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Monday28 October 2024
  • Qantas jet at Sydney International Airport

    Explainer
    Cushy Qantas perks in Chairman’s Lounge book shine spotlight on travel habits of Albanese and others

    Prime minister allegedly used personal relationship with former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce to request free upgrades on flights
    • Caoimhe Bray of the Sixers celebrates victory with team mate Lauren Cheatle during the WBBL game against the Melbourne Renegades.

      Cricket
      Record-breaking 15-year-old Matildas prospect faces tough decision after WBBL debut

    • US elections
      Racist remarks and playing to the base: key takeaways from Trump's Madison Square Garden rally

    • Environment
      Santos sued by its own shareholder in world-first greenwashing case

    • Queensland
      LNP has ‘mandate’ for youth crime reforms, Miles says, as Crisafulli sworn in as Queensland premier

    • Middle East crisis live
      Israeli army urges residents to evacuate from southern Lebanese city

    • Business
      Parent company of Australian clothing brands Rivers, Millers and Katies enters voluntary administration

    • Victoria
      Man who killed and robbed two women in 24 hours in Melbourne avoids murder trial with manslaughter plea deal

    • Music
      John Farnham opens up about his ‘abusive’ and ‘sexually aggressive’ first manager

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Spotlight

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    First Dog on the Moon
    Scientists have discovered that Earth’s carbon sinks are not really carbon sinking at the moment

    Is that good? What does that even mean?
  • Stephen J Payne on his boat off the Amalfi coast of Italy.

    A new start after 60
    I wanted to live cheaply – so I bought a boat, moved in and began travelling the world

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    Full Story podcast
    Undercover inside a ‘scientific racism’ network

    Harry Shukman of the anti-racism group Hope Not Hate went undercover to expose how some of the wealthiest and most powerful people see race
  • Woman on the floor working on a laptop with spreadsheets and graphs spread around. Her cat, some pens and a cup of coffee are nearby

    Software
    ‘I grew up with it’: readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel

    From baby names to wedding planning, fans of the 40-year-old spreadsheet program reveal how it has transformed their lives
    • Guru Jagat in Breath of Fire

      Documentary
      ‘She joined the dark side’: the strange story of the Elizabeth Holmes of yoga

    • Royal Opera House/Richard Wagner/Das Rheingold/11.09.2023/Conductor:Antonio Pappano/Director:Barrie Kosky/Set Designer:Rufus Didwiszus/Costume Designer:Victoria Behr/Lighting Designer:Alessandro Carletti//Wotan:Christopher Maltman, Alberich:Christopher Purves, Loge:Sean Panikkar, Fricka:Marina Prudenskaya, Freia:Kiandra Howarth, Voice of Erda:Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Donner:Kostas Smoriginas, Froh:Rodrick Dixon, Mime: Brenton Ryan, Fasolt:Insung Sim, Fafner:Soloman Howard, Woglinde:Katharina Konradi, Wellgunde:Niamh O'Sullivan, Flosshilde:Marvic Monreal, Erda:Rose Knox-Peebles// Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

      Opera
      Groping, greed and the lust for great power: what Wagner’s Ring Cycle tells us about Trump v Harris

    • Defying the stereotype ... Remedios Varo’s Creation of the Birds, 1957.

      Halloween
      Dressing up as a witch at Halloween? The sickening origins of this caricature may make you think again

    • George Foreman, left, and Muhammad Ali at Stade du 20 Mai.

      Boxing
      ‘I didn’t really plan it’: what Ali told me when we rewatched The Rumble in the Jungle

Sport

  • Josh Inglis bats for Western Australia in a Sheffield Shield match.

    Cricket
    Australia rest first-choice Test players for Pakistan T20 series

  • West Ham’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Fulham’s Alex Iwobi and Brentford’s Keane Lewis-Potter

    Premier League
    10 talking points from the weekend’s action

    West Ham’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka shines against former club, Alex Iwobi has gone up a level and Brentford find new hero
    • Robert Lewandowski celebrates after scoring Barcelona’s second goal at Real Madrid with Lamine Yamal.

      Football
      Real Madrid investigate alleged racist insults directed at Barcelona players

    • Arne Slot looks on during Liverpool’s 2-2 draw against Arsenal at the Emirates.

      Football
      'Always on the floor': Slot accuses Arsenal of time-wasting in title thriller

    • Jarrod Bowen leaps into the air after his stoppage-time penalty put West Ham 2-1 ahead of Manchester United.

