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7 Weather presenter Samantha Jolly is writing an opinion piece for The Sunday Times on why she supports the upcoming social media ban for under 16s. PIctured is Sam with sons Brendan (10) and Harrison (13) at home Justin Benson-Cooper

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Why I can’t wait for the social media ban to kick in

I’m a ‘technology Karen’ according to my teenage son. While I don’t rock a short, spiky, blonde haircut or yell at strangers in cafes, I think I get his point. I’m outnumbered in my home.

Samantha Jolly

Opinion: Should dining with Pauline Hanson become a permanent occurrence, then Barnaby Joyce’s credibility - as a man who for decades professed his undying love for the Nationals - will be in tatters.

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A lot at steak at Pauline’s table for Joyce’s dwindling rep

Should dining with Pauline Hanson become a regular thing, Barnaby Joyce’s credibility - given that for decades he has professed his undying love for the Nationals - will be in tatters.

Joe Spagnolo

As Clancy enters middle age, he shows no signs of maturing.

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Cone of shame: Clancy’s birthday disaster

Clancy, my dumb-as-a-box-of-hammers Irish red setter, has just turned four and I’m amazed he made it because, for some reason, he hates Bernese Mountain dogs and picks a fight every time he sees one.

Ben Harvey

Ben Harvey

Nat Locke, photographed for STM’s 21st birthday editions. Styling: Rochelle Renwick. Hair and makeup: Gail Wilton.

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Advice for Year 12s as they step into bold, unknown future

Last week, I was invited to be the guest speaker at my old high school’s graduation ceremony. This is obviously a role I relished but I felt the weight of responsibility for imparting wisdom upon this cohort.

Nat Locke

The Perth CBD deserves some love.

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Perth’s CBD deserves some love as it deteriorates

Melbourne’s CBD in 1980 was so dead and devoid of activity after business hours and on weekends that it was likened to a doughnut, the centre was an empty hole. Perth is facing a similar issue today.

Murray Watt and Larissa Waters doing the Environmental Bill Dance.

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Flat-footed Liberals miss cue on environmental law reforms

Come dance with me! That was Environment Minister Murray Watt’s invitation to the Opposition as he prepared to push through his reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

Michelle Grattan

Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen during the passing of the EPBC Bill in Parliament at Parliament House in Canberra.

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Paul MurrayCommentsPremium
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Albanese’s biggest political gaffe since the Voice flopped

Anyone who has watched Chris Bowen’s career over the past 20 years could hardly say that diplomacy is his strong suit. He’s graceless.

Paul Murray

Paul Murray

Hopefully your daughters will go to appreciate that you are still so full of vitality.

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHow do I convince my daughters to let me live my life

‘Sometimes younger generations can have a hard time understanding that after years of child-rearing and responsibilities, people can come out the other end looking to blow off the cobwebs’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

‘The Federal Government’s arbitrary Christmas deadline for the reforms to pass Parliament means that’s precisely where we have landed.’

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Anthea WesleyCommentsPremium
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Environmental law reforms demonise oil and gas industry

Australia’s new environmental approvals system will not hit the perfect note for WA’s economy. But it could have been much worse.

Anthea Wesley

Tough challenges are just around the corner for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

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Albanese ends year relaxed, but challenges loom

The Prime Minister can’t kick back while the cost-of-living crisis roars back to life.

Ben Stokes and Usman Khawaja have had better weeks.

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JUSTIN LANGERVideoCommentsPremium
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Maybe Poms do have a plan to avoid being yesterday’s heroes

It’s hard to tell from the outside, but England sticking to their guns is not that crazy and why can’t a bloke play golf?

Justin Langer

As of May 2025, 225 young people aged 16 to 25 were listed on Perth’s By Name List as sleeping rough or in temporary shelter.

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Nine classrooms of young people sleep rough every night

Imagine being a young person with nowhere safe to sleep tonight. You’ve already been turned away because every bed is full. You’re exhausted, hungry, and walking through the city with nowhere to go.

Emily Williams

Australian pre-Christmas retail sales are tipped to land about $73.1 billion.

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Mel StruttCommentsPremium
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Breathe before clicking buy in Black Friday frenzy

Make space before hitting proceed to purchase. If the deal vanishes, the world won’t collapse. Another one will pop up in a week. Retailers love a second chance.

Mel Strutt

Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas.

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Perth’s housing emergency is our State’s collective shame

In a State as prosperous as ours, how can it be that so many people are struggling with the most basic necessity, finding a home, and keeping that home.

Basil Zempilas

Anthony Albanese.

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Greens prove better negotiators in EPBC showdown

In the showdown over environmental laws, the Greens have proved themselves to be the better negotiators, able to outline a coherent position and willing to compromise to clinch a deal.

Katina Curtis

“Inflation genie is a stubborn bastard reluctant to get back in the bottle” with Ben Harvey

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Ben Harvey outlines a nightmare scenario for recent homebuyers and goes ballistic over feigned surprise by team Albo to the latest inflation data.

Ben Harvey | Thu, November 27

Anthony Albanese says his new environmental laws are ‘win-win’, but a quick look at who is celebrating shows that is not the case. 

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Green laws a handbrake on productivity

Anthony Albanese says his new environmental laws are ‘win-win’, but a quick look at who is celebrating shows that is not the case. 

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Pauline Hanson.

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Pauline Hanson’s popularity poll is in a word, ‘rubbish’

Opinion polls at this point are about as useful as a screen door on a nuclear-powered submarine.

Mark Riley

Mark Riley

Labor’s deal to create a new environmental agency will have the unfortunate consequence of damaging an Australian success story.

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The damaging true cost of Albo’s new environmental agency

Labor’s deal to create a new environmental agency will have the unfortunate consequence of damaging an Australian success story.

Aaron Patrick

Aaron Patrick

Economists estimate that violence against women and their children costs Australia up to $35 billion a year.

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Conrad LiverisCommentsPremium
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We all pay the price of domestic violence

One of WA’s biggest industries produces nothing, destroys employment and costs billions of dollars each year.

Conrad Liveris

Domestic Violence and Phones Illustration: Don Lindsay

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Your old mobile gathering dust could save a life

Here’s something you can do today, in the 16 days DV awareness campaign, to help save a life.

Kim Macdonald

Kim Macdonald

The Albanese Government is introducing a ban on unfair trading practices under the Australian Consumer Law.

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Andrew LeighCommentsPremium
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Crackdown coming on dodgy tactics exploiting our busy lives

Too often, consumers are being steered into decisions they didn’t intend to make, trapped in subscriptions that are hard to cancel or hit with hidden fees at the last click.

Andrew Leigh

Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti pictured at Optus Stadium for the first Ashes Test between Australia and England in Perth on Friday.

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Get ready to tap on with phone or credit card

You’ll soon be able to use bank cards and smart technology such as mobile phones and watches to jump on our buses, trains and ferries.

Rita Saffioti

Accidentally went to a strip club and then claimed his beer as a work expense

Up LateVideoCommentsPremiumStumbled in to strip club and claimed beer as work expense

Ben Harvey explains why Joondalup Councillor Nige Jones was on a hiding to nothing when he visited an Adelaide strip club and then expected ratepayers to fork out for his beer.

Ben Harvey | Wed, November 26