Oslo Davis cartoon, December 20, 2025

BUMPER EDITION | December 20, 2025 – January 9, 2026 Edition No. 581

‘It’s unimaginable what we as a community have just experienced’ Martin McKenzie-Murray

How Higgins’s testimony defeated Lehrmann’s appeal Deborah Snow

How Anthony Albanese approaches the Murdoch press Jason Koutsoukis

Inside the Senate’s university inquiry Tim Moore

Youth crime is ‘not in a crisis’ Gina McColl

The fight Chalmers has to have Richard Denniss

Full list: what Albanese has legislated this term Karen Barlow

Zelensky willing to trade NATO ambitions for peace Jonathan Pearlman

On faith and the exit ramp Barry Jones

An attack on our way of life Paul Bongiorno

This is not Australia Stan Grant

Oslo Davis cartoon, December 20, 2025 Oslo

The dull crack of anti-Semitism

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Opera star Jonas Kaufmann Shamistha de Soysa

Hamnet director Chloé Zhao Andy Hazel

Best television: The Rehearsal and The Bear’s fourth act Sarah Krasnostein

Best music: Sabrina Carpenter and Addison Rae soar in the year of pop Shaad D’Souza

Best visual art: Rich works in a year of economic uncertainty Carolyn Barnes

Best films: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value wins the year Christos Tsiolkas

Best architecture: Melburnians are going wild Naomi Stead

Wading in Cate Kennedy

The best books of 2025 Geordie Williamson

Oyster bloody Chazzy shots O Tama Carey

How to keep being Margaret Simons

Do today’s cars have to be so dull? Elizabeth Farrelly

‘Always coming home’: Why I moved from the US to Australia John Luther Adams

Following Shackleton’s epic Antarctic journey Bruce Wolpe

A budding gymnast’s pursuit of excellence Martin McKenzie-Murray

No. 581 Liam Runnalls

Who, despite being ‘no more than two’, bravely questions the Grinch as he steals her family’s Christmas tree in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Cindy MacDonald