cabinet papers
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Obama 'inadequate' in resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflictFormer prime minister uses release of 1990-91 cabinet papers to call on China to help ‘change the chemistry’ of the Middle East
headlines
Thursday
31
December
2015
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Unions vow to fight after PM names industrial relations as election issueMalcolm Turnbull is paving the way for a double dissolution election unless both houses of parliament pass legislation to curb the influence of trade unions
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Sydney revellers ring in 2016Australian city renowned for its spectacular firework displays sees in 2016, while other cities host smaller events
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Endometriosis activist Sylvia Freedman on a year of driving changeAt 24, Freedman set up Australia’s first patient-centred endometriosis conference, beginning a radical process of opening up information to millions of women
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The PM is like a doctor who only wants to breaks good news to a patient, and then calls in the pathologist if the tests show up something nasty that needs explaining.After taking out the trash this week, Malcolm Turnbull is missing in action
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highlights
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How Alan Kurdi's death changed the worldThe aunt of the Syrian boy photographed lying dead on a Turkish beach and the policeman who found him speak about the image and the plight of refugees
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Jennifer Lawrence wipes the floor with all comers in mop boss biopicLawrence’s star power is at its peak in this true-life tale of the single mother who made a fortune with a self-wringing mop, but its surprising surrealist streak doesn’t always benefit the storytelling
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Black writers courageously staring down the white gaze – this is why we all must read themIt takes courage for a black person to speak to a white world
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George Lucas hits out at 'retro' Star Wars: The Force AwakensFilm-maker defends his six-film tenure of the long-running space saga, saying he constantly tried to innovate ‘with different planets, with different spaceships’
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I felt that my time on this planet was finite. That made me driven in a way that had little to do with conventional ambitionLessons I learned about life from my mother’s early death
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Could hipster bushes be the new beards? It's time for pubic hair to be cool againWomen have Brazilians, men have bushy beards. Where’s the hair equality in that? It’s time to ditch the depilation and embrace ‘objectionable hair’
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Residents evacuate as warnings blaze could reach coastal Victorian townsKennett River, Grey River and Wongarra residents evacuate amid fears fires still burning in the Otways state forest could break containment lines
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The 20 hits and missesThe Bachelorette ensnared the nation, MasterChef rediscovered its recipe and Q&A sparked a political war. But the verdict on The Verdict was negative and critics abandoned Banished
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President calls for parliament to assemble after three-year hiatusNew parliament is dominated by alliance loyal to Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, after last one, where Muslim Brotherhood were in the majority, was dissolved after coup
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Country may get two Christmases as national identity debate beginsProposal could divide country amid battle for influence between Russian and Ukrainian branches of Orthodox church
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charity appeal 2015
in depth
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Mali's photo festival makes defiant returnDespite an Islamist attack on the capital just weeks after the opening gala, both artists and organisers say culture remains key in the fight against extremism
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Beyond Zero and One: Machines, Psychedelics, and Consciousness – inside the minds of computersHow can we stop superintelligent computers from taking over the world? Feed them a digital dose of LSD, suggests this mind-bending book
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What will happen in 2016?Space explorers, genetic scientists, US voters, terrorists and hackers look set to dominate our world next year – but don’t rule out the odd pleasant surprise
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The best tweets of the yearThe Pope, Yoko Ono and calling out hipster baristas. We take a look at some of the funniest and most on-point tweets of the year
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Why the predictable climate event still has the scientists guessingBlister of sea surface heat in Pacific Ocean can set off devastating drought, storms and rainfall around the globe – or just fade away
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Middle East still rocking from first world war pacts made 100 years agoThe agreements that shaped the region may be forgotten in the west, but in the Middle East their significance still looms large
pictures & video
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Philippines priest rides hoverboard during massFather Albert San Jose has found himself in a lot of bovver over a hover after singing to his congregation during Christmas Eve mass while riding a hoverboard
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Australian depictions of the beachOn the Beach brings together 76 works reflecting the diversity of Australian stories on sandy, sea-washed shores
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The women who led the world in 2015We asked Bette Lynch, director of photography for EMEA at Getty Images to pick her leading women of 2015. Here she explains why she choose them and the images that define them
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Rare giant squid encounter filmed by diver in Toyama Bay, JapanThe 3.7-metre-long squid was spotted swimming under fishing boats in the bay on Christmas Eve
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The best of the wildlife photography awardsWinning images from national and international wildlife photography competitions of the year
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US police killed 1,126 people this year. Will 2016 be any different?The killing of Mike Brown in August 2014 made the world wake up to police gun use in America
people
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Obama charms Jerry SeinfeldHe’s not a comedian, and he doesn’t exactly tell jokes, but Obama is dry, relaxed and having fun – in a show that celebrates the US presidency as celebritocracy
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$100m copyright claim over Django UnchainedWriters launch legal action, alleging Tarantino lifted characters and plotlines from their screenplay for his 2012 hit
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'If Jennifer Lawrence were black, she’d really have something to complain about'Comic and actor highlights yet greater discrepancies for women of colour in Hollywood pay debate
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Donald Trump calls Mexicans rapists and drug dealers. It’s hate discourseFrom Che Guevara to the iconoclastic conductor of Mozart in the Jungle, the Mexican star is no stranger to playing fiery revolutionaries. Now he’s ready to rise up against a certain ‘ignorant’ US presidential candidate
the big picture
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Vintage stars in their dancing shoesThere’s a party going on right here in these wonderful shots of Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor and Liza Minnelli giving it their all on the dancefloor
Paul Keating's press clippings The story of a deputy PM's growing frustration