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Morning everyone. There is growing hope this morning that a ceasefire deal will be reached in Gaza with the Biden administration and Israeli officials making positive noises about the talks.
Also this morning, the latest from the California wildfires, what to expect in Anthony Albanese’s mini reshuffle and why Nick Kyrgios thinks last night’s first-round defeat at the Australian Open could be his final singles appearance at Melbourne Park.
The world braces for Trump 2.0
Reged Ahmed talks to Washington bureau chief David Smith about the noisy lead-up to Trump’s second term, and what to expect in the first days of his rule.
World braces for Trump 2.0
When Gabrielle Chan’s farm caught fire on New Year’s Day, it quickly raged out of the family’s control. But, in a what she sees as a sign of hope for 2025, people from miles around suddenly turned up to help, leaving her “overcome by a warm love for my community”.
Such is the draw and power of Shakespeare that a new play is opening in Sydney this week about three actors who meet in rehab to recover not from drugs or sex, but from playing Hamlet. Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz explain to Elissa Blake what it’s all about – and why it’s definitely fiction.
New South Wales hospitals are about to lose 200 doctors, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Weak festive sales figures for two leading names are the canaries in the coalmine for the retail sector, an Age opinion piece argues. Friends and family have paid tribute to a Melbourne DJ and influencer who has died suddenly in Bali, the Herald Sun reports. Some of Queensland’s “top bureaucrats” such as energy bosses are earning more than $1m a year, according to the Courier Mail.
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