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Thursday17 April 2025
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin

    Analysis
    Putin’s play for an Indonesian airbase was always likely to fail – but Russia has wider ambitions

  • Amanda Meade

    Weekly Beast
    Nothing to see here, Press Council says after News Corp tabloids’ front-page undisclosed advertorial gassing up fossil fuel

    Amanda Meade

    • Education
      Australia to woo US’s ‘smartest minds’ disfranchised by Trump research cuts

    • NSW
      Sydney hospital where two children died recently is at risk of failure, scathing report finds

    • Rugby league
      ‘Take a chill pill’: Benji Marshall’s defence of Lachlan Galvin exposes NRL circus

    • Cricket
      Georgia Voll rewarded for ‘sensational’ summer with first national contract

    • US politics live
      Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds

    • Health
      RFK Jr contradicts experts by linking autism rise to ‘environmental toxins’

Federal election

  • Surviving the election with James Colley
    The housing crisis isn’t sparing Peter Dutton’s son, and Albanese won't spare a hug

  • Paula Matthewson

    Australian women don’t need a protector or a hero. And if we did, it certainly wouldn’t be Peter Dutton

    Paula Matthewson
  • Residential homes in the suburbs of Seven Hills and Camp Hill are seen in Brisbane

    Grogonomics
    Excuse my cynicism, but after 25 years of the same housing policies, could Australian leaders try something else?

    Greg Jericho
    First homeowners’ grants have long been the go-to policy by state and federal governments. And yet here we are in 2025 with a worsening housing affordability crisis

Spotlight

  • Bowls of fruit and vegetables at a market stall

    Food
    Move over, Mediterranean diet – traditional African eating habits can be as healthy as tomatoes and olive oil, researchers say

    Findings from Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region indicate traditional eating habits in rural Africa can boost the immune system and reduce inflammation
  • Van Badham

    America used to fire the world’s imagination – but now the cultural conversation is being silenced

    Van Badham
  • Episodic artwork for Full Story

    Full Story podcast
    Why Labor and the Coalition’s housing policies could make the crisis worse

    Nour Haydar talks with economist Saul Eslake about why he thinks Labor’s and the Coalition’s plans would drive up house prices
  • 240417 Great Aus Dream castle thumbnail

    Opinion cartoon
    Is home ownership beyond your wildest dreams?

    Fiona Katauskas
    It’s enough to keep you awake at night
    • a woman with red hair in front of a wall covered in post-it notes

      Stage
      Is it curtains up on a new generation on Broadway?

    • Emma Brockes

      It’s the economic end times, so obviously I’m thinking about my takeaway coffee

      Emma Brockes
    • Apple iPad Air M3 review showing the home screen stood up on a table.

      Technology
      Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat

    • Lou Wall, comedian

      Melbourne international comedy festival
      Lou Wall: Breaking the Fifth Wall review – a silly and profound standup masterpiece

Sport

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Opinion

  • The media gather outside the supreme court in London as the ruling was announced, 16 April 2025.

    The supreme court didn’t rule on the definition of ‘a woman’ – this is what its judgment does mean

    Sam Fowles
    The judges had to interpret the law as set down by parliament. But it must be remembered this is not an abstract debate; it concerns real people, says barrister Sam Fowles
  • Russian fighter jet seen from below

    The Russians aren’t coming: Peter Dutton’s poor judgment distracts from Australia’s rare geopolitical opportunity

    Allan Behm
    As we recover from our infatuation with Anzus, we can now look at Asia and the Pacific as a region in which we can make our own way
    • Zoe Williams

      Truss social: the latest venture from a woman who really knows what the people want

      Zoe Williams
    • A person stepping out of a door. A sign reading 'EBT Accepted Here' is taped on it.

      American women and children are in crisis. Republicans are about to make it worse

      Karen Dolan
    • Donald Trump serves chips at a McDonalds in Pennsylvania in October 2024.

