  • byMillie Muroi
Donald Trump has begun his second term.

If Trump wields the wrecking ball,the democratic damage may be irreversible

Will the second Trump administration be defined by a form of constitutional and political “hard ball” or else “wrecking ball” strategy.

  • byRosalind Dixon
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The summer I traded for five weeks with a French family

From blue cheese and frog legs,to learning Latin in French:here’s how I fared being thrown into a French winter with the vocabulary of a two-year-old.

  • byMillie Muroi
Alex de Minaur beat Alex Michelsen to advance to the quarter-finals of the Australian Open for the first time,where he will play Jannik Sinner.

Alex de Minaur reaches tennis base camp,but can he climb higher still?

Alex De Minaur has proved that he is good for a place in the quarter-finals at the majors. Now,for the next step.

  • byGreg Baum
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Fly away for your biscuits and slices

Morse Code makes a last stand.

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“Lovely sunroom”:Meg Kanofski at home in her inner Sydney flat.
Opinion
Renting

I’ve had four housemates in three years. And I’m not the problem

You might think sub-letting a room that fits a queen bed in a clean,comfortable,well-located apartment would be easy in a housing crisis. Not so,but I got there in the end.

  • byMeg Kanofski
To ensure lasting peace,both sides must make every effort not to dehumanise each other.

One word lies at the heart of Israelis’ and Palestinians’ inability to find peace

I have managed thousands of hours of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. There is one factor that has so far made peace impossible.

  • byIttay Flescher
Novak Djokovic makes a point to the crowd on Friday night.

It’s a tornado in a thimble,but Djokovic needs to get off his high horse

Tony Jones was ham-fisted in his humour,but to take literally anything he said in the infamous broadcast is to choose to take offence.

  • byGreg Baum
Some conspiracy theorists claimed voting machines were heading for Australia. “You will know that we don’t use any voting machines,” says Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers. “Never have,never will.”

Changes to voting rules? Ask the people first,please

The only reason any politician would support the introduction of compulsory preferential voting,as suggested by NSW Labor,is because they perceive a potential advantage,writes Chris Rivers.