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Saturday6 July 2024
  • Katy McCallum, One Nation candidate for Gympie and vice-chair of the National Rational Energy Network, speaks at a meeting on renewable energy projects in Kilcoy

    The rural network
    ‘There’s angry people out there’: Inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia

    In community meetings and Facebook groups, true stories of mismanaged projects mesh with conspiracy theories to build distrust against the renewable energy rollout
    • Gwenda Darling

      Aged care
      ‘I just want to be able to get my vibrator out’: the fight for sexual rights in aged care homes

    • Lalor Park
      Three children dead, four in hospital after house fire in Sydney’s west

    • Aukus
      Book on Aukus ‘fiasco’ says decision to embrace pact will ‘haunt’ Labor for years

    • Universities
      International students left feeling like ‘cash cows’ after Albanese government raises visa fees

    • AI
      Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers

    • Social media
      ‘Blunt-force approach’: LGBTQ+ advocates say proposed teen social media ban overlooks benefits

    • Tour de France 2024
      Julien Bernard fined for stopping to kiss wife during time trial

    • Film
      Jon Landau, Oscar-winning Titanic and Avatar producer, dies aged 63

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Spotlight

  • Mike Hohnen with his cat Bootsy and neighbour Enid Morrison in Rozelle in Sydney’s inner west

    Cats
    ‘The cat has changed my life’: how Bootsy turned a street of strangers into a community

    When Mike Hohnen moved into a new suburb he was looking for solitude. His tabby had other ideas
  • ‘Don’t spend any time crying over me. Go, party!’: Dave Bayley

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley: ‘I’m a short shorts guy’

  • US president Joe Biden

    Full Story
    US politics: Trump’s immunity and Biden’s woes – Full Story podcast

    Jonathan Freedland and Paul Begala, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, discuss how the Democrats regroup after a calamitous week
  • Simon Tedeschi and Loribelle Spirovski

    The moment I knew
    We could barely make eye contact because of the chemistry radiating between us

    Classical pianist Simon Tedeschi established an online rapport with artist Loribelle Spirovski. But could it transcend an awkward start and a social faux pas?
    • Headshot of Michael Holden, author, June 2024

      Family
      For years I was my parents’ reluctant carer. Then I was told I was making things worse

    • A demonstrator in a crowd holds up a placard reading: 'Juive, daronne, ecolo, queer. Je combats le FN-R-Haine depuis toujours'

      Analysis
      French Jewish people conflicted over voting choices amid antisemitism fears

    • Roisin Murphy performing at the Brixton Academy in London, 2021.

      This much I know
      Róisín Murphy: ‘I think our culture is too hedonistic’

    • Gulu Town<br>Since 2006 Northern Uganda is quite peaceful. Former war-torn area around Gulu develops well and people stay out after dark and enjoy nightlife. Gulu is becoming the second largest town of Uganda.

      Artificial intelligence
      Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour

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  • Karen Middleton

    These are testing times for political faith in both broad churches

    Karen Middleton
  • Trump on stage at a rally in front of microphone

    We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025

    Robert Reich
    The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more
    • John Naughton

      Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent

      John Naughton
    • An older white man in a suit wearing aviators waves from what appears to be the top of an airplane stairway on tarmac.

      Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race?

      Rebecca Solnit
    • Taylor Swift, a tall white woman with blond hair and bangs, wears an iridescent body suit on a stage with an orange and purple background.

      It’s no surprise a Newsweek writer panned Taylor Swift for being single and childless

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor and shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume

      The week in parliament: conference chatter over Dutton’s successor and whispers of a December election

      Amy Remeikis

Lifestyle

  • Dog approaching a lamb

    Smart shot
    ‘The collie was trying to herd the lamb – but failing’: Mark Aitken’s best phone picture

    The New Zealand-born photographer was planning to take a portrait of a farm owner when two animals caught his eye
  • Jordyn Beazley with bank notes in the air around her

    How hard is it to live off cash alone? I tried for a weekend and this is what happened

    Jordyn Beazley

Culture

  • The Bookshop in Queenscliff, Victoria

    Bookshops will never die. That’s why I bought one on Gumtree five years ago – and we’re still here

    Matt Davis
  • Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) in Saltburn.

    Television
    ‘Everybody screamed when they saw it!’ The sudden rise in penises on TV

    House of the Dragon just made eyes pop with an erect penis – but it’s not the only show going to great lengths to challenge television’s nudity equality problem
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    Books
    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: ‘Satire is a way to make myself less depressed’

    The US author on dystopian fiction, the experience of speaking to prisoners about his debut novel and why both of America’s major parties ‘love the war machine’
  • Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York, 2005.

    Ghislaine Maxwell
    The Lasting Harm by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – legacy of abuse

  • Janelle Monáe on stage in Manchester last week.

