4 h. ago Albanese takes centre stage, finds his footing and claims victory

Albanese didn’t fall off the stage this time. In celebrating the start of his second term as Australian prime minister on Saturday night, he practically levitated.

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5 h. ago ‘We have been defined by our opponents’: Dutton humbled in defeat

In his concession speech, Peter Dutton declared his time as defence minister “the highlight of my career”. But he was unable to defend even his own seat.

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5 h. ago AFL LIVE: Cats and Pies deadlocked in MCG thriller; Dees fire up late over Eagles; Voss at a loss to explain thrashing

After Beveridge’s Bulldogs obliterated Port and Voss’ Blues were outclassed in Adelaide, the Pies and Cats and Eagles and Dees are going head-to-head in prime time.

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6 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: Kooyong, Bruce, Wills and Goldstein election night vote counts and updates for key electorates as polls close

Follow the all results from the crunch Victorian seats that could decide the election.

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8 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: Kooyong, Bruce, Wills and Goldstein election night vote counts and updates for key electorates as polls close across Melbourne

Follow the all results from the crunch Victorian seats that could decide the election.

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10 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE updates: Four Kooyong voters, four very different vibes: Voting continues across Melbourne as close election race plays out in Kooyong, Bruce, Wills and Goldstein

Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of Victoria’s crunch seats that could decide the election.

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12 h. ago Could James Tedesco make a remarkable Origin return? Laurie Daley thinks so

The Roosters star was a notable omission from a Blues gathering in January, but the NSW coach says it does not signal the end of his time playing for his state.

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14 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: Voting underway at polling booths across Melbourne as close race beckons in Kooyong, Bruce, Wills and Goldstein

Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of Victoria’s crunch seats that could decide the election.

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14 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE updates: Voting under way at polling booths across Melbourne as close election race beckons in Kooyong, Bruce, Wills and Goldstein

Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of Victoria’s crunch seats that could decide the election.

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14 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE updates: Voting under way across Melbourne as close election race beckons in Kooyong, Bruce, Wills and Goldstein; results due after polling booths close at 6pm

Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of Victoria’s crunch seats that could decide the election.

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14 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE updates: Voting continues across Melbourne as close election race beckons in Kooyong, Bruce, Wills and Goldstein; results due after polling booths close at 6pm

Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of Victoria’s crunch seats that could decide the election.

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15 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE updates: Liberal HQ finally reveals where to find Bruce candidate Safi; Hill lashes out at independents

Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of Victoria’s crunch seats that could decide the election.

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16 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE updates: Ratnam casts vote in bid for historic Wills win; Daniel and son vote together in Goldstein

Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of Victoria’s crunch seats that could decide the election.

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18 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: It’s decision day in Kooyong, Bruce, Goldstein and Wills

Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of Victoria’s crunch seats that could decide the election.

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22 h. ago Fifty years on, Dennis Lillee’s spell still mesmerised the crowd

For 40 minutes at the Chappell Foundation dinner this week, the great fast bowler reduced us to 10-year-olds as we remembered the magic of those sporting times.

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22 h. ago It’s time to face the truth: The internet has ruined everything

We used to be a society, now look at us.

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22 h. ago Retirement is powerful and freeing. It’s time we treated it that way

Retirement has been sold to us as a finish line, a reward. But in reality, it’s a blank canvas.

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26 h. ago Bitten 200 times by venomous snakes, this mechanic didn’t die. Here’s why

Tim Friede has survived the deadly venom of taipans, black mambas, vipers and cobras. Scientists have used his blood to craft a potential broad-spectrum antivenom.

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32 h. ago A picture is worth a thousand words, especially in an election campaign. Here are our top picks

James Brickwood and Alex Ellinghausen have been travelling the country with the party leaders during this gruelling election campaign. Here are the best of their photos from the time.

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32 h. ago Politics is still a man’s world. Let’s reimagine the law of this jungle

The absence of women in key political debates has led many of us to turn down the sound and disengage. The natural world may offer a template for change.

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