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Senator Fatima Payman was once held up by colleagues the modern face of both Australia and the party she represented. On Thursday, she joined the crossbench. 

Joe Biden has jet lag. Joe Biden has a cold. Joe Biden was over-prepared. Joe Biden was under-prepared. Joe Biden has a stutter. Defenders of the president have trotted out plenty of excuses since last week's catastrophic first debate against Donald Trump. But should they replace him?

Sean Murphy is retiring after 30 years at the ABC. For 22 of those years he travelled the country, hardcover notebook in hand, to bring hundreds of yarns to the Landline audience. We will miss him greatly, but in his own words 'to the sea he'll go'.

Some frame Julian Assange as a free press warrior and others a reckless hacker. As Anthony Albanese backed quiet diplomacy to free him, this unusual move to wield political influence over the legal systems of our democratic allies seems to have been lost in the haze. 

Anthony Albanese needs to take the win and move on from the successful negotiation of Julian Assange's freedom. The issue could become sticky fly paper and with troubling inflation and Senator Fatima Payman voting across party lines, he now has other problems to tackle.

Whether seen as a hero or villain, support for bringing Assange home eventually stretched across the political spectrum like few other issues, writes David Speers. 

From commentating make believe games in the backyard to four decades of calling local football, the ABC's Glenn Barndon has made a career out of his love for local sport. 

Australian Defence Force personnel and federal police officers have participated in 62 global peacekeeping missions since 1947, which one vet says "can be very complex, very confronting, especially when you're unarmed".

It really should come as no surprise to Arj Barker that the eviction of a breastfeeding mother from his Melbourne show has whipped up another round of culture wars, but these situations are complicated by differing experiences and emotional triggers — and culture wars aren't good with detail.

Removing accumulated dung might be an unusual job but it's one that woolshed cleaner Robin Rogers loves.

Australia's 30th Prime Minister is finally about to leave the building, almost two years after losing the federal election. Defeated PMs tend not to hang around for this long, but as a wise man once said, "It's not a race", writes Annabel Crabb. 

Whether you rate her or not — and as Swifties know, haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate — it's impossible to deny that it is Taylor Swift's moment and the best way to share the joy is not to stand back and judge it, but to step in and feel it, writes Leigh Sales.

With Donald Trump projected to win the Iowa caucuses — and ahead in opinion polls for forthcoming states — history suggests he will win the Republican nomination, writes Casey Briggs.

A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who was the first to demonstrate that the Earth orbits the Sun.

The question for Israel's government is how its campaign against Hamas — and its horrifying civilian toll — will prevent a new generation of people taking up arms? The answer, according to anti-terror experts, is not via military means, writes Eric Tlozek.

Benjamin Netanyahu is now one of the globe's most important leaders. This is what history tells us about his approach to the crisis in Israel and Gaza, writes John Lyons. 

I've been ineffably sad ever since the awful news of Matthew Perry's death. The first fatal rupture within an iconic cultural group — a band, an acting ensemble — is the true death of the group itself, writes Virginia Trioli.

After all Madonna's decades of swallowing and spitting out every other cultural taboo for a woman in music, the age barrier is her last hill to climb. And she's doing it in a crotchless corset and heels, writes Virginia Trioli.

It's a well-worn path for Australian prime ministers to meet with the world's most powerful person while in the United States. They also usually meet with the US president, writes Brett Worthington.

A radio community is a living, thriving, wriggling, combative, remarkable thing. As I prepare to step down I will not miss the early starts. But I know I will not find the kind of conversations and connection to an audience I have had in radio more than anywhere else, writes Virginia Trioli.

Actor, comedian and author Denise Scott tells the Australian Women's Weekly in an exclusive interview she was diagnosed with cancer immediately before she was due to start filming the Mother and Son remake.

Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century's most famous physicist, yet his name is not nearly so well known. Who was he and why will he forever be the "father of the atomic bomb"? 

Inflation is creating inflation. Unlike previous episodes where higher prices sparked wage breakouts, a large portion of our inflation is being driven by interest rate hikes, writes Ian Verrender.

Will RBA veteran Michele Bullock be able to deliver for a generation of home-buyers now facing possible oblivion as their monthly repayments double? She'll need a miracle, writes Ian Verrender.

Those of us with men in our lives fervently wish they would seek out and nurture good friendships with their mates in the way that women — and Wham! — so often do better, writes Virginia Trioli.