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Peace, love and “flower power” was the mantra of the hippie generation: handing out daffodils to Kings Cross pedestrians in 1969.

Crime, gold discoveries and 35 odd socks: How the Herald has told the stories you want to read

Over 195 years, the Herald has chronicled Sydney’s transformation, sorting fact from fiction, breaking the news and shining a light into dark corners.

  • Damien Murphy

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Covering western Sydney: how the Herald’s photographer captured Hindu celebrations as locals lit up their homes in Phantom Street, Nirimba Fields, as part of Blacktown City’s Diwali Lights in October.

Western Sydney lost 21 newspapers in a decade. What’s happened in that vacuum?

People need to know – and deserve to know – what’s going on in their neighbourhood.

  • Anthony Segaert
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Trump has laid out a ‘dim sum menu’ of reasons for attacking Iran. There’s one key thing missing

Donald Trump has shown little appetite for finding an off-ramp to the Iran war, even as concerns among Western allies rise and the conflict spreads further.

  • Michael Koziol
The police action on George Street on Monday night.

I’ve worked alongside good police, but what my daughter saw this week shocked me

She asked me why the Herzog protest required such a violent police response. I did not have a simple answer. 

  • Violet Roumeliotis
What do we want to stand for as a nation?

We’re a great nation. Let’s remind ourselves why that is

Compared with much of the world, everything “just works” in Australia, right? No, it doesn’t. It’s up to us to make sure it keeps working.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness

We are living through an utterly lamentable era of history

We now live in a more extreme, violent and savage world than a decade ago. Liberal democracy is being confronted with something quite evil. Wider global conflict is far from impossible.

  • Dennis Glover
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Jimmy Lai pictured in 2020.

HK media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted under Beijing-imposed national security law

The 78-year-old, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a vocal democracy campaigner, faces potential life imprisonment.

  • Lisa Visentin
The National Socialist Network rally outside the NSW parliament on November 8.

How to stop neo-Nazis forming a political party: This involves you, Albanese

These anti-democratic fringe-dwellers want to exploit democracy just so they can white-ant it from within. Here’s how democracy can fight back.

  • Rosalind Dixon
More than 60 members of the National Socialist Network attended the rally on Saturday.

Ignore these neo-Nazis at our peril: Evil left unchallenged will be normalised

They lie and hijack the ANZAC legend while defiling the memory of almost 40,000 Australians who died fighting Nazi Germany.

  • David Ossip
Zohran Mamdani appears on the Flagrant podcast, with comedian Andrew Schulz.

Trump made this the new political test – Mamdani just showed the left how to ace it

Two weeks before the New York election, Zohran Mamdani appeared on an edgy anti-woke podcast. His answers had the host in stitches – and drew 1.9 million views.

  • Nathan Taylor Pemberton