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Monday27 May 2024
  • Sue Chrysanthou SC hugs Lisa Wilkinson as they emerge from court after successfully defending defamation case brought by Bruce Lehrmann

    Australia news live
    Lisa Wilkinson seeks $1.8m in costs for successful defence of Bruce Lehrmann defamation action

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  • Jason Scarborough takes samples from soil bags from across Sydney

    Exclusive
    We tested landscaping soil on sale in Sydney stores for asbestos – it came back positive

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  • An artist’s impression of Australia’s age of monotremes, with the ‘echidnapus’ at bottom right

    Discovery of 'echidnapus'
    Fossils found in NSW opal field suggest Australia had ‘age of monotremes’

  • Paul Karp

    No one wants kids vaping. But is Labor criminalising adults who flout the crackdown?

    Paul Karp
  • Dried leaves in a wooden bowl.

    ‘Shame and betrayal’
    Sexual abuse within the spiritual healing industry comes to light

    Scandalous behavior that has dogged the Catholic church is becoming increasingly common in shamanic healing circles

Spotlight

  • Kate Mulvany

    Three things with Kate Mulvany
    ‘I’d frame all that bewilderment and fury and hang it on a wall’

    In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the actor and writer tells us about a childhood photograph – and her trusty, wizardly companion
  • Pretty latte art of a flower in the foam on the top of a cup of coffee.

    'At best a novelty and at worst a pain'
    For seven years, I have been caffeine-free. Here’s how it has changed me

  • A supplied image shows fatbergs and blockages after being removed from Sydney's wastewater network

    ‘A blocked loo is on you’
    Surge in ‘fatbergs’ as bizarre items flushed down Sydney’s toilets

    Sydney Water says data shows men aged between 18 and 29 are biggest culprits when it comes to flushing rubbish down the toilet
  • A girl at the kitchen table looking at smartphone

    A social media ban won’t keep my teenagers safe – it just takes away the place they love

    Anna Spargo-Ryan
    Even with a ban, gen alpha will find a way to connect with people online. It’s up to the platforms – and grownups – to ensure a safer internet
    • A giant red and white tablecloth stretches down the boulevard towards an archway in the background

      ‘Le grand pique-nique’
      Thousands of Parisians take part in free picnic on the Champs-Élysées

    • Emma Beddington

      I craved quiet. Then my sons moved out, dog died and hens were killed – and noise now feels necessary

      Emma Beddington
    • Chickens

      Full Story
      What does bird flu actually mean for Australia?

    • Tilly Lavenás with (clockwise from top left): Reina, Randolph and Byron

      The pet I’ll never forget
      Reina the dog was dumped on a highway – then found her way to me

Sport

  • Collingwood’s Billy Frampton reacts to the contentious free kick awarded to Docker Sean Darcy in their draw.

    Controversy reigns as AFL umpires turn blind eye to common sense

    Jonathan Horn
    An umpire’s job is to apply the rules. But many of us want our officials (and those who instruct them) to have a better feel for the game’s big moments.
  • James Tedesco of the Roosters

    State of Origin
    Tedesco axed by NSW with Edwards preferred for Game One

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Opinion

  • Dominic Mckenzie The Observer Comment Disaster Prep web version

    Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans

    Martha Gill
    Oliver Dowden’s advice on stockpiling forgets that co-operation is vital if we are to stand a chance against modern threats
  • Mahua Moitra

    Electoral laws flouted, opposition MPs arrested – this is what it’s like to stand against Modi’s BJP

    Mahua Moitra
    • Keir Starmer gestures with both hands while making a speech to a building of supporters holding placards, some of them visible on a curvbed balcony above his head

      Once Britain is back in the EU, things can only get better

      William Keegan
    • Cate Blanchett attends the press conference for 'UNHCR: Displaced Stories' during the 77th annual Cannes film festival

      Cate Blanchett was pilloried for saying she’s ‘middle class’. Here’s why she’s right on the money – in Australia at least

      Van Badham
    • Karen Middleton

      ‘Beautiful one day. Nuclear the next?’ Labor can’t wait for a fight on Dutton’s energy plan

      Karen Middleton
    • Golden Rice is a genetically modified crop which helps the body produce vitamin A.

