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Too sick to attend, too bad: why the live music ticketing market is broken

I recently had an urgent surgery to have a malignant growth removed. Unfortunately, this meant I was too immobile to attend the Melbourne event of the annual hard rock festival Good Things, this year headlined by the greatest band of all time, Tool.

The Conversation

‘All you need are your eyes’: a stretch of Victorian shore is a magnet for fossil fossickers

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne

The Guardian - AU

‘International community has lost interest’: Afghanistan’s first female vice-president sees history repeating

Sima Samar has spent a lifetime working for the ideals of a country that no longer exists, but even in exile she dreams of rebuilding for a second time

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Sunny Nights review – Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden’s sassy Australian comedy is criminally good fun

Despite a comedic surface, this playful romp is fundamentally a crime story that is less concerned with plausibility than having a good time

The Guardian - AU

How WWII diggers kept the Ashes alive in POW camps

Cricket played behind the barbed wire in German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II was a huge morale booster for diggers, diaries and scorebooks show.

AAP

Pace aces to spearhead Australia's Boxing Day Test

Australia's bid for an Ashes whitewash will resume at the MCG on Boxing Day without a spinner after they elected not to pick a replacement for Nathan Lyon.

AAP

Mass Shootings Expose Divide as Australia Moves to Act While US Offers 'Thoughts and Prayers'

After parallel mass shootings at Bondi Beach and Brown University, Australia accelerates gun-law reform while the United States issues condolences and limited policy responses, exposing deep contrasts in gun-violence politics.

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Former Labor senator Nick Bolkus, minister in Hawke and Keating governments, dies aged 75

The Adelaide-born senator is remembered for his role in ‘shaping modern multicultural Australia’

The Guardian - AU

Albanese announces bravery award for heroes of Bondi antisemitic attack

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national bravery award to honor those who confronted an antisemitic terror attack

The Independent UK

Western Australia faces bushfire threat as cold, wet and bumpy Sydney to Hobart yacht race forecast

WA facing several fire warnings as Perth temperatures exceed 40C while Melbourne on track for coldest Christmas since 2006

The Guardian - AU

Australia's bold call to leave spinner out for MCG Test

Australia will go in with a pace-heavy XI for the Boxing Day Test after opting to leave out Nathan Lyon's replacement, Todd Murphy, to face England at the MCG.

AAP

Australians expected to spend big on Boxing Day as shoppers warned of deceptive sales tricks

Shoppers predicted to spend $3.8bn in the week after Christmas, with household goods and fashion to dominate sales

The Guardian - AU

This Christmas, peace won’t come from the politics of envy. It will come only by building a more equal Australia

Wealth is shifting upwards, basic universal services are outsourced and improving the lives of the Australians doing it toughest is being ignored. So where can we find hope?

The Guardian - AU

Aussie Christmas celebrations morph as culture deepens

Hams and turkey will be served with dishes from across the globe, as Christmas Day in modern multicultural Australia shifts from its British traditions.

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Hope, kindness celebrated on bittersweet Christmas

Australians have been urged to come together and look after each other during a holiday season tainted by a shooting at the nation's most iconic beach.

The Guardian - UK

Australia mull over spin question as Todd Murphy enters mix with plenty to play for

Off-spinner not guaranteed spot in XI but may have key role against a side that will try to clear the boundary

The Guardian - UK

My big night out: I spent the evening with Ant and Dec – and it sparked an audacious new ambition

I was a chemistry student, my days spent boiling, titrating and stirring. But after that night, I formed a double act with a friend, writing jokes and making a radio show, before heading off to Australia …

The Guardian - UK

Five big Boxing Day Ashes Tests: Botham, Pietersen and Warne

Opening salvos before a huge MCG crowd are often among the most memorable meetings between Australia and England – here are five crackers

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The Independent UK

British man living in Australia set to be deported over neo-Nazi allegations: ‘He came here to hate’

The 43-year-old faces deportation after being charged with displaying Nazi symbols and promoting extremist ideology online

AAP

Why all Scott Boland wants for Christmas is Carey

Australia's gloveman Alex Carey has kept up to the stumps for Scott Boland during the Ashes series in a plan that is paying dividends for the fast bowler.

The Guardian - AU

Retribution fears as Australian Muslims see surge in Islamophobic hate since Bondi terror attack

Security stepped up at mosques amid spate of targeted abuse as leaders mourn Bondi victims and say community will not ‘claim victimhood’

AAP

Bee-sieged island keeping deadly mite at bay

An island that is home to a unique population of honey bees hopes biosecurity measures will protect it from a deadly parasite taking hold across Australia.

AAP

Shares slip as Aussie dollar soars to 14-month high

The year's fourth-last trading session has offered little to celebrate, a modest uptick in mining stocks the only bit of good news as other sectors retreated.

AAP

'Complete trust': two-year deal boosts Matthews, team

Just months after his massive health scare and days after the team nearly folded, Australian cycling star Michael Matthews has re-signed with Jayco AlUla.

AAP

'I need to realise': Demon vows to be nicer to himself

Alex de Minaur has opened up on a topsy-turvy 2025, the mindset shift he will make at the Australian Open, and why Scottie Scheffler's wise words resonated.

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