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Wednesday24 April 2024
  • The Australian Border Force cutter (ABFC) Cape Wessel in 2016.

    Exclusive
    Secret report warns Australian Border Force’s marine unit is ‘not safe for women’

    Human rights commission calls for immediate intervention in the division and says sexism and bullying are rife
  • Sandy soil with large empty trench and digger in background and people in white PPE.

    Gaza
    UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two hospitals

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  • Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Temperature Check
    Dutton’s plan to save Australia with nuclear comes undone when you look between the brushstrokes

    Graham Readfearn
  • tents in front of a grand building, one with a palestinian flag

    Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism

    Robert Reich
    Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked even young minds can remain stuck in old tracks
  • Jerry Seinfeld.

    ‘No longer the cultural pinnacle’
    Jerry Seinfeld says the movie business is over

    In an interview promoting his Pop-Tarts movie Unfrosted, comedian says confusion and disorientation have taken film’s place

Spotlight

  • A still from SBS crime drama Swift Street

    Swift Street review
    This fresh, bingeable crime drama is an absolute blast

    Tanzyn Crawford and Cliff Curtis are great as a father and daughter who must raise $26,000 by whatever means necessary
  • Medical staff looking after a patient in a hospital bed

    Australia’s new national cancer plan is brimming with good ideas – here are my top three picks

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Six killed in Sydney shopping mall stabbing attack

    Full Story podcast
    Why wasn’t the Bondi stabbings declared a terrorist act?

    Guardian Australia political editor Karen Middleton tells Nour Haydar why there are calls to redefine terrorism and responses to violence against women
  • Set It Up

    Set It Up
    The 2018 Netflix romcom that became a classic of the genre

    Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch ooze chemistry in this under-appreciated romcom about two overworked assistants trying to set up their bosses
    • It could all have been prevented so easily … Richard Gadd with Jessica Gunning, who plays his stalker, in Baby Reindeer.

      The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer
      Should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers?

    • Johnny Cash pictured in 1987.

      Jovial, randy and anything but dark
      Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed

    • Two women in an office environment look at a piece of paper together

      The personality audit
      Should we ask friends for their brutally honest feedback on our flaws?

    • a still from Putin, directed by Besaleel.

      Soiled nappies and karate
      AI-rendered Putin biopic to be released

Sport

  • Nestory Irankunda at the launch of the A-League All Stars kit at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne.

    Nestory Irankunda
    Bayern-bound star puts noise to one side as hype intensifies

  • Central Coast Mariners striker Angel Torres

    Angel Torres
    Central Coast Mariners star charged with sexual assault and stood down from A-League

    Football Australia imposes interim suspension after Torres arrested over alleged incident in March
    • Yokohama F Marinos coach Harry Kewell

      Kewell’s redemption arc nears completion in Asian Champions League

      John Duerden
    • Mark Williams in action against Si Jiahui at the Crucible

      Snooker
      Williams crashes out of the Crucible after dramatic defeat by Si

    • Rory McIlroy

      Golf
      McIlroy’s proposed return to boardroom ‘incredibly positive’ for PGA Tour

    • NBA: Playoffs-Los Angeles Lakers at Denver Nuggets<br>Apr 20, 2024; Denver, Colorado, USA; Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) looks on during the fourth quarter against the Denver Nuggets in game one of the first round for the 2024 NBA playoffs at Ball Arena. Mandatory Credit: Andrew Wevers-USA TODAY Sports

      ‘What are we doing?’
      LeBron James unloads on replay system after playoff defeat

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Opinion

  • Peter Lewis

    Here’s the truth: energy transition is hard. Not everyone gets a pony

    Peter Lewis
  • Man in suit holds out hands

    Elon Musk’s battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers

    Belinda Barnet
    The X owner was always going to turn the video removal request into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives
    • John Crace

      The UK politics sketch
      Rude, patronising and out of his depth, Minister Mikey ticks all the boxes

      John Crace
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Why are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • ‘He may dream of racing like Batman through Gotham, but he is facing the judge on the high bench issue a ruling about his contempt for violating the gag order.’

      On trial, Trump is a shadow of the superhero his supporters crave

      Sidney Blumenthal
    • Zoe Williams

      It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people

      Zoe Williams

Lifestyle

  • ‘I feel so much more sexually confident with him and have a happiness I’ve never felt before.’

    Sexual healing
    The stress of cheating on my wife is making me ill – but I can no longer suppress who I am

    I love her and my children, but have fallen for another man. What can I do? I’m now suffering from gastrointestinal problems and using alcohol to get to sleep
  • Victoria Beckham looks at designs on a table with a rack of garments behind her

    Fashion
    Victoria Beckham’s collaboration with Mango shows how far designer has come

  • Tim Dowling’s trout lasagne

    ‘The trout lasagne is very good!’
    How I recreated six classic beef dishes – with oily fish

  • The vineyards of Sancerre during autumn in the Loire Valley, France.

    Wine
    Why the Loire is France’s most exciting region

  • 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

  • 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

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Culture

  • Barack Obama is greeted on stage by Jay Z in 2012.

    ‘Reagan gave us something to rap about’
    How hip-hop has interacted with US politics

  • Sampha, Daniel Pemberton and Yussef Dayes, who each have two nominations at this year’s Ivor Novello awards.

    Ivor Novello awards
    Sampha, Yussef Dayes and Daniel Pemberton top nominations

    Sampha and Dayes get nods for best album and share in nomination for Sampha’s song Spirit 2.0, at awards for British songwriting and composition
  • Johnny Cash.

