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    Domestic violence
    Older women allegedly killed by family members a ‘silent crisis’, experts say

    Older women could be at dual risk of domestic violence – from partners and sons, a Guardian analysis of government data has found
    • Grampians bitter-pea

      Environment
      'What you're handling is gold': the bid to save rare flowers in the fire-ravaged Grampians

    • Federal politics
      Dreyfus condemns ‘grotesque’ attempts to politicise antisemitism in swipe at Dutton

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Moscow claims control of Velyka Novosilka but Ukrainians say fight continues

    • Weather
      Melbourne braces for 41C as public holiday heat hits cities

    • Federal politics
      Don’t call me teal: meet the Climate 200-backed candidate set to take on Peter Dutton

    • Middle East
      Syrian fighters execute 35 in three days, war monitor says

    • Analysis
      From Doge to Smoge, Peter Dutton’s Coalition is an eerie echo of Trump (and Musk’s) America

    • Funding
      ‘Comedy of errors’: NDIS reform leaves disabled Australians fearing what comes next

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  • Portrait of dancer Elizabeth Cameron Dalman standing outside

    Dance
    Elizabeth Cameron Dalman at 91: ‘In dance we are ageless’

    With a career spanning more than six decades, the pioneering co-founder of Australian Dance Theatre is still dancing – just don’t ask about the age thing
  • Noisy Miner - 'Manorina melanocephala', perched on a suburban fence<br>RXTCM8 Noisy Miner - 'Manorina melanocephala', perched on a suburban fence, Australia
The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) is a bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, and is endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia.

    Everyone asks me about my plans for having children. A nest of noisy miner birds has taught me how to respond

    Joseph Earp
  • Episodic artwork Full story fires

    Full Story podcast
    LA fires: how can we stop it happening here?

    Pyrogeography and fire science professor David Bowman, from the University of Tasmania, tells Reged Ahmad why he thinks we need to rethink how we design our cities and our homes to live with fires
  • Illustration including two people embracing, seen from behind, beside wilted flowers

    Making sense of it
    None of us wants to think about death. But pretending it won’t happen may not be the best option

    Simon Smart
    No matter how much we put it off, the bell will toll for each of us. How do we process that eternal human dilemma?
    • Grand Designs Australia host Anthony Burke

      Travel
      Away with Anthony Burke: ‘We did yoga twice a day and listened to the monkeys and elephants at night’

    • USA's Madison Keys poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after victory against Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka.

      In pictures
      Australian Open 2025: the best images from women’s and men’s finals

    • black-and-white photo of children running terrified as soldiers walk behind them

      Sundance 2025
      ‘Uncomfortable truths’: controversial film challenges authorship of famous photo

    • Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented By IMDb And IMDbPro At The Intercontinental Hotel Toronto, 2024<br>TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 07: Naomi Watts of 'The Friend' poses in the Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented by IMDb and IMDbPro during the Toronto International Film Festival at InterContinental Toronto Centre on September 07, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMDb)

      Books
      Dare I Say It by Naomi Watts review – is a Hollywood star really the best person to teach us about menopause?

  • Some of the child survivors of Auschwitz show their tattooed identification numbers as the camp was liberated.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on commemorating Auschwitz’s liberation: the urgency of Holocaust remembrance

    Eighty years after the Nazi death camp was freed, the testimony of survivors is as crucial as ever
  • Aboriginal Flag at the Sovereignty Day rally on the forecourt of Parliament House in 2024

    Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past

    Paul Daley
    • U.S. President Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Miami<br>U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as reporters ask questions aboard Air Force One during a flight from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Miami, Florida, U.S., January 25, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis

      Trump’s inauguration was a glimpse of what is to come

      Sidney Blumenthal
    • President Trump signs an executive order on AI

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on a global AI race: geopolitics, innovation and the rise of chaos

    • Melania Trump watches the indoor inauguration parade at the Capital One Arena on 20 January 2024.

      ‘You want to see my eyes, you pay extra.’ The Secret Diary of Melania Trump

      Catherine Bennett
    • Defendants arrive at the courthouse where the Gisele Pelicot rape trial is taking place, in Avignon, France, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

      All women are feeling the ripples from the Pelicot trial. So what now?

      Eva Wiseman
  • Melania Trump at the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington DC, 20 January 2025

    What does the inauguration’s authoritarian-chic fashion tell us? Designers are suddenly eager to dress the Trumps

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Pensioner on a wooden bench at the lake<br>EC4TYP Pensioner on a wooden bench at the lake

    Ask Philippa
    I’ve lost contact with my mother and feel I’m the family pariah

  • Sea-Breeze Laundry<br>Drying wet laundry on washing-line on Dungeness Beach, Kent.

    How do we end the WFH culture wars? I have the answer

    Emma Beddington
  • Various coloured ribbons shaped like question marks – representing different types of early-onset cancer

    Science
    Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?

  • Hot shot: coffee adds depth to slow-cooked beef.

    Food
    Ultimate custard, perfectly timed pasta, espresso-fuelled stews: 37 brilliant recipe hacks

  • Illustration depicting the mind/body split in traditional western medicine.

    Health
    The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all

  • Adrien Brody as fictional architect László Tóth in The Brutalist

    Film
    The Brutalist review – Brady Corbet’s audacious architecture drama is a monumental achievement

  • Benedict Cumberbatch appears in The Thing with Feathers by Dylan Southern, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Anthony Dickenson.

