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Dear Sydney, Byron needs more from you than real estate dollars and COVID deniers

The relationship isn’t really working out for us right now.

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Closed borders keep state’s job market afloat

Workers are in shorter supply as migrants from overseas are kept out, but real wage rises are still years off, experts warn.

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I haven’t been gagged, I’m retiring: Sterling

Peter Sterling has been forced to deal with false claims about him being silenced, moved on and even linked with a coaching job at the Eels.

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‘I was on the kitchen floor crying too often’: a year of despair for performers

The Age spoke with five performers, a cross-section of careers no longer just on hold, but under existential threat.

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‘Ten years is a long time’: 5 Seconds of Summer’s Luke Hemmings on going solo

The frontman of the Sydney pop-rock phenoms reflects on a whirlwind decade on his impressive solo debut.

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Why Asher Keddie’s perfect role came at a personal cost

After an award-winning career in Australian TV and film, Asher Keddie landed a dream role in the US adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers. She shares the toll it took on her family life

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Thrown in a loop: How Daniel Andrews’ biggest project was cooked up behind closed doors

Originally codenamed Operation Halo, this was an infrastructure project so secret that board members of the government agency responsible for its delivery knew nothing about it until it was announced.

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Singer Joan Armatrading: ‘I didn’t realise I was breaking new ground’

“I didn’t have other female role models doing what I was doing...I didn’t want to be famous, I just wanted people to hear my music.

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Use COVID-19 to bring people together, not push them apart

This dreadful week has reminded us how little progress has been achieved on the major challenges facing our nation.

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Head or heart: AFL’s grand dilemma as game takes COVID kicks

Melbourne is the club that has the most to lose, culturally and potentially on the field, if the grand final or preliminary finals are shifted from the home of football.

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NSW crisis a risk to hopes of opening up the nation

As NSW emphasises vaccination as its key tool out of lockdown, researchers behind modelling underpinning the national reopening strategy say opening with high cases is not part of the plan.

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COVID-19 has cost NRL $100m, but game will weather storm, says V’landys

The game continues to bleed money due to the coronavirus outbreak, with the bill already coming in at $100 million.

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‘Pushing towards a crisis’: Dental waiting lists blow out to record levels

Patients in parts of the state are waiting three years for treatment and key services for children are being shelved as the dental system struggles during the pandemic.

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Morrison’s pledge on ocean waste - a shiny (plastic) distraction from climate policy

The Prime Minister has previously been vocal about not leaving our children an environmental disaster. He could extend that principle to climate change.

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Small talk: the biggest hole in our lockdown lives, the hardest habit to break

Humans require connection. We’ll need to re-establish it as soon as humanly possible.

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How actor Pia Whitesell turns her beauty routine into a wellbeing ritual

The Macabalm founder’s routine involves oils, sage and ocean swims.

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Raw and visceral, Brandon Jack’s memoir not the typical AFL story

Brandon Jack isn’t sure he ever wanted to play football. But he was the son and brother of football royalty and he didn’t opt out when he could have.

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Ricciardo chasing right formula in difficult season

Ask the Australian to rate his first campaign with McLaren so far, and he doesn’t sugar-coat it. “It’s not been great, to say the least,” he says.

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‘I told Allah that if he wanted to kill me in that moment, I’d be OK with it’

As an Egyptian Muslim teenager, Sara El Sayed moved to Hervey Bay in Queensland with her family, and her life completely changed.

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When making a decision, ignore the advice about trusting your gut

One expert advises approaching the issue in a detached manner: “There’s a lot to be said for thinking about the problem like a scientist.”

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Young people search for substance over image

It is a Wednesday and my wife, Jenny, is next door, getting ready for the day. From 8.30am until after 3pm she will teach 25 seven-year-olds online.

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Location, location: Paris 2024 Olympic Games organisers aim for beauty on a budget

France is planning a sporting extravaganza like no other with much of it outdoors and open to the public.

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Does anybody win when we compare our suffering?

Many of us have been one-upping each other in the agony stakes during the pandemic. Here’s how to stop it damaging your relationships.

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‘Crazy’: Clubs NSW lash out at plan for Star casino to gain 1000 pokies

The powerful lobby group representing clubs in NSW has lashed out at a plan to allow an extra 1000 poker machines into Sydney’s Star casino.

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SBS to broadcast COVID-19 updates in Vietnamese, Arabic

SBS will use its television channels to interpret NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s updates in frequently used languages of the communities badly affected by COVID-19.

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CSL’s planned mRNA factories would produce 50 million doses in four months

Australia could make enough mRNA vaccines to protect the entire population at short notice under plans by biotech giant CSL to build two new facilities to fight future waves of coronavirus.

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Exodus from Premier’s private office as staffers look past election

A steady departure of policy, media and legal advisers and administrative staff from the Premier’s private office means there are only a handful of surviving members from the team which took over the running of government after the 2014 election.

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‘There are vacancies everywhere’: State battles dire nursing shortage

Nurses have been the backbone of the pandemic, but now Victoria’s healthcare system is battling a serious shortage of them

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The mysterious benefactor who is changing lives for the homeless

Nobody knew much about Dr Dianne Houghton in life. In death, a remarkable bequest will fund a new general practice to provide health care services to the homeless regardless of where they live or their Medicare status.

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The complicated equation of COVID vaccines for kids

Parents and child health specialists are grappling with the best way to approach COVID-19 vaccines for children.

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Disruption to ‘sense of self’ contributed to pandemic-linked suicides

The loneliness of working from home and being cut off from the familiarity of everyday life were among pandemic-related factors in one in 10 Victorian deaths by suicide, a report has found.

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Goldman Sachs set to score from Spain’s football woes

With Spain’s top soccer clubs battling to raise much-needed new financing, one clear winner is already emerging: Goldman Sachs.

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The cunning in Barnaby Joyce’s climate shuffle

Barnaby the obscurantist denialist is now Barnaby the negotiator. He wants a deal for his constituents that helps soften the burden of climate change action - and the ball is in Scott Morrison’s court before he faces global leaders in November.

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The old politics of bluff will leave PM and Berejiklian isolated

On climate, Scott Morrison is headed for a clash with his global peers. The NSW Premier, meanwhile, risks border wars with state and territory leaders.

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Talk about un-Australian: our Anglo, male pandemic commanders do not speak for much of the nation

The top-down nature of our COVID briefings, with their focus on individual accountability, misses the mark for many Australians, whose cultural traditions place greater weight on collective wellbeing and mutual obligation.

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Pandemic a ‘natural experiment’ for universal basic income proposals

Proposals for a universal basic income have gained international attention during the past decade and the pandemic may have shown how this policy idea could work in Australia.

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Crows left to pick up the pieces of another damaging scandal

Can Australian football use the dreadful Taylor Walker incident to become the national leader on racial reform it once claimed to be?.

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The swathe of demolition that proves courts are failing heritage

We’d do better by investing in local democracy to protect the public interest in planning decisions.

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Fish out of water: Life inside the ever-changing border bubble

When Tegan Greenfield worked in Albury, customers saw a Victorian number plate and said ‘they need to go home’. She lives just three kilometres away.

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How two empty-nesters refreshed their weatherboard home

The Edwardian home of two Melburnians gets a gorgeous refresh thanks to its mix of a modern design and treasured antiques.

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Families locked down in Sydney’s west are literally climbing the walls

While residents of the east and north shore flocked to Sydney’s beaches when COVID-19 hit their neighbourhoods, families on the city’s fringe are instead taking advantage of larger spaces and nearby bushland to stay sane.

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