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[ad_1] OpinionRob HarrisNational correspondentUpdated January 22, 2026 — 7:40pm,first published 3:48pmUpdated January 22, 2026 — 7:40pm,first published 3:48pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAA“Have you seen Hastie’s page? It’s mental.”The line travelled fast on late Tuesday afternoon. First as a text. Then as a knowing aside in the corridors of Parliament House. Then face to face, over a wine, said quietly, with the air of people recognising something they would rather not name.Illustration by…

[ad_1] Brought to you by Bulls N’ BearsDoug BrightJanuary 22, 2026 — 4:59pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAATiming, as they say, is everything – and Peninsula Energy appears to have found its groove just as the United States rediscovers its appetite for home-grown uranium.The company has pushed another important lever at its Lance uranium project in Wyoming, kicking off acidification at Header House 16, complementing the existing solution feed to the project’s central…

[ad_1] Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about coping with ‘anxiety’Gwyneth Paltrow just admitted that “shouting at the bushes” helps with her anxiety.The 53-year-old actress and Goop founder revealed that while she “can’t really avoid” feeling anxious, she has her own coping mechanisms to manage it. In an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Instagram, she wrote: “I can’t really avoid anxiety, but I try to temper it with remembering things I am grateful for, breathing deeply, going for a walk and shouting at the bushes (it helps) and being good to myself.”A different follower asked the star how she avoids “overfunctioning and…

[ad_1] The Coalition has split for the second time in less than a year after Nationals leader David Littleproud said the agreement with the Liberal Party was “untenable”. [ad_2]

[ad_1] Stan Wawrinka gets up in a fiery rally and Arthur Gea tosses his racquet in disgust. [ad_2]

[ad_1] January 22, 2026 — 3:41pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAPresident Trump pounces on weakness, but retreats from strength. That’s one reason for Europe’s present troubles – for too long, it was weak both toward President Vladimir Putin of Russia in the East and toward the new menace arising in the West.That’s certainly Trump’s perception. “I think they’re weak,” Trump said last month of European leaders, and he had a point. They fawned…

[ad_1] Updated January 22, 2026 — 7:45pm,first published 5:44pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAThree people have been shot dead after a gunman opened fire in a NSW country town in a suspected domestic violence attack.The gunman, who remains at large, shot and killed a woman believed to be his former partner and a man with her at a home in Lake Cargelligo in the NSW Central West on Thursday afternoon. The man then…

[ad_1] January 22, 2026 — 7:15pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAYou might expect to hear reference to the sinking of the Titanic in commentary about the Nationals deserting what, until a few hours ago, was known as the federal Coalition.The analogy is too grand.Better to think in miniature: the chaos in one of the Titanic’s little lifeboats.Sussan Ley, David Littleproud and Bridget McKenzie Monique Westermann The Titanic was a mighty ship filled with…

[ad_1] Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSRowena DuckworthJanuary 22, 2026 — 5:21pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAPerth-based Pilot Energy is rapidly closing in on near-term cash flow after confirming that its modular data centre project at Arrowsmith, in Western Australia’s Mid West, is on track for commissioning in early 2026.The newly named Dongara Data Centre project will see an initial 1-megawatt (MW) modular data centre unit installed at Pilot’s Arrowsmith facility in…

[ad_1] January 22, 2026 — 7:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAUniversities across the country are using private companies to operate city office-block campuses, which a new report claims facilitates widespread “visa hopping”, effectively granting international students work rights.Former Labor leader and University of Canberra vice chancellor Bill Shorten has called on the federal government to consider stricter rules to close visa loopholes which allow international students to transfer from university courses to cheaper…