      Premier League
      West Ham 2-1 Man Utd: Bowen piles pain on Ten Hag

    • Grace Nweke and Maddy Gordon begin the celebrations after winning the Constellation Cup in Perth

      Netball
      Grace Nweke stars as Silver Ferns stun Australia to claim Constellation Cup

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Opinion

  • An online gambling mobile app on a smartphone

    Anthony Albanese could prove his moral courage with bold action to battle gambling harm

    Jenny Ware
    More than 16 months after the parliamentary committee (of which I was a member) handed down a bipartisan report, the PM is yet to respond
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    We are witnessing the making of a fascist president in real time

    Sidney Blumenthal
    • Cas Mudde

      Do we have any idea who will win the US election? No. Uncertainty is sky-high

      Cas Mudde
    • David Crisafulli waves to the crowd as the LNP claim victory in the 2024 state election

      For years Queensland was the weird outlier – but could the weekend’s election show what’s to come nationally?

      Julianne Schultz
    • Alexander Hurst

      I’m an American voter overseas. For years, we were ignored – but maybe this time we’ll make the difference

      Alexander Hurst
    • Nesrine Malik

      The lesson of Israel’s unfathomably cruel war: ours is still a world where might is right

      Nesrine Malik

Lifestyle

  • Emma Beddington

    If my Netflix recommendations are anything to go by, I am tragically basic

    Emma Beddington
    A friend is feeling uncomfortably targeted by the streaming service’s personalised suggestions. Mine, meanwhile, reinforce an inconvenient truth, writes Emma Beddington
  • Head border collie with stick in beak. Image shot 12/2017. Exact date unknown.<br>M57DGE Head border collie with stick in beak. Image shot 12/2017. Exact date unknown.

    The pet I'll never forget
    Shirley the much-loved dog, who couldn’t stop chasing fishermen

  • A worker walks through the Christmas shop at a John Lewis store

    Christmas
    ‘Christmas creep is real’: festivities start earlier every year, analysis finds

  • Archaeological Site and Ruins of Paestum<br>Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia. It is located in southern Italy, in the vicinity of Salerno

    Travel
    My rail journey to Naples and Pompeii to chase the last rays of sun

  • A Venn diagram with ‘The state of the Tory party’ in one circle, ‘The state of the office fridge’ in the other, with the caption ‘Difficult to apportion blame’

    Edith Pritchett's Venn diagrams
    From the Tory party to the office fridge

  • Gardening Australia host Sophie Thomson looking happy. She is surrounded by tromboncino

    Three things
    Sophie Thomson: ‘My infrared thermometer travels with me wherever I go’

Culture

  • Gustav Kuhn appears to hold fire in his hand

    Magic
    ‘Magicians get emotional about it’: should secrets of magic ever be revealed?

  • A sexy ordeal … Crystal J Huang in Dark Feathers.

    Film
    Dark Feathers review – erotic hitwoman thriller approaches The Room levels of kitsch disaster

    Star and co-director Crystal J Huang plays a ballroom-dancing geisha assassin in this preposterous LA melodrama
  • Creepy grinning robot gnome marches out of the shed while Wallace looks on with pride and Gromit with alarm

    Film
    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – first they came for the trousers. Then they came for the robot gnome

    Feathers McGraw is back and implacably frightening as ever in Aardman’s latest, belated outing for everyone’s favourite cheese eating duo
  • Hanif Kureishi With the medical team in Santa Lucia The day he left the rehab to travel back to London

    Book of the day
    Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – broken, bedbound, but unbowed

  • Idyllic landscape panting with a woman holding a bird, children, horses, and a Moomin

    Books
    Tove Jansson murals, with hidden Moomins, seen for first time in Helsinki show

  • Woman with very long hair and flowy clothing holds microphone on stage.

    Stevie Nicks
    Singer says Fleetwood Mac would have been ‘done’ without 1977 abortion

  • Ryan Holiday poses for a portrait wearing a shirt over an Iron Maiden T-shirt, in a bookshop with shelves of books in the background

    Books
    The stoicism secret: how Ryan Holiday became a Silicon Valley guru

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Across the country

  • Former army lawyer Australian David McBride

    Military
    An hour with David McBride inside his ‘tough’ Canberra prison

  • Lovisa Sjoberg

    NSW
    Woman bitten by snake found alive after week-long search in remote Snowy Mountains

    • US
      Australia rejects visa application by rightwing US pundit Candace Owens

    • Environment
      High-flying life of Australia’s birds revealed in new detail – thanks to weather radars

    • Business
      The art of Kmart: why the discount retailer is thriving while rivals such as Big W struggle

