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Thursday22 August 2024
  • Bearded man in suit.

    Republicans
    Revealed: JD Vance promoted far-right views in speech about extremists’ book

    Up from Conservatism advocates repeal of Civil Rights Act, investigations into ‘gay lifestyle’ and defunding childcare
    • Beyoncé, who has blocked Donald Trump from using her song Freedom.

      US elections
      Trump campaign deletes Freedom video after Beyoncé blocks use of song

    • Mackay
      Second death at Queensland coalmine in a month sparks call for immediate halt to operations

    • Queensland
      Domestic violence victims’ addresses sent to offenders by police in major blunder

    • Italy
      Mike Lynch confirmed dead after yacht sank off Sicily coast during storm

    • Population
      Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035

    • Hospitality industry
      Swillhouse’s Hubert restaurant removed from Gourmet Traveller’s guide amid misconduct allegations

    • Sydney
      Magic moment as aquarium filled with song after sea birds mourn death of gay penguin Sphen

    • UK
      Postcard sent 121 years ago finally arrives at Swansea address

News extra

  • Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on 21 August. Israel launched fresh strikes on Hezbollah targets in the early hours of Thursday morning.

    Middle East crisis
    Israel launches reprisal strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

  • Jenny Paterson uses a rake to fill in the uneven surface

    Scotland
    Woman, 75, uses gardening tools to fill in potholes outside home in village

    Jenny Paterson says council are ‘not very interested in us’ so she and her neighbour tackled holes themselves
  • 'People tell me to develop a thick skin, but I will not do that,' Faruqi says

    2:06

    Federal politics
    ‘This place has broken me’: Mehreen Faruqi speaks out on racism and hate in parliament

    'People tell me to develop a thick skin, but I will not do that,' Faruqi says

Spotlight

  • Things are looking up … Nick Cave.

    Album of the week
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God review – this masterpiece will make you fall back in love with life

    Contemplating pain, death and suffering, rock’s former prince of darkness finds euphoria despite it all, on an album of contagious joy and thrilling melody
  • Starstruck and still rising … Rose Matafeo.

    New Zealand culture is booming around the world – do we have Jacinda Ardern to thank for it?

    Nell Frizzell
  • (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

    Full Story podcast
    The debate over daylight saving

    Tamsin Rose speaks to rural and regional editor Calla Wahlquist and columnist Gabrielle Chan about why changing the time continues to be a divisive issue
  • Shadow of a woman in silhouette

    Why are men who murder women seen as less of a threat than terrorists?

    Van Badham
    We can continue to bury the bodies of murdered women. Or we can get serious about misogynistic violence
    • Matthew (left) and David in Hisarönü, Turkey, 2015

      How we met
      ‘He moved into my spare room and ended up staying for five years’

    • Tanya Smith at home near Los Angeles

      Books
      ‘I just wanted to help people!’ How Tanya Smith stole US$40m, evaded the FBI and broke out of prison

    • Mark Egan

      Why do you exhibit nuclear levels of overconfidence? It could be your age

      Mark Egan
    • Nagashima Yurie, Full-figured, yet not full-term, 2001.

      Gallery
      Unseen wonders: 70 years of Japanese female photographers

Sport

  • Jannik Sinner returns during the Cincinnati Open men’s final

    Sinner case dividing tennis with lack of transparency at its core

    Tumaini Carayol
  • Asitha Fernando celebrates taking the wicket of Joe Root

    Cricket live
    England v Sri Lanka: first men’s Test match, day two

    • Matt Forde

      Matt Forde
      ‘Football is medication… you can forget you’ve got cancer

    • Aryna Sabalenka

      Aryna Sabalenka
      I thought I had to keep going… it damaged my mental health’

    • Pavel Bittner (Team dsm-Firmenich PostNL) celebrates his unexpected victory on stage five

      Vuelta a España
      Bittner pips Van Aert in stage five sprint in Seville

    • South Korea’s Amy Yang tries to shelter from the wind and rain behind an umbrella.

