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Tuesday16 July 2024
  • Images of Amber Haigh from Exhibit 8 supplied by the Office of The Director of Public Prosecutions NSW.

    Amber Haigh
    ‘Incident of extreme violence’ on Geeves property made child protection workers worried for Haigh and her son, court hears

    Police files document that a former partner was found to have died from a gunshot wound on his property, court has heard
    • A fresh blanket of snow at Guthega, NSW, buries plants and trees during a blizzard in the Snowy Mountains.

      Weather
      Damaging wind and rain lash Victoria overnight with snow flurries reported in NSW

    • Elon Musk
      Tech billionaire reportedly plans to give $45m a month to pro-Trump Super Pac

    • Fishing
      Fears for threatened orange roughy as NZ super trawler returns to Tasmanian waters

    • Guardian Essential poll
      Three-quarters of Australians believe MPs enter politics to serve own interests

    • Books
      Generation Kill author Evan Wright dies aged 59

    • Education
      Exclusive Brethren students exposed only to material that conforms to church’s ‘ethos’, former teachers claim

    • Tonga
      Parts of country without internet after cables damaged and Starlink ordered to cease operations

    • US news
      Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, dies aged 86

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Spotlight

  • Australian skateboarder Chloe Covell at Pizzey Park

    Australia Olympic team
    ‘Not an easy place to be a kid’: Chaperones to support teenagers in Paris

    The Australian team have taken extra steps to look after their 10 athletes aged under 18 at the 2024 Games
  • ‘The flag and the fist together are what make this so powerful’ … Trump’s first in parallel with the American flag.

    Photography
    ‘Is this what a second Trump presidency will be like?’ – our art critic on the chilling shooting image

  • One of the paintings

    Full Story podcast
    Mona’s fake Picassos: performance or prank?

    Guardian Australia’s arts reporterKelly BurketellsNour Haydarwhy she first suspected the paintings were bogus
  • Snailspixie

    Opinion cartoon
    The horror of everything all the time! Wait a minute, here is a happy snail story!

    First Dog on the Moon
    Political violence is not OK but what about snails are they OK?
    • A light on a probe in space shines into an underground rocky pit, with the Earth seen behind.

      Space
      Underground cave found on moon could be ideal base for explorers

    • Close-up of endangered Red Handfish embryos

      Science
      Beaker Street science photography prize – in pictures

    • A person darning socks

      Closet clinic
      Darn it! How to mend holey socks at home

    • Helen Sullivan

      The nature of...
      A hairy caterpillar: a ginger toupee, twitching cartoonishly

      Helen Sullivan

Sport

  • LeBron James drives to the basket against Australia in their Olympic basketball warmup

    Basketball
    'Really physical' Australia give USA a scare in Olympic warm-up

    USA survived a spirited effort from Australia for a 98-92 win in a pre-Olympics showcase in Abu Dhabi on Monday
  • Jarome Luai of the Blues passes the ball during a NSW Blues team training session

    State of Origin
    NSW Blues ignore history as they embark on mission impossible

  • Jürgen Klopp

    The FA’s task when Southgate goes is simple: get Klopp

    Barney Ronay
  • Ralf Schumacher

    Formula One
    Former driver Schumacher comes out as gay

    • Tadej Pogacar cools off with some water

      Tour de France
      Pogacar describes stage win as ‘one of best performances on climb’

    • Carlos Alcaraz.

      Alcaraz’s complete arsenal makes him an equal of Djokovic

      Tumaini Carayol
    • Rory McIlroy plays a golf shot at the Scottish Open.

      Exclusive interview
      McIlroy: 'Nobody is entitled to anything in golf. You have to earn it’

    • Amandine Miquel at the King Power Stadium

      Women's Super League
      ‘Football has to be a show’ – Miquel joins Leicester as new manager

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Opinion

  • a man in a suit holds up a fist in front of an American flag

    Blue Maga: we need to talk about the cult-like turn of the Democratic party

    Mehdi Hasan
    The calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal. This is bad for the entire country
  • A roadside memorial for a person who was hit by traffic in Alice Springs

    The rural network
    Regional Australians are five times more likely to die in road accidents – so what are we doing about it?

