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  • Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O Henderson

    Media
    Kyle Sandilands boasts about broadcasting explicit content as Albanese refuses to condemn show

    Communications minister says there is ‘no place for sexist, racist or otherwise derogatory language’, but PM declines to comment on Kyle and Jackie O show
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      Immigration
      More than 80,000 at risk of deportation under Labor bill likened to UK’s failed Rwanda plan

    • Media
      Australian free-to-air TV stations push for more M-rated content hours and watered down child protections

    • Live
      House committee reportedly told of second sexual encounter between Matt Gaetz and 17-year-old

    • New South Wales
      Anonymous gambling should be allowed in NSW until 2028, leaked report from government panel says

    • Health
      Learning CPR on manikins without breasts puts women’s lives at risk, study finds

    • East Asia
      British lawyer is fifth person to die in suspected methanol poisoning in Laos

    • Queensland
      First Nations group lodges racial discrimination complaint against Adani

    • Exclusive
      Victoria will not renew defence memorandum of understanding with Israel

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    US
    ‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’

  • Australia's Jordan Thompson and Matthew Ebden celebrate winning the decisive Davis Cup tie against the USA.

    Tennis
    Thanasi Kokkinakis and doubles pair inspire Australia to Davis Cup win over USA

    Doubles pair Jordan Thompson and Matt Ebden seal victory and Italy or Argentina await in semi-final
  • A house for lease in Melbourne

    Renting
    Sally and Shimon spend half their pension on housing. But their only other option is Melbourne’s streets

    Number of older renters has increased by 73% in the past decade, as rental affordability plunges to record lows in almost every state

Spotlight

  • A tampon

    Why are we laughing at male ignorance about menstruation? Where are the LOLs?

    Rebecca Shaw
    I’m done with viral videos of men who don’t know where a tampon goes. They need to grow up. Period
  • Daisy Ridley

    The reader interview
    Daisy Ridley: ‘I made a toilet cake on Bake Off because flushing with the lid up is unhygienic beyond belief’

  • Full Story newsroom edition art: Mike Ticher (l), Lenore Taylor (m), Patrick Keneally (r)

    Full Story
    Newsroom edition: Labor and the Coalition’s election playbook takes shape

    Guardian Australia’s editor Lenore Taylor, deputy editor Patrick Keneally and head of newsroom Mike Ticher discuss whether there are lessons for the major parties in Donald Trump’s big win
  • Painting: The Disillusioned Medea by Paulus Bor.

    Leading questions
    I feel guilt and frustration at not having found my ‘thing’. How can I reconcile this?

    Try too hard to find your purpose and you might miss it, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But wait too long for it to find you, and you could lose out
    • Elon Musk and Donald Trump

      US economy
      Trump’s tax cuts and Musk’s Doge show they have no idea about debt

      Jeffrey Frankel
    • Illustration of women in various poses with colorful clothing

      Well actually
      How do I stay healthy in my 50s?

    • Michelle de Kretser and her book Theory & Practice.

      Australian books
      Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

    • woman in pink top stands in front of shelves of records

      Music
      Her dead father left her 10,000 records. Sharing them online helped her grieve – and get to know him

Sport

  • Yuki Tsunoda had already traveled to the US for races earlier this season

    Formula One
    F1 driver Yuki Tsunoda interrogated in pyjamas by US border officials

  • David Squires on … Unite round

    David Squires on ...
    Uniting the world, one A-League round at a time

    Our cartoonist on this weekend’s festival of football in Sydney that has already run into some problems
    • Jessie Diggins is by far the most decorated American cross-country skier in the sport’s history.

      Skiing
      ‘I’ve seen winters change’: Olympic champion Jessie Diggins refuses to shut up and ski

    • Australia players applaud fans after a last-gasp draw in Bahrain

      Socceroos continue to ride their luck as margin for error becomes razor thin

      Joey Lynch
    • Vinícius Júnior during Brazil training

      Football
      ‘It’s everyone’s fight’: Vinícius calls for more help in battle against racism

    • LA Lakers star LeBron James laughs during a timeout at Crypto.com Arena during Tuesday’s game against the Utah Jazz.