      Golf
      World’s best braced for wild and windy 'battle' at Women’s Open

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Opinion

  • ‘You only need to look at the amount of fees earned by the big four banks (Commonwealth, ANZ, NAB and Westpac) to see why the royal commission was a good idea,’ writes Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    The horror, the horror: banks are having to compete for our business by offering better rates

    Greg Jericho
    Don’t buy the banks’ sob story. They are annoyed Australians are becoming more savvy at shopping around for better deals for their home loans
  • A woman looks out of window on a rainy day

    As a GP, I don’t match people’s idea of a domestic violence victim. I’m confused how I got here too

    Anonymous
    Each time I read of another woman being killed, I feel the horror of this loss, but I’m also anxious that my experience becomes less believable
    • Sophia Smith Galer

      If you are outraged by Trump’s use of AI and deepfakes, don’t be – that’s exactly what he wants

      Sophia Smith Galer
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      Stop using the term ‘centrist’. It doesn’t mean what you think it does

      Arwa Mahdawi
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      The new mpox variant may appear to be less deadly but it is spreading fast. Complacency would be a grave error

      Debora MacKenzie
    • Illustration

      Workers v bosses: the right is obsessed with zero-sum rows over trade union power. Starmer is right to ignore them

      Martin Kettle

Lifestyle

  • Matthew (left) and David in Hisarönü, Turkey, 2015

    How we met
    ‘He moved into my spare room and ended up staying for five years’

    Matthew, 43, and David, 39, met in Manchester in 2006. Now best friends, they’ve seen each other through mental health crises, relationship disasters and an MTV-style dance class
  • Alice Zaslavsky's salt-baked celeriac cheese

    You've got this
    Hideously delicious: Alice Zaslavsky’s salt baked butterflied celeriac cheese

  • Maria Branyas Morera on her 117th birthday

    Friendship
    Is avoiding toxic people the real secret to longevity?

  • The Wild Atlantic Way at Slieve League, County Donegal.

    Travel
    ‘A journey and an adventure’: driving Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way

  • Google Pixel 9 Pro XL review - phone stood up on a table showing the rear camera

    Technology
    Pixel 9 Pro XL review: Google’s AI-packed superphone to rival the best

  • A young woman dancing in the sunlight.

    No wonder young single women are lonelier than ever. Where is their community?

    Georgina Lawton

Culture

  • Clare Cavanagh

    Extremely online
    Clare Cavanagh: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Gabriella Wilde and Alex Pettyfer in the film adaptation of Endless Love.

    Five of the best
    Books about yearning

    These exceptional tales explore the sweet, infuriating agony of being overwhelmed by passion and desire
  • Naomi Ackie stars as Frida and Channing Tatum in Blink Twice.

    Film
    Blink Twice review – Zoe Kravitz’s stylish yet scattered #MeToo thriller

    There are deafening echoes of Get Out, Don’t Worry Darling and The Menu in this propulsive yet ultimately unwieldy attempt to use Epstein’s island as genre inspiration
  • A still from The Walking Dead: Dead City showing a zombie.

    Television
    The Walking Dead: Dead City review – this hugely fun spin-off rattles along like a disreputable B-movie

  • Jean Reno and Adriana Barraza in My Penguin Friend

    Film
    Animal eclipses co-star Jean Reno in filming of My Penguin Friend

  • Secret Lives of Orangutans.

    Documentary
    Secret Lives of Orangutans review – David Attenborough’s new series is utterly relaxing TV

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    Film
    Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis trailer withdrawn over fake quotes

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  • The Coalition’s home affairs spokesman, James Paterson

    Immigration and asylum
    Abul Rizvi accuses Coalition of misusing his words on Gaza visas and calls national security claims ‘rubbish’

    Former deputy immigration secretary says James Paterson quoted him ‘very, very selectively’ from interview in The Australian
  • Skyscrapers against blue sky in central Melbourne

    Property market
    Melbourne mayor backs converting offices into apartments in bid to boost housing supply