    Gabrielle Chan
    The national road toll is trending up despite decades of road safety campaigns. We need better data – but state governments are holding back
    • Nesrine Malik

      Hidden behind the celebration of Labour’s ‘landslide’ win is a depressing disfranchisement

      Nesrine Malik
    • man holds sign saying 'trump' in big letters with stars

      Did Donald Trump just win the US election?

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Bearded man in optical store trying on glasses and looking anxious

      Beards are alpha, ‘rat boys’ are in – and the rules of masculinity are as baffling as ever

      Tom Usher
    • Nathalie Tocci

      Georgia is on the frontline of the struggle between Russia and the west. Will its democracy survive?

      Nathalie Tocci

Lifestyle

  • a woman wears a sleeping mask in bed

    Well actually
    I dreamed my best friend was gossiping about me. Why did I feel hurt after?

    Dream emotions can carry over, but our memories of dreams aren’t always accurate. Here’s what experts say
  • A middle aged woman sitting on a couch, lost in her thoughts

    Is there a single woman in the world over 40 who is not gaslit about her love life?

    Melanie Tait
  • A hand squeezing a stress-relieving ball

    How to build a better life
    Face your anger and let it out. It’s the only way to stay healthy

  • Misty, Keith Miller’s cat

    The pet I'll never forget
    Misty the cat, who died in my arms and drained all the colour from the world

  • Australian actor Heather Mitchell

    Three things
    Heather Mitchell: ‘Where I live the leaf blowers drive me mad’

  • Rachel Roddy's spaghetti alla Nerano.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti with zucchini, basil and cheese

Culture

  • FILE PHOTO: Actress Doherty arrives for a Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) fundraising event at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles<br>FILE PHOTO: Actress Shannen Doherty arrives for a Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) fundraising event at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California U.S., September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

    Shannen Doherty was the 90s bad girl everyone loved to hate. She was more complex than that

    Veronica Esposito
  • Caught … Red Speedo, about an elite swimmer who dopes.

    Theatre
    Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why plays are making a splash with sport

    From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today
  • 1. MTC - A Streetcar Named Desire - Nikki Shiels - Photo by Pia Johnson

    Australian theatre
    A Streetcar Named Desire review – Nikki Shiels is majestic but she’s no Blanche

    Melbourne Theatre Company
    Shiels often uses her extraordinary voice for comedic effect under direction that seems determined to wrest the classic away from poeticism to the almost ribald
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Across the country

  • A composite image of Brittany Higgins and Senator Linda Reynolds

    Courts
    Linda Reynolds’ lawyers pore over Brittany Higgins phone download ahead of defamation trial

    Team working through documents including more than 56,000 pages of information Australian federal police downloaded from Higgins’ phone
  • NSW criminal courts sign

    Newcastle
    Three men found guilty of buck’s weekend gang rapes

  • File photo of a Queensland police vehicle

    Ipswich
    Man charged with murder after partner allegedly stabbed to death in Queensland home

  • Elizabeth Struhs

    Toowoomba
    ‘Wouldn’t bury a bag of bones’: Elizabeth Struhs’ father refused to give her a funeral, court told

    • Finance
      Australia’s big banks lent $3.6bn to fossil fuel expansion projects in 2023, report shows

    • Weather
      Antarctic blast brings damaging winds and alpine blizzards to Victoria and NSW and possible snow in Queensland

    • Morning Mail
      Trump picks running mate, Exclusive Brethren curriculum concerns, banks back fossil fuels

    • Environment
      Climate plans of companies would be exempt from private litigation for three years under proposal

    • Courts
      Man behind Brittany Higgins death threats ‘stable’ after being treated for mental health, lawyer says

    • Housing
      The bank of mum and dad is making the Australian dream of home ownership come true – for some

