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analysis: From Cameroon to Cooma and back again — inside the rugby league trek of Carol Manga
by Nick Campton
It's not easy to be a missionary for rugby league at the end of the sport's universe, however, Carol Manga's passion for the game he loves has never wavered as he prepares to pull on his national colours one last time.
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analysis: Better COVID-19 vaccines are on the way — and one that targets Omicron is just the start
By Paul Griffin
More than 120 potential COVID-19 vaccines are in clinical trials. Here are some of the improvements they're working on, writes Paul Griffin
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analysis: AFL Round-Up: Making sense of an extraordinary finals feast
By Dean Bilton
The most-thrilling weekend of finals in a generation delighted footy fans and further ignited a premiership race to savour. We digest the week that was.
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analysis: Another double rate hike coming from RBA but brakes may be applied soon
by business editor Ian Verrender
When the Reserve Bank heavyweights next gather around the board table, the question will not be about whether to raise rates, but by how much, writes business editor Ian Verrender.
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analysis: Can multi-employer bargaining fix wage suppression?
By business reporter Gareth Hutchens
Multi-employer bargaining is part of a suite of policies designed to lift workers' wages, writes Gareth Hutchens.
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analysis: The Williams sisters as cultural icons: How Venus and Serena redefined tennis and popular culture
By music and pop culture reporter Mawunyo Gbogbo
Venus and Serena Williams redefined tennis as we know it and brought a whole new audience to the game.
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analysis: How Katrina Gorry's midfield maestro role exposes Matildas' current dilemma
Played as a quarterback-style midfielder, Katrina Gorry's role in the Matildas against Canada exposes the team's identity crisis.
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analysis: China is buying record amounts of beef and next on its shopping list is coal
Meat analyst Brett Stuart says citizens of China are "just clamouring for beef, it's almost like cell phones or cars — everyone wants beef".
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analysis: Ghosts, a reckoning and a man out of time: Why we're haunted by 1989
By Stan Grant
History delivered Mikhail Gorbachev to the reckoning of 1989, a time of upheaval and revolution. But the past was lying in wait. The end of the Cold War would unleash the forces of neoliberalism that would in time eat at the heart of democracy itself, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Her on-court tennis career was impressive, but Serena's extra-curriculars are untouchable
By Jon Healy
Serena Williams tops most of the winning stats you could want to talk about in tennis, but even that doesn't quantify the impact of her 20-plus-year career at the top of the sport.
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