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Wednesday3 July 2024
  • Liberal senator Andrew Bragg

    Scathing report
    Asic should be split in two after ‘comprehensively’ failing as regulator, parliamentary inquiry finds

    Committee says commission’s investigations and decisions are ‘opaque’ and it responded to criticism by managing its own reputation
  • A posed photo of Amber Haigh holding her baby sitting next to Robert Geeves

    Murder trial
    Nurse called police over fears Amber Haigh might have been held against will by alleged killers

  • Live
    Midwinter ball 2024: politicians dress up for Canberra’s night of nights

    Follow live

    • Pro-Palestine protest
      Black Star Pastry workers sacked after wearing keffiyehs at Melbourne bakery reach settlement with former employer

    • Education
      Universities clash over proposed international student cap

    • Football live
      Euro 2024: quarter-final buildup begins after Turkey book spot in thriller – live

    • Sydney
      No prison sentence for ‘morally repugnant’ 52-year-old Wakeley rioter who punched police officer

    • Business
      Australia’s largest online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration

News extra

  • Coco Gauff at Wimbledon

    Tennis live
    Wimbledon 2024: Raducanu, Alcaraz and Gauff in action on day three – live

  • Rebecca Solnit

    The US supreme court just completed Trump’s January 6 coup attempt

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Ann Wilson performing in 2015.

    Music
    Ann Wilson, frontwoman of Heart, diagnosed with cancer

    Chart-topping singer cancels remainder of 2024 tour dates but says she hopes to return next year

Spotlight

  • In a street interview, Hailey Welch, left, coined “hawk tuah” – and it has upended her life, she explained in the Plan Bri Uncut podcast.

    Viral moment
    ‘Hawk tuah’ girl leans into craze she ignited but looks forward to moving on

    Hailey Welch details in podcast interview how clip has upended her life and doesn’t want it to ‘be her image’
  • ‘A troubling quantity of Amazon and Apple transactions’ … Rudy Giuliani.

    What do Rudy Giuliani’s Amazon purchases reveal? Appallingly bad taste – and even worse morals

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Groceries at the checkout

    Full Story podcast
    How high inflation has changed what we eat

    Jane Lee speaks to senior business reporter Jonathan Barrett about why we’re changing our eating habits in a cost-of-living crisis
  • Paymanpixike

    Opinion cartoon
    Crossing the floor to support Palestinian statehood?! Who does Fatima Payman think she is?

    First Dog on the Moon
    Here at the ALP we value caucus solidarity over principle
    • Brendan O’Shea.

      Deceased estates
      Treasure hunters: the enthralling, emotional inside story of a house clearance

    • Zing Tsjeng holding a pink bag and wearing black shoes

      A moment that changed me
      My feet appeared on a kink website that gets 20m views a month

    • St Kilda players look dejected after defeat to Port Adelaide

      From the Pocket
      St Kilda are a grim watch with Ross Lyon’s limitations exposed

    • Multiple ejaculator Jonathan Meijer in The Man With 1000 Kids.

      True crime
      The Man with 1000 Kids review – yet more proof that we should raze human civilisation to the ground

Sport

  • Brian Kaltak of the Central Coast Mariners tackles Bruno Fornaroli of Melbourne Victory during the A-League Men Grand Final in Gosford

    Football
    A-League clubs face $1.5m hit to annual funding ahead of ‘tough’ year

    APL distribution to drop from $2m to $530,000 for the coming season but chair Stephen Conroy says no club will go under
  • Matisse Thybulle dunks in the Australian Boomers’ win over China at John Cain Arena in Melbourne.