      NBA
      LeBron James says he’s taking a social media break over ‘negative takes’

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Opinion

  • Bill Shorten gives his valedictory speech in the House of Representatives

    Praised by Dutton, the man who almost led Australia says he leaves politics with failures that became the best of him

    Karen Middleton
    Bill Shorten notes a string of proud policy achievements and recalls the uproar when he tackled a sausage sandwich side-on as he farewells parliament
  • Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yoav Gallant

    The ICC arrest warrants must bring an end to Israel’s atrocities – and true accountability for all the guilty

    Owen Jones
    Benjamin Netanyahu and his former foreign minister have been accused of heinous crimes. This must mark a turning point, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
    • Illustration by Alex Mellon for the Guardian

      Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion

      George Monbiot
    • Illustration of a hand holding a smartphone emanating flames

      A social media ban for everyone is in the national interest – not just kids under 16

      Van Badham
    • Simon Jenkins

      The west’s reckless escalation of the war in Ukraine will cause more suffering, for no strategic gain

      Simon Jenkins
    • Anatol Lieven

      The Democrats must radically rethink foreign policy

      Anatol Lieven

Lifestyle

  • Austurstraeti in central Reykjavík, 3 October 2024.

    Iceland’s shorter working week has been a huge success – and it’s changed my family’s life

    María Hjálmtýsdóttir
    For 90% of working Icelanders, a 36-hour week means less stress, more job satisfaction and time to enjoy life beyond work
  • Composite image of a pair of mesh black flat shoes, and a close up of a black skirt

    Closet clinic
    ‘Quite dodgy’: what kind of outfit does $80 buy at Temu and Shein?

  • Lori and Marc for G2 - How we met 27th Anniversary

    How we met
    ‘There was a heatwave and he didn’t have air conditioning. So I invited him to sleep on my floor’

  • Lost Shore Surf Resort uses a wave generator to create perfect surf conditions.

    Travel
    Perfect waves at the touch of a button: catching a break at Scotland’s first inland surf resort

  • Closeup of a banana against a pink background

    Anxiety
    Does this banana scare you? The harsh reality of life with an unusual phobia

  • Adrian Chiles

    Do you want to hear about my dreams? No, I didn’t think so

    Adrian Chiles

Culture

  • ‘Things are opening up for me now’ … Denzel Washington.

    Film
    Two bottles a day and a 10,000 bottle wine cellar: Denzel Washington opens up about his past drinking problem

  • MIA at Zenith de Paris, 2014.

    Ranked
    Bad girls do it well: MIA’s 20 best songs

    Mathangi Arulpragasam has been mixing it up for more than 20 years, blending Bollywood and Suicide samples with funk, electro and hip-hop. We select her standout cuts
  • Snow Leopard.

    Film
    Snow Leopard review – enigmatic tale of man v beast is late Tibetan film-maker’s final word

    Pema Tseden’s swan song about the fate of a snow leopard imprisoned by a vengeful farmer gains new layers of political meaning following the director’s death
  • Exploration of trauma … Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl

    Games
    Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review – transfixing Ukrainian dystopia built on underlying tragedy

  • ‘Such revelations which only singers can describe’ … Father John Misty AKA Josh Tillman.

    Album of the week
    Father John Misty: Mahashmashana review – modern life is still rubbish, yet still beautifully essayed

  • Sara Silva, Sarah Catherine Hook and Zac Burgess in Cruel Intentions

    TV review
    Cruel Intentions review – this generic remake of the 90s classic is utterly mindless

  • Ahead of his time … detail of a portrait of Augustus II the Strong, 1736.

    History books
    Augustus the Strong by Tim Blanning review – the king of bling

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Across the country

  • Australian Federal Police (AFP) Assistant Commissioner Nigel Ryan addresses the media during a press conference in Sydney, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The AFP will focus on targeting Italian organised crime and money-laundering syndicates, prompted by invaluable intelligence obtained on the AN0M platform, marking the first anniversary of the overt action taken under Operation Ironside. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

    Policing
    New law introduced to block legal challenge to An0m organised crime bust

    People charged after the AFP sting against the encypted app claim the information was not obtained lawfully
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    Federal politics
    Liberal backbencher denies Catherine King’s parliamentary claim he filmed conversation between them on GoPro

  • A composite image of Jase and Lauren, Christian O'Connell, Ross and Russel, Fifi Box, Brendan Fevola, Nick Cody and Kyle and Jackie O

    Radio
    ‘A perception that Sydney is crass’: why The Kyle and Jackie O Show bombed in Melbourne

  • Bianca Jones.