Guardian investigation

  • The image shows a paper cut out of OneSchool Global building with orange paper cut outs overlayed on top

    Guardian investigation
    Lucrative building contracts for Exclusive Brethren schools awarded to businesses run by church members

  • OneSchool Global sign

    Analysis
    Why Guardian Australia is investigating Exclusive Brethren schools

    • Illustration of OneSchool Global campus

      Education
      Wealthy Exclusive Brethren schools net almost $30m in disadvantage payments

    • Ben Woodbury at his design store

      Sydney
      Years at Exclusive Brethren school were ‘darkest moments of my life’, former student says

    • Illustration of a computer

      Investigation
      Students under near constant surveillance at Exclusive Brethren-linked schools, insiders claim

The rural network

  • A roadside memorial for a person who was hit by traffic in Alice Springs

    Regional Australians are five times more likely to die in road accidents – so what are we doing about it?

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Goats in the sunset

    Meat industry
    Goats of gold: Australia’s feral goat problem has become a $235m export trade

  • Bat spreadeagled on a table

    In pictures
    Wildlife Victoria’s Travelling Veterinary Services team

  • Men playing tennis on a sunny day

    Rally together: what playing country tennis has taught me about social cohesion

    Michael Burge

Around the world

  • Woman in a hijab trying to feed three tiny babies with bottles in a tent.

    Living in a tent with premature triplets
    How fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers

    Some women in Gaza have spent the duration of the war pregnant, but the constant bombing, death and chaos have cast a shadow over what should be a time of joy

    • France
      Failure to agree on new PM puts leftwing coalition in ‘stalemate’

    • European Union
      Top EU officials to boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary

    • Emissions
      China’s production of two potent greenhouse gases rise 78% in decade

    • Gambia
      MPs vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation

    • UK politics
      Labour will be ‘more Southgate, less Gove’, says Nandy

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  • A Venn diagram with Biden in one circle and Boeing in the other, and the caption: Trying to make it 24 hours without an incident

    Cartoon
    From Joe Biden to Boeing: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams

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  • Main image with Logo for Guardian podcast series on the Amber Haigh trial

    Full Story podcast
    Who cared? The disappearance of Amber Haigh, part 3

  • First Love by Lifu Hu on show at KLIP

    Malaysia
    Joy, trauma and identity: themes from Kuala Lumpur’s photography awards

  • Recycle and reuse … the Georges Vallerey pool, to be used for swimming training, has been fitted with a new retractable timber roof.

    Architecture
    Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

  • Ella Baron on Keir Starmer, England’s biggest fan – cartoon

    Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on Keir Starmer, England’s biggest fan

  • Nils Verkaeren 09

    Interiors
    ‘A home should be a living composition, like a garden or painting’: an artist’s home in Antwerp

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  • A lesbian couple in white gowns holding bouquets over their faces

    Picture essay
    Japan’s LGBTQ+ photo weddings

    Unable to marry legally in Japan, LGBTQ+ couples are celebrating their bond in traditional kimonos, suits and gowns for elaborate photoshoots
  • US-WEATHER-HEATWAVE<br>A dog lies on the sidewalk by a shop on Madison Avenue on July 19, 2013 in New York as a heatwave continues in the northeast. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo by STAN HONDA / AFP) (Photo by STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Pets
    ‘I couldn’t get him to move’: dog owners struggle through US heatwave

  • A man talks on his mobile phone as he walks a deserted street backdropped by newly built apartment buildings in Seseña

    Seseña
    ‘Huge scars’: novelist finds a fractured Spain in its half-built houses

  • ‘Look at my husband’s lovely cagoule!’ – should I become a hype partner like Travis Kelce?

    Emma Beddington

  • Environment
    Lost area of Welsh rainforest to be returned to ancient glory

  • Football
    ‘The Lions weep tonight’: what the papers say about England’s Euros final loss

  • The age of extinction
    First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus

  • Electric cars
    Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the UK grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution

  • UK
    ‘Its memory will live on’: prints of Sycamore Gap tree to go on display

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