    Basketball
    Boomers turn to ‘Aussie spirit’ in pursuit of Olympic medal

  • Minjee Lee and Min Woo Lee at the 2022 Australian Open

    Golf
    Olympics-bound siblings Min Woo and Minjee Lee call for mixed team event

  • Noah Lolesio during a Wallabies training session at Ballymore Stadium in Brisbane

    New Wallabies era cannot be another false dawn

    Angus Fontaine
    Australia will be hoping to start a critical ‘golden decade’ in style against a Welsh side that humiliated them at the 2023 Rugby World Cup
    • Heinrich Klaasen and Keshav Maharaj sit down after South Africa's final defeat

      South Africa’s World Cup agony was no choke, with hope for future glory

      Daniel Gallan
    • Alex De Minaur of Australia stretches to play a forehand against James Duckworth

      Tennis
      De Minaur overcomes dogged Duckworth and Wimbledon rain

    • Colombia's Daniel Munoz and Brazil's Raphinha fight for the ball during the 2024 Copa America match at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California

      Copa América
      Brazil to face Uruguay in last eight as Colombia top group

    • Arda Guler points after cups of beer are thrown near him

      Guler the thriller turns killer to conduct Turkey’s greatest night

      Jonathan Liew
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Opinion

  • John Quiggin

    Low inflation targeting is such a dubious idea. Why did the Reserve Bank adopt it in the first place?

    John Quiggin
  • Two people shaking hands

    In spite of the rage and grief felt over Gaza, we must find common ground

    Rosalind Croucher
    One of the most important parts of being human is feeling empathy and practising respect. We deny ourselves that if we deny the rights of others
    • New Popular Front supporters at a rally against the far right in Paris, France, 1 July 2024

      France’s ‘hard left’ has been demonised – but its agenda is realistic, not radical

      Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty
    • Gordon Brown

      Voters should use the election to reject the Farage version of Britain and get our country back

      Gordon Brown
    • Boris Johnson

      The UK politics sketch
      Johnson appears on campaign trail at last – to dance on Sunak’s grave

      John Crace
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Joe Biden is taking advice from his son, Hunter. This does not inspire confidence

      Arwa Mahdawi

Lifestyle

  • Mandarins, peeled and whole, with stems and leaves attached, on a well-lit light yellow background

    Groceries
    Mandarins reign supreme: Australia’s best-value fruit and veg for July

    With empress, imperial and royal honey murcotts in season, mandarins rule the fruit bowl this month. Plus – cauliflower is cheap, and keep an eye out for kalettes
  • Ranjana Srivastava

    As my patient was dying, this is how we failed her

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Turkiye's Mesopotamia Express wraps up promotional tour, set to debut on April 19<br>TURKIYE - APRIL 5: Turkiye's new tourist 'Mesopotamia Express' has completed its promotional tour in Turkiye on April 5, 2024. The touristic train, which offers new experiences to travel enthusiasts along the route from Ankara to Diyarbakir, completed its promotional tour before its maiden voyage on April 19. The train tour started from Ankara, stopped in Kayseri, Malatya and Elazig and reached Diyarbakir. after about a day. Passengers enjoyed the natural landscapes along the route in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia and had the opportunity to get to know the cities where the train stopped. (Photo by Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Travel
    Across Turkey by train: riding the Mesopotamia Express

  • A woman in black and white, screaming at the top of her voice

    Mental health
    All the rage: women are furious – and repressing it can ruin our lives

  • Illustration of two naked men in an embrace while listening out for anyone coming to the front door

    This is how we do it in Nigeria
    Our first sexual encounter was a mess. We were so anxious, neither of us could get an erection

  • Thomasina Miers' valentine's Green Brunch Eggs 016

    Kitchen aide
    Up your egg game: new ideas for brunch

Culture

  • Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany in 2004 romcom Wimbledon.

    Stream team
    Love all! Wimbledon, the delightfully predictable tennis romcom at 20

  • Joss Stone

    Honest playlist
    Joss Stone: ‘I try to avoid karaoke – I get too embarrassed’

    The singer and songwriter on dancing with her three-year-old daughter, buying Spice Girls records and having ‘terrible taste in music’
  • A sculpture of a woman in a red dress giving birth on a rock

    Art
    Vandals in Austria behead sculpture of Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus

    Artist behind controversial piece in Linz cathedral says vandalism shows there are still ‘people who question women’s right to their own bodies’
  • portrait of man wearing black shirt in front of taupe backdrop

    Film
    Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, dies aged 89

  • A scene from Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD.

    Games
    Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD review – the scariest surprise is the price

  • Black man wearing black shirt and white and red hat speaks into microphone

    Music
    Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government

  • Buddy Oliver with dad Jamie in Cooking Buddies.