      You too can have a body like Donald Trump’s. Here’s how

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Scrabble tiles

      My sister died 10 years ago. Here’s what I wish I had known about dementia when she was alive

      Jackie Bailey

Lifestyle

  • Half empty egg carton

    Food
    Cheap, reliable egg alternatives: what to use for whipping, baking and high-protein snacking

    No one thing can replace an egg’s multiple uses – but based on what you’re cooking, easy, low-cost alternatives abound
  • Young woman sleeping peacefully

    Pass notes
    Cinderella partying: why young women no longer dance until dawn

  • Alissa Timoshkina's giant cabbage, pea and spring onion latka.

    Food
    Giant fritters and roast root veg with whipped feta: recipes for an eastern European Easter feast

  • Rob Cowen with Ermine Street sign

    Travel
    A walk with Romans and ghosts on the Great North Road

  • Illustration of two faces with intertwined lines coming out of their mouths.

    Wellness
    Ask questions, practice and know when to make an exit: how to start a conversation

  • A white lump of what looks like chicken in a black petri-dish

    Environment
    Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ hailed as ‘transformative step’ for cultured meat

Culture

  • Richard Roxburgh in 2025 Australian film The Correspondent

    Film
    The Correspondent review – Richard Roxburgh is excellent as jailed journalist Peter Greste

  • Rumi (Ramy Youssef) in a still from the animated series No 1 Happy Family USA

    Television
    #1 Happy Family USA review – a truly special comedy that’s packed with 00s nostalgia

    Ramy Youssef’s surreal tale of a Muslim family in post-9/11 America is quietly subversive TV that’s full of laughter – and painfully real
  • Ryan Coogler, photographed in New York, April 2025

    The G2 interview
    ‘My heart broke’: director Ryan Coogler on mourning Chadwick Boseman, rebooting Black Panther and his new movie Sinners

    The highest grossing Black film-maker of all time has made his most personal film yet – and it’s a vampire thriller
  • Tom Gleisner wearing dark navy jacket over pale blue shirt stands in a corridoor lined with posters, smiling.

    Comedy
    Tom Gleisner: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • ‘All of a sudden, they exploded’ … Prodan, centre, with his band Sumo.

    Music
    ‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

  • Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman at the Golden Globe awards, 2003

    Celebrity
    New details of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s final days released

  • Roger Daltrey and Zak Starkey performing in The Who in Berlin, Germany, in 2023.

    Music
    The Who appear to fire drummer Zak Starkey over Royal Albert Hall performance

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Across the country

  • greater glider

    Environment
    Newly discovered colonies of Australia's biggest gliding possum being threatened by logging in proposed koala national park

    Conservation groups call for immediate action to protect wildlife as two-year wait for Labor’s promised creation of park continues
    • Adrian Collette at senate estimates

      Arts
      Embattled Creative Australia boss served angry letters from staff and 600 literary figures amid Sabsabi fallout

    • Housing
      Adelaide becomes fifth Australian capital where median house value exceeds $1m

    • Exclusive
      Victoria's human rights body to slash budget and cut jobs as new laws increase workload

    • Environment
      ‘It’s awful’: experts dismayed after Great Barrier Reef suffers second mass bleaching in two years

    • Exclusive
      ‘Let Rome burn’: Coalition MP says allowing blackouts the only way to turn voters off renewable energy

    • Transport
      Have you cancelled a trip from Australia to the US? Or been detained at the border? Tell us your story

    • Coalition
      Bridget McKenzie admits she was wrong to claim Russia and China want Albanese to win election

    • Federal election
      Albanese says ‘nothing’ will stop public appearances after being confronted by members of right-wing movement

The rural network

  • Pig Handling Competition at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, Monday April 14, 2025. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Asher Blenkiron, seven years old, loves showing her family’s pigs from their Keyneton stud in South Australia. She is competing in the Under 13s Pig Handling competition. This is her second year competing.

    Sydney Royal Easter Show
    Lab coats, red boards and oiled bodies: inside the world of junior pig showing

  • WEDNESDAY 2ND APRIL 2025. WODONGA - VICTORIA The Guardian | Australia New schools being built in regional Victoria due to mass regional migration, and how they're going in without consultation with families and communities. Man with two primary school-aged children standing in front of a primary school building

    Education
    ‘It just leaves us without anything’: why was Wodonga left reeling by sudden primary school closure?

