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Tuesday23 April 2024
  • X owner Elon Musk

    Elon Musk
    Anthony Albanese labels X owner ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’

    The PM responds to tech billionaire who criticised authorities demanding videos of the Sydney church stabbing be removed
    • GERMANY-SPACE-ESA<br>Australian aerospace engineer Katherine Bennell-Pegg poses after the press conference of European Space Agency ESA's class of 2022 astronaut candidates at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, western Germany on May 3, 2023. - Bennell-Pegg, Director of Space Technology at the Australian Space Agency, will undertake basic astronaut training at ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne, Germany, alongside ESA's newly selected career astronauts from April 2023. This is the first time ESA is giving basic training to an astronaut candidate from an international partner, making EAC the third centre in the world to do so. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

      Katherine Bennell-Pegg
      Taxpayers paid $466,000 for training of nation’s first female astronaut

    • Victorian politics
      Safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD rejected by government

    • 'On the verge of disappearing for ever'
      Tiny freshwater Snowy Mountains fish faces extinction, environmentalists say

    • Housing crisis
      Changes to property tax concessions could net $60bn over decade, crossbench senators say

    • California
      More than 30 death penalty cases on review over juror discrimination

    • 'How many others have to put their son in the ground?'
      Family not informed 15-year-old Indigenous teen had left care before fatal Canberra crash

    • ‘Nyet, Moscow Marjorie’
      US rightwing media mock Marjorie Taylor Greene after Ukraine aid bill passes

    • Belgium
      Man whose body makes its own alcohol cleared of drunk-driving

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  • Giridharan Sivaraman is Australia’s newly appointed race discrimination commissioner

    Giridharan Sivaraman
    New race discrimination commissioner says diverse heroes can ‘only be a good thing’

    Honouring people like security guard at Bondi stabbing, Muhammad Taha, can help ease social tensions, says Giridharan Sivaraman
  • Australia's acai comeback: why is the Amazonian purple berry popular again?

    Purple reign
    This berry was once considered a 'superfood'. Now it's had an ultra-sweet makeover

  • Australia's James Magnussen winning a medal in Spain in 2013. The retired swimmer says he will compete in next year's Enhanced Games

    Full Story podcast
    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead?

    A sporting event with a difference: athletes will be allowed to dope
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    Fiona Katauskas cartoon
    Elon Musk – arrogant billionaire or free speech warrior?

    Either way it stinks
    • Two people hike up a mountain path. The area around them is grassy and there is a clear blue sky.

      Memory
      Try something new to stop the days whizzing past, researchers suggest

    • A still from Bluey episode Surprise

      Surprise!
      How I got turned into Bluey’s Bandit, the world’s greatest dad

    • Stock image of a beach house

      Being back in the beach house that witnessed much of my 20s feels strange and wondrous – like a sort of time travel

      Nova Weetman
    • Composite of two images of stylist Ntombi Moyo

      ‘Preplan your outfits like meals’
      Screen stylist’s tips for looking perpetually polished

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Opinion

  • Paul Karp

    The Agenda
    Hecs help is on the way – but is it too little, too late to help struggling students?

    Paul Karp
  • Remains of a ballistic missile near the Dead Sea after Iran’s attack on Israel.

    Iran seems like it’s in escalation mode – but all-out war with Israel is the last thing it wants

    Lina Khatib
    • Message in Tel Aviv in support of hostages kidnapped on 7 October.

      My parents were taken hostage on 7 October. This Passover, we pray for leaders who bring dignity and peace

      Sharone Lifschitz
    • Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomes former British PM Boris Johnson to Kyiv, 22 January 2023.

      Did Boris Johnson really sabotage peace talks between Russia and Ukraine? The reality is more complicated

      Emma Ashford
    • John Crace

      The UK politics sketch
      Struggling to control his anger, Tetchy Rishi went full on aggressive-aggressive

      John Crace
    • Spice Girls<br>British all-girl singing group the Spice Girls at the Brit Awards, where they won in the Best Video and Best Single categories, 24th February 1997. Left to right; Mel C, Emma Bunton, Mel B, Geri Halliwell and Victoria Adams (later Beckham), aka. Sporty, Baby, Scary, Ginger and Posh, respectively. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images)

      What do I want for Posh at 50? Happiness. She and the Spice Girls deserve it

      Zoe Williams

Lifestyle

  • woman with small child

    Life as a YouTube creator was great, but 12 years in, I felt like I was trapped on a hamster wheel

    Hannah Witton
    The never-ending commitment took its toll on my creativity and my mental health. Having a baby was the last straw
  • Emily Halnon’s schnauzer, Brutus

    The pet I'll never forget
    Brutus the schnauzer, who arrived with my ex and hung around for far longer

  • Viviene Westwood attends a tribute at the V&A in 1998 wearing a taffeta ball gown

    ‘Pretty incredible’
    Vivienne Westwood’s personal wardrobe to be auctioned

  • Pregnant women

    My twin babies didn’t survive their premature birth – and I’m left to wonder why

    Sara Mussa
  • The author, leaning out of a stable door. She has her hair in braids and wears glasses. She is smiling.

    Autism makes travel a challenge. Here’s how I learned to cope

  • Male hand sliding mobile phone either into or out of denim jeans pocket

    ‘It’s fast and free’
    Muting people on social media will change your life

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Culture

  • ‘It was crazy and it was freezing’ … Lil Nas X’s tastefully pixelated Industry Baby video.