    Johnny Cash
    Lost songs from 1993 to be released as a new album

    The country star’s son co-produces Songwriter, worked up from demos with a group of former bandmates and guests including Vince Gill and Dan Auerbach backing Cash’s vocals
  • Elaine Bedell stands in a small garden on the South Bank, with the Centre and the London Eye ferris wheel visible in the background behind her

    ‘We feared Cate Blanchett would get stuck in a lift!’
    Running London's cash-strapped Southbank Centre

  • In the Company of Kings

    In the Company of Kings review
    Boxing legends hold court in illuminating mosaic

  • Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen

    Autistic Bikini Queen
    With her Netflix comedy special, Fern Brady is a cynic to savour

  • Hangzhou Opens First Hello Kitty Theme Restaurant<br>HANGZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 29: Two girls chat at a Hello Kitty theme restaurant on June 29, 2016 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. A Hello Kitty theme restaurant was authorized opened firstly in Hangzhou. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

    ‘Games are more important to Apple than ever’
    What’s next for Apple Arcade?

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Across the country

  • Bruce Lehrmann

    Bruce Lehrmann defamation case
    Lehrmann should pay Ten’s entire legal bill after ‘deliberately wicked’ decision to sue, network says

    Legal costs estimated at $8m
  • Close-up of female hand touching illuminated digital screen displaying a locked signSmart technology.

    Privacy ‘not absolute’
    ASIO boss urges social media companies to do more on extremism

  • Elon Musk

    ‘Censorship commissar’ v ‘arrogant billionaire’
    The stoush between Elon Musk and Australia’s eSafety regulator

    Musk calls eSafety chief a ‘censorship commissar’, PM brands Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ over videos of alleged church stabbing. What is going on?
    • Avani Dias

      Avani Dias
      ABC journalist departs India after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’ by Modi government

    • Molly Ticehurst
      Man charged with domestic murder of Forbes woman was on bail for other offences

    • ‘Serious safety risks’
      Bite victims urged to stop bringing snakes to Queensland hospitals

    • Morning Mail
      Border Force ‘not safe for women’, spy chief’s privacy warning, Gaza ‘mass graves’ claim

    • ‘Carbon bomb’
      NT government criticised over deal to buy Beetaloo Basin gas from US company

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

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

    • ‘Will cost lives’
      Addiction experts condemn decision to scrap proposed safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD

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

Around the world

  • US-POLITICS-AID-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN<br>The US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2024. The US Senate is due to vote on the final foreign aid package of $95 billion in total military assistance to US allies, including money for Israel and Taiwan alongside the $61 billion earmarked for Ukraine -- is expected to land on President Joe Biden's desk for his approval by the end of the week. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    US Senate
    Key procedural vote brings $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan close to passing

    House passed bills last week after delays, to rush funding to allies while approving proposal that could lead to US TikTok ban
  • A large container ship with the remains of a metal bridge strewn around and on it.

    Baltimore bridge collapse
    City says ship was ‘unseaworthy’ before leaving port

  • Rishi Sunak visits Poland

    'War footing'
    UK to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, Sunak says

    PM pledges to put arms industry on ‘war footing’ with plan to raise defence budget to £87bn a year by 2030
    • people look at a Tesla Cybertruck

      Tesla
      Biggest revenue drop since 2012 but company shares still surge

    • Plastic pollution
      World must come together to tackle issue, chair of UN talks says

    • UK
      Humanitarian groups demand safe routes to after five deaths in Channel

    • St George’s Day
      Police clash with far-right protesters at central London rally

    • France
      Five people die in attempt to cross Channel to UK

    • Chechnya
      Ramzan Kadyrov shows off workout amid health rumours

    • European Union
      EU green deal at ‘very high’ risk of being killed off, says Greens co-leader

    • US elections
      Pennsylvania primary provides window into voters’ minds in crucial swing state

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    FA Cup meddling, semis and Luton elites

    Our cartoonist on the scrapping of replays, fixture congestion, drama at Wembley and that Nottingham Forest statement
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    Elon Musk – arrogant billionaire or free speech warrior?

  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked Turk
    The 60th Venice Biennale – in pictures

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

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

  • Mona violenece

    Visualisation
    Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank

  • The Yanomami Struggle

    The origin of all things
    Kyotographie 2024 – a photo essay

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  • Young mountain caribou: four are seen from behind, three with their antlers clearly visible, as they walk on light, dry grass on a mountainous landscape

    ‘If we don’t shoot wolves, we will lose caribou’
    The dilemma of saving endangered ungulates

    Researchers in Canada studying interventions to stem decline of mountain caribou have found wolf culls most effective
  • Close-up of sticks of rock in a souvenir shop in Blackpool

    ‘Grave challenge’
    Blackpool rock makers fear for seaside staple’s future

  • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

    ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’
    Animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

  • Stock markets
    What’s behind the record FTSE 100 high?

  • ‘Pitting patients against physicians’
    Doctors brace for US supreme court verdict on emergency abortions

  • Mother trees and socialist forests
    Is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

  • ‘I only protest. I want to go to school’
    The childhoods lost in Pakistan when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

  • A musical tour of Manchester
    From the Hallé to the Happy Mondays

  • ‘It’s rude not to offer three cups’
    The lengthy, beloved coffee rituals binding Ethiopians together

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  • Aerial shot of a flooded island after heavy rains – Qingyuan, China

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