    2:27

    Thailand
    Melbourne teen Bianca Jones dies in hospital after methanol poisoning in Laos

    • Business
      Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison tells shareholders ‘I hate what I’ve done’ after scandals rock company

    • Immigration
      Labor to confiscate phones from non-citizens in detention in new bill

    • Weekend weather
      Heatwave forecast for NSW and Victoria with Melbourne temperatures to top 36C

    • Media
      Linton Besser, award-winning investigative journalist, named new Media Watch host

    • Sydney
      Anti-Israel vandalism has ‘no place in a modern Australia’, Josh Burns and Dave Sharma say

    • Education
      More than 300 university executives make more money than state premiers, report reveals

The rural network

  • Gabrielle Chan

    Shopping around for the best deal on groceries is good advice for most people – except if you live in the bush

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Murrumbidgee River at Hay

    Environment
    Murrumbidgee River has lost more than half its water in one section, research shows

  • A hospital sign

    Health
    ‘It’s kind of whispered in corridors’: women being forced into underground abortion networks in rural NSW, study finds

  • Karst Kruen with red gum trees he planted in 2021

    Environment
    ‘It’s gang-gang country’: the landholders restoring farmland to forest in the Victorian alps

Around the world

  • A man is trapped in the ceiling of San Antonio Regional Hospital in California on 18 November 2024.

    US news
    Chaos at California hospital after patient climbs into ceiling and gets stuck

  • A young giraffe interacts with her mother

    Animals
    US moves to list giraffes under Endangered Species Act for the first time

    • Italy
      Severed horse head found at Sicilian property, in echo of Godfather scene

    • Science
      First close-up image of a star outside Milky Way shows supergiant in ‘cocoon’

    • Business
      Mining executives held in Mali released after $160m deal to settle tax dispute

    • US politics
      Trump likely to choose surgeon and writer Marty Makary as FDA chief

    • Northern Ireland
      Son of woman killed by IRA condemns ‘cruel’ Disney series

    • War briefing
      We will regain Crimea through diplomacy, not force, says Zelenskyy

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  • Full Story newsroom edition art: Mike Ticher (l), Lenore Taylor (m), Patrick Keneally (r)

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    Guardian Australia’s editor Lenore Taylor, deputy editor Patrick Keneally and head of newsroom Mike Ticher discuss whether there are lessons for the major parties in Donald Trump’s big win
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    Opinion
    What do Australians think of the new-look Aukus?

    Fiona Katauskas
  • A mural supporting the Irish Republican Army, seen in the Catholic area of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1985.

    Best podcasts of the week
    How an IRA spy named ‘Stakeknife’ got away with playing both sides

  • Hair raising … Gold with a Mind of Its Own by Chelsea Odufu.

    Photography
    Going for gold: the best of Africa Foto Fair

  • Ben Jennings on Putin loosening the terms under which Russia would use nuclear weapons – cartoon

    Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Putin’s rhetoric over Russia’s nuclear weapons

  • An orangutan climbs a tree in Gunung Palung national park.

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    Explainer
    Why did ICC issue Netanyahu arrest warrant and what are the implications?

    Reasoning behind decision that also included warrants for former defence secretary as well as Hamas’s military leader
  • Bill Shorten eats a sausage sandwich at a school polling booth on the 2016 election day in NSW

    Lettuce, sausages and ‘simps’
    Bill Shorten’s most memorable zingers

  • Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Yoav Gallant sitting in front of Israeli flags at a desk with mics

    Analysis
    War crimes charges will be hard stigma for Netanyahu to shrug off

  • As a Sudanese Australian, it is heartbreaking to see the devastating war in my homeland overlooked

    Sara Sinada

  • Explainer
    Labor has unveiled its proposed social media ban for under-16s. Here’s what we know – and what we don’t

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    Veteran British politician and trade unionist

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    Who is Gautam Adani, the Indian billionaire charged in the US over bribery plot?

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    Fear and sympathy: small Irish town divided over asylum camp

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