    ‘I want to show more crotch!’
    Sean Bankhead on his raunchy dances for Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lil Nas X and more

  • A still from SBS crime drama Swift Street

    How would you raise $26,000 in 10 days?
    The rollicking Melbourne crime drama exploring shades of grey

    SBS’s Swift Street follows a father and daughter who commit crimes to pay back a dangerous debt – but ‘it’s a privilege to sit on a moral high horse’, says the creator
  • A view of awards on display

    Books
    PEN America cancels 2024 awards after authors drop out over Gaza

    Dozens of nominated writers had withdrawn from consideration by literary and free-expression organization
  • conan stands next to man in hot dog suit

    Hilarious, defiant and unabashedly weird
    Conan O’Brien hasn’t lost an iota of his underdog brilliance

  • Refugee Astronaut by Yinka Shonibare.

    Venice Biennale 2024 review
    Everything everywhere all at once

  • Elia-Barbieri---The-Guardian-Saturday---Big-Idea---20th-April-2024---Do-we-sleep-in-order-to-dream-RGB-web

    The big idea
    What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?

  • The Spice Girls: Melanie B, Melanie C, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams And Emma Bunton

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    Spice Girls
    Girl group reunites at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party

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Across the country

  • A composite image showing the Coles, Aldi and Woolworths logos

    ‘Prices dropped’
    Supermarket discount labels are confusing shoppers, Choice tells ACCC inquiry

    Consumer group calls on the regulator to act on slogans, designs or colours that imply a discount when it is not a genuine deal
  • Panels on a solar farm

    Essential poll
    Voters back Labor’s Future plan while overestimating cost of renewables

  • A sketch of Erin Patterson appearing in Latrobe Valley magistrates court

    Alleged mushroom murders
    Who are Erin Patterson and the other key figures?

    Erin Patterson was charged with murder after allegedly serving poisonous mushrooms to her ex-husband Simon Patterson’s family members. Gail Patterson, Don Patterson and Heather Wilkinson all died, and Ian Wilkinson was left fighting for life
    • Mullumbimby resident Nikki Malone stands at her property with a dog

      'It's a lottery'
      Only one person has received grant to elevate home two years after NSW northern rivers floods

    • Arj Barker and a ‘gurgling’ baby
      Comedian’s request for mother to leave Melbourne show sparks furore

    • Woodside Energy
      Australia’s largest super fund joins protest vote against climate plans

    • Traffic light confusion
      ‘Alarming’ design at Brisbane intersection where young cyclist died after being hit by bus

    • ‘Finding it impossible’
      Homelessness services see 14% jump in employed Victorians seeking help

    • Fire ants
      Experts say discovery of invasive species in Murray Darling Basin should be ‘ringing alarm bells’

    • Forbes
      Man charged with murder after ex-partner found dead in NSW town

    • Sydney
      Driver in ‘highly disordered mental state’ slammed into home and killed sleeping occupant, court told

The rural network

  • Gabrielle Chan

    If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?

    Gabrielle Chan
  • A tree strewn with bras in an outback setting

    ‘An unexplained phenomenon’
    The Australian obsession for putting stuff in trees

  • Man holds broom in factory

    The last straw
    The Snowy Mountains broom-makers keeping a tradition alive

  • Ripe quinces hanging on the tree

    Cooking with quinces
    The art of delayed and slightly disappointed gratification

    Calla Wahlquist

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  • Boy's face poking out of water

    The origin of all things
    Kyotographie 2024 – a photo essay

    The 12th annual Kyotographie photography festival features 13 exhibitions staged in striking locations across the Japanese city of Kyoto. Photographers from around the world submitted pictures on the theme of ‘source’
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    Visualisation
    Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank

  • Ben Jennings on the Conservatives whipping up fear of migrants – cartoon

    UK opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on the Conservatives whipping up fear of migrants

  • Composite image of Keir Starmer, David Cameron and Tony Blair

    UK politics
    Labour are ahead in the polls, but have they won hearts and minds? These charts suggest not

  • Four panels from book showing artist taking shower and meditating on self-improvement

    'Male anxiety hilariously meets global crisis'
    Self-Esteem and the End of the World by Luke Healy review

  • Runners’ nipples and coastlines in extreme weather
    Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams

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    Is eco toilet paper really a better choice? Your questions answered

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    Quiz: Toilets can save lives – but do you know how?

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  • A side view of man wearing a kippah and a Met officer in hi-vis. The officer's face is blurred.

    London
    What does a longer video of the exchange between Met officer and antisemitism campaigner tell us?

    13-minute video released by Sky News shows more nuanced discussion at pro-Palestinian march where officer called man ‘openly Jewish’
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    Filmed by voyeurs and stalked online

  • Nancy Gonzalez shows off her collection of handbags at Neiman Marcus in Bal Harbour, Florida in 2008.

    Nancy Gonzalez
    Celebrity designer sentenced to prison for smuggling crocodile and python handbags

  • Taylor Swift
    Fans flock to London pub apparently referenced on new album

  • A new start after 60
    I gave up teaching, started doodling – and became a cartoonist

  • Let’s hear it for the true geniuses: the people who name paints

    Emma Beddington

  • Summer Lee
    A progressive congresswoman made history in 2022. Can a billionaire stop her re-election?

  • War of the rosés
    Why wine experts are furious about the blush-pink drink

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