      The Observer view
      When modified rice could save thousands of lives, it is wrong to oppose it

Lifestyle

  • Will Stubbs and Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs in December 1994

    The moment I knew
    She left $50 on my bed and a note that said ‘buy yourself another bottle of wine’

    Will Stubbs was eager to impress Merrkiyawuy, but couldn’t put a foot right. Then one humiliating evening, she saw the humour in his missteps
  • Manuela PinkMartini

    Turin retreat
    A home full of intimate spaces

  • Emma Forrest for The Observer Magazine

    ‘It was my gateway drug to self-harm’
    A writer’s journey to finding the joy in makeup

  • Sebastian Doggart photographed for Guardian Saturday on 01.05.24

    ‘It gives me no pleasure, but I am going to have to beat you’
    Was I the last boy to be flogged at Eton?

  • Illustration of a woman, in pink leggings, a white vest and with bare feet, bouncing off a giant speaker, with sound waves coming from it, as if it's a trampoline

    Tunes and tempo
    Music helps you get fit – but the right mix will keep you coming back…

  • missionary position, from the feet

    This is how we do it
    'I want missionary every night – but I’m trying to be more adventurous’

Culture

  • Disney's "Mary Poppins" 40th Anniversary Edition DVD Launch Party - After-party<br>LOS ANGELES - NOVEMBER 30: Musical composer Richard Sherman conducts the band at the after-party for Disney's "Mary Poppins" 40th Anniversary Edition DVD Launch party and screening at Hollywood and Highland on November 30, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

    Richard Sherman obituary
    Co-writer of classic film musical songs including for Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book

  • Anora, directed by Sean Baker, is about a sex worker whose life becomes a fairy tale and then a nightmare.

    Cannes 2024
    Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme D’or

    Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to share best acting award in the film Emilia Pérez
  • Young woman traveler traveling into Mongkok street market at night in Hong Kong China

    Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review
    The women who tried to carve a path in a new China

    In this intimate study of a period of upheaval, a Chinese-born writer uncovers the stories of four young citizens whose lives were transformed by Deng Xiaoping’s reforms – and the obstacles they strove to overcome
  • Paul Weller by Dean Chalkley

    ‘Politicians? They’re mugs, all of them’
    Paul Weller on music, style and the state of the nation

  • Portrait photo of Rachel Cusk taken in 2012

    Parade by Rachel Cusk review
    A brilliant and unsettling feat

  • USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. Ref: LMK110-J10651-120424 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2X0RXFY USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. Ref: LMK110-J10651-120424 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review
    Renegade warrior Anya Taylor-Joy ignites thunderous action prequel

  • Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey Jr in The Sympathizer.

    The Sympathizer
    Robert Downey Jr totally steals the show in electric spy thriller

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  • Screenshot from Australian government's new national consent campaign

    ‘Parents need to step up’
    Labor to launch $40m sexual consent campaign to combat ‘confusion’

  • A bus passes the Caboolture train station

    'Virtually free'
    Queensland unveils 50c public transport trial as premier urges commuters to ‘use it or lose it’

    • Morning Mail
      Asbestos found in garden centre soil fill; PNG landslide toll rises; ‘echidnapus’ discovered

    • Home alone with bad internet
      Why online university students in regional Australia are turning to study hubs

    • ‘It was like a lifeline’
      The money clinics helping women escape financial abuse

    • Queensland police
      Officer shares sexist post weeks after ‘formal guidance’ over social media use

    • Analysis
      Coalition’s brave nuke world a much harder sell after new CSIRO report

    • Environment
      More than 5,000 feral horses culled in Kosciuszko national park since aerial shooting resumed

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  • Hannah Maalste at the Broken Hills university study hub

    Home alone with bad internet
    Why online university students in regional Australia are turning to study hubs

  • A group of brown hens eat from a chicken feeder

    Bird flu
    Virus detected at second Victorian farm as separate outbreak found in Western Australia

  • A line of people walk along the edge of a filed thickly planted with sunflowers. People can be seen among the flowers taking pictures.