    TV
    Buddy Oliver! Tilly Ramsay! Welcome to the terrifying age of the nepo chef

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  • ABC TV presenter Lisa Millar

    Media
    ABC News Breakfast host Lisa Millar to quit show and ‘hit the road’ for the broadcaster

    Millar, who has been with the ABC’s news division for more than three decades, will work full-time on Muster Dogs and Back Roads
    • Screengrab of police finding Garry the gorilla in Melbourne, Australia

      Melbourne
      Mysterious disappearance of Garry the gorilla leads police helicopter to back yard

    • Coalition
      Liberals split on party’s adoption of Nationals’ supermarket divestiture policy

    • Sydney
      Counter-terror police charge pair with vandalism offences at university

    • Education
      King Charles’s Geelong alma mater unsuccessfully sought to trademark name ‘deceptively similar’ to other brands

    • Sydney
      Teenage boy who allegedly attacked student in university stabbing was arrested last year, minister says

    • Melbourne
      Two girls arrested and up to four males allegedly on the run after fatal crash

    • Moranbah
      Queensland coalmine fire a ‘disaster’ for climate say environmental groups

    • Palumpa
      Child, 12, missing in suspected NT crocodile attack

The rural network

  • Mike Casey

    Machinery
    Electrifying the farm: ‘It could add a couple of hundred thousand to our bottom line’

  • Gabrielle Chan

    Extravagant maker of schemes: unpicking Barnaby Joyce’s anti-renewables campaign

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Archival image of the Warwick Daily News from 1974.

    Media
    ‘We don’t know what’s going on any more’: how regional areas lost their newspapers

  • Voters on election day

    If Australians want better local representation, we need to pay councillors more

    Graeme Gibson

Around the world

  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and wind turbines

    US politics
    ‘It’s nonsensical’: how Trump is making climate the latest culture war

    The ex-president is ranting about low water pressure and attacking mundane rules and technologies – and Republicans in Congress are now following his lead

    • India
      Deadly crush blamed on huge overcrowding as death toll passes 120

    • Middle East
      ‘It’s irrelevant’: Iran’s record low election turnout shows little faith in process

    • Xi Jinping
      Xi’s central Asia trip aims to cement ties as China vies for influence with Russia

    • Ukraine
      Negotiated outcome most likely result of Russia-Ukraine war, major poll says

    • UK news
      Lucy Letby found guilty of trying to kill two-hour-old baby

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  • Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra

    Australian Politics podcast
    Guardian Essential report: do voters want Peter Dutton’s nuclear power plants?

    Paul Karp and Peter Lewis discuss voter concerns over the cost and safety of Dutton’s nuclear energy policy
  • Hand-drawn chart showing illustrations of Australian houses coloured according to their rating on the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme.

    One big chart
    Why so many Australian homes are either too hot or too cold

  • Hot air balloons lit by a glow from below

    In pictures
    Pilots take to the skies at Mildura’s Big Balloon Bash

  • Jordan, Shuayb, Sadiq and Idris at the Other Stage

    Photo essay
    Black joy at Glastonbury: ‘Like an island separate from England’

  • Actor and model Stella Chuisse impersonates Angélique Kidjo, a singer, songwriter and composer from Benin

    Women behind the lens
    I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans

  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    Photography
    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down syndrome

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    An (incomplete) list of every terrible policy the Conservatives have inflicted on Britain since 2010

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  • Apple green Boeing Co 737 fuselage sections sit on the assembly floor at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, US

    Airline industry
    ‘We’re in limbo’: Boeing takeover leaves longtime Belfast factory under threat

  • A man wearing a tuxedo stands on a red carpet. Behind him three dancers in saris kneel, smiling and making gestures with their arms, and behind them a group of people smile and throw rose petals.

    What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything

    Shrayana Bhattacharya

  • UK election
    ‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories

  • Review
    Inheriting the Castle – the fairytale gift that became a nightmare

  • Joe Biden is taking advice from his son, Hunter. This does not inspire confidence

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  • England
    Nine-year-old chess prodigy to make history

  • Political dynasty
    ‘They always got away with it’: new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women

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