From Nostradamus to Bookies: Predictions for 2026

Labor have a tenuous grip on power after 12 years in Victoria, but are expected to hold on in South Australia.
From Nostradamus to Bookies: Predictions for 2026
The "family fireworks”, also known as the Country fireworks displayed three hours before midnight every year ahead of the main show at midnight, fill the sky over the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney on New Year's Eve on Dec. 31, 2025. Izhar Khan/Getty Images
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Nostradamus’s cryptic foreboding five centuries ago that “the great swarm of bees will arise” has been interpreted as having special significance for geopolitics in 2026.

Blind mystic Baba Vanga, nearly 30 years after her death, is claimed to have predicted extraterrestrial life approaching earth in November in a year marked by natural disasters.