    Nature’s ghosts
    How reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

  • Cowra and Chifley district police car

    'Brazen'
    Livestock theft has cost NSW farmers more than $930,000 so far this year

Around the world

  • Maximilian Krah, in a shirt and suit jacket and holding a shopping bag printed with "AfD", poses with two young men as one holds up his phone for a selfie

    ‘They call us Nazis’
    Inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise

  • black bear in tree

    South Dakota
    Family infected with parasitic worms in US after eating bear meat

    • Skin cancer
      Rates of melanoma hit all-time high in UK, study finds

    • Grindr
      Dating company accused of treating gay UK man’s medical data like ‘piece of meat’

    • ‘I wouldn’t put it past him’
      Questions over whether Murdoch’s UK titles will back Starmer

    • Iran presidential election
      Up to 20 possible contenders gear up for battle

    • US weather
      At least 15 people dead after storms tear through Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas

    • India
      Six newborn babies die after fire tears through Delhi hospital

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  • Women in orange and pink dresses dance in a parade along a street in La Paz

    The weekend in pictures
    Bolivian dancers and a drink with Macron

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A man asleep on a park bench at night.

    The big picture
    Dhruv Malhotra’s open-air sleeper in night-time Delhi

  • Sectarian Murals by Gareth McConnell, published by Sorika

    Belfast
    Sectarian murals up close and less personal

  • Coss Willi Red hat at Melbourne Out Loud: Life through the lens of Rennie Ellis

    ‘People were the stars'
    Rennie Ellis captured how Australians dressed, danced, loved and felt

  • Independent member for Indi Helen Haines

    Australian Politics podcast
    Helen Haines on the transition to net zero in rural and regional areas

  • Woman in colourful dress standing with her back to the sea

    ‘I always aim to show the beauty, power and free will of Iranian women’
    Forough Alaei’s best phone picture

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  • A crowd gathers at dusk in the dust of far north WA to watch music under the moon at the Ord Valley Muster

    Music under the moon, yoga boats and Miriwoong story time: experience the East Kimberley’s Ord Valley Muster

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    While the night is young: shake off the weekday blahs for art, space travel and glamour at two of Melbourne’s best museums

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  • Rishi Sunak speaks to journalists on a plane last week

    Analysis
    Rishi Sunak dashed for July election because hopes of UK economic recovery are fading

    Prime minister knows economy is likely to be in even worse shape by autumn or winter, but summer’s good news won’t impress a battered public
  • Richard Sherman.

    Richard Sherman
    Songwriter for Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book dies aged 95

  • Anne Enright in Sandycove, Dublin

    Anne Enright
    ‘Give me Moby-Dick over Persuasion anytime’

  • ‘History is written at the dining table’
    What 4,000 menus tell us about royals, politicians and society

  • Eleanor Tomlinson
    My biggest disappointment? Losing out on a role, any role. I get so invested

  • From Baby Reindeer to Taylor Swift
    How amateur sleuths ruined pop culture

  • Five Great Reads
    Anita and Yoko, the Denmark secret, and tackling the ‘virginity epidemic’

  • ‘There’s a volcano in our backyard’
    Life in the Icelandic town that keeps erupting

  • ‘A deranged fringe movement’
    What is Maga communism, the online ideology platformed by Tucker Carlson?

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  • An aircraft on the tarmac of the flooded Salgado Filho international airport in southern Brazil

    Top shots
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, Rishi Sunak in the rain and Cate Blanchett in Cannes: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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