    Music
    Janelle Monáe review: a masterclass in progressive showbiz spectacle

  • The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.

    TV
    The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning will change your life for the better

  • Iain Banks

    Fiction
    ‘An explosion of talent’: Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory at 40

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Across the country

  • The image shows a woman charging an electric vehicle.

    EVs
    Buying your first electric vehicle? Here’s what you should know

    After a slow start, Australians are about to be spoilt for EV choice. We look at the lay of the land – on batteries, charging, price and the secondhand market
  • Amber Haigh and Robert Geeves pose for a portrait

    Murder trial
    Amber Haigh forced to change locks on flat after alleged killer broke in, court told

  • Andrew Reeson on Toowoomba’s Pierce Street, in which cars and bikes have equal priority

    Transport
    The Copenhagen of Queensland? Why this conservative city is making a bold cycling move

  • Police tape

    Melbourne
    Woman’s body found at waste management facility

    • Weather
      Australia facing ‘prolonged’ wet spell as three separate rain bands and storms hit

    • Inequality
      Helicopter rides and millionaire rows: inside Australia’s luxury real estate market of $60m-plus homes

    • Labor party
      Fatima Payman’s exit reveals ‘chasm’ between Labor and traditional base over Palestine, party insiders say

    • Health
      What it means for patients if St Vincent’s and NIB fail to reach a funding deal

    • Guardian investigation
      How a family was left ‘shattered’ by a Homesafe contract on their single mother’s home

    • Explainer
      Egg shortage: why the avian influenza outbreak has left shoppers and farmers shell-shocked

The rural network

  • Katy McCallum, One Nation candidate for Gympie and vice-chair of the National Rational Energy Network, speaks at a meeting on renewable energy projects in Kilcoy

    The rural network
    ‘There’s angry people out there’: Inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia

  • Dingoes in a forest

    Wildlife
    ACT moves to protect dingoes after genetic study into animals in Namadgi national park

  • The avian influenza outbreaks in Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT have resulted in the destruction of about two million chickens

    Explainer
    Egg shortage: why the avian influenza outbreak has left shoppers and farmers shell-shocked

  • Gabrielle Chan

    Extravagant maker of schemes: unpicking Barnaby Joyce’s anti-renewables campaign

    Gabrielle Chan

Around the world

  • White House resists calls for President Biden to drop out of presidential race<br>epa11459186 The White House is seen behind a maintenance worker cleaning up the National Mall during a heat wave in Washington, DC, USA, 05 July 2024. With rising calls from within his own party to drop out of the presidential race following his debate performance, US President Joe Biden is attempting to reinvigorate his campaign with events in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

    US news
    Biden’s doctor reportedly met with top neurologist at White House

    Parkinson’s expert at Walter Reed medical center has visited White House eight times since August 2023 – report
  • Masoud Pezeshkian headshot

    Profile
    Masoud Pezeshkian: the former heart surgeon who became president of Iran

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  • Screenshot of emissions map of the world, showing per capita fossil fuel emissions by country

    Environment
    What’s happening with the climate crisis and heat-trapping emissions in Australia

    What is Australia’s contribution to the emergency, and how successfully is it acting to address it?
  • Blue and white striped blazers with carnations in their buttonholes, hanging up

    Photography
    A backstage pass at the National Theatre – in pictures

  • Chris Buck Kevin Bacon DSF5424 V3

    Podcast
    Actor Kevin Bacon on learning selflessness, the secret lives of porn addicts, and what’s it like to be a private tutor for the rich

  • Greens leader Adam Bandt speaks at a press conference in Parliament House, Canberra

    Australian Politics podcast
    Adam Bandt on Fatima Payman, toeing the party line and the war in Gaza

  • Senator Fatima Payman speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday

    Full Story podcast
    Newsroom edition: does Fatima Payman’s exit mean Labor needs to change with the times?

  • Keir Starmer composite

    In numbers
    Twelve charts that show how Labour won by a landslide

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  • Joe Biden
    Warning signs: a history of US president’s verbal slips

  • Experience
    I survived a plane crash without a scratch

  • Travel
    A local’s guide to Victoria’s Surf Coast: ‘Everyone has some relationship with the ocean’

  • Five Great Reads
    The Ronaldo show, sex with Tracey Emin and cookbooks in The Bear

  • Russia-Ukraine war
    ‘We do the job just as well as men’: Ukrainian women take on coal mining

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    What links Ana de Armas with Gloria Estefan?

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  • Displaced Palestinians leave east Khan Younis

    Twenty photographs of the week
    War in Gaza, Britain’s election, fires in California and the Tour de France

    War in Gaza, Britain’s general election, fires in California and the Tour de France: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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