  • A US Customs and Border Protection officer processes a visitor

    Explainer
    Australian travellers could soon find it easier to go to the US but more complicated to enter Europe. Here’s why

    Everything you need to know about the US Global Entry visa program and changes to Europe’s Etias system
    • Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison

      Federal politics
      Ministers rack up $1m more in taxpayer-funded robodebt legal expenses with Morrison topping list

    • Media
      ABC managing director David Anderson resigns a year into second term in role

    • Class action
      Monash IVF reaches $56m settlement with 700 former patients after allegedly destroying potentially viable embryos

    • Victoria
      Driver charged after cyclist killed in alleged hit-and-run in Melbourne

    • Melbourne
      Jetstar passenger arrested on airport tarmac after opening plane door and walking on wing

    • Retirement
      Super to be paid on parental leave as Labor seeks to close gender gap

    • Analysis
      ‘Grade five instincts’: why sook is the new insult of choice in Australia’s parliament

    • Exclusive
      Labor left warrior Graham Perrett to retire after almost 20 years in federal parliament

The rural network

  • pigeon looking into the camera

    In my war against pigeons, all I have is a broom. But the ‘rats of the sky’ remain unflappable

    Calla Wahlquist
  • Alex Harman, 10, from Levendale in Tasmania, with a Precision stud alpaca at the Bendigo showgrounds

    In pictures
    Fleece de résistance: the Australian alpaca national show

  • ‘It’s not until we hit the Hunter Valley with its duplicated tracks that the Xplorer achieves a constant speed, and we pulled into Sydney’s Central station just before 5pm.’

    Regional trains in NSW are old, slow and half-empty – but I still enjoy the ride

    Michael Burge
  • The trial at Kerwee Feedlot involved feeding a commercial Asparagopsis supplement in the form of an infused canola oil over 200 days

    Agriculture emissions
    Feeding seaweed supplement to cattle halved methane emissions in feedlot, study finds

Around the world

  • A man stands by a building that has been severely damaged, with rubble all over the ground

    Caribbean
    Islands still facing humanitarian crisis weeks after Hurricane Beryl destruction

  • Serbian activist Aleksandar Matković

    Serbia
    Activist opposed to Rio Tinto lithium mine receives anonymous death threats

    • UK
      Police hunt two American bulldog-type dogs after man’s death

    • Deforestation
      About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin

    • France
      Paris Olympics gives eurozone economic boost after rise in spending

    • Spain
      Judge calls for end to social media anonymity in hate crime cases

    • UK weather
      Storm Lilian to blight bank holiday weekend with heavy rain and wind

    • Spain
      Migrant who saved child from balcony fall in Alicante hailed as a hero

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    Robots slicing tomatoes and climate tipping points

  • Oprah Winfrey, wearing a purple suit, stands behind a podium and speaks into a microphone

    US politics
    Oprah’s surprise appearance and Walz’s speech: Day three of the DNC

  • Kadeena Cox celebrates winning the T38 400m gold at Rio 2016.

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    Get set for the Paris Paralympics with tales of true grit

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    Instructions show how to trick teenagers into sending intimate photos to blackmail them financially
  • Dr Ceri Lewis, smiling in a bobble hat and standing in an estuary with mud on her gloves and smeared on her trousers and jacket.

    Why I'm obsessed with…
    Sea worms: ‘Thankfully, in 25 years of working with them, I’ve never been bitten’

  • Design with Chinese characters, a star, a torch and children holding the edges of a flag

    The long read
    Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China

  • Environment
    ‘Ingrained in our heritage’: UK’s ancient oaks showcased in Tree of the Year contest

  • Anthropology
    Prehistoric humans may have stuck pikes in ground to kill mammoths, say experts

  • Joe cried, Kamala cried and so did I. Can this be the Democrats putting on a better show than Trump ever did?

    Emma Brockes

  • Late-night US TV roundup
    Stephen Colbert on the DNC: ‘Putting the “party” back in Democratic party’

  • Pollution
    Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’

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    Midwestern guys: Vance and Walz’s opposing views of being from the US heartland

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