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Saturday27 April 2024
  • Illustration of hands reaching for money

    Payslip wars
    Australian jobseekers suffer harassment in ‘a crazy system that doesn’t work for anyone’

    Private job providers can claim public money when jobseekers find work. But they need their payslips to do so, and some resort to extreme methods to get them
  • Workers remove letters from the Twitter sign in San Francisco

    The demise of Twitter
    How a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’

  • Martin Paul works on a violin in his Melbourne workshop

    ‘Always respond to what the instrument is doing’
    The Melbourne shop showcasing the rare craft of restoring violins

  • Australian deputy prime minister Richard Marles speaks during a press conference in Warsaw

    Ukraine
    Australia pledges $100m in military assistance as Richard Marles visits

    • Explainer
      Queensland is on a path to treaty with Indigenous people. How will it work? Who’s involved?

    • Violence against women rallies
      Thousands attend protests as Mark Dreyfus rules out royal commission

    • Murdoch media
      Sarah Hanson-Young softens demand for inquiry into News Corp

    • Cost of living
      Drivers face record petrol prices thanks to weak Australian dollar and rising crude oil costs

    • Kristi Noem
      Conservatives condemn possible Trump running mate for ‘twisted’ admission of killing dog

    • Britney Spears
      Signer settles legal dispute with estranged father over conservatorship

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  • Man and woman in wedding attire

    The moment I knew
    He kissed me goodnight – then rang to make sure I saw the moon

    When MasterChef Australia winner Julie Goodwin met Mick, she thought he was ‘too cool’ for her. Then one moonlit night, she realised he was a keeper
  • Marcia Hines performs with her band at Melbourne University in 1977

    In pictures
    A look into Melbourne’s live music scene over 50 years

  • A man places a ring on a woman’s hand

    ‘I didn’t expect anything to change’
    What makes long-term de facto couples decide to marry?

    Why tie the knot with someone you have lived with for years – and what happens next? Three women share their stories
  • Mojos bar in Fremantle, Western Australia

    ‘There’s history in these walls’
    Is Mojos in Fremantle Australia’s best music venue?

    Having set the stage for some of the world’s most iconic bands over its wild, debauched lifetime, Mojos is still drawing crowds more than 50 years later
    • Sean and Emily with their birth mother, Sara, outside her house in Santiago, Chile

      She was told her babies were dead
      Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on?

    • Jeremy Clarkson photographed at his farm, March 2024, surrounded by goats

      ‘Dismissing global warming? That was a joke’
      Jeremy Clarkson on fury, farming and why he’s a changed man

    • HI Res Dr Lisa Kaltenegger 1Q2A9195-Enhanced-NR-4

      ‘We live in a golden time of exploration’
      Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life

    • Trisha and Neil

      Blind date
      I warned him if he was less than complimentary, my girls would hunt him down

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Opinion
  • John Naughton

    Silicon Valley’s business model is incompatible with the moderation of online horror and hatred

    John Naughton
  • National Trust scones

    ‘Woke’ isn’t dead – it’s entered the mainstream. No wonder the right is furious

    Gaby Hinsliff
    When even the Met police and National Trust scones are apparently ‘peak wokerati’, it’s become the establishment norm, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
    • Karen Middleton

      Indigenous youth suicide is an appalling blot on Australia’s conscience

      Karen Middleton
    • woman looking through curtains

      We won’t stop violence against women with conversations about respect. This is not working. We need to get real

      Jess Hill
    • Charcoal sketch of a large white man in a suit in a wheelchair, with a person in a blue uniform standing behind him.

      The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

      Moira Donegan
    • HowToReadBookspixie

      First Dog on the Moon
      Do you love to read but the world wide web has turned your brain into fluff? First Dog on the Moon is here to help

Lifestyle
  • Headshot of Carol Decker in 2024

    T’Pau’s Carol Decker looks back
    ‘We went ballistic when we got to No 1. Our screaming annoyed Bryan Adams’

    The lead singer on hitting it big, how things fell apart, and the joy of the 1980s revival
  • Composite of a young heterosexual looking into each other's eyes, while in the background a man walks away.

    ‘We chose not to blow up our life’
    Readers on surviving infidelity

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Culture
  • Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths

    ‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’
    Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband Salman Rushdie was stabbed

  • Lots of tourists using cameras and mobile phones take pictures of the Mona Lisa behind glass in the Louvre state room.

    A room of her own
    Mona Lisa could be moved to separate room, says Louvre

    New room would give thousands of daily visitors better experience, says museum president
  • Author Siang Lu ahead of the publication of his new book Ghost Cities. Brisbane. Australia

    Audacious, stimulating and ‘utterly bonkers’
    Siang Lu, the thrilling new face of Australian literature

    The award-winning author of The Whitewash takes his readers on wild rides where facts and fiction are often indistinguishable. He’s back with a new novel, containing secrets only he knows
  • Land crab in defensive posture

    And now for the pinchline
    Competition crowns world’s funniest crab joke

  • Arthur Hughes in Shardlake.

