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Blue-eyed grievance zombies: One Nation according to recent polls is the most popular party in Victoria.

In a normal election, Jacinta Allan would be gone. These are not normal times

Now that Pauline Hanson’s army of the dead is on the march, Labor MPs need to stop plotting against their own queen and prepare for the battle to come.

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Best TV shows this year (so far): Celia Pacquola in Dog Park; Madeleine Sami and Kate Box in Deadloch; Kylie Minogue in her Netflix documentary; Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms; and Noah Wyle in The Pitt.

The best TV shows of the year (so far)

While big hitters such as The Pitt delivered, there have also been a few genuinely delightful surprises.

  • Meg Watson, Louise Rugendyke, Craig Mathieson, Debi Enker, Kylie Northover and Karl Quinn
A ‘de-extincted’ dire wolf.

Game of Thrones wolves were brought back from extinction. They’re now ready to breed

A US biotech firm used DNA from thousands of years ago to alter the genome of modern wolves and resurrect the lost species.

  • Sarah Knapton
Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter in the Harry Potter TV series.

First look at new HBO’s Harry Potter TV series as teaser trailer drops

The teaser shows HBO’s reboot of J.K. Rowling’s first book, The Philosopher’s Stone – and we will be able to see it earlier than anticipated.

  • Kayla Olaya
Finish the book George, we roar.

The long wait has ruined George R. R. Martin’s The Winds of Winter

No book can survive 14 years of hype.

  • Charles Purcell
Peter Claffey stars in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

‘The ass-end of Westeros’: Why this new Game of Thrones spinoff is ‘opposite of epic’

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has a very ordinary man at the centre of the action – and that makes it all the more relatable.

  • Benji Wilson
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What to stream in January: The Night Manager, The Pitt, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms; Goolagong; and Hijack.

The best new TV shows to stream in January

Highlights include the return of The Night Manager and The Pitt, a new Game of Thrones spin-off and the biopic Goolagong.

  • Craig Mathieson
James Norton as Harold, king of Wessex, in King and Conqueror. 

‘Who the hell can we trust?’: Succession meets Game of Thrones in real-life historical drama

You may know how the bloody Battle of Hastings ends, but a new drama digs into how it all began.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Shocking TV deaths IndexGrey’s Anatomy, McLeod’s Daughters, The Walking Dead, Love My Way, Game of Thrones.

12 of the most shocking moments in TV history

Have you recovered from the latest episode of The Last of Us? Let’s come together and share our TV trauma.

  • Meg Watson, Nell Geraets, Michael Idato, Andrew Mercado and Garry Maddox
Jon Snow is reunited with his dire wolf, Ghost, in the Game of Thrones finale.

‘Good lord, this thing is huge’: Pups bred using DNA from extinct dire wolf

Two brothers – Romulus and Remus – and a younger female pup called Khaleesi, after the popular Game of Thrones character, were genetically engineered by a US lab.

  • Christina Larson