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How To Watch The Critics Choice Awards 2026 In Australia & See Your Faves Clean TF Up

Give Meg Stalter all of the awards for that red carpet reference.

Pedestrian.tv · Jan 4

Australia 166-2 after England reach 384 on day two of fifth Ashes Test – as it happened

Head steers hosts to within 218 runs of England’s first innings total after Root amasses his second century on Australian soil

The Guardian - AU · Jan 4

Morning Mail: how the US snatched Maduro; children among Swiss blaze victims; SCG hails Bondi heroes

Doubts over Trump’s claim US will ‘run’ Venezuela; girls aged 14 and 15 confirmed killed in Swiss bar fire

The Guardian - AU · Jan 4

Test selectors, curators urged to give spin a chance

Queensland leggie Mitchell Swepson wants more balance in pitches around the country after Australia again overlooked a front-line tweaker for the Ashes finale.

AAP · Jan 4

Warne would've 'went off his brain' about spin: Clarke

Michael Clarke fears Australian wickets are doing little to promote future generations of spinners, predicting Shane Warne would have been furious about it.

AAP · Jan 4

Simon Stone on luring film stars on stage, family tragedy and staging Chekhov in Korean: ‘It’s one of the proudest moments in my career’

Directing the likes of Alicia Vikander, Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman on stage, the Australian director is returning to Adelaide festival with a bold new take on The Cherry Orchard

The Guardian - AU · Jan 4

‘We’re seen as the underdogs’: Australian skiers out on their own chasing an Olympic dream

Aerial skier Reilly Flanagan and cross-country skier Hannah Price travel far and wide as they seek to represent Australia at the Winter Games in Milano-Cortina

The Guardian - AU · Jan 4

Veteran Australian racer Amanda Spratt announces retirement at the end of 2026

'I like the idea of being able to finish on my own terms and being able to choose where my finish line is' says Spratt after 15 years as a pro

Cycling News · Jan 4

England big guns cut loose to highlight folly of Australia’s bowling choices

Playing without a spinner is one thing, but Beau Webster and Cameron Green are only good enough to be the fifth bowler

The Guardian - UK · Jan 4

Joe Root and Harry Brook tease England with a glimpse of what these Ashes could have been

Perhaps it was not a coincidence that England’s best day of the series came on a rain-reduced afternoon where they were denied the time to stuff it up – but for one afternoon, one of cricket’s greatest pleasures occurred

The Independent UK · Jan 4