  • Woman in front of a rural tombstone

    Heritage
    Crushed by rabbits, bolting horses and childhood illness: the stories buried in outback NSW cemeteries

  • Group of cattle stand together.

    Explainer
    US-Australia beef: what you need to know about tariffs and the meat trade war

Around the world

  • Liberal leader and prime minister Mark Carney, left, shakes hands with Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre following the French-language federal leaders' debate, in Montreal, with Yves-François Blanche of the separatist Bloc Québécois in the background.

    Canada
    ‘Who is going to face Mr Trump’: Canadian leaders’ debate dominated by US crisis

    Mark Carney’s Liberals have surged in the polls since Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada, scuppering Conservative calls for change after Trudeau era
    • Dutch angle shot of a man in a green and black checked shirt and a red cap standing in front of a bookstore receiving a book from someone to his right and passing a book to someone on his left.

      Michigan
      ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

    • Diplomacy
      US officials to meet European leaders in Paris to discuss Ukraine war

    • Online shopping
      Temu and Shein warn of US price hikes from next week due to Trump tariffs

    • Waitangi Tribunal
      Fifty years on, New Zealand’s tribunal upholding Māori rights faces a turning point

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Zelenskyy hails ‘good progress’ on minerals deal talks

    • US
      Re-arm, reassure and spend big: how the Asia Pacific is responding to a new era under Trump

    • Celebrity
      Michelle Trachtenberg died of diabetes complications, says medical examiner

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Postmortems of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’

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  • Our impact on nature … a winning image by Zed Nelson.

    Gallery
    Apes, toilets, conflicts and cowboys: Sony World Photography awards

    Artists on the moon, gods in the sea, and guns at the ready in America … here are photographs from the overall winners of this year’s professional competition
  • Klaas Roemers, 90, and Fenny Roemers-Visser, 86, holding hands. The photograph was taken, with permission, by their son Martin moments after their deaths. They had applied to end their lives under the Netherlands' assisted dying process

    My best shot
    My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

  • Ben Jennings on American rockets – cartoon

    Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on American rockets

  • a painting of people standing on the shore of a lake

    Art
    ‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists

  • 'Thailand Game Show 2024' gaming event in Bangkok<br>epa11666519 A gamer experiences Sony PlayStation 5 or PS5 at the Thailand Game Show 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, 18 October 2024. The Thailand Game Show 2024 gaming event is held in Bangkok from 18 until 20 October 2024 and showcases a variety of video game titles and related merchandise to promote the gaming industry and expand the digital content market in Thailand. EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT

    Pushing Buttons
    The cost of gaming is soaring – but for many fans, a game is ‘worth’ more than its price tag

  • Intoxicating … Super Mario Bros. Question Block

    Games
    ‘It’s allowed me to see through his eyes’: Super Mario, my dad and me

Explore

  • An internet cafe in Beijing.

    The long read
    ‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor

    Online dissent is a serious crime in China. So why did a Weibo censor help me publish posts critical of the Communist party?
  • An illustration of what the planet K2-18 b could look like with a red dwarf star on a black background that is speckled with some small stars. The planet is large, in the foreground on the right and the star is smaller, in the background at the lower left. The planet is various shades of blue, with wisps of white scattered throughout. The left edge of the planet (the side facing the star) is lit, while the rest is in shadow. The star has a bright red glow.]

    Space
    Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system

  • people walking

    US
    ‘Brings chills to our spines’: mysterious firing of Chinese professor has Asian students on edge

  • Environment
    Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time

  • Environment
    Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating England’s ancient hedges

  • Overtourism
    Venice’s €5 tourist fee returns – and will double for last-minute day-trippers

  • Art
    Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise £26m at auction

  • London
    ‘This platform gave me everything’: street performers rue end of busking at Leicester Square

  • Vegan food and drink
    UK bakery chain to drop soya milk surcharge after campaign by Peta

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