    Shardlake
    Murder mysteries don’t get more fantastically creepy than this

  • Minor characters for the win! … Knuckles, voiced by Idris Elba.

    Knuckles review
    Idris Elba’s Sonic spin-off is ludicrous, hilarious and actually rather moving

  • Eminem appearing at the NFL Draft this week.

    ‘It was only a matter of time for Slim’
    Eminem to kill off Slim Shady alter ego on new album

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Across the country
  • Members of the Ballarat community participate in a rally against men's violence following the alleged murder of three women in the regional Victorian city within the past three months, at Ballarat Train Station in Ballarat, Friday, April 12, 2024. (AAP Image/Con Chronis) NO ARCHIVING

    Violence against women
    As regional Australia reels from several deaths, advocates seek both policing and prevention

    Half of the 26 women who have been killed so far this year have been in regional parts of the country, highlighting a need for more resourcing outside metropolitan areas
  • Australia’s immigration minister Andrew Giles and home affairs minister Clare O’Neil at a press conference in Canberra

    Operation Zufolo
    Australia deployed a ‘charade’ to sustain indefinite immigration detention – it failed

  • File photo of Victoria police tape restricting access to a crime scene

    Victoria
    Two people die after glider crashes near Mount Beauty airport

  • New South Wales police badge on an officer's shirt

    Knife crime
    Two dead in separate stabbings in NSW

    • Church stabbing
      Eighth person charged over Wakeley church riot, say NSW police

    • WhatsApp and the Wakeley riot
      How a messaging platform became a fake news broadcaster

    • Channel Nine
      Network ordered to pay damages over reporting of cavoodle custody battle

    • Gun control
      Australian government pledges $161.3m for national firearms register

    • Drive-by shooting
      Melbourne man found with gunshot wound inside vehicle dies

    • Bruce Lehrmann
      Former Liberal staffer to pay Peter FitzSimons thousands in legal costs

The rural network
  • Middle aged man standing in grassland with a high voltage power line tower behind him

    ‘Leave politics to the politicians’
    Why rural Queensland is a hotbed of renewable energy

  • Man standing holding bee hive frame

    Biosecurity levy
    Primary producers say they ‘can’t afford’ to pay proposed measure

  • 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

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  • Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra

    Australian politics podcast
    Sarah Hanson-Young on the debate around free speech on social media

    Guardian Australia’s political editor Karen Middleton speaks to the Greens senator
  • 240427 Gaza Student Protests thumbnail

    Katauskas
    Different perspectives on protest and Palestine

  • A giraffe walks through a rainbow at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.

    The week in wildlife
    A rainbow giraffe, a moonwalking elephant and hitchhiking ducklings

  • Image of children playing by jumping off a boat in the Sunda Kelapa harbour, in North Jakarta, Indonesia, with the sun nearly setting. Entitled Break the Limit it was shot in 2023 on a Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE.Jelly Fabrian is shortlisted in the Open Competition, Sony World Photography Awards 2024, exhibition at Somerset House 19 April – 6 May, worldphoto.org

    ‘There aren’t many fields, so the children play around the pier’
    Jelly Febrian’s best phone picture

  • A woman in a tutu hangs by her arm from an open shipping container stacked among other closed containers

    Photofairs Shanghai 2024
    Hanging in there and a dichroic shopper

  • A woman holds a red carnation during a military parade.

    Portugal
    Country commemorates the Carnation Revolution
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    Give your bathroom the glow-up it deserves

  • A close up shot of two hands with blue-painted nails holding a roll of toilet paper in front of a lime green background.

    Is eco toilet paper really a better choice? Your questions answered

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    Quiz: Toilets can save lives – but do you know how?

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    How toilet paper has become part of the fight for global access to clean, safe water

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  • Brightly colored tents on a brick, tiered plaza.

    Protests
    A new generation at UC Berkeley pitches its tents

    The university has said it won’t give in to students’ demands – but it has budged before
  • Molly Roden Winter.

    Five Great Reads
    The lawnmower man, the ‘wood-wide web’, and memoir of an open marriage

  • Emily Oster

    ‘Why has my uterus fallen into my vagina?’
    Emily Oster demystifies common pregnancy complications

  • Electric vehicles
    Why Elon Musk is right – once-booming sales are starting to stall

  • Safe haven or symbol of injustice?
    What our gardens tell us about the world we live in

  • The veggie Olympics
    Beetroot and beefless bourguignon as Paris Games embraces vegetarian cuisine

  • ‘I’m not here to make other women feel like shit’
    Robyn Malcolm on acting, ageing and the power of art

  • Ask Annalisa
    My brother bullied me, which has had a lifelong impact. Can I build bridges with him now?

  • Mixed doubles
    Why queer erotic sports cinema is enjoying a grand slam

The big picture

  • A person slumps on a beach

    Top shots
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, the election in India, clouds of dust in Athens and the London Marathon: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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