    First look review
    The Thing with Feathers review – Benedict Cumberbatch’s grief horror falls apart

    A unaffecting adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novella is perched awkwardly between fantasy and reality, failing to convince on either
  • animated image shows trump dancing as elon musk, jd vance, melania trump and steve bannon make the letters YMCA with their arms

    Music
    From gay clubs to Maga anthem: the absurd, contested history of the Village People’s YMCA

    A barely recognizable version of the band performed the 1978 classic at Donald Trump’s inauguration, the latest chapter in a strange tale of disco, feuds and showboating
  • Black and white studio portraits of the debut authors in a variety of poses

    Books
    The best new novelists for 2025

  • Detail of Van Gogh’s The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles

    UK
    Two Van Gogh paintings to be shown in London for first time

  • Mark Wahlberg in pilot's headphones in a cockpit looking reassuring in the direction of Michelle Dockery, whose face is turned away from the camera

    Film
    Flight Risk review – Mel Gibson’s airborne thriller is a B-movie blast

  • Dev Patel appears in Rabbit Trap by Bryn Chainey, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Andreas Johannessen

    Film
    Rabbit Trap review – Dev Patel gets lost in the woods in messy folk horror

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    Getting outdoors and staying sun safe: how to strike the balance as the temperature warms up

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  • A showing of Lord of the Rings, the Musical is shown at the Shakespeare Theatre in Chicago. Cast members gather around Frodo who is holding the Ring up to the spotlight.

    ‘Truly magical and totally unique in its form’: Tolkien’s tale sets out to make a stunning Australian stage debut

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    South Australia
    Man arrested for displaying Nazi symbol as Greens call attempts block Invasion Day rally ‘sickening’

    Fifteen men and one youth from the neo-Nazi group were arrested, police say
  • Deputy Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley makes a speech during a Liberal Party campaign rally in the seat of Chisholm, Melbourne, Sunday, January 12, 2025. (AAP Image/Diego Fedele) NO ARCHIVING

    Coalition
    ‘They did not come to destroy’: Sussan Ley praises First Fleet and likens it to Elon Musk’s Mars mission

  • Anthony Albanese speaks at a public memorial for Yolŋu leader Yunupingu in remote north-east Arnhem Land on Thursday 18 May, 2023

    Indigenous Australians
    ‘Keep moving forward’: Yunupingu leads Australia Day honours

    Late Yolŋu Indigenous rights activist appointed companion of the Order of Australia, along with lawyer Megan Davis and refugee advocate Gillian Triggs
    • Agriculture
      ‘We’ve been dumbed-down’: farmers want the right to repair their own tractors again

    • Exclusive
      Advice to Scott Morrison at centre of five-year legal battle that cost taxpayers $400,000 finally released

    • Canberra
      Grace Tame wears anti-Murdoch shirt to PM’s morning tea in snipe at ‘morbidly wealthy oligarchs’

    • Exclusive
      Salacious gossip, a photo scandal and death threats have dogged Victorian MP Georgie Purcell – but she won’t stop fighting

    • Weather
      Western Australia bushfires: homes reportedly lost and thousands told it is too late to leave

  • A header, tractor and chaser bin on a wheat field under a blue sky

    Farming
    ‘We’ve been dumbed-down’: Australian farmers want the right to repair their own tractors again

  • Western Australian artist Sally Jane, from WA, and her friend George, from Tasmania  wearing cowboy hats

    Rural Australia
    How does Tamworth country music festival attract 40,000 people every year? It’s the vibe

  • Closed sign on a small business front window

    Why do so many regional restaurants close during the busiest weeks of the year?

    Michael Burge
  • An aerial view of the mine

    Axedale
    Residents take Victoria’s largest goldmine to court over noise they claim is causing health problems

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  • Large crowds gather in front of the Victorian Parliament during an Invasion Day rally in Melbourne

    In pictures
    Reflection, recollection and resistance: Invasion Day 2025

    From a ‘dawn reflection’ ceremony to a ‘last sunset’ recalling the beginning of the colonial invasion, people have come together at events across the country to mark Invasion Day 2025
  • USA's Madison Keys poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after victory against Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka.

    Australian Open 2025
    The best images from women’s and men’s finals – in pictures

  • The Australia Day national holiday has proved perennially controversial, with Indigenous activists calling for the date to be changed.

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    Indigenous art
    'Celebrate our survival': Indigenous Australians mark Invasion Day across the country

  • A photograph of the office complex now known as Plant from above, showing its layered green terraces and surrounding trees.

    Art and design
    ‘A slice of 1970s Babylon restored’: living the office dream at the Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke

  • A table talking to a cat that's walking on it

    Cartoon
    Simone Lia: Things I really like about you

  • Ella Baron on Donald Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ella Baron on Donald Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights

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  • a man in a suit looks out from behind a microphone

    US
    ‘We’re watching mass delusion happen’: Trump’s return to White House brings cascade of lies

    In first week in office, president has made false claims on topics from immigration and economy to Panama canal
  • Auschwitz survivors Eva Clarke, Mindu Hornick, Albrecht Weinberg

    Second world war
    Auschwitz: 80 years after its liberation, three survivors tell their stories

  • People hold signs protesting the healthcare industry outside of the federal court house where Luigi Mangione was arraigned in New York City on 19 December 2024.

    US
    ‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors

  • Analysis
    Energized neo-Nazis feel their moment has come as Trump changes everything

  • Books
    ‘Forgotten’ sites linked to Jane Austen feature in new Hampshire trails

  • Fashion
    Designers ‘afraid’ of getting on Trump’s wrong side … and still put Melania in that hat

  • Gaza
    ‘He left for paradise’: hastily dug graves are visited as Gaza ceasefire takes effect

  • Reproduction
    Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds

  • Edvard Munch
    Rediscovered painting with ‘intriguing mystery’ to go on display in UK for first time

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    Lunar new year preparations and a rage room: photos of the weekend

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