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TikTok played Trump using the dictator’s playbook

Six months ago, TikTok’s parent company was facing an imminent ban on its service, overseen by a president who had either banned the app or tried to. It played an incredible hand to survive.

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Nine’s no good start to the year despite bumper Australian Open crowds

Nine’s start to 2025 hasn’t exactly gone to plan, with rival Seven managing to stay competitive on television and its sports presenters in a spot of hot water.

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‘Embarrassing’: Broadcaster’s faux pas begins rocky year for Nine amid disappointing Australian Open viewership

Nine’s start to 2025 hasn’t exactly gone to plan, with rival Seven managing to stay competitive on television and its sports presenters in a spot of hot water.

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America is open for business: Trump’s merry gathering of elites

America’s biggest corporations are spending US$170 million currying favour with Donald Trump via his inauguration.

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Why Bidenomics is worth defending — in America and Australia

Joe Biden made several grave mistakes, but upending the status quo around unemployment wasn’t one of them.

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The $100 million reason you should discourage your kids from playing tennis

Career earnings in tennis are some of the most unequal in sport. While the top players make a fortune, those lower down the ranks make do with much less.

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First hostages released following Israel-Hamas ceasefire

The long-awaited Israel-Hamas ceasefire has taken effect with both sides exchanging prisoners, and Peter Dutton has drawn level with Anthony Albanese as preferred PM.

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The RBA had a chance to cut rates. Instead, it left households stranded

The Reserve Bank should have cut interest rates in December. Now it looks like it missed its chance.

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The legacy of the designated mourner

The only impression that endures in a presidency is how it ends. Inevitably, like the proverbial tiger, it turns and devours everything that came before.

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The power of incumbency? Not so much… the Sliding Doors of election dates

Australian political history is replete with examples of prime ministers who failed to use the power of dictating election timing for their own advantage.

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Lawyer for Australian detainee in Iraq says Foreign Affairs response ‘shameful and lazy’

Robert Pether, who has been arbitrarily detained in Iraq since 2021, is facing new ‘confected and ludicrous’ accusations after being rearrested while in jail.

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Sydney Uni academics request human rights watchdog throw out complaint of antisemitism

‘The complainants simply don’t have a case,’ says a pair of academics accused of antisemitism over comments made following the October 7 attacks on Israel.

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Former home to Alan Jones rebrands under conservative US network Newsmax

An Australian streaming channel is rebranding under a US cable network known for broadcasting conspiracy theories about the 2020 US election.

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Dutton has changed his tune on China. Will voters care?

Will Chinese-Australian voters return to the Coalition after abandoning them in 2022?

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Israeli cabinet delays ceasefire vote

Israel has delayed a vote on whether to approve the Gaza ceasefire as it accuses Hamas of trying to change the terms of the deal, and it’s not yet clear what effect new unemployment data will have on interest rates.

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Simon Townsend gave us a different, better era of kids’ television

Vale Simon Townsend, the Wonder World host who showed us commercial television could take children seriously.

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Gender thinkpieces have forced me to defend Mark Zuckerberg

The only thing Zuckerberg believes is more users = more money.

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Politicians, media welcome ceasefire so they don’t have to pretend to care about slaughter

The response to the LA fires compared to the slaughter in Gaza reveals a lot about Australian media and political figures. To them, an American death toll is a tragedy, while a Palestinian death toll is a statistic.

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ABC cuts comments, the election billboards begin, and we follow the Australia Day money

Plus: what a prosthetic wang reveals about Italy’s history of fascism. Really.

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Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to get around broadcast restrictions

The Australian Open has implemented a cheeky workaround for international viewers that dodges its own broadcast obligations.

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‘Safe’ Labor seat Calwell the ultimate test case for the Muslim vote this election

A Muslim independent is challenging Labor in Melbourne’s multicultural outer north. Will the government running a Palestinian candidate be enough to appease the community?

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Why has ‘ONLINE_SAFETY_AU_REGULATORY_ACTION’ suddenly turned up on your iPhone?

No, the string of text in Apple’s Message app has nothing to do with Australia’s teen social media ban.

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Will China welcome TikTok refugees?

Thousands of US TikTok users are flooding to the Chinese platform Red. It could prove a double-edged sword for the Chinese government.

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Dutton’s new nuclear nightmare: construction costs continue to explode

The latest massive cost blowout at a planned power station in the UK demonstrates the absurdity of Peter Dutton’s claims about nuclear power in Australia.

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Gaza ceasefire deal could be hours away

Numerous officials and news organisations are reporting Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire. And here at home, Bill Shorten is leaving politics more than a week earlier than expected.

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