    • Afternoon Update
      Dutton questions PM’s ‘strange’ flight upgrades; greenwashing case against Santos begins; and a celebration of long dogs

    • Environment
      From Aesop to Estée Lauder, Australian sandalwood is coveted worldwide for its aroma. But experts say it’s at risk

    • Airline industry
      Qantas’ tumultuous era might be behind it – but some say Alan Joyce’s ghost still lingers

The rural network

  • People in doctor's waiting room

    The rural network
    One easy way to relieve pressure on Australia’s medical system? Stop ghosting your GP

    Michael Burge
  • Arbour Hill to Belubula headwaters looking west. A proposed gold mine site near Blayney.

    The Hindmarsh Island bridge case is being deliberately misremembered in a new fight over the Blayney goldmine

    Margaret Simons
  • Gabrielle Chan

    Equal access to justice is a foundational principle of Australia’s legal system – but it’s not the reality in country towns

    Gabrielle Chan
  • A freediver swimming in Piccaninnie Ponds in South Australia

    Environment
    Protecting the Green Triangle: experts warn of ‘irreversible’ groundwater decline

Around the world

  • Orbán among Hungarian flags

    Georgia election
    Orbán on way to Georgia after hailing ruling party for ‘overwhelming victory’

  • Volkswagen AG's headquarters, in Wolfsburg, Germany, this morning

    Live
    Volkswagen to shut at least three German factories, union warns; Oil price falls 5% after Israel’s attack on Iran – business live

    • Germany
      MP tries to counter AfD’s TikTok dominance with slang-filled video

    • UK
      Tommy Robinson admits contempt of court over false claims about refugee

    • Environment
      Pollutants from gas stoves kill 40,000 Europeans each year, report finds

    • Live
      Bus fare cap will be raised to £3, says Starmer in pre-budget speech – UK politics live

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Russian forces thwart another attempted cross-border incursion, official says

    • Philippines
      ‘I offer no apologies’: Duterte testifies at Philippines ‘war on drugs’ inquiry

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  • Antony Blinken looks across the table towards Ayman Safadi, who is pictured from behind out of focus

Multimedia

  • Prisoners talk to other prisoners through the gaps of a cell

    Paraguay
    Life inside the country's overcrowded prisons – in pictures

    Paraguay has launched an operation to address the problems plaguing its prison system, including internal gang control, but one problem in particular has proven difficult to deal with: overcrowding. Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd gained access to five different prisons to see how their inmates live
  • Caitlin Hall of Salamander Bay with Lenni, 1 year old, all dressed up for their first time at the festival.

    Photography
    Longdogs, lowriders and creative weiners: Dachshtober Longdog Festival

  • Girls in a school room, one of them with her feet up on the desk

    Photography
    Where punk meets Catholicism: Andrea Modica’s portraits of 1980s schoolgirls

  • Felicia Foxx performs.

    Gallery
    A Queer Koori Wonderland: light, colour and dance

  • A woman in a maroon coat and dark gloves on an escalator

    The big picture
    Dolorès Marat’s Paris, city of intrigue

  • Stephen Lillie on the neck-and-neck race to the finish line in the US election – cartoon

    Opinion cartoon
    Stephen Lillie on the neck-and-neck race to the finish line in the US election

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  • man standing in a room holding microphone while woman reaches for it and a black and white hand pointing

    The Stakes
    If Trump wins the election, freedom of the press will be under threat

    If Trump is elected to another term, press rights in America will be endangered. Just consider what we already know
  • Graphic illustration of a donkey and an elephant (apparently standing in for Democrats and Republicans) fighting among political signs.

    Abortion
    ‘A Trojan horse’: how the right is using ‘parental rights’ to fight abortion ballot measures

  • a man vaping

    Vaping
    Will Mexico’s plan to constitutionally ban vapes play into the hands of cartels?

  • Education
    US universities are struggling to increase diversity. Are legacy admissions part of the problem?

  • Music
    Writer Amy Key: ‘Knowing I’d finally hear Joni Mitchell sing live left me woozily panicked’

  • Culture
    ‘The world will remember this war not through reportage but through art’: the creatives on Ukraine’s frontline

  • Israel-Gaza war
    ‘Our job was to protect each other’: the Australian woman who saw a fellow volunteer shot dead by Israeli forces

  • Our first political prisoner? No. Locking up dissenters is an ignoble British tradition

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  • Analysis
    Two hurricanes stir up voter backlash to Florida Republicans’ climate denialism

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